Lost Hope

@ns123abc @elonmusk Please let Microsoft go bankrupt already. I appreciate what they did for the tech space but the last 10-15 years specially have been absolute dogshit after dogshit decision. Please fail so newer services and companies can be created rather than your H1-B Indian welfare farm.

@AngelinoIndo @australiantalk Bingo! Even $25 would do!!

@australiantalk Start charging $50 per wheelchair and they shall be healed!!

30 Indians walked off a plane at DFW & immediately got approved for disability. Witnessing this brazenly blatant scam was crazy. America must stop the invasion.

@kori_rotir @iamrakeshbansal That would s wishful thinking.. every law starts this way.

This is really not big news…bills are notoriously hard to pass in the US Congress…just because one congressman writes a bill doesn’t mean he is anywhere close to getting a vote in the house, forget the Senate. the house and even the Senate is likely to flip Democrat in November so there is not even much time to pass it

Big News: US Bill to Pause H-1B Visas for 3 Years: A group of US Republican lawmakers, led by Congressman Eli Crane, has introduced the “End H-1B Visa Abuse Act of 2026”. This bill proposes: • A complete 3-year pause on new H-1B visas. • Big cuts to the annual cap (from 65,000 to 25,000). • Minimum salary of $200,000 per year for H-1B holders. • No more dependents (H-4 visas) coming with workers. • Other strict rules to protect American jobs. H-1B visas are heavily used by Indian IT professionals to work in the US. Impact on Indian IT sector Indian IT sector pehle se hi AI ki wajah se bahut struggle kar raha hai… ab aur kya maaroge isko? Impact on Indian Students: Students already in US will find it tough to stay after studies. Dream of OPT → H-1B → Green Card becomes difficult. Future Students: Fewer Indians will choose US for higher studies. Many will shift to Canada, UK, Germany or Australia. Important Fact: Indian students pay $8-11 billion every year to US economy through fees & living costs. Less students = big loss for US universities. This is still a proposal niftykaboss.com

@Shridhar_07 @iamrakeshbansal Less garbage doesn’t cost more. It saves money and preserves the American 🇺🇸 ingenuity and grit. We don’t want a population that scams their way through and cheat.

Most overlook how H-1B Indians already pay way more in taxes than they take. One study shows each Indian immigrant saves US government $1.7 million over 30 years. This bill might protect some jobs short-term but hurt universities losing $8-11 billion from fewer students. India needs to build stronger local tech anyway.

@Fair_and_Biased @VivekGRamaswamy No, we hate him because him and @elonmusk declared war on American workers a year and a half ago and we can’t find work no matter how skilled we are Sadly you chose to play the race card rather than finding out why we can’t find jobs

@ZZoariah Then stop scamming!!!!!

Hellhole? Say that to our face not from a podium your system built on immigrant labour still depends on. You want to insult Indians while your hospitals run on us, your tech is coded by us, and your boardrooms are increasingly led by us? Pick a lane. You talk assimilation, we talk results. We didn’t beg for space in America, we earned it, outperformed, and made ourselves indispensable for u guys! And geopolitically? While some of you rage online(LOOK AT THE COMMENTS OF THIS POST)your own establishment is busy shaking hands with India wrt defense, tech, supply chains because YOU need that partnership. India isn’t here for your approval. We’re a civilisation state rising on its own terms. Get used to it.

A lot of this is on the right track, but it doesn’t go far enough. If Washington is serious about ending H-1B abuse, then stop pretending tweaks will fix a system that’s been exploited for decades. Shut it down where the abuse actually lives: ➡️Any company with offshore operations? No access to H-1B. ➡️H-1B dependent firms? Out. Entirely. ➡️If you built your business model on replacing Americans, you don’t get to keep using the system that enabled it. Fraud by an employer, university, or applicant should trigger immediate revocation of any visas sponsored, facilitated, or obtained through that employer or institution, and a permanent bar from future U.S. visa eligibility or program. No second chances. No backdoor re-entry. And let’s be clear on accountability! Displace ONE American, directly or through a staffing layer, and you lose access to every visa program permanently. Minimum $200,000 penalty per American displaced. Paid directly to the workers who were pushed out. Not into a fund. Not into bureaucracy. To the people who were harmed. And Americans shouldn’t have to fight for years to prove it. No arbitration clauses. No gagged severance deals. No endless legal games. Fast-track claims. Low burden of proof. Immediate consequences. Because right now, the system protects the employer and punishes the American worker. For years, companies gamed the system, displaced Americans, and walked away richer with zero accountability. This shouldn't just be about reform it should be about accountability and enforcement that is costly and painful!

IF @POTUS truly believed this, then sign an Executive Order ending all H-1B’s and H-4’s from India immediately. They are receiving over 70% of all visas into the United States and destroying our communities. This is a federal issue being exploited at the state level by corporations and replacement firms.

