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Strongly disagree with this attitude, enough to think you may be trolling or playing devil's adovcate - please explain if not. > Your coworker can and should a

Strongly disagree with this attitude, enough to think you may be trolling or playing devil's adovcate - please explain if not. > Your coworker can and should ask for a raise. Your boss may say no, but no one gets fired for asking for a raise. H1B visa abuse does result in people getting fired and their visas dropped for asking for a raise. No one will say that outright, but other reasons can be found after someone disturbs a stable situation. > Either way, you should limit your helpfulness here. I understand how you feel, but your coworker's pay and your boss's desire to pay him are not your responsibility. People should absolutely work together to help each other. If someone is being harmed because they lack protections or abilities that you possess, and you have the ability to remove or reduce that harm, I feel strongly that you have a moral responsibility to help. > You will work with many underpaid and overpaid people in your career. Underpaid people will teach your kids and pick up your garbage. Don't confuse the way the world is with the way the world ought to be. > If you want to help your coworker, put the energy into systemic change (donations, political activity, voting) rather than trying to take the steering wheel of his career. It may be less welcome than you assume (or he lets on). Do both. It's true that this local situation is the result of larger systemic factors, but and individual has little power to make systemic change and great power to make local changes. You can't "Take the steering wheel of his career" but you can assume your coworker is being honest if he's asked for your help and be intentional to publicly compliment the good work he's done with the goal of being his advocate where he cannot do that.

smt88 7y ago
Nothing in the post suggests to me that the coworker asked for help. He may need it, but people should help in the way that they've been asked to help. If the coworker feels too much anxiety about asking for a raise, OP has neither the responsibility nor the right to intervene independently. And, again, no one ever gets fired for asking for a raise if they're a productive employee as OP suggests. I've been in software for 15 years and have relatives on H1B. Turnover is incredibly painful even for low-skill employees, and asking for a raise is not an "offense" to the employer. It often leads to other accommodations to keep employees happen if a raise is not doable.
Ididntdothis 7y ago
“H1B visa abuse does result in people getting fired and their visas dropped for asking for a raise. No one will say that outright, but other reasons can be found after someone disturbs a stable situation.” I have never seen such a thing and never heard about it happening. I have only heard about people being afraid of it. But if your company really does this kind of stuff it’s time to look somewhere else. it will be a miserable with H-1 or without. And it’s very possible to change jobs H-1. Especially in big companies it’s not a big deal.

smt88 7y ago

Nothing in the post suggests to me that the coworker asked for help. He may need it, but people should help in the way that they've been asked to help. If the coworker feels too much anxiety about asking for a raise, OP has neither the responsibility nor the right to intervene independently. And, again, no one ever gets fired for asking for a raise if they're a productive employee as OP suggests. I've been in software for 15 years and have relatives on H1B. Turnover is incredibly painful even for low-skill employees, and asking for a raise is not an "offense" to the employer. It often leads to other accommodations to keep employees happen if a raise is not doable.

Ididntdothis 7y ago

“H1B visa abuse does result in people getting fired and their visas dropped for asking for a raise. No one will say that outright, but other reasons can be found after someone disturbs a stable situation.” I have never seen such a thing and never heard about it happening. I have only heard about people being afraid of it. But if your company really does this kind of stuff it’s time to look somewhere else. it will be a miserable with H-1 or without. And it’s very possible to change jobs H-1. Especially in big companies it’s not a big deal.