On 09/20/2011 06:00 PM, geoff wrote: > We have the same problem here and it didn't start in 2008. > > -----Original Message----- > From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf > Of Pete Theisen > Sent: Wednesday, 21 September 2011 10:15 AM > To: ProFox Email List > Subject: Re: [NF] Programmers From India > > Jeff Johnson wrote: >> I am having trouble figuring something out. I am seeing more and more >> companies hiring folks from India and bringing them here to program >> Microsoft tools. Aren't there qualified candidates here in the US? >> Once you fly them here, pick them up for work and take them home at >> night, pay for their room and board - seems to me you could find someone >> here to do it. >> >> My life lost her job after 12 years so they could bring a guy from India >> to program Navision. On her new job there is a guy from India that is >> programming in .NET. I work for a major corporation that hires a lot of >> people from India to work on their IT systems here in the US. >> >> I understand that it really stinks when the send a job to India, but >> these companies (small and large) are bringing people HERE to work. >> They are also only working on Microsoft tools. >> >> What's up with that?!? >> > Hi Jeff, > > They get, uh, BROWNIE points from Obama. I am thinking it has to do with the Microsoft tools. I personally am not "smart enough" to do Navision or .NET, so maybe a significant portion of programmers in this country are not up to speed on these emerging technologies.
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