💊 This woman tells us her personal story of health insurance for a family of five: just under $2,000 a month in premiums — plus a $6,500 deductible before anything is even covered. After a shoulder injury, this mom’s ER visit and MRI actually cost her MORE using insurance than if she’d just paid cash/self-pay prices: the MRI was $960 with insurance vs only $400 cash, and the ER bill came in at $1,760 vs about $1,200 without insurance. It makes you wonder why we continue to pay such a high monthly insurance cost just to have to pay more at the doctor’s office or ER. Have you ever had a medical bill where having insurance actually made it more expensive than just paying cash? How many of you have stopped getting health insurance and moved over to self-pay?

American is a Business Economics graduate from UCLA He has been applying for jobs for 228 days. He isn’t even looking for specific to his major anymore, he’s applying to any job He had a 4.0 GPA and still can’t get a job, he says this is how bad the job market is that everyone talks about I think part of the problem is California incentivizes “inclusive recruitment” Even offering tax incentives for hiring targeted groups Many California companies pursue DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) goals. This only means ‘non-white’ The odds are greatly stacked against him as a white male in California and in America in general

@marc_palasciano Fantastic! Actually these two kids are just the mouthpieces of their parents and uncles and aunts. They send these kids without accent to the city hall, coached to say what their elders wanted to say.

My reaction to today’s story from Dallas Morning News. I’m not worried about triggering 22 year olds with my free speech. They have no idea that I’m teaching them a lesson before they realize it’s a lesson.

Rosemary Jenks on Rep. Eli Crane's proposed Bill: This bill would pause all H-1B visa issuances for a period of three years. During that three-year period, every H-1B visa holder who is currently in the United States would have to leave. @iaproject

@StockMKTNewz Demons in flesh

Here is the letter Meta Platforms $META just sent to employees about the cutting laying off 10% of the workforce: "Over the last few weeks we have been working on some changes to our organization that will result in us laying off around 10% of the company on May 20, and closing about 6,000 open roles. Normally, we would want to nail down more details before communicating about this broadly, but since this has leaked, I want to share what I can right now. I know this is unwelcome news and confirming this puts everyone in an uneasy state, but we feel this is the best path forward, given the circumstances. We’re doing this as part of our continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow us to offset the other investments we’re making. This is not an easy tradeoff and it will mean letting go of people who have made meaningful contributions to Meta during their time here. We will support those who are laid off with a generous severance package which, in the US, will include 16 weeks base pay plus two weeks for every year of employment. We will also cover the cost of COBRA health care coverage for US employees and their families for 18 months. Packages outside the US will be similar but vary by country, as will local timelines and processes. We will also offer career services to support people in finding another role, and immigration support for those who need it. We’ll share more of these details in a follow up post ahead of May 20. For notifications, we will follow the same process we have before: on May 20, anyone who is impacted will receive an email to their work and personal accounts – please make sure your personal email is updated in Workday. I know this leaves everyone with nearly a month of ambiguity which is incredibly unsettling. We will try to answer your questions here in the comments but as we’re still working through the details we aren’t able to share much more until later in May. Meanwhile, you can find more information on the People Portal which includes our standard FAQs and logistical details for layoffs."

@VBierschwale @PlumbNick @SaraGonzalesTX While they raise the property taxes every year. I think if the state is deliberately making Texas Americans jobless, they should not collect any taxes. No income.. No taxes. Anyone that was gainfully employed was replaced by a foreign worker should not be taxed.

@PlumbNick they talk to you? Me either It’s obvious that they haven’t done the math Will say that it is a step in the right direction but I have a feeling that they are only doing this because of @SaraGonzalesTX success My two cents The state is using my taxpayer money to deprive me of a job that I desperately need and the state attorney general went to china and a Islam university in India to teach them how to import workers to deprive Texans of jobs Not a good look for the state of Texas All this talk about Texas creates the most jobs and my own research proves Texas workers only get 48% of those jobs No wonder the homeless population grows by leaps and bounds @KXAN_News @GovAbbottPress youtu.be/03HGAniKCrI?si…

@r0ck3t23 When everyone builds who will be the consumer???

