Guild Wars 2

I for one will boycot Disney over this, and yes that means all subsidairies along with them (Lucas, Marvel…) and I dont care.

What does this have to do with Anet? Nothing. I just figured its a good read and gives us all something more important to think on while we wait for Anet’s response.

Thanks to reporting from The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and Computerworld, the American public is getting a glimpse of the H-1B’s primary purpose. Recent, egregious examples took place at Disney and Southern California Edison (SCE) — two companies that earned billions in profits last year — where hundreds of information technology workers were laid off and replaced with H-1Bs. But first, the U.S. employees were required to train the H-1B workers who would soon be sitting at their desks, doing their jobs.

H-1B rules allow employers to displace and replace U.S. workers with foreign tech workers. The only restriction applies to companies where more than 15 percent of the workforce are H-1Bs: They are permitted to replace U.S. workers only if the H-1B holds a master’s degree or is paid over $60,000. Hatch recently suggested increasing this displacement exemption to $95,000, rather than prohibiting displacement altogether. Hatch’s proposal falls short, because companies will still be allowed to replace workers, as well as vastly underpay H-1Bs compared to U.S. workers in the same occupation and geographic region.

While employers must pay H-1B workers the legally defined local “prevailing wage” — a rule intended to prevent undermining U.S. wage standards — employers have the option of paying the Level 1 “entry-level” wage, or the Level 2 wage, both of which are well below the average wage local employers pay for workers in similar jobs. In theory, the wage level must correspond to the H-1B worker’s education and experience, but in practice, the employer gets to choose, and the government isn’t checking. Unsurprisingly, the Government Accountability Office reported that 83 percent of H-1Bs are certified to be paid below-average wages (Level 1 or 2).

How do corporations benefit from this? Major savings: Many of the workers laid off at Disney and SCE earned $100,000 a year or more. Government data indicate the H-1B workers replacing them earn around $60,000.

The companies that usually do the actual replacement — offshore outsourcing firms like HCL, Infosys and Tata — are the top recipients of H-1B visas, and get about half the allotted visas every year. Their business model is based on replacing U.S. workers and shifting jobs overseas. Their clients that replaced U.S. employees with guest workers include companies like Fossil, Pfizer, Northeast Utilities, Harley Davidson and Cargill.

Instead of expanding the H-1B program, Hatch should work to fix it, to prevent the kinds of abuses that occurred at Disney. The law should be changed so that it’s illegal to replace U.S. workers with H-1Bs. Employers should be required to recruit and hire qualified U.S. workers before hiring an H-1B, and be required to pay their H-1B workers no less than the true local average wage for the jobs they fill. Requiring a higher wage would be even better, because it would ensure that employers use the H-1B only when they can’t find local talent, and to hire highly skilled individuals that complement and add value to the workforce, rather than as a way to cut labor costs.

Daniel Costa is the director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute.

I would be inclined to believe you but you keep popping up in threads. If you are so mad at anet and you are ging to boycott everything that you dont like, then the best thing you can do is leave.

If you leave and never post again, that will hurt anet more then crying about how mad you are at anet. Publicity is publicity, negative or not. Every post you make brings these forums and this game closer to the top of google’s search results, and when they come, they might just get enlightened while they sift through all the garbage posts about how Anet is the Beast.

But you wont leavem because you love anet, you love guild wars, you love disney, or you wouldnt be talking about them and invoking their names on the internet.

If I am wrong, and any of this expressed negativity would hurt anet, they would have deleted the topics, even if they had to invoke the reasoning that every one of them spirals off topic.

Greymelken.1892:

I would be inclined to believe you but you keepo popping up in threads. If you are so mad at anet and you are ging to boycott everything that you dont like, then the best thing you can do is leave.

If you leave and never post again, that will hurt anet more then crying about how mad you are at anet. Publicity is publicity, negative or not. Every post you make brings these forums and this game closer to the top of google’s search results, and when they come, they might just get enlightened while they sift through all the garbage posts about how Anet is the Beast.

Every one of you hating on Anet secures a sale for Anet.

If I am wrong, and any of this expressed negativity would hurt anet, they would have deleted the topics, even if they had to invoke the reasoning that every one of them spirals off topic.

You obviously don’t understand how Google’s spider crawler works here, so please don’t try.

and I am not ‘hating’ on Anet. I am making my opinion known about the business decision they made towards the expansion. Not once did I say I was going to stop playing or be done with Anet/NCsoft products…not yet anyway.

But when companies (For profit) pull moves like Anet did, they ultimately lose the bottom line (sales). And that is what will happen here if they do not come up with a solid strategy to overcome their short sightedness.

This whole Disney thing just has me kittened off, to be honest and was completely off topic…as I said. But i guess you didn’t read ANY of it, did ya?