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bedroom music producer at night 🎶🌕 | IT admin at day 💻☀️ was a taco in a different life 🌮

Ottawa, Ontario

Joined August 2013

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BNGEE™ @bngeeofficial

8 months ago

@eightsleep When will it be possible to get a Cali King sized Eight Sleep cover in Canada?

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Matt Forney

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10 months ago

NEW: an insider provides an extensive report on HD Supply, a subsidiary of Home Depot, and how it is firing Americans and replacing entire teams with unqualified Indian H-1Bs or offshore teams. HD Supply is based in Atlanta and is responsible for running the HD Pro Desk in all Home Depot stores. Its new CIO is an Indian from Canada, Charles D'Souza, and since his appointment, "most if not all managerial roles under the CIO that have been filled, have been filled with Indians either in India, or former or current visa holders in the U.S." The insider points out that HD Supply is no longer hiring Americans and despite new Indians arriving on a regular basis, HD Supply's corporate website has no real job openings. The insider goes on to say that HD Supply's new Indian hires "can barely speak English and have no clue how to do their jobs, yet in their welcome emails, appear extremely qualified and educated." To make matters worse, HD Supply has recently purchased a new building in India they're calling the Global Technology Center (GTC) and are staffing it with QA and customer support teams. The GTC recently became operational and HD Supply is discussing more overseas expansion while "the American teams keep asking (very publicly) what's going to happen to their jobs, and getting no answers other than ramping up RTO efforts for employees who do not live near an office." A few days ago, HD Supply held a company-wide quarterly meeting, where the insider's team (about 350 people) posted questions to management. While management normally reads and answers all employee questions, "this time, they did not present or address a single posted question." The insider provided screenshots of some of those questions; "the number to the left denotes the number of upvotes. These were not the final numbers, the poll was closed down before it completed so I couldn't see the final numbers." The insider says this is odd because "typically they aim for 100% feedback ratios for the Q&A and will hound managers until their teams reach 100%, this time it was closed early..." Instead of answering the questions posted, "management doubled down on return to office policies (RTO) and sold us a story about how offshoring is good for the bottom line, even at a time where that is not a concern for our business." Management also stated that remote employees are ineligible for promotions or benefit increases, which are reserved for office workers. Despite this, "the company has been hiring remotely for almost 6 years, with employees in 30 states, but the company is only present in 4. They're ramping up RTO specifically for employees in areas where the company no longer has a presence in an effort to push Americans out." The insider shares info about a number of employees who moved to Florida to be near one of HD Supply's offices only for the company to close said office during COVID and demand a return to the office less than two years later; "what office?" After doubling down on these policies, HD Supply's new Indian (GTC) teams "introduced themselves and shared their grand vision for the location. The entire 2 hour presentation felt like a massive middle finger to all of the hardworking Americans that work for HD Supply and Home Depot, we have been abandoned." The insider says after this meeting, the already poor morale of American employees was destroyed "and employees are running for the hills, including myself," since management insists on moving more IT/corporate functions to India and refuses to promote any employee who is not physically working from an office, which coincidentally happens to be most of the American IT organization. Since management will not tell the American employees when the offshoring stops, they assume it will stop "when the entire IT org is in India." The insider claims that Home Depot itself is doing the same thing, as HD Supply's Indian CIO worked for Home Depot Canada before being moved over to HD Supply. @USDOL @USCIS