Not the Keystone, I talk about that some time, but every day someone gets an earful about H1B visas and that they now want to expand the program because they can't get enough people in to "fill all the spots". Bull shit. I worked with them, this is nothing personal against them, I ended up befriending some of them, but mostly they were under qualified and not because they lied about it. When I complained about the people working for me, I was told I didn't understand economics, finally on division president just blurted out, they get tax breaks for hiring them - I told him I just did not understand why it would not pay better to get the damn job done! idjits. The people who worked for me also were pretty incensed. (anger is catching). The problem was we were an odd shop where ignorant upper management made random technical decisions as advised by those oh so untalented special consultants, and I say this as someone who was a consultant for 40 years. They would buy ridiculous unknown 4gls to speed wok and instead it would drop dead in it's tracks because no one knew these 4GL. They would them look around to staff these jobs and get H1Bs who had to learn this 4gl, instead of getting and keeping someone who would learn it and stick around for more than a year. The H1Bs were rotates so that we would have to teach the newbies over and over. Not to mention when you learn a 4GL you don't have time to develop deep knowledge of how it really works and use it very inefficiently. I change 1 letter in code and a program that ran for 4 hours suddenly ran in seconds. But I had been using that 4GL for over a year, something the H1Bs were not around to learn that well. They kept losing money with our division and blamed American workers for it, but no, it was the stupid decisions by upper management,
My blood pressure goes up just thinking about this,
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