Re: Outsourcing developer to India and China - As an Oracle developer I am miffed

"Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-down_with_spammers_at_no_spam.comcast.net> wrote in message news:vhogb.692036$YN5.554811_at_sccrnsc01... --snip--
> Dev,
> I believe Noons is correct. It is very common for countries and industries
> to "protect" themselves from competition. India is no exception. I just
> think you are naive enough to not be aware of the protectionism. I have
> seen in the US head hunting firms blatantly advertise that they only wanted
> Indian workers (for US jobs) because they will work for less. In the US
> advertising for a position that is based upon country of origin which is NOT
> relevant to the job, is against US law. It is perfectly legal to advertise
> for an IT position where the duties are such and such and the salary range
> is x to y. (and x to y can be below the going average) Furthermore, it is
> perfectly legal (in the US) if only Indians apply for that job and they hire
> someone who's country of origin is India. It is not legal to discriminate
> and only hire Indians, if the duties are not relevant to country of origin.
> (eg writing computer code, system analysis, dba duties for a dba) I don't
> have a problem with hiring Indians; I do have a problem hiring people of a
> country of origin because the country of origin is a specific country of
> origin and that fact is NOT relevant to the duties of the job. That is
> discrimination pure and simple. (which has nothing to do with outsourcing)
>
> My point is that there are a lot of discriminatory practices by Indian and
> non-India people. (I know people can be found in the US of European decent
> that pull the same crap.) It is very naive to think India doesn't have
> trade and protectionist barriers against other countries. People have a
> right to bitch about them.
>
> Jim
>
>
>

Right... and my dog can speak french.
Can you show one example of such a posting where it is advertised that only Indians can apply to a job in US?

Anurag Received on Mon Oct 06 2003 - 23:44:29 CDT