I worked with a bunch of these H1B visa guys who were getting paid HALF what i was
Fortunately they were only worth half too
We have long since completed the brain-drain from India, and now the incompetant ones are getting through
Good for me, since I am making even MORE money fixing their source code.
Was reading the article, then I got to the quote from Ron Hira. I personally know the man, and he is so painfully left wing that it defies description. I stopped then. If he’s your reference, I wouldn’t trust a word of it.
I saw that back in the '90s when on contact in Texas. There were a lot of Indians showing up and one day I got into a conversation with one of the wives, who was also a programmer.
She said that she would be glad when her husband finished his current gig as he was working 60-70 hours a week. Now overtime for U.S. contractors was just straight pay since our rate was so high, but we rarely got any - all the extra hours went to the Indians.
I mentioned that she ought to be happy with all that overtime and she said no, they all were on salary, and at the end of their six-month gig, they got a $500 bonus in lieu of any overtime. The trick was that their companies would work Hell out of them, but only bill the U.S. companies for a 40-hour week.
Lessee, hire an American and pay him overtime, or hire an H1-B and only have to pay for 40 hours, no matter how long he worked. Decisions, decisions.