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[ From: Neon John <
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[ Subject: Re: Anyone? ]
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:12:29 -0800, mike <
ham...@netzero.net> wrote:
>We should allow immigration to anyone who has a job, a place to live,
>no criminal arrests, no associations with criminals
>and has achieved US citizenship.
I fully agree but with one modification. "has a job paying prevailing
wages". Add to that "jail any employer who hires an illegal alien".
I spent a miserable 2 years working for Dunn & Bradstreet (my only
"job") managing a software development group. My VP forced me to hire
H1B people. They were to be paid approximately half what citizen
programmers were.
HR sent over the first batch of resume's. I wasted 2 weeks
interviewing them (as best as I could, given their lack of English
skills). I rejected the whole lot.
I got called into an executive VP's office and was told that I'd
either hire aliens or be fired.
Soooo, I got another batch from HR. I wasted more time interviewing
them. I picked 4 based solely on their skill level with English. All
were dotheads.
This was the worst employee experience I've ever had. They could
program but they had no creativity, little to no knowledge of
algorithms and had no concept of meeting a schedule.
This was a huge drag on my department. I had to treat them like
subroutines. sufficiently parameterize a task and keep the scope
narrow enough and they could sorta do it. I had to assign a citizen
programmer to do a code review at the end of each day. Most was
rejected.
I had previously set up a 5 man (4 senior programmers and myself)
committee to conduct semi-annual performance reviews. That eliminated
any personal bias against anyone.
The committee recommended termination for all 4. I generally didn't
speak up in these meetings so as to let the senior people do their
thing.
HR refused. I quit. And I got to enjoy the pleasure of seeing that
division fold a couple years later.
If I were President Trump, I'd shut down ALL immigration until he gets
the immigration reform he wants. There is precedent for that. That
bill would require citizenship in order to immigrate. That is, people
wanting to exercise the supreme privilege of entering this country
should have to do all the necessary steps to become a citizen BEFORE
entering this country. I'd apply that to ALL prospective immigrants
and not just those from shitholes. No visas other than short tourist
visas.
There is NO shortage of qualified citizen STEM workers. There IS a
shortage of citizens who will work for peanuts. And I can maybe
understand a legitimate shortage of skilled people willing to live in
California, America's own domestic shithole.
And no, I don't GAS about what you think of my characterizations of
entities from shithole regions.