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flybyninja 16 points ago +16 / -0

Foreign visa students never seem to work at Starbucks. They get the best jobs.

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AJoeDD 4 points ago +4 / -0

You mean H1B visa workers or people who came here as students? What student visa is used to get a good job? I've only seen them get teaching or research positions (not highly paid...) at the place of study. A lot of H1Bs in my area get a fixed salary at about 1/2 of the expected salary for a qualified entry level domestic level. To be worth it for the company, the domestic guy needs to be able to be 2x more valuable. At a higher level, maybe 4x or more times more valuable. This encourages getting loads of them so it may give the illusion that they're in a good job more.

Not to mention, the managers can keep H1Bs on a leash with the system. They're efficiently replaceable, and if anything goes wrong, they will have to rapidly leave the country and lose quite a lot to suddenly go back. No overtime compensation. Altogether, they're going to get a desperate employee at a fraction of the cost. Convenient system.

Sooo back to the point, I don't think H1Bs are particularly good jobs, often, but yeah better than starbucks. Rather, the H1B system cost Americans good jobs.

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flybyninja 1 point ago +1 / -0

The Visa jobs used to be good. Think tech/business/stem.

Decades of exactly what you describe has ruined that. Was changing over last 2/3 years but not anymore with Biden and corona.