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Ask Slashdot: How To Gently Keep Management From Wrecking a Project?
New submitter miserly_content writes "I work in a large, hierarchical technology company. I have been developing technical specs for a new strategic and challenging software project, and the project is slowly gathering steam and support. This is already a career building success for me, and everyone acknowledges my technical capabilities. But the program manager is an MBA-type, and wants to bring in new multiple team leaders and consultants. This is not really a surprise, but I feel we are sliding towards a too-many-chiefs-too-few-indians scenario, especially at this early stage. How can I pitch upper management about this issue, without appearing selfish or disruptive? What positive approach can I try with the PM, with whom I have a good working relationship?"
H-1Bs are like gold to any company because morale is not an issue, they can be paid scraps, and payroll taxes don't apply to them.
Is that true?
No it is complete baloney. First, payroll taxes absolutely must be paid for H-1Bs. Second, H-1Bs have to be paid at least the average wage. As a manager, I love this provision: when my regular programmers ask for a raise, I just tell them I can't do it because that would raise the average, and then all the H-1B salaries would also have to be raised, and there is no budget for that. So no raise for you! Heh heh heh.