Vivek Wadhwa Promotes Age Discrimination Against U.S. Workers

Drunken Economist — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:01:51 +0000

You know, he recently recycled that tripe in TechCrunch, you know, Arrington’s rag where they can’t be bothered to fact check:

http://mindtaker.blogspot.com/2009/10/oh-noes-indians-chinese-are-leaving.html

I get the feeling that Fraudwa has a big clipboard buffer left over from his ‘dissertation’ full of little out of context factoids like like what you mention.

Heck, even the WSJ fell for his tripe. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

Vivek Wadhwa Promotes Age Discrimination Against U.S. Workers

Anon — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:08:13 +0000

Technology industry is brutal to “older” (over 40) workers. I guess the thousands of Americans being laid off at IBM are a bunch of dummies. Now IBM wants to hire some of Vivek Wadhwa’s genius H-1B visa holders:

Quiet Layoffs Sting Workers Without Notice

Rick Clark, 50, an engineer in East Fishkill, N.Y., had worked for I.B.M. for 11 years. He said he was disappointed in I.B.M. this time because the job cuts were deep and spread across so many businesses and came at a time when I.B.M. has been proclaiming its success.

What the tech industry wants is low wages. They use the “churn strategy” to achieve that.

CHURN is a big word in executive suites. It means fire higher paid workers while at the same time hiring lower paid replacements. “Older” workers are the ones most affected by churn.

Primary tactics used to implement CHURN are (a) guest worker visas and (b) offshore outsourcing.