Everywhere I look the downturn is because of “outsourcing”, “India taking our jobs!!”, “cheap overseas labor” and never, never ever porky’s fault. It’s the dirty immigrant labor, not the guys who talk about having “properties”. I’ve always seen this shit floating around in white collar jobs as long as I’ve been working but it’s been really amped up the last few weeks. I am not surprised that people are just this racist on their own but at least some of it feels very manufactured.

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[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

it is for "specialized" immigrant workers

but like 99% of H1B1 applications are for entry level jobs in my industry lmao

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Well, that's the language they use. Aside from that, entry level jobs can also be specialized. Here Pharmacy Technicians are entry level jobs, requiring no prior education and seen as the beginning of the Pharmacist's career path (in conjunction with pharmacology school) however you would say they are specialized when compared to other kinds of store clerks.

They are largely just trying to draw a distinction between the coders and engineers they want to hire from migrant agricultural workers etc. they don't want.