Posted on 01/13/2015 4:03:31 PM PST by Steelfish
Senators Back Bill To Ease Hiring of Foreign High-Tech Workers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican and Democratic senators introduced legislation on Tuesday that would make it easier for high-tech firms in the United States to hire more foreign specialists in science, technology and engineering. A bill by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah, which is home to some of the companies that would benefit, would increase the number of high-tech visas to 115,000 a year from 65,000. But that cap could go as high as 195,000 in any one year if demand for the workers was strong.
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My experience is that the majority of “foreign high-tech workers” suck.
These are the people we want. Present policy gets it backwards, keeping out talented people with money while letting unskilled poor people flood the country.
My experience is that the majority of “foreign high-tech workers” suck.
That’s the point. The corporatists want slaves.
Heaven forbid tech employers should have to pay employees what they are worth!
As a domestic high-tech worker, I can confirm this is true.
Right, we can take in a hundred million second grade third world drop outs, but only maybe 25k people with an education a year. Maybe 35k these days, I am not certain of the number, but it is low.
Betrayal??
Whoever thinks this is betrayal has his or her head in the sand with shovel-ready assistants on standby
It’s Mitch Mc Connell, guys
And those who feel betrayed had better get their a together and get behind Cruz for the presidency and soon
Otherwise mchillarybidenobamaboehner will heap so much more of this crap on us our friends and our offspring will be buried, if we’re not, ourselves
HATCH, RUBIO, FLAKE CO-SPONSOR BILL TO INCREASE H-1B GUEST-WORKER VISAS
Don’t worry - once everyone has a community college degree, we’ll have plenty of high-tech workers.
Just hand over all of our high-tech secrets to foreign countries and get it over with. What a crock. Selling out America just keeps moving forward.
You want me to be unemployed, thanks.
Rubio is a RINO just as bad as Hatch and Flake.
Except that many businesses hire them at sub par wages, freezing out US citizens.
I can ALSO confirm that! Sure they work long hours, but they are sloppy as hell, you can't easily communicate with them, and towards the end of any project, some 'natives' have to move in at the last minute to clean up their dammed messes(if they can). The MBAs that make all of the bone-headed decisions don't care though....
The donor base (including the Chamber of Cronies) is demanding this, they’re getting impatient.
They do the minimum required, have no basic understanding of what’s going on in the system (hardware or software), treat every problem like it’s a textbook exercise, don’t think of things from the point of view of the user, come up with all kinds of excuses for why their work output stinks instead of fixing it, don’t do documentation, write spaghetti code, can’t understand object-oriented code, can’t understand the concept of writing code so it can be de-bugged, maintained, and scaled, can’t communicate, have nothing to communicate even if they could communicate...
These are just off the top of my head.
If management wants warm butts in chairs, they’re great. A lot of companies want just that. The real work gets done by contractors.
I’m finding more often than not that the back office “leadership” cares more about the bottom line and their bonuses than the quality of the work.
I have peers who aren’t worth what they’re getting paid, but those of us who pull our weight are putting in well over 50 hours a week and asking for nothing more than a paycheck. I’m burning the candle at both ends in the hope that they see my value when they have to start paring back.
Having been on the receiving end of outsourcing twice in the past, I know the warning signs. They’re not there yet, but they’re skirting the line.
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