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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, then they lose all their best and brightest who are disappearing off to work on their own things.

All these idiot C-suite trash will wind up holding is a bag of yesterday's technology, a mass of obsolete infrastructure and a bunch of brands they've helped destroy.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

It is by design. Pool a bunch of money, buy companies to bleed them dry. Wait for new companies to take their place, rinse and repeat.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (12 children)

Eh... You can run a company without the best or brightest nowadays. Mediocrity gets the job done, mostly.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (4 children)

H1Bs are fine with coming into the office and won’t put up a fight with any corporate policy….

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yup every time I see H1B I replace it in my head with tech slave. They're paid, but the deck is so stacked against them they effectively cannot refuse anything. ANYTHING. A well informed H1B worker might score a chance at permanent residency for some of the abuse they suffer. But mostly it's just years of abuse with very strict rules to get their residency.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Look, I'm kind of an outsider on this conversation because until we get a DaVinci for mechanical work, I'm never going to be WFH, but there's something interesting I've noted with all my programmer friends.

The industrial world, that's where unions are, they're getting pulled out but that's the places unions live. The people working in stores are starting to push hard on unions. My industry, biomed, hasn't really gotten unions off the ground, but it's rumbling. We're a small industry that's so short on people it's just easier to move jobs than start a union, but we're a mix of tech and industrial backgrounds. But the programming tech backgrounds, at least here in the midwest, is apparently so anti-union I don't know how it'd get off the ground from what I'm hearing from my friends. Their coworkers who are mad about RTO will immediately turn around and say the corporate lines about unions. I'm honestly kinda baffled and hope your industry gets it figured out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

They're just trying to scare the Americans out of the office so they can replace them with cheaper H1Bs who won't talk back.

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