Jan Coffey wrote: > I was angry becouse as more and more H1's were at work the > culture shifted to > be ~their~ culture. It became difficult to get anything done > at work in > English, and although I do speak a bit of Chinese, it's not > enough to get by > at work, and I know only a couple of words in Hindi.
That's weird..using Hindi at work I mean. Your company did land up with a lot of impolite jerks. > I was angry when I saw frieds who labored to build start-ups > for half of what > they could have been makeing elsewhere and who showed the > highest degree of > loyalty and work ethic booted out of their jobs just before > their options > vested and replaced by H1's who would work for next to > nothing with hardly no > options. > > I was angry when 7 groups at Seible were asked to train the > Indeans who would > replace them, all the while being promised that they were not > going to loose > their jobs. Was the management Indian in both the above cases? > And this makes me angry becouse just as the DotCom failed > becouse of over > zelous expectations coupled with crap for code, now the same > will happen to > the rest of the technology sector. Unless of course the > Indean and Chinese > education system steps up (and I would be glad for them to do > so). Or the US firms start behaving more responsibly towards their employees and caring more about skills than about the bottom line..... > But then > that would also mean that all of my profesion would be moved > off-shore. Not in the aforementioned scenario..... > You don't think that when that happens they will hier > Americans there, let > our culture take over their company, and shift all buisness > to being spoken > in English...do you? They might hire Americans though it is doubtful because, for a long time to come, an average Indian *would* be happier with a lower pay than an average American. I don't understand what you mean by your culture taking over...unless of course you believe that fair and equitable treatment at workplace is a uniquely American characteristic. Most of the business in a lot of IT firms [any which doesn't hire on a purely linguistic basis] is already done in English as English is the only common language we Indians have. So that shouldn't be a concern really. Ritu --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.516 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 01-Sep-03 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
