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crimethink
2nd March 2017, 05:03 PM
The President of the University of California System is none other than non-Californian Janet Napolitano.

It's highly likely most or all of these people voted for Her Majesty.



https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/public-university-lays-off-79-it-workers-after-they-train-h-1b-replacements/

At the University of California's San Francisco campus, 79 IT employees lost their jobs this week, some of them after explaining to their replacements at Indian outsourcing firm HCL how to do their jobs.

The union representing the employees, University Professional and Technical Employees CWA Local 9119, says it's the first time a public university has offshored American IT jobs.

In a statement sent yesterday, UPTE-CWA says the layoffs could spread, since the HCL contract can be utilized by any of the 10 campuses in the University of California system, the nation's largest public university. "US taxes should be used to create jobs in the US, not in other countries," said Kurt Ho, a systems administrator who was quoted in the union's press release. Ho was required to train his replacement as a condition of getting his severance pay.

osoab
2nd March 2017, 06:19 PM
I bet she gets a nice bonus for cutting expenses too.

Joshua01
2nd March 2017, 07:51 PM
This type of shit has been going on for a long time now! My wife trained her replacement (3 actually...they all kept leaving their jobs on sick leave) until finally they cut the wife loose and transferred her workload to India.