Fury and fear in Ohio as IT jobs go to India
Source: Computerworld
IT workers are training their replacements
Nov 9, 2015 3:03 AM PT
The IT workers at Cengage Learning in the company's Mason, Ohio offices learned of their fates game-show style. First, they were told to gather in a large conference room. There were vague remarks from an IT executive about a "transition." Slides were shown that listed employee names, directing them to one of three rooms where they would be told specifically what was happening to them. Some employees were cold with worry.
The biggest group, those getting pink slips, were told to remain in the large conference room. Workers directed to go through what we'll call Door No. 2, were offered employment with IT offshore outsourcing firm Cognizant. That was the smallest group. And those sent through Door No. 3 remained employed in Cengage's IT department. This happened in mid-October.
"I was so furious," said one of the IT workers over what happened. It seemed "surreal," said another. There was disbelief, but little surprise. Cengage, a major producer of educational content and services, had outsourced accounting services earlier in the year. The IT workers rightly believed they were next.
The employees were warned that speaking to the news media meant loss of severance. Despite their fears, they want their story told. They want people to know what's happening to IT jobs in the heartland. They don't want the offshoring of their livelihoods to pass in silence.
Read more: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3002681/it-outsourcing/fury-and-fear-in-ohio-as-it-jobs-go-to-india.html#tk.cwsotd
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The Clinton's have learned to cash in on controversy and are doing so hand over fist, with so much controversy surrounding this family, I don't see how the electorate can possibly believe Hillary will be able to peacefully serve in the position of President. I suppose the old saying is true "How soon they forget."
“It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.”
~~~~~~~~~― John Steinbeck
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Yeah, me neither.
If so, where is he?
'Cause they're so good for Americans.
Oh ya...there is that TPP which is going to do miracles for us!
Ya...
...buy a 2X4 of rough timber and stick it up your ass.
I've seen this stuff so much in the past 10 years my nerves have just about had it.
This crap affects everybody.
Don't forget the torches and pitchforks . . .
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---1st with BushCheney and now with repug Congress and SCOTUS.
I know it's hard but we need a positive attitude in this struggle 
I am involved in various issues and it's the same all over. Big struggle of just folks vs. teahadists + 1%ers
It's Inland Wetlands, concerning a big new development on former town-owned land that was donated to a non-profit group illegally. But no matter, the repukes fixed their illegality by getting the state rep to pass illegally enacted legislation to validate the giveaway.
These repugs, they're always so honest and law-abiding Just love living in this repuke town
I will say this: on conservation matters, the repukes do work to keep their neighborhoods intact. No low income housing in THEIR neighborhoods.
Yay! Open borders! The robots are coming next.
to pass some laws in this country to prevent this stuff some laws with some teeth in them, like ballot initiative of some sort.
These same IT firms, scream and yell that they need H-1 B worker visa's to bring IT workers into the country, while at the same time shipping jobs out of the country, great way to have it both ways.
And then to top off the insult they do the following:
Cengage.................. "The employees were warned that speaking to the news media meant loss of severance. Despite their fears, they want their story told. They want people to know what's happening to IT jobs in the heartland. They don't want the offshoring of their livelihoods to pass in silence."
Corporate threats, its always with a threat.................... really-------------good on the employees to say really, you just outsourced my job and you want me to be quiet-----------------
I really hope that Bernie Sanders shows up at your door step--------------I really do
Honk----------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
Along with 17 other decent paying IT jobs. The directors & VPs got to keep their jobs, though. Funny how that works, huh?
I always research the voting patterns of the community.
They have overwhelmingly voted republican in all presidential elections since 1996 by 70% to 30%
Here is a graph of their community makeup
And their US Congressman is Steve Chabot (R).
Odds are that 70% of the workers losing their job voted Republican if they voted at all.
And they continue to support Republicans.
What did they expect to happen?
and add in some age discrimination. the young turks had this chart on tonight about the average age worker in high tech. i am sure it is similar in other fields. we are getting screwed from every direction
