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To: Maris Crane; central_va

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.


135 posted on 09/23/2019 8:53:40 AM PDT by entropy12 (Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.)
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To: entropy12

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.


137 posted on 09/23/2019 9:00:54 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: entropy12

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.


143 posted on 09/23/2019 9:08:48 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: entropy12
without the gov’t micro-managing how they should operate.

Nothing "micro" about "hire American." A capitalist country requires a middle class, not a Third World serf class.

155 posted on 09/23/2019 7:17:04 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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