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The H-1B Swindle
An anonymous reader writes "A new study shows that companies hire foreign workers for cheap labor, not skill." From the article:"When you look at computer job titles by state, California has one of the biggest differentials between OES salaries and H-1B salaries. The average salary for a programmer in California is $73,960, according to the OES. The average salary paid to an H-1B visa worker for the same job is $53,387; a difference of $20,573 ... H-1B visa workers were also concentrated at the bottom end of the wage scale, with the majority of H-1B visa workers in the 10-24 percentile range. 'That means the largest concentration of H-1B workers make less than [the] highest 75 percent of the U.S. wage earners,' the report notes. "
The Sky is Blue!
Water is Wet!
Companies are about making money!
Film at 11. Also, stunning new evidence that bears crap in the woods.
Ask the H1Bs in the US how they feel about their jobs being taken away by the B and C list programmers back home in Bangalore. Imagine working your ass off to come over here for the opportunity only to have the guy from your CIS101 class who thought HTML was a programming language steal your job. Global economies are teh suck.
Speak truth to power.
We think just because we are American that that entitles us to higher pay than the rest of the world. If we werent so arrogant we wouldnt see the outsourcing of jobs we do. Accept the fact that 53K is a good wage and anyone can live quite happily on that amount.
CS: It is all sink or swim...oh and did I mention there are sharks in that water?
'employeer'?
'thier'?
'illigal'?
And you wonder why companies hire foreign workers?
Huh? You mean they are planning to send home people, who are here _legally_, who obey all laws and pay full-blown taxes? And at the same time they are not doing anything about the hordes of illegals in the US? This is not possible, even if we take into account the immense stupidity of the aforementioned Administration. You probably misunderstood something. Legal guest workers will not be _sent_ home by anyone, unless they want to go home themselves. This is going to be that way until I say otherwise.
A quick look at travel.yahoo.com says I can send an indian worker back to India TONIGHT for $1778 going Chicago(ORD) -> Newark(EWR) -> Hong Kong(HKG) -> Bangladesh(DAC)
One problem with this: Dhaka (formerly spelled Dacca, hence the airport code DAC) = the capital of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh != India.
Cancelling the contract of the Indian H1-B in question is one thing...but dumping his ass off in the wrong country that same day? Do you plan on kicking his dog too? ;)
Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'
And I was considering leaving computers and devote fulltime to cooking. hehe
China employs dead white guys?
I feel a bit tired today, so I decided to pick on an easy troll to squash, for my personal amusement.
PhDs are granted for NOVEL research, dude/dudette. Someone with a PhD basically means he/she has knowledge in some (however esoteric) field that nobody else has.
Ah! That feels better. Now back to the salt mines.
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