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How To Fight Discrimination In I.T.

By Kevin from Beverly Hills, CA - May 23rd, 2009 at 11:04 pm EDT

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The Indian offshoring industry uses a three-pronged strategy to purge Americans out of the I.T. industry:

1. DENIGRATE
2. DISCRIMINATE
3. DISPLACE

If you ever watch Prof. Vivik Wadhwa, NASSCOM shill, TiE chapter founder, and failed businessman, on something like CNBC, he first denigrates the typical American I.T. worker. He makes sordid generalizations like "these are washed up coders with no new skills." This myth gets parroted in the media by the likes of Business Week "journalists" Steve Hamm and Moira Herbst.

These people equate "older" with "bad." What kind of logic is that? Is a senior accountant who has been practicing for 20 years suddenly replaceable by a twenty-something import from Bangalore? Who do you want doing your taxes?

Part two of the NASSCOM strategy is to discriminate against American I.T. workers. Now that the corrupt H-1B program has allowed MILLIONS (yes, millions) of Indians to flood the I.T. business, many now control the mid-level I.T. management positions that impact hiring decisions. How else do you think these I.T department become 80%-90% Indian? THEY DON'T HIRE AMERICANS.

Part three, displacement, involves sneaking into an American company under the auspices of an "outsourcing" initiative. In this tactic, the American worker is forced to train his Indian replacement. The local is threatened with loss of severance, a bad reference, or blacklisting in the industry if they do not cooperate. Once trained, the Indian takes over, and the American is DISPLACED.

The easiest of these three tactics to combat is DISCRIMINATION. Here's how I did it:

When I observed the systematic importation of India workers and discrimination of American workers at a company I was contracting at, I filled a CHARGE FORM with the Office of Special Counsel, Department of Justice. Don't worry about the technical details and legalese -- JUST FILE THE FORM.

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