Why dont we have articles like this in the British press?

[CoolCat]

Insiders say Canada 'scammed' by foreign worker industry - British Columbia - CBC News

[AtW]

Insiders say Canada 'scammed' by foreign worker industry - British Columbia - CBC News

It's not helping sales as much as writing about what was, or more like what was not wearing Rihanna.

HTH

[Troll]

“I need to stop this scam. I am hurting,” said one experienced Canadian IT worker, originally from India, who told CBC he’s been pushed out of his industry as a result of outsourcing."

Sweet!....but no mention of how much his house is worth

[User98]

ANSWER -> Ask the British Banks ... ...

THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM

Here's how it works :-

1 ) The Client - the "Really Dodgy Bank UK of Manchester" - run by a bunch of Muppets needs some
Consultancy work done as efficiently and as cheaply as possible.

2 ) "Golly Gosh Co" in the black hole of Calcutta claims to have the people with the necessary
skills and experience to do the work.

Afterall, you can find every kind of Specialist growing on the Trees in the black hole of Calcutta.

So ... you need "a knob" Transplant ?
No problemo, Compadre Mio - "Golly Gosh Co" have got the guys who specialise and can change
your "knob" for you - just like you would change a Light Bulb.

3 ) But But But - "GGC" actually doesn't have the expertise.
You see - they lied to the Muppets running the "Really Dodgy Bank UK of Manchester".

So now ... they must look for people - but cannot find

No problemo, Compadre Mio ............

4 ) "GGC" - then takes a few Greenhorns and powers them up on a Training Course.
5 ) A Project is invented for the CV - probably one that someone else (of the few) at "GGC" has done
and can, therefore, advise on. This project becomes Greenhorn's Project too.
6 ) Lies are put onto the Greenhorn CV.
7 ) Greenhorn gets sent out to the Client Company - the "Really Dodgy Bank UK of Manchester".
8 ) Greenhorn tulips a brick while "doing" the work - in the hope of not screwing up and getting found out.
9 ) Any really serious issue -> Greenhorn can contact the "GGC" people for advice by Phone.
10 ) Should Greenhorn get found out - or fooooked out : well, who cares ??? - he now has 6 Months real
experience under the belt anyway for the next sucker Company or the "Next Dodgy Bank UK of Leeds"

11 ) Meanwhile - back at the Ranch :-
The young, local, indigenous people don't get trained up to provide the expertise for the future roles.
Nope. And, they can't find decent, meaningful work either.

Instead - they grow Tatooes, Drink Lager and lounge around on the Dole.
"The great tatooed, lager army" - with thumb stuck up the ass.

And, in the great race to the bottom - if you dare open your Mouth about such things - then you can
stand accused of "Racism" by the great and the good PC Brigade of the Great British / Western society.

So, don't blame the Eastern Europeans partners for immigration issues - after all, they are fellow members
of the EU.

Rather - ask the great British Banks (plus other Companies) about the importation of non-EU Nationals
and the displacement of the local, indigenous people from the workforce ; also ask about the whole
business of Outsourcing.

Of course, there is also the issue of "Slave Labour" merely to serve the interests of the powerful elites
(for example, the unelected -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group).
But that's another story for another Day.

[cojak]

Sheesh...

Here's a bit of advice for the pair of you.

Yes, there are places that bring in poorly skilled people to take those jobs for that level of skill. But many of them aren't. Many of them are using genuine off-shore people with good skills. And they are from Brazil and Mexico as well as Chennai and Bangalore, and don't forget China*

So I would suggest that you get your nostalgia and arses (and Empire attitudes; Calcutta, really??) out of the 19th century and look around you. Dump the bitter and twisted 'must blame someone' attitude, adapt by learning a new skill and move on.

The UK is in a perfect position to be the 'dusk/dawn' lynch-pin between The Americas (North or South) and Asia. I know because I've made good money doing exactly that.

*and I'll say exactly the same thing when Indian contractors come on here complaining about those pesky Chinese in Shanghai...

[Troll]

for example, the unelected -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group
But that's another story for another Day.
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Did you know the Bilderberg group are meeting this week in Watford - I mean the world is your oyster & you choose Watford!
I'm a bit busy to attend...

[cojak]

Did you know the Bilderberg group are meeting this week in Watford - I mean the world is your oyster & you choose Watford!
I'm a bit busy to attend...

Not exactly Davos, is it?

[darmstadt]

Did you know the Bilderberg group are meeting this week in Watford - I mean the world is your oyster & you choose Watford!
I'm a bit busy to attend...

Isn't Watford where people from Luton aspire to live?

[Dominic Connor]

Because we don't write them

Insiders say Canada 'scammed' by foreign worker industry - British Columbia - CBC News

If you want articles like this, then you have to tell the media about them.

As it happens, the PCG has sent me details of something vaguely similar that I might write up, but let me share a bit of how this stuff works.

Firstly, this article is tulip, the clumsy political bias would shame both the Guardian and Daily Mail. Notice the loaded words "local", "multinational" and the overt racism where it is taken as a given that Indians can't do computers as well as we white people can.

The bimbo that wrote this doesn't seem to be curious how this situation can continue. If the IT at a company is really tulip, the decision makers in IT suffer, sure a quick bit of cost saving makes you look good, but if you don't repeatedly don't deliver, grief comes your way.

Since she's a witless arts graduate she takes at face value the idea that at 21, calling yourself a "software developer" is fraudulent. Really ?
It's the sort of arrogance I had at 21, indeed I first called myself a programmer in my teens and I bet many of you did the same thing.

Most of us can't easily visualise a million billion, but we can visualise blue which is the vaguely frequency of visible light. Because she's an arts grad, she sees any number above 12 as a sort of colour or other adjective.

So says there are 16,299 Indians in Canada, out of a population of 34.5 million. Even if her racist views are correct, that's hardly a human wave, if someone had told here there were 35 million Indians in Canada, I'd give >50:50 she'd have swallowed that.

So frankly, if I wrote this for The Register, not only would it not get published, it might make them ask me to write less. Be clear that The Reg, likes rants, it just expects a certain quality.

Meeting that standard is the next reason you don't see this much in Britain.

I'd get about £500 to write a piece like this, work out how much time that equates to. Then ask how I could write it anyway.

I'd need facts and it would be hard to get it through without some names, the PCG has given me one, but frankly it's not quite timely, things need to have happened reasonably recently to be "news".

Also there are the libel laws, if I say "some contractors are a bit unhappy at a large outsourcing firm", you won't find that piece interesting, but if I say "G4S has screwed up its recruitment big time", I need decent evidence.

At this point I must be even more arrogant than normal.
There's a tech forum called Spiceworks, some of you are on it, most are not, but I am and this makes their PR people really very happy, they go to some lengths to keep me sweet because that's a conduit for getting their message out.

When I pitched up on ContractorUK and asked if anyone had anything I ought to know, most of what I got was abuse.

I'm old enough and ugly enough that this didn't bother me at all, but it is a lost opportunity since aside from the PCG no one is doing PR for contractors or for IT Pros in general and that causes a bias in the reporting.

Bottom line, you want stories that reflect your position, you have to help us write them.

At the Reg, we have spiked stories because it would identify the source in a way that might hurt them, so contrary to what you might thing from reading, we actually take this stuff seriously.

That's not just me, a couple of mates of mine are freelancers on the Daily Mail and although they'd reject trash like this referenced article, they'd have no problem with the story itself, if it were near enough to some sort of truth.

Your move.

[mudskipper]

Why don't you post your request in the prof forums (after editing to remove any possibility of being interpreted as sexist)? General is where we come for our daily dose of sado/masochistic abuse.