Sun Sued Over H1-B Workers

heli0 writes "The Boston Globe is reporting: 'A lawsuit filed yesterday in California alleges computer giant Sun Microsystems Inc. laid off thousands of American high-tech workers in order to replace them with younger, lower-paid engineers from India.' Could this be the straw that breaks the proverbial camel's back?"

In short

[Hatechall]

No.

Re:Sux it down Sun...

[ChaoticChaos]

I've got a better idea! Let's rehire all the American employees and replace the entire management team with people from India. w00t!

Don't know about you, but ...

[BillsPetMonkey]

Demand for embedded C programmers has really dropped off lately, so I'm off to India to get some gainful employment.

Still, I'll have to give up that nice red and yellow paper hat I get to wear at work. Damn!

It has to be said...

[ocie]

By the many arms of Vishnu, I swear it is a lie.

Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Could this be the straw that breaks the proverbial camel's back?"

What does this have to do with perl?

Re:Nice numbers

[nicodaemos]

Yeah, and then, when (let's say) the Turkish start moving in and undercutting the Indians and the Nigerians move in and start undercutting the Turkish ...

Whoa, whoa, slow down cowboy. The Nigerians are too busy moving money between bank accounts at this point to undercut anybody. Get yer facts straight!

Silly gook ...

[Glonoinha]

>Would they have a problem with, say, a Canadian citizen, or an Irish, British, or Australian one?

Australians, Canadians, British, and Irish, are all de-facto Americans (in that order, decreasingly so,) generally with funny but mild accents.

They eat American food, can be understood on the phone by other Americans, bathe daily (well not sure about the Brits, but :), can be brought home to an American woman's family without her Archie Bunker father throwing a fit, might even know who Archie Bunker is ...

Careless Talk

[drmofe]

A manager at one of our strategy meetings made the comment that there were "Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians..." (indicating that there were too many Team Leaders and not enough people to be led.

Someone at Sun Human Resources might have misunderstood this and started a recruiting drive...

Re:In short

[ph1ll]

I'm all for bringing cheap, foreign workers in to take the job of incompetent, expensive natives.

So, when do we start inviting Indian managers over?

:-D