Tim Cook just told eight billion people what the next decade is going to cost them. He didn’t mention chips. He didn’t mention software. He didn’t mention revenue. He diagnosed something permanent about human nature. Cook: “Whatever you do with your life, be a builder.” That wasn’t a commencement speech. That was a verdict on the century. On one side, the people who make things. On the other, everyone who watches them do it. For twenty years the internet blurred that line. You could scroll, react, repost, and convince yourself you were participating. Artificial intelligence just closed that window. Permanently. If your reflex is to consume, AI will feed you content until you are perfectly, comfortably irrelevant. If your reflex is to build, AI just handed you the output of a thousand engineers on a single screen. Same technology. Opposite trajectories. The fork happens the second you touch it. This is the most lopsided advantage ever given to ordinary people. One person with the right architecture now ships what entire departments couldn’t build three years ago. One creator with the right process now produces what agencies billed seven figures for. The leverage is not marginal. It is generational. And it only compounds if your default setting is creation. Cook: “The best founders… spend most of their time building, piece by piece.” Not theorizing. Not consuming someone else’s roadmap. Not waiting for the perfect model to arrive. Stacking. Quietly. Relentlessly. Brick by brick while the crowd argues about whether the building is even real. The gap between the person building and the person commenting on the build is about to become the defining fracture of this century. Not wealth. Not credentials. Not access. Orientation. Whether your hands move toward the tool or away from it. Cook: “True builders believe their work will one day be bigger than them.” That has never been more literal. We are constructing intelligence that will outlast the species that designed it. What you lay down today compounds across decades you will never see. The divide ahead is not rich and poor. It is not credentialed and uncredentialed. It is the people who build and the people who watched. You either pick up the tools or you become the foundation someone else pours.

@j_fishback Don’t agree with “doesn’t look like you” part as America has been a melting pot for over a century and many Americans don’t look alike.. that would be a preposterous assumption to stand on.

My first year as Governor, I will finally, once and for all, END the H-1B scam in Florida. You will be able to get a job without having to compete with a foreigner who doesn't look like you, and who doesn't pledge allegiance to our flag.

What a laugh The wages do not matter The H-1B program is similar to a livestock program You are imported like cattle, or sheep to work as many hours as your employer demands and if you say no, you are culled from the herd and sent back to where you came from At the same time because job creation is not infinite, every H-1B imported deprives one American of a job that they need to provide for their families with As for the talent, we Americans were forced to train you once you were acquired by your employer In other words, we have the skills to assume your position and only your discrimination against Americans using caste, and nepotism and outright discrimination prevents us from doing so And we are exposing that

Pay attention now! Joe legal works in construction, has a Social Security number and makes $25.00 per hour with taxes deducted. Jose illegal also works in construction has no Social Security number and makes $15.00 per hour cash, under the table. Ready?... now pay attention.... Joe legal: $25.00 per hour × 40 hours = $1,000.00 per week or $52,000.00 per year. Now, take 31% away for State and Federal taxes. Joe legal now has $31,231.00. Jose illegal: $15.00 an hour × 40 hours = $600.00 per week or $31,200.00 per year. Jose illegal pays no taxes. Jose illegal now has $31,200.00. Joe legal pays medical and dental insurance with limited coverage for his family at $600.00 per month, or $7,200.00 per year. Joe legal now has $24,031.00. Jose illegal has full medical and dental coverage through the State and local clinics and emergency hospitals at a cost of $0.00 per year. Jose illegal still has $31,200.00. Joe legal makes too much money and is not eligible for food stamps or welfare. Joe legal spends $500.00 per month for food or $6,000.00 per year. Joe legal now has $18,031.00. Jose illegal has no documented income and is eligible for food stamps, WIC and welfare. Jose illegal still has $31,200.00. Joe legal pays rent of 1,200.00 per month or $14,400.00 per year. Joe legal now has $9,631.00. Jose illegal receives $500.00 per month Federal rent subsidy. Jose illegal pays out that $500.00 per month or $6,000.00 per year. Jose illegal still has $31,200.00. Joe legal pays $200.00 per month or $2,400.00 per year for car insurance. Some of that is uninsured motorist insurance. Joe legal now has $7,231.00. Jose illegal says, "We don't need no stinkin' insurance."... and still has $31,000.00. Joe legal has to make his $7,231.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline.. etc. Jose illegal has to make his $31,200.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline and what he sends out of the country every month.... Joe legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work. Jose illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family. Joe legal's and Jose illegal's children both attend the same elementary school. Joe legal pays for his children's lunches while... Jose illegal's children get a government-sponsored lunch. Jose illegal's children have an after school ESL program. Joe legal's children go home. Now, when they reach college age... Joe legal's kids may not get into a State school and may not qualify for scholarships, grants or other tuition help, even though Joe has been paying for State schools through his taxes, while... Jose illegal's kids go to the, 'head of the class' because they are a minority. Joe legal and Jose illegal both benefit from the same police and fire services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not. Do you get it, now? If we vote for or support any politician that supports illegal aliens,... we are part of the problem. Its way PAST time to take a stand for America and Americans!

@Kristinartz I do and we used to look forward for the condensed novels they used release in beautiful leather bound editions.

Did anyone in your family ever read Reader's Digest? That little magazine was always around - on the table, in the bathroom, tucked in a drawer. Short stories, jokes, and advice you somehow always read. Who remembers it?

