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| DATE | 2005-05-11 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Opposing Views: The Debate Over The H-1B Visa Program
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> The choice is then whether you want foreign workers doing our software
> HERE or at HOME? You're led to believe that having them HERE
> is better because AT LEAST American companies are
> getting the lucre. Wrong. American companies get
> the lucre either way. This is a question of American companies
> wanting to throw out their 35+ year-old programmers and get younger,
> more desperate ones. THAT'S what there's a shortage of.
>
The age discrimination against experenced and older IT workers in the US
is disheartning. I've had to hide behind my Pharmacy License to stay
resonably employeed.
> [1] "$87,000 a year" is pretty bad English for a journalist..
> shame on you, Mr. Chabrow.
87k a year also SUCKS
Ruben
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