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H1B Visa program has already ruined this country
- Thread starter jinxu
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This is too weird.
Just got an email about a position at MCD......
Just got an email about a position at MCD......
Quote from pupu:
Used to be only IT but now it spread to many skilled jobs in the US.
As long as the corporations dictate government policy anything than can be out/insource will be.
I hear MCD is soon hiring 50,000 soon so it all works out
Quote from Samsara:
There are more honors students in India than there are kids in school in the entire U.S.
This behavior is simply the rational outcome of current global demographics.
You're not comparing apples-to-apples. A masters degree in India is akin to an undergrad degree in avg. US public universities.
Quote from thriftybob:
I was replaced at one client with $6/hr Indian developers. It took them 4 weeks and a bunch of rounds of design changes and failed retests by the end users to complete a program I had designed and written in a day. Note that I said "them". They finally did get it to work in the 4th week by copying my code line for line.
I never spoke to them or met them. It was all designated and handled by "corporate IT", and as in the cases above, was justified solely on the basis of "cost savings".
Since then, I write systems for my own use, instead.
where was the cost saving in this situation?
why do the germans run a trade surplus? I asked this question on other thread. to be generous I received unclear answers.
So trickle-down was a myth? Wow, republicans lied?
Bullcrap alert. H-4 America visas do not allow their holders to work in America, and as a result, a spouse or dependent will not be permitted to seek or undertake employment without applying in their own capacity for a USA work visa. USA H4 visas do however permit holders to study in the USA.Quote from hippie:
If one party in a couple gets a H1 (usually the husband), the lower skilled partner can get work papers w/o being certified. Some companies now gets two for one Visa wise.
Quote from sle:
Bullcrap alert. H-4 America visas do not allow their holders to work in America, and as a result, a spouse or dependent will not be permitted to seek or undertake employment without applying in their own capacity for a USA work visa. USA H4 visas do however permit holders to study in the USA.
I know H1 spouses who worked. Bring a wife here, she may take a few classes first, and she gets a job in due time. After all, she is already here and do not need to earn as much.
Quote from zdreg:
where was the cost saving in this situation?
why do the germans run a trade surplus? I asked this question on other thread. to be generous I received unclear answers.
To the corporate mind, the cost savings in my case was that they saved the $3000 or so per month I was getting, but more importantly, with me quitting, there was nobody left for the division level management to turn to that was willing to pull out the stops, which was always a problem for them, because the corporate people didn't have the work ethic when it came to working on projects for division level people, and anyway, they had lost the few good ones when they played the "outsource everything to India" card.
Cost savings was always the excuse, but the savings always managed to evaporate.
H1b people have to take whatever they give, and don't come asking for raises or expecting big bonuses. They are generally paid about 1/2 or maybe 2/3 at most of what it would take to hire a good American for the same job.
The answer to your 2nd question is that Americans would rather drive BMW, MB, VW or Porsche than GM or F, all other things being equal, and since we have a system that encourages borrowing, consumption, and importation instead of investing, production and export, it should be no surprise at all that everything is as bad as it is. Sheerly by coincidence, I'm sure, if you took the 40 to 50 billion per month trade deficit we run and divide it by the 20 million or so under and unemployed, you could afford to pay each of them $2000 to $2500 per month instead.