Thank you Maris Crane, for providing me a needed a hearty laugh. Much appreciated.
On a sidebar issue, I worked for private US companies for 25 years and then 12 years for a national research lab funded by US dept of Energy. No H1-B visa person ever came close to replacing me. I am guessing my skills were not available from the H1-B camp. I would sincerely advise those threatened by H1-B visa workers to acquire skills which are not available from the H1-B visa foreign workers camp.
This is still a capitalist country where businesses are allowed to operate in independent manner without the gov’t micro-managing how they should operate.
They didn’t need to replace you with an H1-B because you were already a dot (==”diversity quota”).
You remind me of a Third-world upper manager at a company I worked at, during a town hall where we were told our location was being offshore. The question was “What can we do to preserve our jobs?” and the answer was “Make yourself a valuable commodity!”
Commodities are, by definition, _not_ valuable.
Smug little double-talking prick.
I know of other PhDs ordered to train in their foreign replacements, it’s about cost, for the C-level executives third vacation homes and $1000/hr hookers, not skills.
A Thank You right back at you.
You have written what I meant. We can’t keep complaining if, BIG IF, we are hurting in the tech world for competent people, we can’t wave a magic wand and produce American skilled workers. Concentrating on “learning to code” as an umbrella of where our priorities should be. STAT.
Nothing "micro" about "hire American." A capitalist country requires a middle class, not a Third World serf class.