"A job is advertised. They interview a number of Americans for the job. All of them are mysteriously not hired. Then the company puts in an H1B application, lying and saying that they could not find an American to do the job. Then they import the lousy H1B worker who performs poorly and is paid 40% less than an American. This goes on and on. Halfway through the year, the 200,000 Hindu 1B quota is filled. Microsoft, Google and all the rest of the scum corporations run screaming to Congress yelling that they need more H-1B’s because of a horrific labor shortage in IT."
A job is advertised. They interview a number of Americans for the job.
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Most of them don’t even bother interviewing Americans. Years ago, my bother-in-law was applying for IT jobs.
There were several companies that flat out told him that they were really not hiring, at least not Americans. They just had to advertised first before they could hire their H-1B applicants.
Let me add: The company takes a regular job (audit, accounting, etc etc) and tries to make it sound as technical as they possibly can. Then they claim that Americans don’t have the technical expertise for it. Then they go hire an H1b Indian and dangle the potential of a green card in front of them and pay them 40% less than it would cost to hire an American.
I saw that about 1/4 of the giant office towers at the big banks were filled with H1b Indians even during the height of the Great Recession when tons of highly qualified Americans were absolutely dying to get a decent job. That pissed me off royally.
Then, the companies run screaming to congress that they need yet more cheap labor....because gosh darn it, there just aren’t any Americans with the skills you see........