Just saying, it's like Auschwitz for the H1Bs if a racist ever captures power....
Praise Hesus we don't have racists trolling this bulletin board right effe?
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@ 135930: Americans don't mind nerdy and geeky jobs. We do value high reward/effort ratio. With that in mind.... The Scripps National Spelling Bee has a top prize of $30,000. The Intel Science Talent Search top winner nets about $150,000. A full athletic scholarship to someplace like Stanford, that includes tuition, student fees, dorm, and meal card has a cash value of approximately a quarter of a million dollars. So would it be more productive for someone who has any athletic skill to sit and study Greek and Latin roots to win a spelling bee? Or would it make more sense to work to improve his tennis or golf game so he can get his coach's recommendation for a scholarship?
Foreign corrupt practices act = jail. Domestic corrupt practices = lobbying
As Jimmy Carter stated recently "America is no longer a democracy"; run by big corporations, with many millions of dollars to finance lobbyists in Washinghton DC to protect special interests; who is going to defend the little guys, like tech workers?
Why should we allow this here, then?
Opposition to the h1b non immigrant visa has nothing to do with racism it has to do with the fact that there are no shortages of EEs and software folks in the USA. Its a lie. Look for yourself search for H1b matloff or Ron hira. These are college professors that cannot be called racist who study this fabrication
Look capitalism is world wide. I would stay in my home country that I love and start my own company to create jobs for fellow citizens. That is our patriotic duty.
There is no shortage. It is a myth created by industry. If you have been in the industry long enough you should know that the majority of engineers and IT workers were American until H-1Bs started appearing. If you go by anecdotal reports 85% of IT jobs are held by H-1Bs or H-1Bs who have transitioned to green cards. In engineering it is around 40%. Americans are being squeezed out of these jobs. The lack of interest from younger people is a direct result of poor career prospects. If the current trends continue companies will hire Americans only from the Caltechs, Stanfords, MITs, and the like and use H-1Bs for 95% of jobs.
if things can be done cheaply in asia, why to they bother to bring them here?
Because they want round the clock productivity.
Global teams complement each other and work is done 24/7.
The shortage comes because most Americans don't like nerdy and geeky jobs. Math olympiads, spelling bees are dominated by Asians. Americans kids pursue business management, medicine, law, HR, journalism, football, cheerleading etc. The corporate world is dominated by americans who lobby the politicians to bring more foreign workers in engineering.
99% of tech workers don't like H1Bs because it increases their competition, suppresses their salary, makes them work a lot harder, increases job insecurity when phony PIPs are being given and new H1Bs get hired to replace them; this is one way to "go to the next level"; it only helps top executives and company owners. With thousands of H1Bs working at Q, it can create frictions during 15% layoff time. This is besides racial aspect. Maybe it's a way to define capitalism: make a profit at all cost.