I was in grade school when Jimmy Carter was president, and there was a political push back then. It still wasn't enough. Personally, I'd prefer to switch to metric, but I think the push has to be social, not political.
In most textbooks, the units are metric. This has been the same since I was in school in the 70's. It's just real life that is SI, and for some reason, real life seems to stick better.
Still, there are plenty of things that are in metric units. Engine sizes and soda bottles (but not cans) being the examples that immediately spring to mind.
Oddly enough, most American cars have nuts and bolts that are metric because we want to seem cool and hip, but most Japanese cars (manufactured for the USA) have SI nuts and bolts because they are pandering to Americans.
The question is... Would any of the americans actually be capable of the job. The job I'm currently in as an H1B is hiring several more people into the position. It pays extremely well, we get lots of Americans applying (and lots of non-Americans). Finding ones who can actually do the job (of either) is extremely hard.
There are lots of people out there who can do pretty much anything. If the position pays well enough, you will get lots of applicants, and some of those people are people who can do pretty much anything, even if they haven't met your particular software language or tool before. Not everybody is great at displaying that they are one of those people. However, the onus is really on the interviewer to find the right candidate. Look for someone who has done a number of different technologies and appears to have been successful with them all, moreso even than someone who knows your particular technology and has been doing it for 3 times longer than it has existed.
My iPhone does just fine with the desktop versions of websites. I don't want the "mobile" version.
Hear! Hear! I hate going to websites that display the mobile version, which as far as I can tell means removing about half the content so it can display on a device that is not really meant for that sort of task. Sometimes I go to imdb on my phone and rather than monkey with trying to get the desktop version to display, i will just go to my computer because half the information is hidden and you need three or four clicks to get to it on the phone.
Not all applications are appropriate for a mobile platform. if you want something to be done quickly and efficiently, then a stupid little phone or tablet is not the place to do it. It may work great for Candy Crush and texting (well, not really), but it will never replace a keyboard, mouse and large screen. Or maybe it will, and God help us all.
> Yes, but it's a blatant violation of the program to use people you employ to train the h1-b applicants.
It happens all the time. It has been happening for years, maybe decades.
It happened to me in 2001. 2 H1bs were brought in to do my job and I had to train them. They weren't particularly adept and didn't seem to understand the basic concepts of the skillsets for which they were hired. But I did my best to train them. At least 6 or 8 weeks of continuing paycheck is better than getting pushed out the door immediately. Plus you can look for another job.
After I left, they brought in even more H1bs because the two that I had trained were not enough to do my job. In the long run they ended up spending a lot more on H1bs than they were spending on me. So in addition to violating the law, their profits also suffered.
Sadly, intentionally trashing systems on the way out is illegal and can lead to jail time but manufacturing labor shortage and manipulating H1Bs is not.
On the other hand, pastebin leaks if done properly can be nearly untraceable.
Yup. The number one rule of bullying. If you hit the bully back, YOU get in trouble.
Of course they are here based on fraud. My local electric company figured this one out when they hired an H1B. When they interviewed the guy he knew everything, but when they got him on site, every time there was a question, he had to make a call back to the office and talk to what I can only assume is the actual person that did the phone interview. I've seen this swapping out before at other companies as well. The H1bs that get sent out in the field are cheap labor. They cost you 80% and are worth about 20%.
So how many "nerds" and information technology workers are going to reward Disney by buying tickets to see the new Star Wars movie this December? Wouldn't it be funny if their target audience boycotted the movie out of solidarity and it flopped?
I think that American workers should punish Disney and any other firm that does this by refusing to work for them at all. Let's see how far Disney et al would get with nothing but H1b labor to draw on.
This is what I don't understand. Why do they want to pay as little as possible? Why don't they want to pay for the best deal. When I go to the grocery store, I don't compare prices, I compare prices per ounce. When you buy a tractor, one with a bigger bucket, or more carrying capacity, or more power, is worth more than one with less. Airlines don't all fly 1950 Cessna 150s even though those are cheaper than A380s and 747s. So two guys are in front of you. One is an American software developer with many years of experience and huge projects under his belt, but he demands the prevailing wage. The other is an unknown H1b with language barrier and most likely entry level skills, but is willing to work for 10% less. Is that really how stupid companies are? That they would pay 10% less for half or less of the skillset?
