quote: | Originally posted by AnotherWay83
if you think abt it, it actually works out in favor of corporations. they just hire peeps from abroad that have a master's or PhD (from countries where education is very cheap or highly subsidized), and pay them shit wages because they're on a visa, and also work them really hard by dangling the green card carrot.
why would you pay a local person with just a bachelor's the same as someone that has a master's (or in some cases, multiple master's degrees) and is willing to be your wage slave? at the same time they get to cry "oh, there's not enough qualified candidates so we need to increase the visa quotas or offshore our work". well yeah no shit. getting an education is a very, very expensive proposition in this country... |
While i somewhat agree with what you are saying, a bigger problem is the obsolescence of many college/university degrees today. apart from specialized programs, most uni degrees don't transfer well to industry. I know a lot of people in ottawa who are working for the federal government in "administrative support" positions (glorified secretary) who have a BA from a well reputed university. They constantly complain about their low wage (even though they have the best pension and benefit package in canada) because they feel they should be making 80 grand a year due to their degree.
Unless your degree adds value to your work, ie gives you special skills or abilities to do your job better or more efficiently, you are not going to see a landslide salary increase. Far too many people these days graduate university and feel that they are somehow "owed" a job, and a well paying one at that. Im not sure where this mentality came from but the way i see it, you are just another player in the job market and that piece of paper you just spent 100k on is just proof that you have some skills or training that make you a bit better than someone else.
back to the foreign trained employee issue, more often than not (in my industry anyways) we hire these people because they are highly trained and we can get them super cheap, not because their education cost any less where they were from, but because they cannot be licensed to practice engineering in Canada for a myriad of reasons. Engineer's get paid what they do because they assume all responsibility and liability for their work (when i put my seal on a drawing, im legally liable for defects or errors and omissions). Since the unlicensed cannot assume the risk, they don't get paid anywhere close to the same rate. I have a couple foreign trained people on staff who do a lot of great technical work for me but since they don't qualify for licensure (many of them would have to go back and get a degree from a Canadian university to qualify) they will remain at the technician pay grade.
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quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
I have 3 hobbies: gaming, DJing & correcting maladjusted fools on the internet. |
quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
Yeah, I’d like to know what horrible, scarring incident in your childhood turned you into such an ignorant, intellectual-hating philistine? |
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