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Senator Prods Microsoft On H-1B Visas After Layoff Plans
CWmike writes "US Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) told Microsoft this week that US citizens should get priority over H-1B visa holders as the software vendor moves forward on its plan to cut 5,000 jobs. 'These work visa programs were never intended to allow a company to retain foreign guest workers rather than similarly qualified American workers, when that company cuts jobs during an economic downturn,' Grassley wrote in a letter sent Thursday to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The letter asked Microsoft to detail the types of jobs that will be eliminated and how those cuts will affect the company's H-1B workers."
Reader theodp adds, "On Friday, Microsoft coincidentally announced it would postpone construction of a planned $500 million data center in Grassley's home state of Iowa, although work on data centers in Chicago and Dublin will continue."
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However, the impact of losing the job is much higher for H1Bs,
In business there is always the trade-off between "upside potential" and "downside risk." The upside potential for H1Bs is the pay and the life style in the U.S.A. the downside is rapid loss if they lose their jobs.
Screw the foreigners, send them home. If they can get a green card or become citizens, then "Welcome to America" otherwise, work in your own damn country.
Why the dichotomy? I understand it's fashionable to rag on Americans, but it has no place in rational discussion. 47% of the country are intelligent, hard-working, and self-reliant, not fat or lazy. The rest voted for Sugar Daddy Obama.
I am glad to know that you want to "screw" me and "send me home". For your information, my life style is western europe would be as good as in the US (probably even better since here it is culturally poor). There is no risk for me to be laid off but let me tell you that you are a completely cliché ignorant, _racist_ american. You are the kind of person who damages the reputation of the US abroad.
Screw you,
AC
Yes because a intelligent, hard-working, and self-reliant would vote for an old man with cancer and a inbred bimbo for a VP that would likely become president. It just makes so much sense!
Are the worst programmers...ever. And they smell too. Send them all back to worship their damned cows.
Absolutely true. Indian programmers do more damage then good. And they stink.
how surprised? a republican doesnt like foreigners. sounds normal to me. i think you are reading way too much into it.
"You can kill the revolutionary, but you can't kill the revolution."-- Fred Hampton
It's that exact selfish attitude that will downfall the USA if it's taken too far. The world is a global economy and focusing just solely on your own country will hurt other countries in the short term and in the long term also hurt the USA>
If the US government is denying highly educated foreign workers in their county and force companies to hire less well educated and more expensive workers then they are totally stupid.
Either the company will lose in the glabal market since others use other, better programmers (better can also mean: same qualification but cheaper) or Microsoft is forced to build more offices in other countries.
Either way, the US loses.
Educate your own people and make the border as open as possible to well educated workers. That's the way to be successful. This Nazi-crap (only hire Americans, others are 2nd class people) wasn't successful 60 years ago and it won't be now.
Well, the flip side is that many Democrats and economic progressives profess to believe in free speech, but typically they only mean free speech so long as you agree with them.
What is a communist? A socialist in a hurry.
The government did not bring anybody to the US. The companies did. So, yes, it is a free market.
"You can't allow somebody to commit the crime before you detain them." [Condoleezza Rice]
Have you ever smelled an indian?