Qualcomm has been thriving on importing and abusing low-cost H1-B workers as replacement for their older age workers. If they "layoff" employees, they wouldn't legally be able to get new H1-B workers in the future because they wouldn't be able to make the case to the immigration authorities that they were short of US workers. Moreover, if they "layoff", they would have to pay a severance package to the employee which would cost them. They would also run the risk of the employee bringing a lawsuit against Qualcomm for wrongful termination. For this reason, they would try very hard to eliminate employees in other manners that could not be labeled as "layoff". They would put all their effort into creating a condition where the employee would "resign" on his own. Then they wouldn't have to pay the employee any severance pay and they would not face any legal risk. One method to accomplish this is to "to work the employee out". They give the employee an assignment that is impossible to complete and make him work hard and fruitlessly until the he gets exhausted and leaves on his own. If this method doesn't work, then they "PIP him out". This is accomplished by artificially lowering his performance grade and putting him on PIP. Then they give him an assignment that is impossible to complete in the given time, or is outside of his area of specialization, or has dependency on another group to deliver. This gives HR the justification to terminate the employee and if it comes to a lawsuit, they would claim that they gave the employee a chance to improve, but that he did not "perform". To PIP an employee out, they will first encourage him to either resign on his own or go on PIP. HR would threaten that if employee doesn’t agree to either choice, they would terminate him for insubordination. If he resigns, HR will be happy because they wouldn’t have to pay him any severance payment, he could not make any legal claim against Q, would not be eligible for unemployment benefits because he has "voluntarily resigned", and his health insurance will cease at the end of the month. If the employee decides to go on PIP, he gives them a chance to fabricate more bogus evidence against him in the manner which I described. Remember that no one has survived PIP in the past. Then they will terminate the employee at the end of PIP and will use the fabricated evidence in case he brings a lawsuit. HR will even be happier in this case because they wouldn’t have to pay the employee any severance payment, he could not make any legal claims, would not be eligible for unemployment benefits because he has been "fired", his health insurance will cease at the end of the month, and Qualcomm could extract another month of intense work from the doomed employee which thinks if he worked harder he would survive.
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Go away HR. Are you afraid of a class action law suit to bring Q and you to justice? Is that why you suggest to let it go?
Seriously, just let it go on, who cares? The H1's will SINK the ship as they eventually always do as they don't care and will ship the $ overseas, and eventually leave or be fired. It's the natural progression of things, who knows where it'll lead, but I'm all for just letting things happen as-is (i.e. not fight it) and let the dust settle and see what comes out of it.
Go away HR!
when you do not reference the original posting your post becomes spam. yes spam. thank you.
Message from OP should be forwarded to as many people as possible; corporations like Q should be prosecuted for abusing this system; it's only the billionaires club and top executives who benefit from it
There is nothing wrong with copy-pasting. OP is spreading a message that should concern anyone who cares about the rule of law and the integrity of our society.
Not saying I disagree with the message, but why not write something original..
Glad you know how to cut and paste the same topic over and over. You must be a QC engineer..
1osc: Worse than that: It's LAWYERS!
This has been common practice at Q for many years.
So what's with the race baiting seen on other threads, if in most cases American execs and boards are making these decisions?
@Anon-Socrates: So then, why do they hire "someone with poor language skills, subpar education, and no prior ability to connect/network with peers" to begin with?
So you are claiming, the value of an employee is only what he is paid? How can a senior employees value be replaced by someone with (as claimed on this site) poor language skills, subpar education, and no prior ability to connect/network with peers?
Is your executive management just accountants?
Using this technique, Q can raise the bar as high as it wants as long as there are H-1bs available to feed this system; that is why turn over or attrition (depending on what side of the fence you are on), can be so high.
OP you are 100%; that is how corrupt Qualcomm is; Q should be prosecuted for its hiring/firing tactics and its abuse of H-1bs program at the expense of Americans.
so sad. this is very common and doesn't just happen in QUALCOMM.