Posts by AmyInNH 68 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Mar 2018
5 flippin file cabinets full of papers, that I had to track. "Why!", I asked my coworker, to which he replied, "Sick of losing info due to "new" applications."
That was about 1990.
Today, this very day, a coworker complaining about having to scour the company's multitudes of sites and pcs to find any trace of work done on a project 10 years back.
SW is an endless series of disposable trash, well, most of it.
"You get, what you allow"
Which is very fundamental to businesses' policies thrashing their workforce.
Peak age for an engineer in Silicon Valley is 30 years old. That's just about the time someone recognizes the company standard for every project is "crisis" and requires constant extreme overtime, and they've been duped for years to give up having any personal life. Got a problem with that? Here's your pink slip and directions to the unemployment line.
Business is now enslaved to the delusional concept of ever more production by ever fewer at ever cheaper wages for perpetual rate of profit growth. Hence our perpetual "labor shortage" to justify migrant influx to fuel the decline of Living Wage. "But, but, but you're picking on migrants when it's corporate greed!" Yes, it is corporate greed. How does feeding the omnivorous fix anything?
As globalism goes into meltdown, this bizarre hope that the major breaks in ecology, economies, etc. is such a loud signal to change directions, that surely they will - but there is no sign of that. The politicians are beholden to this year's addition of zeros to the billionaires' net worth. And given their freeskate on taxes and their transfer of other business expenses onto the public dime, they've just about no "net" to their worth.
A money printing machine for most businesses that are using foreign labor. Between the non-competitive wages, and the out and out wage theft, the immobility or limited of the worker, and the widespread use of foreign workers on these terms, the employment market is widely damaged for most workers.
If you work at an immigration law firm, shame on you for your lack of knowledge on this topic.
- On the very paperwork for an H1 is employer attesting that they tried to recruit US workers.
- There is no limit on the number of H1-B visas, due to exemptions for hires in Medicine, Gov, Ed and Research. And transfers. And anyone with a green card application pending.
- Employment based green cards are a fixed number per year, and a fixed number per nationality of the applicant. There is a significant backlog for those from India (though many of them have their names in multiple queues - employment, family, etc.) and a smaller backlog for those from China. And that is due to both's racist use of H1 for hiring only compatriots.
- The legal requirement to pay prevailing wage is irrelevant, a) as what is "prevailing" in the nation is not what's prevailing wage in major metros NYC, SF, Boston, Austin, Atlanta, etc. and b) they aren't here for work and money, they're here for a shot at a green card and won't be ringing DOL when they're ripped off.
The only stop to this extensive fraud is: H1, 1 year, no renewals, no transition to green card queue, and pay is made to gov, who issues pay to the H1. Truly "temporary", truly "expert". No *good* reason for letting industry have control over US' immigration.
Two of a kind.
Most of US' drug addicts started with illicit pharmaceutical companies selling highly addictive opioids to bilk the public, a gift from our non-functioning FDA.
Bezo, using his ill gotten gains from massive tax avoidance schemes funneled through politicians, bilked free ride from the public and competitors, then gets more money to use the fed trained rocket scientists and engineers for a massive ego joy ride. Who also maims, bullies and kills for a living (yes, some of Amazon's employees die from their unsafe jobs, yes they have higher rates of employee injuries in their ware houses, yes they are bullied (can't use the toilet during working hours), etc.).
"always been vaguely ashamed to discuss it"
Why?
This question right here made you unsuitable "none of this focus on delighting the customer actually shows up in their behaviours in the Amazon shop"
With no stardust in your eyes, over having "Amazon" on your resume, you were bounced for calling them out on their ethics. And therefore, you'd be a "problem", "not a good fit", for the "team".
Is that a team you think would be a good fit, for you?
Scrape your shoe off, and count yourself lucky.
Because of neoliberal globalizing: endless supply. Particularly when a job offer in the west is the potential for a green card.
Record profit Tech, paying "contractors", doing the same work as employees, less than $15 an hour. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/02/google-workers-sign-letter-temp-contractors-protest
Miscategorizing employees as contractors is illegal in the US, and Department of Labor is not prosecuting companies for doing so.
Hiring needs high, for good reason. They write crap code.
I was trying to buy something from someone's web site and it wasn't working. I emailed them, they said they were working with Amazon to resolve it. I debugged it, purchased the item, and the business owner gave it to me for free, for doing so.
Shame on Amazon.
Reminds me of the pitch for PCs originally.
"Faster, and you don't need to share the CPU!".
My boss bit on it, CPU speed didn't make up for slow disk access.
"Cheaper!"
Well, no, not when the plethora of PCs needed individual attention, in bugs, network connections and upgrades.
"Compatible with the VAX compiler!"
No. The PC compiled code ran on a VAX, but VAX code didn't compile on PC's, a simplistic subset of VAX's.
