ThunderHorse
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Brother, we didn't have a functioning government the last four years. This can't be nearly as bad.
Also, can we get USCIS to cap these H1Bs and H1B renewals. Time to get American engineers into engineering.
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Brother, we didn't have a functioning government the last four years. This can't be nearly as bad.
Also, can we get USCIS to cap these H1Bs and H1B renewals. Time to get American engineers into engineering.
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I don’t know what your connection is to engineering, but my wife is an engineer and everyone who works for her is, she isn’t hiring foreign visa holders because it is a pain in the fucking ass. Sometimes bro the sound bites aren’t real.there are roughly 85k total H1B visas total per year. Literally a drop in the bucket. Hiring them is a pain in the ass because you have to show you couldn’t hire an American.
They don’t hand out these visas to engineers. They are given to people who bring exceptional ability to science and engineering, with caveats. Most of my wife’s PH.D cohort who were foreigners(only a few) were required to stay after their Ph.Ds. This was at “The Ivy of the south”, and a top 3 program in the nation. My wife was an NSF fellow, and has pretty mad bona fides in engineering.
ETA: something that is rarely mentioned is that many of the grants that fund research, particularly DOD and DARPA, don’t allow certain people to work on them. DOD and DARPA fund a lot. They funded a huge grant my wife received for her Ph.D in tissue engineering, as it related to the long term treatment of burn related scarring. This is improtant because labs can’t fund research that doesn’t have outside funding. So if a grant excludes foreigners, they can’t take a foreign student.
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H1Bs are exceptionally abused. I've seen it first hand. So are O-1s. There are numerous Americans who are qualified for roles who aren't getting hired in place of foreign people. Like this will tell you how bad H1Bs are abused. You all remember Milo, right? He was on an H1B.
Manifest destiny. I thought you’d be happy that finally the open air prison was liberated and protections would be granted to underprivileged Gazans. End to suffering? End to abject poverty? No? Oppressor de liber and all that?
Can this day GET any better? That oughta get us to that 10%.
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I give zero fucks about the Palestinians or the Israelis. I’ve been pretty consistent on this issue my entire life. They’ve been fighting over that land since western written history. I don’t want to be involved. I would challenge anyone to find me saying anything positive about either side. I do not consider the Israelis our ally in any sense of the word, and the Palestinian leadership are terrorists.
Miss me with the jab at a de Oppresso Liber.
I give zero fucks about the Palestinians or the Israelis. I’ve been pretty consistent on this issue my entire life. They’ve been fighting over that land since western written history. I don’t want to be involved. I would challenge anyone to find me saying anything positive about either side. I do not consider the Israelis our ally in any sense of the word, and the Palestinian leadership are terrorists.
Miss me with the jab at a de Oppresso Liber.
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So apparently like 25-40% of the FBI was involved in the January 6th investigation...
I swear no one on this site can take a joke anymore. No green beret jokes- got it.
Clarifying question- are *all* medical jokes off limits or just 18D related ones?
That’ll get us there.
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Yeah... until recently I was in an engineering program. Most of the students from India, SEA, & Asia, flat out said that their intent for getting their degrees was to get an visa and emigrate to the US. Some were cool. Some, when drunk some would even talk about their hatred for America. Even knew a rich Saudi kid who brought his pregnant wife to give birth here.
You have no idea how fucked up things are. In my part of the world, it's an open secret that the coastal tech companies use H1B's to fill out their labor pools. That's why the safest bet for a US college grad in tech is to work for a govt lab or a company that has citizenry requirements. There is a reason why the Zoomers are done. As they're having to compete with foreigners with fake degrees. It's why a chunk of the generation has checked out.
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Pretty sure we got bilked on this one. We've just agreed to subsidize Israeli security... again.
We don't agree on much, but I agree with you here.
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Crazy thought, what if we did take over Gaza and then had the Israeli's pay for the securing the territory. As well as going back to some of the old agreed upon borders.
At this point both the Israeli's and Palestinian's have shown that they cannot be left alone or trusted to keep the peace.
At this point both the Israeli's and Palestinian's have shown that they cannot be left alone or trusted to keep the peace.
I generally consider the UN to be "tits on a boar" useful, but this is a great opportunity to join their money and people with their mouths. I'd be happy if they showed up to secure MSR's, food distro, logistics, engineering to rebuild, man checkpoints, etc.
But they are a useless bunch of twats, so that will never happen.
I got my eye on a prime acre of beachfront near Al-Mawasi. Surfs up, baby, rum runners at the Tiki bar.
So I was in a meeting today where the presenter told us that if someone took the "fork" buyout, their billet went with them.
I was in a meeting yesterday where I found out that I am, after all, eligible for the buyout.
...but they also said, their interpretation of the new guidance is that if one of us leaves, the billet leaves with us.
That's a game-changer as far as I'm concerned. Lots of people here have a high degree of loyalty to the organization and their co-workers. If even a bunch of us left... yeah it would be tough for a couple of months until we got new people hired. But a lot of folks leaving, and not being able to backfill, would cripple some of the subordinate organizations here.
Also, I only have until the 6th (tomorrow) to decide? Yeah, too many open questions and too much personal loyalty to my boss and my job. No thanks.
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Welcome back to the center, bro. We've missed you.
Told ya'll so.
The people here who have talked about leaving aren't because we've seen the effects of CR funding. There are also questions about the gov't keeping its word on the payouts. Adding to that distrust is the repeated mantra of "national security" being exempt, but then we see cases where the CIA is offered a buyout....so we're exempt or we aren't? People don't trust the offer, period.
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Yep; it is a one-for-one decrement. "Maybe" not in your shop - but 'somewhere'
It could be an empty spot downstairs in the G1 that gets pulled off the books - it could be the assistant to the regional manager- but for every person that takes deferred retirement, a slot has to be dumped
Just the view from my foxhole - but everything in government is about the Benjamin's - this is all about cutting the budget - with the next debt ceiling coming in March and everyone still working from a CR instead of a budget - some of these "leveraged buyouts" can be used to make people squeal.
...don't want to support the budget?
...shut 'er down
...wait, these folks that took the buyout aren't getting paid?
...pass my budget
I'm sure that the "act now or loose out" timeline on making people decide by the 6th is intentional
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