Why should this be illegal? Protectionism creates a selective advantage for the protected workers but makes the workers complacent and makes the company less competitive over time.
I'm a freelance tech worker, and I neither have nor want protection from foreign workers. I compete and add more value.
Firing your local employees and bringing in foreign workers to do the job is far more destructive to the company than protectionism. After you get rid of all of your employees and hire temporary workers from overseas at lower wages, who is going to buy your product? Not your ex-employees, they can't afford it. Not your temporary workers, they are living stacked like cordwood 6 people to a one bedroom apartment and sending all of their money home so they can live like kings when they return. So , in short, NOBODY is buying the product anymore and the company goes out of business, so now there is no company, no employees, no cheap replacements, no people living like kings in India.
H1Bs do not need to be for where you can't find qualified americans. Permanent residents do.
H1Bs instead need to be paid more than the prevailing wage for the position, the theory being that they will therefore not be favoured over Americans.
I would agree with this. in fact, they should be required to pay H1bs double what they would pay an American to do the job, since obviously they couldn't find an American that knew how to do it. Trouble is, as soon as they post the job at 200%, they will get hundreds of qualified Americans applying for the post because the REAL problem was that the cheap-ass company wasn't willing to pay going rate.
Did they sign a NDA NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT for severance ? It is a new trick.
I have seen that. My company made me sign one of these that said i couldn't tell anybody how badly they had treated me and other employees in exchange for a pitifully small severance. Unfortunately, I needed the money because they also lied to me about ownership and bonuses and the salary I would be getting.
All he did was use a tool available to him. The real criminals are Google, Microsoft Mozilla, who create these tools for the terrorists and distribute them, often free of charge, into the hands of the terrorists that use them.
It's an operating system. Why does an operating system need to come with an app for playing media? They should sell the base OS for a reasonable price and then sell (or freely distribute) these other add-ons separately. I really haven't seen a whole lot of growth in the functionality that I use in the last 20 years of Microsoft OSes, but they have increased in size from fitting on a couple of floppies to multiple gigabytes now.
The Microsoft would just focus on making their OS an OS, then it wouldn't have all of the instabilities that it is famous for.
Why would you need to recharge speakers? I don't even own any speakers that need to be plugged into a wall outlet, let alone be plugged into a recharger. Why is the "save the world" crowd so enamored with wasteful battery technology?
Wait, California, which has 12 line wide highways of stop and go traffic has whole roadways reserved for the current volume (zero) of autonomous vehicles? Why aren't the citizens revolting and forcing the state to open those roads to non-fairy tale vehicles?
That is not true. SDCs can drive much closer together, increasing the road carrying capacity.
That is not true. Self-driving cars will be programmed to maintain an appropriate driving distance to insure safety, about 2 seconds distance. This happens to be larger than most humans drive from the cars in front of them (thus the reason for some many 3, 4, 5 or more car chain collisions). Therefore the number of cars on the road must be smaller, or the cars must go slower on that road. What will improve somewhat is stop and go traffic, as a line of vehicles will be able to react one after another more quickly than human drivers.
If the number of qualified black women is really that low, then this points to an underlying, institutionalized racism, that is discouraging or actively preventing black women from entering the field in the first place.
That is far from the only conclusion. It could also mean that black women don't generally care to go into fields that Google hires for.
If it DID mean that some organized society wide racism was keeping black women out of these fields, why should it be on Google's shoulders to hire unqualified people, rather than on Society's shoulder's to stop (almost used reverse, which would be the wrong word) the racism which keeps black women out of these fields.
So the asshole company who acts like a bank except where there are regulations they ignore, is going to be the asshole company who gives itself and its asshole affiliates the right to call or spam you because they say so?
Bank? No, Paypal is a "technology" company that provides "fundsharing services".
If you have a business relationship with the company they are not bound by the no call list.
I think the theory was that you could choose not to deal with and so choose whop you wanted calls from.
