Trump executive order prompts Google to recall staff

BBC ^ | January 28,2017 | Various

[Bigg Red]

Excellent response! I hope one of Trump’s people gives such an answer.

Hmmm....maybe YOU should be on Trump’s team. Tell them Bigg Red recommended you.

[SamAdams76]

Much ado about nothing. An American citizen carrying a passport has no worries about being able to return. Even if you lose your passport abroad or have it stolen, you need only contact the embassy in that country and they will quickly straighten it out. This actually happened to a relative of mine years ago when she was in Italy. They were incredibly helpful and she had an emergency temporary passport that same day that allowed her to return.

Now if you are an "illegal alien" traveling abroad and you are concerned about coming back in illegally. Too bad, so sad.

Tips for foreign travelers. Take a digital photo of your passport before you leave and keep it on your phone. Makes it much easier to prove to embassy officials you are who you say you are.

[Bigg Red]

:)

[SamAdams76]

My other tip was always know where the U.S. embassy is in every country you travel to and make sure you have their address and phone number as a contact on your phone.

[thoughtomator]

Google has a treason-level conflict of interest in these matters.

[StAnDeliver]

"Why does the “great talent” that comes from overseas always live in a house with fifteen or twenty other “great talents”? Because they are working for shit, and sending everything they earn back home to bring more “great talent” over here. They depress the salaries here, and none of their earnings go back in to our economy — it all goes home to the third world ditch they came from. And besides, they suck at the tech."

THIS! Their failure to grasp the most simple subtleties of idiomatic English language, first and foremost.

There is NO reason to import them with the advent of Skype & Slack. Maybe 1-in-100 are worth a O-1 nonimmigrant visa; the rest can go shit in the streets of New Dehli with mom and dad...

[JubJub]

Thank you Grey_Whiskers! Best post I’ve read this week!

[PAR35]

Because nothing says skilled computer programmers like Somalia.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Maybe Google could offer software development scholarships to trade schools, community colleges, and inner city colleges to develop homegrown workers.

Google hires their permanent staff straight from the two dozen or so most elite universities in the US and in other countries where Google has a major presence. It appears very rare that that these employees, including the minuscule percentage who are African American or Hispanic, are the first in their families to attend college. They arrive at the Mountain view campus driving the kind of cars that affluent suburban parents buy their children upon graduation from high school. After the second or third bonus check they transition to a new car, often a Prius, Volt or Leaf.

Full time staff who want to work in other countries usually work in their home country for a couple of years before transferring to one of the major facilities in Mountain View, Dublin or Hyderabad where they can eat lobster for lunch and work with managers who help guide them toward success. Full time staff who demonstrate less success are usually guided to out of the way positions in Adwords/Adsence sales groups or are shuffled off to something called "people ops" which seems to have to do with providing balloons on staff birthdays and making sure everyone has their full allocation of office supplies. Few people are every fired from Google but a lot of people get the message that it's time to leave.

As for contractors, they get free lunch and a steady paycheck. Contractors are generally speaking more ethnically diverse than full time staff. In the US, whites perform administrative and network support functions, gays hold down the reception positions, African Americans work in security and Hispanics in food services. See, Diversity!

I met exactly 2 people in several years as a contractor at Google who made the transition to full time employee. One was an NYU grad, the other from Humbolt University Berlin - both schools that Google recruits from. No community college grads. Contractors live a somewhat Nietzschean existence. You are very much untermensch and Google has no interest in developing you for anything other than the narrow niche that you were hired for.

[Jumper]

Now the truth that Google is part of the revoluntary struggel is outted and we know Google “supports” terrorists.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Fascinating insights from personal experience! Thank you!

[Jumper]

They want to keep India’s people from becoming competitors to Google. Maybe Trump can offer in-country ideas to third-world sh*t holes like those found throughout India. Why is Google bringing people who benefit in their society from the slave labors of the Untouchables and nation that has three levels of society...?

[No.6]

Translation: Google warns that this act may require them to pay US citizens a fair wage rather than one depressed by hordes of H1B indentured servants.

[PIF]

Home pack ice occurs in your - my fridge?

[Theodore R.]

It’s all about the funding, google or not.

[Theodore R.]

Yes, Americans have really done well falling for propaganda, as the old Soviets understood when most here did not.

[duckman]

“..could block great talent from the US.”
How about the great, unemployed, talented US citizens? Guess your allegiance is not with the USA.

[NormsRevenge]

block great talent? lololol

at what, dissecting humans? beheading them?

GooGle is anything but what it pretends to be..

better to stay overseas..

[bobcat62]

Hasn’t Google been at the front of the virtual workplace? Let them stay in country!

Tech companies want nothing to do with the virtual workplaces they've helped create. You need to be in their miserable "open plan" offices on a daily basis, to "collaborate."

[bobcat62]

They very much want their H1B’s. That’s the subtext here.

This ^

An unintended consequence of Trump's vetting order may be that these Snowflake Internet Companies are forced to "Hire American."