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Microsoft: Companies should pay US $10k per H-1B Visa to hire skilled foreigners
- OldSchool 14y agoI don't claim to have originated this concise explanation myself but I really like it: The problem is not a lack of skilled American workers. It is a lack of skilled American workers willing to work for what these companies want to pay for a given job's demands.
- tosseraccount 14y agoMicrosoft has complained for years about "shortages". Perhaps they should stop lobbying for subsidies and bite the bullet: create their own training programs for American workers. A little on the job experience should solve the problem. Remember, Microsoft is run by multi-billionaires. There's plenty of folks capable of being "re-trained". There are plenty of young people just out of high school and out of college looking for work. Why corporate America and US colleges should control the immigration process in America is baffling to me. I suspect, deep down, that Microsoft wants subservient labor who's very existence in American is determined by their whims.
- bandy 14y agoBecause they'll save a ton of money on lawyers and pretend interviews of Americans to justify their hiring practices. Of course, even though they played by the current rules, Cisco got burned a while back: http://books.google.com/books?id=ZlQl08fahhkC&lpg=SA4-PA14&ots=FwBBi9jnqp&dq=huawei%20guilty%20of%20stealing%20from%20cisco&pg=SA4-PA14#v=onepage&q=huawei%20guilty%20of%20stealing%20from%20cisco&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=ZlQl08fahhkC&lpg=SA4-PA...