The question is, do you have a reaql choice not to deal with PP, or do they own enough of the market so you have no real alternative.
If it is the later, then PP may be being shortsighted in this.
They appear to be begging for consumer protection and/or monopoly scrutiny.
For now, maybe everybody needs an answer machine only phone number for this situation like you already need a deadeter e-mail account.
This is exactly what they mean by "comply with the law". The law is on their side. However, if you tell them that you do not wish them to call you, they are required to stop. The downside is that if you just tell them on the phone, or send them a letter, then "we received no communication indicating he wanted us to stop calling." This is my past experience with debt collectors. I've even had certified letters returned as refused so they could continue harassing me.
In my case, it was not a valid debt: a diagnostic lab had been sent some bloodwork by a doctor without our permission or knowledge and performed tests. Then they sent us a bill. They did not send the bill to our insurance carrier, nor did they provide any spot to put in our insurance information on their bill. You see, if they did that then the insurance company would adjudicate the bill and pay them according to their contracted rate. The Lab wanted more money, so they just billed us directly and despite four or five letters and calls indicating that they need to bill my insurance company, they eventually just sent it to collections. I was finally able to resolve the issue after spending about $1,000 worth of time on the phone with them and my insurance company. I sent them a bill for my standard hourly rate, but they still haven't paid it.
A couple of weeks ago, I got another bill in the mail from another diagnostic lab for some more bloodwork from a doctor's visit in April. They did not bill the insurance company and did not provide any space to enter the insurance company information on the bill. It's not even the same lab. Time for round two.
The number of black women hired is a meaningless statistics without also knowing how many black female candidates were the best person for the job. If that number is higher or lower than the number of black females hired, then they are racist.
I've always used an example of how statistics can be deceiving. If you put 99 rocks and a chicken egg in a box, and a baby chick walks out, there was a 99% chance that it came out of one of the rocks.
Indiana has a state do not call list? I am not aware of one in my state. I just had to do the Federal DNC and they don't seem to do anything as I still get about 6 robocalls a day.
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I was in grade school when Jimmy Carter was president, and there was a political push back then. It still wasn't enough. Personally, I'd prefer to switch to metric, but I think the push has to be social, not political.
In most textbooks, the units are metric. This has been the same since I was in school in the 70's. It's just real life that is SI, and for some reason, real life seems to stick better.
Still, there are plenty of things that are in metric units. Engine sizes and soda bottles (but not cans) being the examples that immediately spring to mind.
Oddly enough, most American cars have nuts and bolts that are metric because we want to seem cool and hip, but most Japanese cars (manufactured for the USA) have SI nuts and bolts because they are pandering to Americans.
The question is... Would any of the americans actually be capable of the job. The job I'm currently in as an H1B is hiring several more people into the position. It pays extremely well, we get lots of Americans applying (and lots of non-Americans). Finding ones who can actually do the job (of either) is extremely hard.
There are lots of people out there who can do pretty much anything. If the position pays well enough, you will get lots of applicants, and some of those people are people who can do pretty much anything, even if they haven't met your particular software language or tool before. Not everybody is great at displaying that they are one of those people. However, the onus is really on the interviewer to find the right candidate. Look for someone who has done a number of different technologies and appears to have been successful with them all, moreso even than someone who knows your particular technology and has been doing it for 3 times longer than it has existed.
My iPhone does just fine with the desktop versions of websites. I don't want the "mobile" version.
Hear! Hear! I hate going to websites that display the mobile version, which as far as I can tell means removing about half the content so it can display on a device that is not really meant for that sort of task. Sometimes I go to imdb on my phone and rather than monkey with trying to get the desktop version to display, i will just go to my computer because half the information is hidden and you need three or four clicks to get to it on the phone.
you are already sadly behind the times.
Not all applications are appropriate for a mobile platform. if you want something to be done quickly and efficiently, then a stupid little phone or tablet is not the place to do it. It may work great for Candy Crush and texting (well, not really), but it will never replace a keyboard, mouse and large screen. Or maybe it will, and God help us all.
> Yes, but it's a blatant violation of the program to use people you employ to train the h1-b applicants.
It happens all the time. It has been happening for years, maybe decades.
