Posted on 03/30/2020 6:34:35 AM PDT by chief lee runamok
Indian H-1B workers are lobbying the White House for rules to help them stay in the United States until the economy recovers from the coronavirus crash.
Federal rules require unemployed H-1B visa workers to leave the United States in 60 days after they lose their jobs. This 60-day rule was not a problem before the coronavirus, partly because fired H-1B workers could simply get new jobs from Indian-run outsourcing companies.
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Sorry, these people have been driving down wages in the tech sector for decades. Let em go back home where they can drive improvement in their own cities and towns.
“In computer science we never manage to stand on the shoulders of the greats who came before us, best we ever manage is to step on their toes.”
Most of computer science was discovered/invented in the 1950’s & 1960’s, but many realizations of those idea from back then are now being implemented.
Most of computer science was discovered/invented in the 1950’s & 1960’s, but many realizations of those idea from back then are now being implemented.
The Mother of All Demos - Douglas Engelbart (December 9, 1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
The same way all other countries do it: with tariffs.
this is what happens when your DHS head is a paid whore for NASSCOM
#indiaFirst US workers last
We can arrange for special flights to send just them home. Countries cannot prevent their own nationals from returning.
Although I did see the following posted on the door of a grad student once:
"If I have not been able to see as far as others, it is because giants are standing on my shoulders."
What about the Mexicans?
Wild, huh? 1968 and they have every bit the capabilities we have today. In fact, it was better in some respects.
I first heard that from a Professor of Comp Sci back when I was taking my CS Undergrad back in the 90s, I enjoyed the humor in it then as I was a self taught starting at 13, and went to college for it... so I had a reasonable perspective having been coding for nearly a decade on my own by the time I heard the quote.. now, 26 years later, I appreciate that quote even more... because it is so bloody true.
Insanity reigns supreme!
We are talking about two different things.
Bingo.
Millions of Americans unemployed or under paid because of the execs at American companies.
Lots of American programmers can code in Java, J2EE, and any other programming language. They can learn a new programming language in less time than it takes to get a Bumbay imported and on the job.
The Americans just can't get interviewed or hired, because hiring the Bumbay creates kick-backs for you, and for multi levels of recruiters and recruiting firms.
It's fraud.
> out of work ... support for any sort of IT system
What is easy to imagine is older American programmers who were forced out or just plain discouraged replacing a bunch of shitass managers, and then changing many practices including 5 or more nonproductive people grilling the programmer in endless bullshit “scrums.” Stopping the programmers from adding more and more redundant ways of doing the same things. Stopping pennywise and pound foolish practices of using free shit that has no support, inscrutable terminology, plenty of bugs. Finding good people who lack the exact buzzword-driven “knowledge” promoted by these vain know-nothing faker management — and letting those smart Americans grow into the job. Kicking out the Chinese spies and the undecipherable eastern gurus. Taking on a patriotic attitude because we really are at war.
“We’re required to quarterly evaluate pay to ensure H1B’s are making the same wages as US citizens.”
Kudos for that - but many other employers have figured out that the H-1B laws don’t actually require that if you know how to work the system: https://cis.org/Miano/Primer-Reporters-Looking-H1B-Program
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