How about dropping the Newspeak term “human resources” and going back to “personnel”, too?
I have been promoted twice within my current company. Both times my resume wouldn’t have made it through he HR screening process. The search is more about finding the right key words than about finding the right fit.
They just do want to hire Americans. They can pay the visa holder lower wages and fewer benefits.Bill gates been doing it for years.Many of these workers sit beside Americans in the same college learning the same trade.For some reason only the visa holder can do the job.
American managers project their incompatible on American engineers.
“We can’t hire you...Your not foreign enough.”
“We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much for so long with so little that we are now qualified to do everything with nothing.”
That tells us more about our "education" system than anything else.
Working in hi-tech 25 years ago, this time of year would see company softball games. Now its cricket.
“better human resources directors” implies that the baseline is “GOOD human resources directors”. That would be erroneous. I was in H.R. for several years, and early on I realized H.R. professionals are the lowest form of life. Most of the ones I worked with had a lot of background in psychology, and it was fun for them to mess with employees’ heads. Plus, they’re the P.C. Police in an organization, so are extra obnoxious.
Tell every single one of you what. Go to, say, Home Depot, and do an job app.
Its a GD joke!
So, you sit for an hour, jump through all their cutesy little crap so some useless twerp sitting at a job center can send you an e-mail thanking you for the app and that you are not qualified. But, when you go to Home Cheapo, as I call it, ask any of them at the cash register to count you your change out without the register. Lots of them have no idea.
HR Directors are increasingly put in place to implement and oversee Federal Government policy within corporations, not to hire specific people. They are the Commissars of the New World Order.
HR people have become bureaucrats. They have power they shouldn’t have. Let the people who run the individual departments make the choice on who to hire. The HR people should just be there to fill out paperwork.
Companies want H1B visa workers. The visa is awarded to the employer, and the imported employee must work for the company visa holder. If he or she loses their job, or leaves it for any reason, they have 30 days to find another H1B job, or they have to go home. It’s the new indentured servitude, enforced “loyalty”. The managers can treat them like crap and force them to work long hours for no extra pay, since they are salaried and exempt. These foreign servants never complain because they know the score. The companies are also able to keep them in line using the green card app process. If the worker is talented, and does look for another H1B job, they have to start the green card process all over again if they switch jobs. This process can take several years, and companies routinely drag their feet to draw it out as long as possible, because they know once the visa employee gets approved, they can demand higher pay, and will mostly likely leave because of all the crap they had to endure. It’s a great big scam.
No they are not short of people in high tech. Only 50% of IT grads are getting jobs in that field. This is aboutone thing. Democrat party primacy. It is about nothing else.
Foreign tech workers are cheap but not better and once they aren’t on the green card get really expensive. Once they figure out how to game the system they are less productive in many cases than Americans.
I sat in on a meeting to do set up some programming work. There was an Aussie, a Pakistani or Indian, a Japanese, a Korean, a Turk and two Americans. The work needs to get done soon and the international contingent was all about how they were going to help. That is until I gave the timeline and said I would have them a scope of work by Thursday and wanted it reviewed and back with a time table and work program by Tuesday. One had somewhere he had to be, out until Thursday. Another has to go on vacation, out for about 15% of the project time. The other guy was staying but didn’t seem to understand what we needed to do. The Aussie was a coordinator and the two Americans were just trying to get the work done and stayed until things were as finished as possible.
Most times I feel like I’m at a meeting of the UN instead of being at work in the USA.
H1B Visa bump for later......
