Tapsearch Com EditorBitter workers and bitter lies during Clinton years (LINK)
April 16th 2008 02:41
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Bitter workers behind bitter lies in the 1990s
Are there bitter workers in 2008? There surely were many in the 1990s. By 1999, more than a milions workers lost their jobs in just the computer industry alone. This was hid behind the loss of jobs in heavy industry where we were told many jobs were outdated and that high tech was taking over.
In 1998, President Clinton and the Congress passed laws to import cheaper labor to fill positions which were supposedly due to shotages in the high tech industry. Those of us from the computer industry knew better.
UPSIDE MAGAZINE, was a wonderful high tech ventures publication during the 1990s. They told both sides of the story in the high tech field. One article reported about the rampant age discrimination in the high tech fields. The Wall Street Journal reported about companies being afraid to rehire fired workers to fix the Y2k problems for fear of sabotage. The report said many of these workers were "disgruntled". Others used the term "livid". ( These terms certainly indicated there were many bitter workers in the 1990s. ) UPSIDE MAGAZINE reported that many workers in the Silicon Valley were ready to go on strike due to terrible working conditions, but they were stranded with no way of coming together. There were thousands of invisible unemployed or workers who could only get periodical contract jobs. Companies like Microsoft wanted to enjoy portable workers with portable skills to fire and hire at will. ( Just lately, workers were awarded millions with Microsoft losing a case in the courts.) The unemployment reporting did not include these workers because so many were contract temporary workers. As such only a few qualified for unemployment insurance which is one of the reasons why only about 38 percent of all workers qualify for unemployment.
In an article in UPSIDE MAGAZINE in about 1998, the plight of many high tech workers was reported where age discrimination reached downward to those under fourty. Companies made a point to fire workers before they reach the age supposedly protected by age discrimination laws. As someone who has a long history in the computer field, I suggest to young people to find another field. It is impossible to compete with workers, when talented workers come from places like India willing to work around the clock for much less money. I was just about to take a management job with one firm until I found how the programmers and systems people were all from India. After experiencing the horrific assault on U.S. computer workers during the past decade, I turned down the job. It was the last decent income I was ever offered, but I would rather live the rest of my days broke than to be part of this terrible assault on human dignity in the workday. I was passed the state of being bitter. I was in deep distress about what was happening in America during these times. For me and others, it was America in terror internally.
Here are some examples fo workers passing the fourty age mark. ( Reference UPSIDE MAGAZINE )
Robert Pettersen, over 50, passes out his resume at job fairs. It took him eighteen months to find just a temporary contract job and that work ended quickly. His resume displayed a vast history in the field with many accomplishments.
Gene Nelsen, age 46, had a doctorate in biophysics which he no longer mentions on his resume while he does telephone support work searching for a regular position. He maintains there was no shortage of programmers and found the only shortage in the field were twenty-five to thirty-nine year olds with the same skill level.
Annette Keldatis, age 44, said she was only able to get one interview in the past year. She has a masters in computer sciences.
William Spence, age 48, said he had many portable skills and lowered his income requirements and still was unable to find a position. He has a doctorate in physics along with programming experience. He said that age discrimination was so widespread that it had become invisible. Too many others are ashamed of their circumstances to broadcast their plight but they know that the baby boomers are reaching a state of calamity. Still there are few who are vocal for fear it would hinder their chances for a job.
FACE was an organization fo present and past INTEL workers. This organization cited many cases of age discrimination at INTEL. INTEL will not talk about it and cases are sealed after any settlement. Mark Rudy, a San Francisco attorney who dealth with ages discrimination cases in the high tech field, stated it was rare to find anyone over 40 being hired in the high tech field. The very same people who started the computer age have been put on dump heap of humanity with many losing everything they worked their entire lives to save.
Now we have someone like Hillary Clinton talking about workers being resilent and not bitter. She wasn't home baking cookies when all this was happening during the 1990s. At the same time her husband sponsored the moving of high tech companies to places like Ireland and China.
