Now Hiring, Programers in Fremont. $1.21 an Hour!
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2014 Oct 31, 12:51am 8,709 views 24 comments
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Tenpoundbass
2014 Oct 31, 1:44am
EFI was charged $3,500 -- yes, seriously -- for being at fault.
I would love to see their political contributions track records.
This is exploitation pure and simple. They're doing something illegal, and no politician allowed them to do this. Sometimes, employers are scum all on their own.
they were being paid a competative wage, 10 employees at that salary could have rented out a garage, set up sleeping bags, defecate in the yard and make ends meet. Instead here come federal overreach again trying to punish the job creator.
Actually, EFI's own explanation seems plausible:
They had some Indian employees out here for a couple of weeks working on something, and paid them Indian wages, just like sending American employees to an Indian branch usually means they get paid their American wages. US law doesn't allow that. I find their explanation plausible, and I think it passes the Occam's Razor test.
NO foriegn workers! Hire or train our people to do the work. Indians can stay in India and choke their chickens. Another corporate rip-off solved by Politically incorrect Man!
HydroCabron
2014 Oct 31, 5:58am
NO foriegn workers! Hire or train our people to do the work. Indians can stay in India and choke their chickens. Another corporate rip-off solved by Politically incorrect Man!
National borders are the ultimate form of statist oppression.
It's how government keeps us down. Not only is the government telling companies that they are only allowed to hire these people, but not those people, but it's the government picking winners and losers. And, thanks to the endless chanted repetition of that mantra by our conservative friends, we all know that the government picking winners and losers is wrong.
(Unless it's telling brown people they can't work or vote, because I hate them, but who cares about that. Sue me. Void where prohibited.)
Peter P
2014 Oct 31, 6:01am
NO foriegn workers! Hire or train our people to do the work. Indians can stay in India and choke their chickens. Another corporate rip-off solved by Politically incorrect Man!
Why?
We are heading towards a global single-market capitalism. It is a good thing.
FortWayne
2014 Oct 31, 6:03am
This is exploitation pure and simple. They're doing something illegal, and no politician allowed them to do this. Sometimes, employers are scum all on their own.
The sad thing is that this is a pretty common scenario these days. It's just one company caught, one of many out there my friend...
NO foriegn workers! Hire or train our people to do the work. Indians can stay in India and choke their chickens. Another corporate rip-off solved by Politically incorrect Man!
I work as an engineer in tech, and my perception is that we have a shortage of qualified engineers. There are a ton of "IT" people, many unemployed, but good, experienced engineers and QA people are damn hard to find, while wannabe product managers, tech managers, "visionaries", are everywhere and unemployed. Is it our job to train them, or should they perhaps see where the demand is and pursue those areas themselves?
MAGA
2014 Oct 31, 6:14am
Many companies like to hire H1-B's for IT work. They work cheap. One little problem. Most of them that I have met have little knowledge about IT.
Peter P
2014 Oct 31, 6:15am
Most of them that I have met have little knowledge about IT.
Most IT workers have little knowledge about IT anyway. Most CS graduates here cannot even code.
"Global capitalism" is not a good thing for the USA. As Paul Craig Roberts has predicted it will render the USA a third world country by 2024. The standard of living here is way down from the 1970s when it only took one income to raise a family. Inflation is up, up, up, while wages have been stagnant here since 1990. Pensions, benefits, vacation time, & health insurance have been got rid of by the corporations or whittled away. I'd say we're well on our way to Mr. Roberts prediction. If this continues, I'll predict most Americans will live like dogs by 2050. Millions already do.
New Renter
2014 Oct 31, 6:16am
NO foriegn workers! Hire or train our people to do the work. Indians can stay in India and choke their chickens. Another corporate rip-off solved by Politically incorrect Man!
I work as an engineer in tech, and my perception is that we have a shortage of qualified engineers. There are a ton of "IT" people, many unemployed, but good, experienced engineers and QA people are damn hard to find, while wannabe product managers, tech managers, "visionaries", are everywhere and unemployed. Is it our job to train them, or should they perhaps see where the demand is and pursue those areas themselves?