It happened to me in 2001. 2 H1bs were brought in to do my job and I had to train them. They weren't particularly adept and didn't seem to understand the basic concepts of the skillsets for which they were hired. But I did my best to train them. At least 6 or 8 weeks of continuing paycheck is better than getting pushed out the door immediately. Plus you can look for another job.
After I left, they brought in even more H1bs because the two that I had trained were not enough to do my job. In the long run they ended up spending a lot more on H1bs than they were spending on me. So in addition to violating the law, their profits also suffered.
Sadly, intentionally trashing systems on the way out is illegal and can lead to jail time but manufacturing labor shortage and manipulating H1Bs is not. On the other hand, pastebin leaks if done properly can be nearly untraceable.
Yup. The number one rule of bullying. If you hit the bully back, YOU get in trouble.
Of course they are here based on fraud. My local electric company figured this one out when they hired an H1B. When they interviewed the guy he knew everything, but when they got him on site, every time there was a question, he had to make a call back to the office and talk to what I can only assume is the actual person that did the phone interview. I've seen this swapping out before at other companies as well. The H1bs that get sent out in the field are cheap labor. They cost you 80% and are worth about 20%.
So how many "nerds" and information technology workers are going to reward Disney by buying tickets to see the new Star Wars movie this December? Wouldn't it be funny if their target audience boycotted the movie out of solidarity and it flopped?
I think that American workers should punish Disney and any other firm that does this by refusing to work for them at all. Let's see how far Disney et al would get with nothing but H1b labor to draw on.
This is what I don't understand. Why do they want to pay as little as possible? Why don't they want to pay for the best deal. When I go to the grocery store, I don't compare prices, I compare prices per ounce. When you buy a tractor, one with a bigger bucket, or more carrying capacity, or more power, is worth more than one with less. Airlines don't all fly 1950 Cessna 150s even though those are cheaper than A380s and 747s. So two guys are in front of you. One is an American software developer with many years of experience and huge projects under his belt, but he demands the prevailing wage. The other is an unknown H1b with language barrier and most likely entry level skills, but is willing to work for 10% less. Is that really how stupid companies are? That they would pay 10% less for half or less of the skillset?
Why should this be illegal? Protectionism creates a selective advantage for the protected workers but makes the workers complacent and makes the company less competitive over time. I'm a freelance tech worker, and I neither have nor want protection from foreign workers. I compete and add more value.
Firing your local employees and bringing in foreign workers to do the job is far more destructive to the company than protectionism. After you get rid of all of your employees and hire temporary workers from overseas at lower wages, who is going to buy your product? Not your ex-employees, they can't afford it. Not your temporary workers, they are living stacked like cordwood 6 people to a one bedroom apartment and sending all of their money home so they can live like kings when they return. So , in short, NOBODY is buying the product anymore and the company goes out of business, so now there is no company, no employees, no cheap replacements, no people living like kings in India.
Wrong.
H1Bs do not need to be for where you can't find qualified americans. Permanent residents do.
H1Bs instead need to be paid more than the prevailing wage for the position, the theory being that they will therefore not be favoured over Americans.
I would agree with this. in fact, they should be required to pay H1bs double what they would pay an American to do the job, since obviously they couldn't find an American that knew how to do it. Trouble is, as soon as they post the job at 200%, they will get hundreds of qualified Americans applying for the post because the REAL problem was that the cheap-ass company wasn't willing to pay going rate.
Did they sign a NDA NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT for severance ? It is a new trick.
I have seen that. My company made me sign one of these that said i couldn't tell anybody how badly they had treated me and other employees in exchange for a pitifully small severance. Unfortunately, I needed the money because they also lied to me about ownership and bonuses and the salary I would be getting.
All he did was use a tool available to him. The real criminals are Google, Microsoft Mozilla, who create these tools for the terrorists and distribute them, often free of charge, into the hands of the terrorists that use them.
It's an operating system. Why does an operating system need to come with an app for playing media? They should sell the base OS for a reasonable price and then sell (or freely distribute) these other add-ons separately. I really haven't seen a whole lot of growth in the functionality that I use in the last 20 years of Microsoft OSes, but they have increased in size from fitting on a couple of floppies to multiple gigabytes now.
