[ale] OT: Linux jobs

[Bob Toxen]

Actually, almost all companies violate H-1B requirements and, therefor,
the law!  Neither major party cares.  When I discussed with Assistant
U.S. Attorney for Northern Georgia in person a few years ago he did
NOT care.

However, President-Elect Trump does care and will be looking into this
-- read enforcing the law.

I encourage everyone here to write President Trump on January 21 talking
about how H-1B abuse unlawfully cheats Americans out of jobs.  We've all
seen it at any decent size company.  I can name many during my 20+ years
of consulting in Metro Atlanta who violate the law.  Ask him to apply a
large duty on offshore workers, whether programming, providing support,
etc.

Starting 01/20/2016 Noon ET:

  President Trump
  The White House
  1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
  Washington, DC 20500
  202-456-1111:Comments 202-456-1414:Switchboard
  202-456-2461:FAX
  president at whitehouse.gov

Enjoy YOUR right to ask the government for redress of grievances.  NOW,
there's somebody to listen!

Bob

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 02:49:00PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> That woman's article is excellent, and in fact exactly describes why I
> founded Steve's Stereo Repair in 1983: A company that later
> morphed into Troubleshooters.Com. I owe my business to concepts
> contained in that article.
> 
> I'll make one other comment: Liz Ryan's article
> (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wake-up-smell-coffee-employment-over-liz-ryan?trk=hp-feed-article-title-channel-add)
> offers *no justification* for the (barely legal) misbehavior of
> corporations, their HR departments, and their immigration lawyers in
> denying employment to qualified and willing Americans. I want to make
> sure nobody interprets my approval of this article as "Those lazy
> Americans won't manager their careers, so they deserve to be replaced
> by foreign workers."
> 
> The H1B thing is about getting ubercompliant technologists working 80
> and being paid 40, because one little complaint sends them back where
> they came from.
> 
> SteveT
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 12:34:45 -0400
> Karenga Smith <ksmith at kpinetworx.com> wrote:
> 
> > I love this woman's articles
> > https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wake-up-smell-coffee-employment-over-liz-ryan?trk=hp-feed-article-title-channel-add
> > 
> > On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Todor Fassl <fassl.tod at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Huh, I wonder why they want to hire an immigrant so badly. [I was
> > > born in the USA, btw. Todor is the Eastern European version of
> > > Theodore.]
> > >
> > > The last 3 job openings my department had we filled with candidates
> > > considerably less qualified than we'd have liked. But I work for a
> > > state university and the pay scale sucks. The very last position we
> > > filled had what I thought were totally unrealistic qualifications.
> > > They wanted someone who could manage a VMware cluster, a HPC
> > > cluster, and help the office staff with their Excel spreadsheets. I
> > > told the chair of the search committee that anybody with those
> > > qualifications who'd be willing to work for what we pay must have
> > > something wrong with him. His response took me a little by
> > > surprise, "Well, what's wrong with you?" I had to point out that I
> > > am blind, I don't know if it just slipped his mind or what. It is
> > > nice when that happens. My immediate supervisor, who had been my
> > > boss for about 10 years, once handed me a printout saying something
> > > like, "Wow, look at this, you won't believe it." Anyway, somebody
> > > did apply for the job who had all the qualifications and was
> > > willing to accept the pay we were offering. And he really does
> > > knowall that stuff. He just turned out being such a bozo personally
> > > that they've given him his notice.
> > >
> > > When I got hired, they asked the same thing of me. With all your
> > > qualifications, why are you willing to take this job. I was lucky I
> > > put it tactfully enough. I said, "As a blind person, I realize my
> > > options are limited. No matter how good I am, a lot of people just
> > > can't get past that." Just like in the video below, if you don't
> > > want to hire a disabled person, there are ways.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 04/29/2016 05:20 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > >  
> > >> On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 17:14:29 -0400
> > >> Karenga Smith <ksmith at kpinetworx.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> ???I don't understand who is writing these job recs? What's even
> > >> more  
> > >>> frustrating is when they turn around and say they can't find
> > >>> enough "skilled" people and want to lobby congress to open up
> > >>> more  H1 visa folks to ???fill these positions.
> > >>>  
> > >> What makes you think the former isn't a direct result of the
> > >> latter?
> > >>
> > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DVoL-1gQgU
> > >>
> > >> SteveT
> > >>
> > >> Steve Litt
> > >> April 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century
> > >> http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21
> 
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