{"id":1005708,"date":"2026-04-29T10:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005708"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:20:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:50:42","slug":"trained-my-h-1b-replacement-then-lost-my-job-us-techie-recalls-shocking-layoff-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/29\/trained-my-h-1b-replacement-then-lost-my-job-us-techie-recalls-shocking-layoff-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Trained my H-1B replacement, then lost my job\u2019: US techie recalls shocking layoff experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Walt Disney Parks and Resorts IT employee has spoken about a difficult experience during the company\u2019s 2015 restructuring. Speaking to The Dallas Express in an interview, he said he was asked to train the worker who eventually replaced him through an outsourcing arrangement linked to the H-1B visa programme. <\/p>\n<p>Leo Perrero said the incident changed his life and exposed what he now believes is a common practice in the tech industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Walt Disney Parks and Resorts IT employee has spoken about a difficult experience during the company\u2019s 2015 restructuring. Speaking to The Dallas Express in an interview, he said he was asked to train the worker who eventually replaced him through an outsourcing arrangement linked to the H-1B visa programme. Leo Perrero said the incident changed his life and exposed what he now believes is a common practice in the tech industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}