The same companies telling you to “hire American” moved their own call centers to the Philippines a decade ago.
Every single one of them.
The bank that lectures you about supporting local jobs? Their customer service line routes to Mumbai. You know it. You’ve heard the background noise.
You’ve been transferred three times and ended up talking to someone reading from a script in a building shared by 20 other companies.
The politician tweeting about “bringing jobs home”? They took a few million in lobbying money from the corporations who shipped 100,000 seats overseas.
Then quietly invested in the stock before the announcement.
(Looking at you, Miss Pelosi)
But YOU — the small business owner trying to hire 1 person for $2,000/month — YOU’RE the problem.
You’re “shipping jobs overseas.”
You’re “not supporting the American worker.”
You’re the villain in this story. Somehow. Beats me.
Meanwhile, in reality:
A Fortune 500 company offshores 10,000 jobs to cut costs, gives the CEO a $14 million bonus for “operational efficiency,” and then runs a Super Bowl ad about how much they love America.
The HR teams at these companies know it too. They’re not the ones making the offshoring decisions. They’re the ones told to make it work after the C-suite already moved the headcount overseas and cut the recruiting budget in half.
Super Bowl ad. Millions of bucks. And yet, nobody blinks.
A founder with 8 employees hires an Assistant from Latin America/Meh-hee-co (imagine Karen screeching this) for $1,500/month because the American equivalent costs $5,000/month and they literally cannot afford it.
And THAT person gets the guilt trip.
“WHY AREN’T YOU HIRING AMERICAN YOU EVIL PERSON?!!??”
Because they can’t afford to, Karen.
Screech, screech.
Because $5,000 a month for an assistant is $60,000 a year and their business did $400K in revenue last year and they have rent and payroll and insurance and taxes and they’re just trying not to go bankrupt.
The Fortune 500 offshores by choice. The small business offshores by necessity.
And only one of them gets shamed for it.
Here’s what nobody wants to admit:
The “hire American” guilt trip is a luxury belief. It’s held by people who either work at companies that already offshored everything… or who’ve never had to make a payroll decision in their lives.
The founders who actually build businesses — who sign the checks, who lie awake at night doing math — they know the truth.
You hire the best person you can afford. Regardless of where they live.
That’s not unpatriotic.
That’s survival.
If you, are frankly, sick of hearing this discourse and ready to hire the best person, click here to learn how we can do it for you in 5 days:
Kyle Mau
CEO & Founder, HireUA
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