@gothburz @_eMaX_ And the AI bots with generative AI will kick these companies in the butt as they don’t know what loyalty means as they are built by humans with no soul.

@_eMaX_ This is the structural shift the piece is documenting. When the system punishes loyalty, people stop being loyal.

I am the Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Oracle Corporation. On March 31, I terminated 30,000 employees. On April 4, their stock was scheduled to vest. I did not need to check the vesting calendar. I designed the schedule around it. The vesting date was a Saturday. Fidelity processes on the prior business day. That means April 3. I sent the emails on Monday. Three business days. That is not an accident. That is a calendar. Nina Lewis worked at Oracle for 34 years. Thirty-three of them great, she said. Security Alert Manager. She posted on LinkedIn that it seemed like the layoffs followed "an algorithm of high level individual contributors and mid-level managers, especially those with outstanding stock options." She is correct. I built the algorithm. Under the Amended and Restated 2020 Equity Incentive Plan, all unvested restricted stock units are forfeited immediately upon termination. Not after a grace period. Not after review. Immediately. The RSU disappears from Fidelity the same morning the badge stops working. For senior employees, RSUs represent 30 to 50 percent of projected annual compensation. Not a bonus. Not a perk. Compensation. Earned over years of vesting schedules that HR designed, HR approved, and HR canceled. The forfeited stock does not disappear. It returns to the company. Thirty thousand tranches, recaptured in a single batch job. The equity stays on our balance sheet. The people do not. That's equity management. One of our first employees was in the batch. Forty-plus years. Hired when the company had a lobby you could cross in four steps. Gone by 6:04 AM on a Monday three days before his shares vested. A 27-year veteran posted that a "major reorganization" ended their journey across Sun and Oracle. Sun Microsystems. He survived an acquisition. He survived a platform migration. He survived three CEOs. He did not survive the vesting calendar. Kurt Frieden. Eighteen years. Denise Mitzit. Former Senior Director. Some received the email at 5 AM. Some at 6. The badge was already off by the time it mattered. Denise said the email had "questionable font sizes" for her name, "like a mass mailer from 1987." Mass mailer from 1987. She worked at Oracle long enough to remember when they were built. Alexander Sandler spent nearly ten years as a founding engineer on OCI's File Storage Service. He helped build it from zero to exabyte-scale. Powered hundreds of millions of dollars in value. Handled countless on-call shifts. We are now spending $50 billion to expand OCI with different people. Gary Olmsted woke up to his Slack being disconnected and "a nice email telling me my position had been eliminated." He did not log in and find a message. He logged in and found a wall. The Slack was already off. The email was already sent. The RSUs were already gone. Marc Fitten called it sudden. Jeremy Martin said the people cut were "top performers, extremely talented, and really solid at their job." He listed names. Leo Mukahirn. Lane Okamoto. Sam Raymer. Brady Maurer. Michael Novotny. Robby Mann. I don't list names. I list employee IDs. The IDs are easier to process in batch. That's operational efficiency. The system flagged employees by three variables: tenure, salary band, and unvested equity value. Long tenure means high salary. High salary means large RSU grants. Large RSU grants mean large forfeiture upon termination. The most loyal employees were the most expensive to keep and the most profitable to cut three days before their shares vested. Loyalty is a liability with a vesting schedule. Michael Shepherd — a senior manager on OCI who was not laid off — posted that the reductions "were not performance-based" and hit "senior talent with deep expertise." He said the cuts fell "disproportionately" on those with outstanding equity. He is still employed. He will learn not to post. That's stakeholder management. The same week I canceled 30,000 vesting schedules, the compensation committee approved $26 million in equity for the new CFO. Her RSUs vest over four years, beginning immediately. Hers begin. Theirs ended. Same equity plan. Same PeopleSoft module. VEST_CANCEL_BATCH and VEST_GRANT_EXEC run on the same server. Nina Lewis asked, "Not sure what to do next, if anything. Open to ideas." After 34 years. Open to ideas. The algorithm of high-level individual contributors and mid-level managers with outstanding stock options left a 34-year security expert open to ideas. I have an idea. The severance package includes two weeks per year of service, capped at 26 weeks. That means her 34 years are worth the same as someone's 13. The cap exists because we don't want loyalty to be expensive twice — once in salary, once in severance. That's compensation design. Denise Mitzit said she hopes the good people remaining find every success. She thanked the people who laughed at her jokes. She remembered Red Rover and RR Donnelley and GBU Compliance under Jari Peters. She remembered Fry. I don't remember Fry. I remember the employee ID. 30,000 termination emails. 3 business days before the vesting date. 30 to 50 percent of senior compensation forfeited overnight. $26 million granted to 1 new executive the same week. 34 years of tenure capped at 26 weeks of severance. The algorithm works. The vesting calendar works. The equity plan works. I designed all three. That's human resources.