Yes it is your job to train.
Calculate up the number of engineering grads over the past 30 years. There are plenty of highly skilled people out there. Foriegners are hired because they will work for peanuts. It is corporate Silicon Valley's way of reducing pay.
To their credit, they did pay the workers for every hour they were awake (assuming 7 hours of sleep per night gives you the 120 hour work week).
Shaman
2014 Oct 31, 6:59am
Most of the world gets by on less than $1 a day. If we create a truly global capitalist utopia, we can increase that to $2/day!
If we create a truly global capitalist utopia, we can increase that to $2/day!
Utopia or not, their share of the pie is increasing and ours is decreasing.
This trend line will get very painful for some Americans.
Here Economic Hit Man James Wolfensohn, former president of The World Bank, explains how a global power shift will see today's western economies drop from having 80% of the world's income to 35%.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/6a0zhc1y_Ns
I would love to see their political contributions track records.
What do you mean ? Aren't you going to just go ahead and blame it on the libruls ?
There must be some kind of jibberish you can put together that in your mind will feel like it supports that contention.
MisdemeanorRebel
2014 Oct 31, 8:28am
We are heading towards a global single-market capitalism. It is a good thing.
Tee hee hee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_Civilizations
He's been pretty damn right on so far.
APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says
If a laborer asks for pay, he is committing crimes against shareholders and is, de facto, a COMMUNIST!
Absurd, and yet true.
MAGA
2014 Oct 31, 10:21am
Most IT workers have little knowledge about IT anyway. Most CS graduates here cannot even code.
That's true.
Y
2014 Oct 31, 10:34am
Do we have to read it in order to know what's in it?
We are heading towards a global single-market capitalism. It is a good thing.
Tee hee hee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_Civilizations
He's been pretty damn right on so far.
Strategist
2014 Oct 31, 11:19am
"Ever heard of Electronics for Imaging? We hadn't either until this morning, but it's apparently a multimillion dollar, multinational, public corporation based out of Fremont, California. And the United States Department of Labor just caught EFI red-handed in an investigation, which found that "about eight employees" were flown in from India to work 120-hour weeks for $1.21 per hour. EFI apparently thought it was okay to pay the employees the same wages they'd be paid in India (in Indian rupees). Here's the unbelievably crazy sounding quote EFI gave to NBC's Bay Area affiliate: "We unintentionally overlooked laws that require even foreign employees to be paid based on local US standards."
All the company had to do was hire a Coyote and get them through Mexico. Name them Jose and voila, they are now legally illegal, and even get to vote.
FortWayne
2014 Oct 31, 2:42pm
Actually, EFI's own explanation seems plausible:
They had some Indian employees out here for a couple of weeks working on something, and paid them Indian wages, just like sending American employees to an Indian branch usually means they get paid their American wages. US law doesn't allow that. I find their explanation plausible, and I think it passes the Occam's Razor test.
Oh they damn well knew what they were doing. Every asshole these days claims ignorance instead of taking responsibility. Like Clinton who wasn't sure how to wiggle out of his blow job scandal.
Clinton thing I let go, didn't bother me much. But these asshole are driving down wages, and the consumer spending. And at that point it places economic burden on America, and that is something I will never agree to!
I'd want some of these execs in prison for a few years.
"Ever heard of Electronics for Imaging? We hadn't either until this morning, but it's apparently a multimillion dollar, multinational, public corporation based out of Fremont, California. And the United States Department of Labor just caught EFI red-handed in an investigation, which found that "about eight employees" were flown in from India to work 120-hour weeks for $1.21 per hour. EFI apparently thought it was okay to pay the employees the same wages they'd be paid in India (in Indian rupees). Here's the unbelievably crazy sounding quote EFI gave to NBC's Bay Area affiliate: "We unintentionally overlooked laws that require even foreign employees to be paid based on local US standards."
http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/23/efi-underpaying-workers/