Posted on 12/02/2025 8:23:31 AM PST by DFG
Code-wala go home!
Tech is a bad field. It did work out OK for me, but I got in decades ago and have now retired.
They can offshore your job.
They can bring foreigners here to take away your job.
Your job can be automated.
Your job can be eliminated by fools upstairs who don’t understand why technology is important.
And technology changes all the time — it’s real work to stay up to speed, and if you don’t, they will bring in a new foreigner who just graduated with the latest skill and who will work cheap.
It’s a pretty foolish career path at this point.
But, from the view of a national economy of a developed nation — you REALLY want your citizens to pursue technology and grow your own economy with your own people and keep all the skills, money, and knowledge right here at home.
The government has to make some serious changes to make technology a good field again.
FIFY.
The H1B program might have had some good ideas in the beginning, but it has far outlived that purpose.
The brain drain long ago reached diminishing returns.
Nowadays Indian visa holders get into positions of management and then only hire other Indians.
They really do act like they think all Americans are stupid.
If you manage to get hired they will do what they can to drive you out of that position.
Put an Indian in charge of a company and the more Indians they’ll import telling US workers to get stuffed
These filthy pagans are all over banking. They get into HR and only hire other filthy pakis and pagans. They don’t bathe, they don’t wash their hands and their food stinks. Canceling T-mobile because they just made one CEO.
“cheap foreign labor”
Do tell, just like reliving my frustration this morning that MS Word STILL doesn’t remember printer settings.
Asshats.
Happened to me in 2008 - crash and everything
Changed EVERYTHING I once knew as normal
Just like we need to get non-English speaking immigrants from driving 18-wheelers, we need most of our tech to be Americans. Now that the H1B problem is impacting both tech and trade jobs, I hope that Americans will rally against overuse of H1B's.
1. Like almost any STEM field, it is universal in nature and therefore easily transferable across borders.
2. It doesn't require professional licensure.
The second one is a big one, because it's what sets an IT professional apart from, say, a medical doctor, a professional engineer, lawyer, or a CPA. The educational requirements for licensure in some of these fields represent a high barrier to entry for foreigners who might otherwise be qualified to do the work.
Bingo! The program may have a need but we have no plenty of programmers in country.
I worked with a French H1B who was excellent, but the generic Asian programmers I worked with were all average, at best. Resume stuffing, massive use of AI and earlier computer helps. Lots of output (sometimes) but cludgy code that creates more problems than it solves. Kinda like modern M$ …
I want my...
I want my...
I want my H 1 B....
Look at them yo-yos.
That’s the way you do it...
I saw the writing on the wall after we fixed the Y2K problem and switched from being a COBOL programmer to being a business analyst. The latter is communication intensive, which is harder for Indians with broken English to tackle. It served me well until I retired four years ago.
However, I dearly loved being a COBL programmer and really hated business analysis. But it paid the bills.
Same here. Retired four years ago after almost 40 years in mainframe environments.
Th H1B visa program should be canceled. It has been misused to the point of destroying STEM for Americans. It reduces opportunities and salaries for Americans. And it strip mines human capital from foreign nations.
My dear son-in-law is caught in this mess. He is one of the smartest men I know, and has put out hundreds of resumes since graduating in 2022. He took a job as a security guard to pay the bills.
One of Mr.GG2’s friends has been out of work for over 5 years due to this carp. He’s A coder and previously made over $200,000 per year. Now he’s blackballed. Being ultra conservative and 100% American isn’t cool.
Why do people act like H-1B is something new...
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