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White Guy Hell Discrimination in Liberal California = Motto “IF you are white, take a hike”

January 5th, 2017

"US WEST COAST IT PROFESSIONAL ANSWERS SOME QUESTIONS: SUBJECT MATTER - I LOST MY JOB TO H-1B IN 2011 - I HAVE NO INCOME

 

Save American Information Technology Jobs has provided questions for an American IT Professional who lost his job to an H-1B and his career has not recovered since the time period of 2011 to present.

 

An IT Professional in the USA has been a victim of H-1B abuse has agreed to share his experiences in regard to his career displacement due to H-1B visa abuse.

 

The following is a set of written questions and portions of a transcribed interview provided to Save American Information Technology Jobs by a victimized US Citizen who wishes to tell his story. This is a multi-part series with a final publication of the entire series.

 

SAITJ: FIRST, LET’S GET TO KNOW YOU, FROM WHICH USA STATE DID YOU RESIDE AND WHAT WAS YOUR COURSE OF STUDY AS A STUDENT?

 

AMERICAN IT WORKER:

 

California, UC San Diego 1985, B.A. Computer Science.

 

SAITJ:  WHAT IS YOUR SOFTWARE SUITE AND SKILL SET? CAN YOU LIST SOME OF THESES ITEMS?

 

AMERICAN IT WORKER:

 

“I love software development and it is fun for me. I have had my hands on a bunch of software products with a variety of products and methods. My last job and best achievements were at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), my last employer who had me replaced  by an H-1B from a third world country.”

 

“I have strong skills in the following:

 

Android SDK and these items:

 

• RESTful Web Services (Glassfish & Apache Catalina/Tomcat)

• Oracle Spatial GIS & PL/SQL (sprocs, triggers, packages, etc.)

• Java & OO DEVL (using NetBeans, Eclipse, Android Studio)

• Data modeling (with/without ERWIN)

• SQL and host back end tuning.

• JSON/GSON/XML object serialization & persistence “

 

“On top of that I was a Full Stack Web and DB Applications Developer, an Oracle Developer DBA, Windows, Linux. The full 10 yards.”

 

“For the utility company I was highly productive, some say, top notch. I developed and deployed RESTful services (Glassfish & Jackson/Jersey).”

 

“I developed and deployed a SQL back-end for various applications. I created the very first corporate wide Gas Pipe Database in Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) history.”

 

“I was the first to bring Linux and Tomcat based server solutions to PG&E starting in 2002.”

 

“I authored and developed Leak Locator, PipePicker. I Used GIS spatial analysis that solved PG&E’s severe business problem of matching leaks to pipes.”

 

“I developed a custom applications using Java JSP & MVC, Oracle Spatial, PowerBuilder, PL/SQL, and Unix scripts. I performed application design and testing, support clients, design web pages using Apache TomCat 4.x, JSP, HTML & XML .”

 

“I was Autocad guy. I used MS Visual Studio 10, .NET, & C#.”

 

“I authored G.as A.sset & E.vent L.ocator GIS application. I developed GISWeb data layers using Oracle Spatial and Autodesk tools. I also designed and managed a data acquisition processes, acquired and converted data from outside sources, performed topological conversion, create and maintain metadata.”

 

“Behind the scenes I was an intermediate to advance in data management.”

 

“In the late 1990’s in the Berkeley days, I was a Web Applications Developer, Oracle & Sybase DBA along with Linux & Solaris SysAdmin. Those were the glory days in which the technologies I worked with are just beginning to make an impact on the Industry. It was a glorious time to be a creative engineer. “

 

“I developed security login structures for Web based database transactions. I designed and maintain database schemas and DB objects (keys, indices, tablespaces, etc.)”

 

“I also maintained DB secure connectivity over firewalls and secure non-standard ports.”

 

“MSVS 10/.NET/C#. I was a Linux System administrator, an Oracle DBA, a Sybase DBA, Application Developer and installed, upgraded, migrated, backups, restore Oracle 8.0.5 – 8.1.7 Sun, NT, and Linux platforms.”

 

“I wrote PL/SQL and T-SQL triggers, functions stored procedures. I wrote scripts to startup and shutdown databases gracefully upon system reboot and system backup.“

 

“I wrote Linux System Admin. Unix shell scripts (C-shell, Bourne Shell, BASH, AWK, Cron,etc.)”

 

“I wrote various “As-built” documentations for Oracle Installation, Sybase 11.9.2 Installation, I did Linux Installations, Apache Web Server installs and PHP add-ons.

EJB was new then, so I research Oracle Enterprise Java Beans (EJB). I developed EDI (Electronic Document Interface) transfer protocols. Wrote Java objects for EDI.”

 

“I have read Indian articles and posts and listened to Indians. They disparage undeservedly the American Software Engineer. They say we are not technical, that is BS – my resume and technical background and education is kick ass if I can be so bold. The Indians piss all over USA technical skills in order to elevate their own interests.”

 

“Despite all of this great background and productivity, I got canned by somebody who lives overseas, an H-1B Indian, and it hurt, it hurt me badly. I wish I had the words but I do not. What happened to me is so profoundly hurtful on so many levels. An injustice that is insulting to my existence as an American. What country does this to their people?  Just the USA the last time I checked.”

 

SAITJ:  DID YOU HEAR OF RUMORS AND OTHER INDICATIONS WITHIN THE COMPANY THAT A H-1B LAYOFF WAS IN THE WORKS, IF SO HOW DID THE INDIVIDUALS IN THE SHOP REACT?

 

AMERICAN IT WORKER:

 

“Zero warning.”

 

“In 2011, just 1 week before Thanksgiving, Pacific Gas & Electric laid off approximately 200 of its approximately 1000 employee IT department.”

 

“The other thing I would like to add is to the best of my knowledge no one received any indication as to the reason for the layoff.  No explanation.”

 

“No explanation.  Nothing.  Certainly to the best of my knowledge, nobody, including myself, received any kind of indication that this had something to do with the quality of my work, no indication…it was all very, bye bye, out you go, the door.  If you were lucky you got a severance package if you’d been there for a long time.  I saw people there that had been there longer than I had and they were just…what happened…well, if you want to know the story, what happened was, I got to work in the morning and you just need to tell me to shut up or speed up or move on if you don’t want to hear any of this, but I get to work in the morning and I get an email and the email, the subject line of the email was Status Check and it was from my boss and so he wanted to meet me early in the morning.  It was probably about 10:00 a.m.-ish and he and my supervisor were in the room and you know, you walk into your boss’s office like that and there’s the supervisor, that’s not going to be good.  So I sat down and they said, “Well, we’re laying you off and here’s your severance package and you’ve got to sign it saying you’re not going to sue us and then you get your severance package,” and then after that they escort me out of the building to another building and what they did was the layoffs were coordinated.  They were choreographed and coordinated and everybody that they laid off they escorted to a separate building that had several rooms in it and each room they gathered up anywhere from five to ten people and told them their human resource rights.  You know, basically that…it was just a lot of BS after that.”

 

To Be Continued……….."

 

 

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