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A former Google contract worker told GB News how his team’s jobs went to India, Ireland and the Philippines.
A former Google contractor, Stephen Vivien, said it was mean, harsh and dehumanizing when he was asked to train his replacement and his whole team’s jobs were sent to India, the Phillipines and Ireland. Vivien said this for an H-1B documentary for GB News, which interviewed US techies who lost their jobs to H-1Bs and mostly Indians. The documentary also aimed at exploring a difference in hiring patterns after Indian-origin individuals became CEOs of top companies.Vivien said he found out that whenever an Indian gets hired, they share confidential interview questions with other Indians and the network thrives in this ‘dishonest’ way.A former FedEx employee anonymously told GB News that after Raj Subramaniam became the CEO, things started getting worse little by little, as there was a program to downsize. A lot of offshoring happened, and her job also went to India. She said that her team had many managers, and one of them, they thought, was visiting the family in India but the manager was actually training replacements of American workers in India.Navdeep Meamber, an Indian-origin attorney, who was interviewed for the documentary, said CEOs being Indian-origin does not affect the hiring as CEOs do not know who is being hired and these decisions are taken by lower rung employees. But she confirmed that many tech workers go back to India as part of offshoring. Life in India is much better than the US as there are several househelps one gets, Meamber said, adding that Indians are going back as they are getting the same salary with the same employer working from India.Immigration expert Rosemary Jenks, in the documentary, said President Donald Trump can’t stop H-1B visas altogether as Congress started the program but at least Trump took a discouraging step by imposing a $100k fee on all new H-1B entries from outside the US. But this did not reduce the number as foreign students who are already in the US are not under the new fee and they enter the job market through the OPT program.
