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Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
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Re: Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
#12I would expect further H1B crackdowns coming. The $100k fee was just the start.
Good. Call your reps and ask for more action.
Re: Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
#13I would expect further H1B crackdowns coming. The $100k fee was just the start.
I would absolutely not expect this, especially as long as Oracle and all the other technofeudalists are properly paying their taxes to the count and king.
Re: Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
#14I would expect further H1B crackdowns coming. The $100k fee was just the start.
I disagree, I think the $100k fee was a deliberate move to make sure the yearly allocation is only available to large companies like Oracle and out of reach of smaller startups.
Despite the rhetoric the administration is very friendly to big business and will absolutely help them hire cheaply. Larry Ellison especially.
Re: Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
#15This whole H1B debacle tells me that people don't like it when employees are not fungible but this sentiment only exists selectively. The H1B i140 petition thing requires you to advertise the job before submitting the petition. How does this work if the employee is not fungible?
You advertise in small circulation newspapers, I thought this was well known.
Re: Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
#16Wherever their major offices are look for newspapers in the small towns nearby advertising for "Software developers for Oracle" all written in the tiniest print, right next to classified that sell used bikes, car parts and other stuff. - "Well, Uncle Sam, we looked so hard in US and nobody answered our job posts, we have to go to ... $othercountry to hire, there is no other way"
Re: Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
#17Where did my standard of living go? Couldnt possibly have to do with imported labor working around the clock under the threat of being kicked out of the country
Re: Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
#18They have many departments, and are probably reducing some of them while increasing the workforce in others. The idea that they hire 'those damn foreigners' to push down wages is probably true to some degree, but not the whole story. I also don't believe the majority of these H1B are directly hired in other countries for which there is now a $100k fee, but rather people who studied in the US under F1 visa who are exe…
What magical skills do the "damn foreigners" have that none of those 30,000 laid off employees don't have? What was the intent of the H1B? To find skills that don't exist in this country. What is H1B actually used for? Labor arbitrage, nepotism, kickbacks. There's really no excuse for defending it anymore.
Re: Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
#19Wherever their major offices are look for newspapers in the small towns nearby advertising for "Software developers for Oracle" all written in the tiniest print, right next to classified that sell used bikes, car parts and other stuff. - "Well, Uncle Sam, we looked so hard in US and nobody answered our job posts, we have to go to ... $othercountry to hire, there is no other way"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44880832 https://www.jobs.now/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44892321
I remember seeing it on HN but didn't know if would still be up. Glad it's still going. Thanks!
Re: Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
#20This whole H1B debacle tells me that people don't like it when employees are not fungible but this sentiment only exists selectively. The H1B i140 petition thing requires you to advertise the job before submitting the petition. How does this work if the employee is not fungible?
You advertise in small circulation newspapers, I thought this was well known.
Another trick I've seen on LinkedIn is job applications open from 12:00 am to 12:01 am.
The employer can legally say they advertized the job and had no applicants and need an H1B employee.