Remember when Elon fired 90% of twitter employees, mostly female. Below video from Microsoft India.
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Interesting...
When working for a former employer, I was sent to their India office for a week. I saw a lot of the same stuff. They provided drivers for most employees (not everyone wanted a car, with they way they "drive" there, using the term very lightly), they get in to the office at 9:00 or 9:30, proceed to have provided breakfast for an hour, do some work, then take a long lunch. Afternoons were a little busier, but they still didn't seem to do half as much as we would in the US office.
But they are cheap, so the bean counters love it. The measure cost, not value.
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I fully believe this ..
what I saw in the USA for the too big to fail financial companies, as well as the health care .. was that they would lay off USA workers and replace with cheap H1B and L1 visa workers from India, and have extensive remote workers in India.
In general the average quality of the workers which replaced the USA workforce I saw was very poor, basically just out of school.
The managers tended to be significantly better.
However in NO WAY did this meet the H1B requirements of finding workers with skill sets which Americans did not have.
Job postings for H1B positions where purposefully posted with rates significantly under what the position should have been paid.
You would think this would be great for the Indian workers, and it was good for them .. however Infosys, Tatas, and Wipro, all took the lions share of the wages and the workers were basically living in dorm like conditions. The married ones did not even make enough money to get a car soon enough and had to have their wives drive on the bus to go to the grocery store.
Still the Indians made a ton of money if they lived frugally and saved to take it back home.
H1B and L1 visas were basically a 100% con job on the American workers ..
If illegal immigration matters to you for taking American jobs and your tax money, then this H1B and L1 off shoring American jobs should piss you off majorly.
USA only needs a fraction of what they currently allow.
Maybe the people making this request or the people that respond could donate one of their arms or legs instead.
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Denmark Zoo Reportedly Asks Public To Donate Family Pets To Feed Predators
Do you have a hamster, rabbit, guinea pig, or even a horse that is no longer of use? If so, a zoo in Denmark would like to hear from you. It is pleading for the donation of small unwanted family pets that can be killed and served up to help feed captive predators. AP reports […]
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Battlefield 3 & 4 were my favorite, hopefully 6 will redeem Battlefield, I am sure I will get it.
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Yep...illegal or not. Punch
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Bwahaha.......
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Fan accused of sex toy toss faces multiple charges
The man arrested for allegedly throwing a sex toy onto the court during last week's Valkyries-Dream game faces charges of disorderly conduct, public indecency/indecent exposure and criminal trespass, according to law enforcement records.
Hold up a Sales Ad for shoes...lolBwahaha.......
Fan accused of sex toy toss faces multiple charges
The man arrested for allegedly throwing a sex toy onto the court during last week's Valkyries-Dream game faces charges of disorderly conduct, public indecency/indecent exposure and criminal trespass, according to law enforcement records.
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WTF....it's not supposed to end up like that.
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Millionaire Texas rancher fatally gored by buffalo during South Africa hunting trip
Watkins was the head of Watkins Ranch Group in Texas, a successful brokerage company selling multi-million-dollar ranches in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.
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Funny when I hear Millionaire. Pretty much all the ranches out here start at a million and go up from there...the question is what rancher is not a millionaire. Land prices also rose double. triple even quadruple in these last 4-5 years...like all housing prices did...WTF....it's not supposed to end up like that.
Millionaire Texas rancher fatally gored by buffalo during South Africa hunting trip
Watkins was the head of Watkins Ranch Group in Texas, a successful brokerage company selling multi-million-dollar ranches in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.
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Many ranchers I have talked to got there land back when it was $1000 an acre or less, one guy got 40 acres back 30 years ago, $40k. He can sell his land now for at least $10k an acre. Our 10 acres we bought a couple of years ago was around $13k an acre, with 1/2 acre pond...full forest land...which should be less than cleared land...but we have a house, sizable shed, an open barn, pool, pool house and main all brick/stone house, built in 2010...we paid too much, IMO, but it is our last home...it will only go up in value for our kids to fight over...
Heck, if you have a paid off typical middle-class house in Oregon you're likely a millionaire. True in some other states of course, but what's special about Oregon is the death tax exemption is a million, established decades ago and not indexed. That means that heirs might have to sell a pretty ordinary house just to pay the death tax.