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I don’t care about your politics, but if your take on ‘legal immigrants’ is ‘I am an experienced American software engineer and H1Bs are taking the jobs I should be having because they are low paid slaves’, you have bad politics

Billionaires suck etc but you are not listening to the immigrants who are saying that we are aware of the problems and this is still something we choose to do, don’t speak for us, ever

I keep saying, leftists’ concern-commenting about H-1Bs is going to give Stephen Miller bipartisan backing to do batshit horrible things with ‘legal immigration’

We don’t need your activism, or for you to save us, we need you to be aware of xenophobia no matter who is doing the xenophobia

It’s xenophobia because you’re still buying into the ‘H-1Bs are just ‘less than’ Americans narrative’.

Also if you genuinely believe the reason you don’t have a job is because employers would rather spend $25K on lawyers per person on a new H-1B employee who only has a 1 in 4 chance of getting a visa, just to fuck you over specifically, instead of fucking up everyone specifically and generally because they can, I don’t know what world you live in. I get that its an attractive idea to blame someone

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@skinnylatte

Also it could be that the US education system has been so hollowed out to suit the demonic schemes of the billionaire wanna be oligarchs that on average domestic engineering talent is pretty piss poor and comes with a grossly overinflated estimation of its worth. Dude, maybe they are just better than you.

@mastodonmigration I wouldn’t put too much stock into that us vs them idea, it is impossible to compare anyway. But many people do come from education systems which are very under-resourced as well.

But there is some stock in the idea that the people who end up in positions to move to the U.S. for school or work do tend to have an outsized amount of ambition and motivation, regardless of their resources, so it’s hard to compare the top % of each country with a general swathe of any population

@skinnylatte

Agreed. The "on average" part of the post is important. Certainly the highest performing engineers are in a league of their own, independent of where they come from, and share a high regard for each other based on ability. The comment has more to do with people of lower innate ability who feel cheated by H1B hires. Would stand by the contention that this rank is loaded up in the US with people who the education system has failed and yet have an outsized feeling of entitlement.

@mastodonmigration @skinnylatte Don’t fool yourself. I lived through the copied GE forced rankings model as a Director of Global Network Engineering. I was forced to rank staff and manage out the bottom target percent. While you can argue there are some less than average hangers-on in any role, and it’s good to refresh, that’s not the end goal.

After you’ve terminated the “low performer” they sweep the headcount, save budget, and collect fat bonuses.