The Microsoft would just focus on making their OS an OS, then it wouldn't have all of the instabilities that it is famous for.
Why would you need to recharge speakers? I don't even own any speakers that need to be plugged into a wall outlet, let alone be plugged into a recharger. Why is the "save the world" crowd so enamored with wasteful battery technology?
Wait, California, which has 12 line wide highways of stop and go traffic has whole roadways reserved for the current volume (zero) of autonomous vehicles? Why aren't the citizens revolting and forcing the state to open those roads to non-fairy tale vehicles?
That is not true. SDCs can drive much closer together, increasing the road carrying capacity.
That is not true. Self-driving cars will be programmed to maintain an appropriate driving distance to insure safety, about 2 seconds distance. This happens to be larger than most humans drive from the cars in front of them (thus the reason for some many 3, 4, 5 or more car chain collisions). Therefore the number of cars on the road must be smaller, or the cars must go slower on that road. What will improve somewhat is stop and go traffic, as a line of vehicles will be able to react one after another more quickly than human drivers.
That's great. Virginia wants my self-driving car. and by coincidence, I DON'T want my self driving car.
If the number of qualified black women is really that low, then this points to an underlying, institutionalized racism, that is discouraging or actively preventing black women from entering the field in the first place.
That is far from the only conclusion. It could also mean that black women don't generally care to go into fields that Google hires for.
If it DID mean that some organized society wide racism was keeping black women out of these fields, why should it be on Google's shoulders to hire unqualified people, rather than on Society's shoulder's to stop (almost used reverse, which would be the wrong word) the racism which keeps black women out of these fields.
Do you report the robocalls?
Occassionally.
So the asshole company who acts like a bank except where there are regulations they ignore, is going to be the asshole company who gives itself and its asshole affiliates the right to call or spam you because they say so?
Bank? No, Paypal is a "technology" company that provides "fundsharing services".
If you have a business relationship with the company they are not bound by the no call list. I think the theory was that you could choose not to deal with and so choose whop you wanted calls from.
The question is, do you have a reaql choice not to deal with PP, or do they own enough of the market so you have no real alternative. If it is the later, then PP may be being shortsighted in this. They appear to be begging for consumer protection and/or monopoly scrutiny.
For now, maybe everybody needs an answer machine only phone number for this situation like you already need a deadeter e-mail account.
This is exactly what they mean by "comply with the law". The law is on their side. However, if you tell them that you do not wish them to call you, they are required to stop. The downside is that if you just tell them on the phone, or send them a letter, then "we received no communication indicating he wanted us to stop calling." This is my past experience with debt collectors. I've even had certified letters returned as refused so they could continue harassing me.
In my case, it was not a valid debt: a diagnostic lab had been sent some bloodwork by a doctor without our permission or knowledge and performed tests. Then they sent us a bill. They did not send the bill to our insurance carrier, nor did they provide any spot to put in our insurance information on their bill. You see, if they did that then the insurance company would adjudicate the bill and pay them according to their contracted rate. The Lab wanted more money, so they just billed us directly and despite four or five letters and calls indicating that they need to bill my insurance company, they eventually just sent it to collections. I was finally able to resolve the issue after spending about $1,000 worth of time on the phone with them and my insurance company. I sent them a bill for my standard hourly rate, but they still haven't paid it.
A couple of weeks ago, I got another bill in the mail from another diagnostic lab for some more bloodwork from a doctor's visit in April. They did not bill the insurance company and did not provide any space to enter the insurance company information on the bill. It's not even the same lab. Time for round two.
The number of black women hired is a meaningless statistics without also knowing how many black female candidates were the best person for the job. If that number is higher or lower than the number of black females hired, then they are racist.
I've always used an example of how statistics can be deceiving. If you put 99 rocks and a chicken egg in a box, and a baby chick walks out, there was a 99% chance that it came out of one of the rocks.
Indiana has a state do not call list? I am not aware of one in my state. I just had to do the Federal DNC and they don't seem to do anything as I still get about 6 robocalls a day.