[The Antiyuppie]

“As recently as the 90s, a business hiring a foreigner had to explain why they could not hire an American for the job.”

...there were dozens of ways that rule was circumvented, saw it happen, did NOT even get a t-shirt.

[Zhang Fei]

[...there were dozens of ways that rule was circumvented, saw it happen, did NOT even get a t-shirt.]

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If I recall, they used to add random requirements, such as the need for the applicant to speak some obscure dialect of Gujarati or Transylvanian, for their clients from thereabouts.