I’ve seen this tech bro corpo slave labor H1-B mechanism in real life for a long time, it’s always been disgusting.
I talked to an H1-B coworker at my going away party when I was leaving a toxic tech corpo job, and she remarked, almost in tears, “I’m so glad you get to leave!” I remarked to her, “well, if it’s so bad, why can’t you just leave?” “They’d send me back to India.” That particular job had one working 7 days a week rather frequently throughout the year to meet always unrealistic deadlines. The H1-B employees basically lived at the office.
I also remember talking to a new coworker that came from India at one company and he explained to me that this particular company was used as the easiest path to get from India to America. Probably more stories I’ve forgot off the top of my head, because there were so many.
One of those employers also had a greater-than-zero suicide rate of employees.
Time and time again the corpos claim they can’t find the talent they need domestically when there’s plenty. (Which is the legal mechanism they use to apply for or increase H1-B employees.) They just don’t want to pay domestic salaries to workers that may actually be able to push back on their rights as humans.
I was an H1-B around Y2K. I was at a good company, until we sued IBM and they gaslit the shit out of everyone. They actually kept the H1s around so we didn’t get kicked out of the country, or until we could find new jobs and go home to a job instead of being homeless – and even then, they manufactured reasons to give us a lengthy severance and hand-over, like they gave the naturalized employees. I left before I was at risk, for other reasons, and worked from my home country until the lawsuit costs ate my job too.
I’ve seen this tech bro corpo slave labor H1-B mechanism in real life for a long time, it’s always been disgusting.
I talked to an H1-B coworker at my going away party when I was leaving a toxic tech corpo job, and she remarked, almost in tears, “I’m so glad you get to leave!” I remarked to her, “well, if it’s so bad, why can’t you just leave?” “They’d send me back to India.” That particular job had one working 7 days a week rather frequently throughout the year to meet always unrealistic deadlines. The H1-B employees basically lived at the office.
I also remember talking to a new coworker that came from India at one company and he explained to me that this particular company was used as the easiest path to get from India to America. Probably more stories I’ve forgot off the top of my head, because there were so many.
One of those employers also had a greater-than-zero suicide rate of employees.
Time and time again the corpos claim they can’t find the talent they need domestically when there’s plenty. (Which is the legal mechanism they use to apply for or increase H1-B employees.) They just don’t want to pay domestic salaries to workers that may actually be able to push back on their rights as humans.
Fuck tech bros.
I put myself in the firing line in front of an H1-B I had taken under my wing when the sales started slipping under the new VC installed “execs.”
At least we both got some solid severance, and freedom.
He’s doing great in a new job and I’m enjoying my hobbies and trying my hardest to stay away from tech.
I was an H1-B around Y2K. I was at a good company, until we sued IBM and they gaslit the shit out of everyone. They actually kept the H1s around so we didn’t get kicked out of the country, or until we could find new jobs and go home to a job instead of being homeless – and even then, they manufactured reasons to give us a lengthy severance and hand-over, like they gave the naturalized employees. I left before I was at risk, for other reasons, and worked from my home country until the lawsuit costs ate my job too.