See timeline on Hillary's part in Free Trade - she never brought up any of the above and still remains silent it. See Tapsearch Com / Backfire
In 1998, President Clinton and the Congress passed laws to import cheaper labor to fill positions which were supposedly due to shotages in the high tech industry. Those of us from the computer industry knew better.
UPSIDE MAGAZINE, was a wonderful high tech ventures publication during the 1990s. They told both sides of the story in the high tech field. One article reported about the rampant age discrimination in the high tech fields. The Wall Street Journal reported about companies being afraid to rehire fired workers to fix the Y2k problems for fear of sabotage. The report said many of these workers were "disgruntled". Others used the term "livid". ( These terms certainly indicated there were many bitter workers in the 1990s. ) UPSIDE MAGAZINE reported that many workers in the Silicon Valley were ready to go on strike due to terrible working conditions, but they were stranded with no way of coming together. There were thousands of invisible unemployed or workers who could only get periodical contract jobs. Companies like Microsoft wanted to enjoy portable workers with portable skills to fire and hire at will. ( Just lately, workers were awarded millions with Microsoft losing a case in the courts.) The unemployment reporting did not include these workers because so many were contract temporary workers. As such only a few qualified for unemployment insurance which is one of the reasons why only about 38 percent of all workers qualify for unemployment.
In an article in UPSIDE MAGAZINE in about 1998, the plight of many high tech workers was reported where age discrimination reached downward to those under fourty. Companies made a point to fire workers before they reach the age supposedly protected by age discrimination laws. As someone who has a long history in the computer field, I suggest to young people to find another field. It is impossible to compete with workers, when talented workers come from places like India willing to work around the clock for much less money. I was just about to take a management job with one firm until I found how the programmers and systems people were all from India. After experiencing the horrific assault on U.S. computer workers during the past decade, I turned down the job. It was the last decent income I was ever offered, but I would rather live the rest of my days broke than to be part of this terrible assault on human dignity in the workday. I was passed the state of being bitter. I was in deep distress about what was happening in America during these times. For me and others, it was America in terror internally.
Here are some examples fo workers passing the fourty age mark. ( Reference UPSIDE MAGAZINE )
Robert Pettersen, over 50, passes out his resume at job fairs. It took him eighteen months to find just a temporary contract job and that work ended quickly. His resume displayed a vast history in the field with many accomplishments.
Gene Nelsen, age 46, had a doctorate in biophysics which he no longer mentions on his resume while he does telephone support work searching for a regular position. He maintains there was no shortage of programmers and found the only shortage in the field were twenty-five to thirty-nine year olds with the same skill level.
Annette Keldatis, age 44, said she was only able to get one interview in the past year. She has a masters in computer sciences.
William Spence, age 48, said he had many portable skills and lowered his income requirements and still was unable to find a position. He has a doctorate in physics along with programming experience. He said that age discrimination was so widespread that it had become invisible. Too many others are ashamed of their circumstances to broadcast their plight but they know that the baby boomers are reaching a state of calamity. Still there are few who are vocal for fear it would hinder their chances for a job.
FACE was an organization fo present and past INTEL workers. This organization cited many cases of age discrimination at INTEL. INTEL will not talk about it and cases are sealed after any settlement. Mark Rudy, a San Francisco attorney who dealth with ages discrimination cases in the high tech field, stated it was rare to find anyone over 40 being hired in the high tech field. The very same people who started the computer age have been put on dump heap of humanity with many losing everything they worked their entire lives to save.
Now we have someone like Hillary Clinton talking about workers being resilent and not bitter. She wasn't home baking cookies when all this was happening during the 1990s. At the same time her husband sponsored the moving of high tech companies to places like Ireland and China.
See timeline on Hillary's part in Free Trade - she never brought up any of the above and still remains silent it. See Tapsearch Com / Backfire
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