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When I worked for Amazon, I felt bad for the people working there on visas. They never felt like they could say no when pressured into working through the weeke
by always_good 9y ago
When I worked for Amazon, I felt bad for the people working there on visas. They never felt like they could say no when pressured into working through the weekend.
After uprooting your family and bringing them to the States, you have zero bargaining power. It's a pretty dark system.
- ma2rten 9y agoI am on an H1-B visa. I would say no to working on weekends. Changing jobs is actually relatively painless with an H1-B visa. The only risk is that you have to find a new job in relatively short amount of time if would get fired.
- immgrnt 9y agoI'm on H1B and in the backlog for past 10 years. I'll soon be 50 years old. If I lose my job, my resume will not even get shortlisted at this age
- chrisper 9y agoYou can say no, because in the worst case you would "only" have to go back to Germany. But what about people who are from countries like Pakistan etc.? They would rather work on weekends than to have to go back.
- oh_sigh 9y agoI worked at amazon with a number of H1Bs and they were never asked to work on weekends AFAIK(and I get notifications for commits into our repo and never particularly noticed any weekend activity).
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