Posted on 05/21/2014 11:23:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Exactly. I have worked with lots of CIS/IT people who couldn’t do the actual work. They just thought it would be a conduit to management.
We lost a student worker who had written a critical system in PHP and Perl. We had no one with any experience in the language so I got stuck with it. When I finally learned it, they outsourced the system.
Now our ERP is throwing Groovy and Grails over the wall at us. I’m getting a reprieve by doing all the PL/SQL coding.
I work - when I can find a job - in the Silicon Valley.
Your statement is complete B.S.
All native-born - and many naturalized - citizens that I know of in the chip design world are unemployed.
Often visas in engineering and research are tied to ONE particular employer —this gives that entity ENORMOUS influence over the visa holder.
They can “suggest” that you do overtime, they can “suggest” that requests for vacation are unwelcome, they can “suggest” that current pay is adequate or even excessive.
They WILL get compliance.
There is NO SHORTAGE of STEM workers in the USA, there is only a preference to never be sued and never be questioned —EVAR.
My practice has a sizable number of such ex-Boeing workers replaced by H1-Bs. Disgraceful.
It’s all about bucks; I don’t mind success, but we’re not being smart about the reality of work. People should be paid well if they are contributing to the bottom line. it’s not easy to program software and bluntly put, they have no business messing around with our nation’s security and economy for more and more and more bucks.
I sincerely think that the collapse of the world economy is due to the relentless demand for cheaper and cheaper labor.
But the jobless rate dipped a bit, so everything’s looking up (even though my bartender holds a Phd in Chemistry)...
/s
We can’t find programmers who can speak English
Go figure.
I love doing embedded/DSP work, but much of that money dried up when Obama took office.
How out of control is that?
‘Henry Ford knew if he paid his employees top dollar it would create a stronger customer base for his own products. This is common sense.’
Might be common sense, but this is also a common misconception. That is certainly not the reason why Ford paid what he paid. He did so because he couldn’t find enough employees at the wages he was paying. Literally 50% turn over was common at the lower industry standard.
Not usually mentioned by either side is that Asian H1B workers count as minorities for affirmative action quotas. If they were bankers, lawyers, etc. they'd be plain ol' white people.
Hiring or contracting in STEM areas, when federal money is involved, require that 20% of those interviews must be some government-approved minority, even if there is only one person in the country that fills the bill.
One federal agency wanted to hire five PhDs this year for a NOFORN project. My nephew was the only one who even came close to what they wanted, but they still had to interview four more warm bodies to uphold their side of the Kabuki.
So normally, H1Bs in STEM can be a double bonus if federal dollars are involved.
Where are you located? What is your company?
One of the bartenders at the Pocatello Chili's has a master's in chemical engineering. Another young lady bartending at Applebee's in Pocatello was completing a master's program in a medical field. It's a college town. Many will leave town on completion of their degree work. There is no work to keep them around.
The “S” has become quite bastardized by the laeft and academics. Science is anything for which you can get a government grant. Political “Science.” “Psuedoscience” “Paramormal researcher” And hilariously misnamed “climate scientist.”
That is pure crap. There is no shortage.
“I decided a life of smelly labs and begging for grant money wasn’t really what I wanted.”
Exactly! It seems like you redirected your career aspirations in a productive and enjoyable way. That’s what it’s all about.
Look for Boeing quality to suffer dramatically
Virginia Tech.
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