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What happens when your employer replaces union workers w/ more pliant immigrants on visas? Or just outsources their work entirely?

Are you going to picket an AWS DC in Ashburn?



You get a nice piece of metal, come close and personal with coppers and live happily in exile in Europe ever after. Either that or you become a homeless drug addict. There are always exciting choices for these exciting times.


This was actually very popular with offshoring and the results spoke for themselves. I made a lot of money cleaning up those dumpster fires and it's hard for me to not encourage more of it.


I've picked up work that way too. There are two problems with it, though.

A) After a company has sunk a bundle into offshoring with nothing to show for it, it has less in its budget for me. They may be desperate at that point, but that doesn't mean their checkbook is bottomless.

B) The dream of cheap/subservient/good skilled labor dies hard in management sometimes, and it can take years before management realizes its mistake. Meanwhile, the company may go out of business before it has a chance to come home and pay me the big bucks to clean up its mess.


My favorite is sitting downstream from those ascended souls. There isn't ever a deadline they don't miss, so business people never bark on my tree.




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