The above was not even in the fine print.
And worse in the case of cloud: all business content is handed over to Microsoft. Businesses using Amazon have had their lunches eaten by Amazon, and I expect no different from Microsoft.
"I really don't understand why Microsoft just cannot get their act together in this regard."
As near as I can tell, they have two problems.
- Constant reorg of the UI to generate sales. "New", sells upgrades, training, etc.
- Constant restaffing with new grads. Microsoft was a pioneer in offloading their highly skilled for the deferential ultra-cheap foreign visa'd new grad.
Decades back, they had some remarkable sharp cookies - and apparently Microsoft resented their demand for better pay.
First off, it's not going to "hurt" Google, Amazon or Apple.
And specifically Amazon, their busiiness model from the start has been to "dump", sell below cost, to wipe out competitors, which is illegal, and has been subsidized, by tax exemptions (city/state property, city/state sales taxes), and public welfare subsidized non-living wage ware house employment. So, they balloon, and monopolize, at public expense.
Amazon closing, would be beneficial to the public.
"The indians ive worked in the states are broasly ok."
- "Hang my coat on the back of my chair so my boss thinks I'm in."
- Stolen equip., found for sale on eBay.
- Stolen equip., to furnish her husband's startup.
- Manager told "in the other facility", MIA for the summer when parents flew in to visit.
- (prolific) 1 month off a year, off the books, for vacation "home".
- Deliberate bug creation, for easy days when assigned the bug.
- US wages and benefits, when employee was not even in the US.
- Remote login to spouse's company, to cut and paste code.
And that's just over the course of two years.
Not even close.
The most hypocritical thing a nation can do is claim to be democracy (while clearly having no effective representation in governance) and claim to be "spreading democracy and human rights" while dismantling it far and wide by attacking democracies and dismembering them.
A significant set of patents joint owned by Google/Microsoft/Apple where bought, long after they built products using and selling the tech with no payment to the patents' owners/inventors, following their abbreviated ethics, "Do unto others.", also known as Do As I Say, Not As I Do.
"It's the "engineer" and "tech lead" bit that's puzzling."
One insane company/department I worked for declared one of their two interns "tech lead", and left it in that state after hiring a bank of experienced engineers, to work for this lead. The task, WAY out of his depth.
Management manufactures business buzzwords EXPERIENCED tech professionals knew years ago. Then business spins certification factories around them. You too can be a Scrum Master! Project Manager! etc. etc. And then the truly clueless hire the latest fade certified.
"I don't know what a Data Analyst is, but I'm sure we need one!"
"Free lunch!"
"Game room!"
"Pizza Fridays!"
"Onsite haircuts!"
etc.
All to attract youth, who don't know this means they're making minor concessions to accommodate keeping people there night and day.
The article is attempting to fix one of the inherent flaws in their youth only hiring, their subservience to their learning curve. They don't have space to innovate, when they're on slow path discovering basics of collaboration, robust design, etc. And, nobody makes good decisions when overtired, particularly chronically overtired.
It needs to be SEVERELY restricted. "temporary", no more than 1 year. "prevailing wage rate" should be top of the local wage rate, being as their claiming they can't find local skill. NO GOOD REASON for long term leash but indenture.
Percentage of green cards should be independently verified ACTUAL shortage and lottery for those who have that - cut the employer indenture, they can compete on labor free market.
"Lowest unemployment " because Washington's redefined "unemployed". Quite noticeable by the time Obama was using it, and still continuing under Trump: only those 26 to 55 years old, and only those who've looked for work in the past 4 weeks.
There is no good reason ANY US tech person should be out of work, but for the UN initiative to provide "foreign aid", by giving third world western jobs, in the west, for work and remittances, and for offshoring to third world. https://www.epi.org/blog/the-un-global-compact-and-labor-migration-what-can-we-expect/
which is illegal.
by which - international - law exaclty?
That is the game, isn't it. Microsoft claiming US law doesn't apply to data they store offshore.
The only nation a multinational corporation belongs to is whichever one doesn't have a law against what they're trying to escape in the moment.
Fear? Stupidity. Tech sent their money and IP there, with the moronic expectation it was going to be "protected". West sent investment there, with some bizarre notion they'd get the upper hand on Chinese market. Stupidity. Trump more honest about, This Isn't Working, the last thing the neoliberalists are going to admit to, having gutted the West's middle class, to pave the way there.
They're trying desperately to keep "car" in play.
It all (buses/cars/trains) should've been replaced with @SkyTran. But there's a whole lot of industry money invested in vehicle usage: paving, auto maintenance, auto insurance, parking, gas, oil, etc., etc., that's blocking MOVE ON. It's a means of being on near every household's payroll: car payments, insurance, gas, etc.
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