In April, 2014, it emerged that Southern California Edison, a utility with about 14,000 employees at the time, was planning another round of layoffs. Most of them would be in its Information Technology Department, which had 1,800 employees and 1,500 contract workers. SCE admitted to the plan but told the LA Times that it hadn’t finalized the number. State Senator Alex Padilla then told the paper that as many as 500 employees and 500 contractors would be let go.
They are bringing in people with a couple of years’ experience to replace us, and then we have to train them,” one longtime IT worker told Computerworld. “It’s demoralizing, and in a way I kind of felt betrayed by the company.”
http://wolfstreet.com/2015/02/05/the-search-for-cheap-labor-in-tech-behind-the-h1-b-visa-scenes/
I personally witnessed the very same phenomenon while working as a contractor for Illinois Power. They cleared out their IT department and replaced them with what appeared to be workers from Asia.
So-called "US" corporations have absolutely no loyalty to the United States or to the American people. All they want is huge profits for the oligarchs.
They have in fact committed treason, but no one seems to give a damn.
And if you think this is bad, wait until they can get robots to do all these jobs. Then all of us useless eaters will be toast.
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