I'm Australian and trust me it's worse here. We have a whole bunch of work visas that force locals to compete with cheap Chinese and Indian labor.
I even lost a promotion to an English man on a 458 visa, 458 visa is where they can't live in major urban centers. The idea is that they'll bring skills and businesses to rural towns that are dying because the youth all move to cities to Study. This cheeky prick lived right on the edge of the area he had to live and drive an hour and a half to work everyday just to cheat the system.
It didn't help that the whole management team was from the UK either.
That's the problem, when immagrant's get into positions where they have the power to employ people, they just bring their own people in and locals can't get ahead.
It drives me insane, why should I be forced to compete with someone who shouldn't even be in this country, our government didn't really incentivise people to do trades and generations of kids went to uni just to larp for 4 years. Now we've got an ongoing and persistent skills shortage.
I've worked on construction sites where 30 chinese visa workers just rock up unannounced because some sneaky fuck outsourced his labor. They stay for the length of the job and take all their money back to China when they're done.
Holy shit, we have illegal Mexicans and Portuguese that are all over the place on jobsites. I'm gonna try to imagine them all as Chinese today. That's so outside the realm of possibility, it's kinda funny to think about.
I tell people, I could find 1000 illegals a day, easily. And I think I could do it for multiple weeks. No one cares. The builders are disgusting.
At least yours are illegal, Australia's government wrote it into law and made a special class of visa for it. Builders are scum. They are getting so out of control and so corrupt the opposition party are suggesting a building and construction governing body so there's some form of oversite.
I don't know your trade but I'll tell you what my medium-term goal is. To start my own business. I've been doing so much sidework lately I've started tossing out really high estimates because it's not worth it otherwise. But that's just handyman work.
I'm considering taking 20k and investing in a carpet cleaning business. Kinda random but that's the kind of business that you can find work if you bust your ass. If/when I become successful enough, I want to not only hire Americans only, obviously, but I plan on discriminating pretty heavily. And I'm not just gonna pay minimum wage. I'm gonna find the right kid and give him a legit income and career. I'm gonna help "my kind" because no one else does.
Just what I've been thinking about over the last 6 months or so. With your opposition party wanting to regulate construction, that's a classic case of government creating the problem, then government telling you they can fix it.
We need more like you in America if you ever thought about trying to make that move.
I'm Australian and trust me it's worse here. We have a whole bunch of work visas that force locals to compete with cheap Chinese and Indian labor.
I even lost a promotion to an English man on a 458 visa, 458 visa is where they can't live in major urban centers. The idea is that they'll bring skills and businesses to rural towns that are dying because the youth all move to cities to Study. This cheeky prick lived right on the edge of the area he had to live and drive an hour and a half to work everyday just to cheat the system.
It didn't help that the whole management team was from the UK either.
That's the problem, when immagrant's get into positions where they have the power to employ people, they just bring their own people in and locals can't get ahead.
It drives me insane, why should I be forced to compete with someone who shouldn't even be in this country, our government didn't really incentivise people to do trades and generations of kids went to uni just to larp for 4 years. Now we've got an ongoing and persistent skills shortage.
I've worked on construction sites where 30 chinese visa workers just rock up unannounced because some sneaky fuck outsourced his labor. They stay for the length of the job and take all their money back to China when they're done.
Australians RUINED our mining industry in Appalachia. Fuck you.
C'mon man
Holy shit, we have illegal Mexicans and Portuguese that are all over the place on jobsites. I'm gonna try to imagine them all as Chinese today. That's so outside the realm of possibility, it's kinda funny to think about.
I tell people, I could find 1000 illegals a day, easily. And I think I could do it for multiple weeks. No one cares. The builders are disgusting.
At least yours are illegal, Australia's government wrote it into law and made a special class of visa for it. Builders are scum. They are getting so out of control and so corrupt the opposition party are suggesting a building and construction governing body so there's some form of oversite.
I don't know your trade but I'll tell you what my medium-term goal is. To start my own business. I've been doing so much sidework lately I've started tossing out really high estimates because it's not worth it otherwise. But that's just handyman work.
I'm considering taking 20k and investing in a carpet cleaning business. Kinda random but that's the kind of business that you can find work if you bust your ass. If/when I become successful enough, I want to not only hire Americans only, obviously, but I plan on discriminating pretty heavily. And I'm not just gonna pay minimum wage. I'm gonna find the right kid and give him a legit income and career. I'm gonna help "my kind" because no one else does.
Just what I've been thinking about over the last 6 months or so. With your opposition party wanting to regulate construction, that's a classic case of government creating the problem, then government telling you they can fix it.
We need more like you in America if you ever thought about trying to make that move.
We used to have a construction oversight committee but they were disbanded in the 90's for, guess what? Corruption!
I'm not saying it's a good idea, it's just an idea. Builders and unions are always going to try to influence any oversight committee.