Posted on 04/26/2021 4:41:52 AM PDT by Prov1322
Some people get it.
Deal with it. I did. Or go out of business and learn to code. It's an unfair unjust world so pay to play or quit. Buck up.
Our local MCDonalds has shut down 2 days now due to technical problems.
I think it’s more staffing. The other ruse is our ice cream machine is broken or we just ran out of buns for Egg McMuffins
I agree with you 100%, and I would cheerfully eliminate H1B visas. The main problem with the labor market (non-IT) at the moment is the government distortion.
With zero evidence.
Typical lying manager.
If the demand for developers is so high, why don't you do what companies used to do? Train them yourself and require them to work for you for two years in return.
Oh, but that would involve financial risk to the company, and the Jack Welch types (together with the glut of the baby boom and the H1-B craze) taught you there'd never be any shortage ever.
Now that you've eaten your seed corn, the only thing you know how to do is insult the very people who could solve your problem.
“You accused central_va of having no skill, and me of having no job.
With zero evidence.
Typical lying manager.
If the demand for developers is so high, why don’t you do what companies used to do? Train them yourself and require them to work for you for two years in return.
Oh, but that would involve financial risk to the company, and the Jack Welch types (together with the glut of the baby boom and the H1-B craze) taught you there’d never be any shortage ever.
Now that you’ve eaten your seed corn, the only thing you know how to do is insult the very people who could solve your problem.”
— grey_whiskers
So, if you got another job and kept up to date with technologies over the years and are working as a developer, why are you still whining about losing your job 25 years ago?
Including training.
A wee bit spoiled, you are.
Have you noticed the outflow FROM California?
Now ask why.
Then ask why, if they're paying six-figure signing bonuses, they can't spring for 1/10 of that for training classes.
Like companies used to do before Jack Welch.
My business does not derive sales from teaching advanced mathematics to kids out of high school—there are universities to do that.
Because verminous managers of the sort you appear to be by your postings, arbitrarily changed the rules without warning, and then blamed the victim.
You don’t just “train” someone in mathematics—it’s not like operating a frontend loader.
Are you serious?
Life was good. Mortgage, good job, pregnant wife and all that ended in 1 day. It took 10 years to fully recover from that. Telling my preggers wife I was unemployed killed me. It turned me into a mean SOB when it comes to management and I hate globalists. So fukk you and everyone in management. Fukk off and die.
Do you have reading comprehension? I was responding to "It's a free market" - that is not a free market by definition.
Gasoline prices are massively distorted by the government. Steel prices are massively distorted by the government. Every price is massively distorted by the government, by changes in the markets, by the weather, by disasters.
I don't disagree with that, but the solution is not to introduce the biggest distortion in the history of the country that will only lead to inflation, government debt and companies going out of business or shrinking. If this became permanent, it would be a bigger distortion than all other government distortions combined. The only reason *anyone* is still working that makes less than $50k/year (half the country) is people think it will end.
You are an idiot
I don’t know what made you think I’m a globalist, especially since I stated several times I don’t hire H1Bs and think that visa should be eliminated, but whatever. Some people are able to roll with the punches and some aren’t. I guess you’re in the latter category.
You should have thought of that, before you destroyed an entire generation of IT talent.
You ate your own seed corn, you deal with it.
Otherwise, why get rid of so many Americans to hire H1-Bs?
Oh, poor baby. You did everything right, and YOU hire Americans.
Or do you just like to insult people on line to make up for your own incompetence as a businessman?
I'll make you an offer.
YOU take the risk, and pay me a living wage while I learn your technology; in return, I'll work for your company for five (5) years.
Real estate costs are astronomical in CA.
I'll do it in the Midwest, and you scale down the pay from Silicon Valle to account for my lower cost of living.
If you won't do that, why are you expecting other people who have to eat in the meantime, to train themselves on a technology which might suddenly run out of favor, at their own expense, with no income in the meantime, and no prospect of keeping a job or a career, just so YOU can rake in the dough?
Screw you. You want to set wages like Marxist in the USSR. Screw that.
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But isn’t that what we are doing by kicking in $600/week for doing nothing? We’ve set the wage at roughly $16 / hour by doing so. I agree with free market principles for wages, but not when the government is setting the minimum wage, unintentionally, at $16 / hour.
Because the H1-B threat is on-going at every level of the software trade. Corporate executives continue to press for importing millions of 3rd-world immigrants under indenture contracts which permit them no recourse in our political system. They know very well what they are doing.
This lowers incomes and degrades working conditions for the natives every time. From the executive viewpoint, that is a feature, not a bug. It is all about power to control other people.
The comment from "central_va" about a "typical lying manager" is spot on.
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