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Old 07-26-2016, 10:17 PM
 
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About the responses I expected. Lots of cries of "racist", but no one addressed my point about 100% Indian teams and Indian managers only hiring other Indians. This is not racist? Anyone working in IT at a large corp has experienced this. Once an Indian becomes manager, that team will shortly become entirely Indian.

I am not white and thus not beat down with "white guilt", so being called racist doesn't bother me at all. Again, can someone explain to me why entire teams of Indians and Indians only hiring other Indians is not racist? I have not seen this allowed with other groups in corporate America, not Koreans (which is what I am), whites, blacks, Hispanics, Chinese, etc. Only Indians do this and everyone looks the other way.

And lawl at all these folks that think there's a dime's worth of difference between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to selling out this country's citizens.
Again comes down to MONEY. If the Indian Manager thinks a skilled person can be hired for less/cheap and the person will answer calls and do support work at night/weekend, it doesn't matter the race/color/ethnicity of person. Unfortunately, indians fit that description and get hired more often by indian managers.
Of course favoritism will always be there with all the ppl.
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Old 07-27-2016, 07:18 AM
 
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I am not white and thus not beat down with "white guilt", so being called racist doesn't bother me at all. Again, can someone explain to me why entire teams of Indians and Indians only hiring other Indians is not racist? I have not seen this allowed with other groups in corporate America, not Koreans (which is what I am), whites, blacks, Hispanics, Chinese, etc. Only Indians do this and everyone looks the other way.
Same reason you go to many places around the country and you see teams of only white.
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Old 07-27-2016, 07:27 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Same reason you go to many places around the country and you see teams of only white.
Not the same, because most likely those folks are simply locals. There are still some cities/towns 90+% inhabited by Americans who were originally born in the US.
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Old 07-27-2016, 07:44 AM
 
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About the responses I expected. Lots of cries of "racist", but no one addressed my point about 100% Indian teams and Indian managers only hiring other Indians. This is not racist? Anyone working in IT at a large corp has experienced this. Once an Indian becomes manager, that team will shortly become entirely Indian.

I am not white and thus not beat down with "white guilt", so being called racist doesn't bother me at all. Again, can someone explain to me why entire teams of Indians and Indians only hiring other Indians is not racist? I have not seen this allowed with other groups in corporate America, not Koreans (which is what I am), whites, blacks, Hispanics, Chinese, etc. Only Indians do this and everyone looks the other way.

And lawl at all these folks that think there's a dime's worth of difference between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to selling out this country's citizens.

Take a good look around your office and tell me now how many people are willing to work beyond 9 -5, work on weekends if needed, how many will stick with the company once oil prices start going north? Indian IT workers will do it all with out saying a word. Do you think they enjoy it?

They do it because they are stuck with H1B and they can't just change jobs a will till they get green card as most companies don't sponsor HB1 these days. Do you know what percentage of companies hire Full time employess on H1B in Houston? ( Its less that 10% if you exclude fresh college grads). Unfortunately, they know this and they take full advantage of H1b employees. In other words, if a person on H1B has balls to say no to his manager then he should be very worried about next round of layoffs/ performance reviews/ contact renewal (this has nothing to do with talent). I don't know when this started but, right now H1B employees waiting for green card are stuck in this cycle.

This applies to anyone on H1B . Unfortunately India/China are the only two countries with a really really long wait time to get a Green Card.

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Old 07-27-2016, 08:29 AM
 
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^^ This is it. More do do with outsourcing than racism. At least in my experience.
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Old 07-27-2016, 08:55 AM
 
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I can't believe they've found a way to exploit professional work. You'd think learning a skill in any branch of engineering is like commanding a special skill and taking control of your work. It's like a specialty they can't be taken advantage of.
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Old 07-27-2016, 09:17 AM
 
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Schlumberger has declared a bottom to the market and is now going to start clawing back their precious price reductions. I suspect the other big service companies are not going to be far behind them. The current prices are below cost, and are not sustainable.
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Old 07-27-2016, 09:24 AM
 
Location: Sugar Land
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I am SLB. Not gonna work, but worth trying. There is HUGE pressure from customers to keep prices low or even reduce more. I deal with Exxon & Chevron. As far as customer concern goes is not bottom yet.


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Schlumberger has declared a bottom to the market and is now going to start clawing back their precious price reductions. I suspect the other big service companies are not going to be far behind them. The current prices are below cost, and are not sustainable.
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Old 07-27-2016, 09:38 AM
 
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I am SLB. Not gonna work, but worth trying. There is HUGE pressure from customers to keep prices low or even reduce more. I deal with Exxon & Chevron. As far as customer concern goes is not bottom yet.
Well, the discounts and additional work without compensation that Schlumberger has demanded from its vendors is going to come to a screeching halt as well. I know several companies that are extremely tired of dealing with the bull excrement that has come from Schlumberger's supply chain the last 2 years. When the market picks back up and suppliers have a little more leverage, Schlumberger is going to see some pretty rapid price increases from their vendors.
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Old 07-27-2016, 10:50 AM
 
Location: Sugar Land
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Welcome to the party and gotta spread the love :-) After all we laid off 44,000 folks and that's not a small number. Never in SLB history so many folks were let go





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Well, the discounts and additional work without compensation that Schlumberger has demanded from its vendors is going to come to a screeching halt as well. I know several companies that are extremely tired of dealing with the bull excrement that has come from Schlumberger's supply chain the last 2 years. When the market picks back up and suppliers have a little more leverage, Schlumberger is going to see some pretty rapid price increases from their vendors.
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