and this was going on at my company. I was an IT administrator that had worked my way up to that position. They started doing some in house programming and needed BASIS programmers. Next thing I see, 4 new guys all from India and they had to be trained, they had to be a part of team meetings and could barely speak English. They had to repeat their words many times for management to understand what they were saying because of their thick accent. (I grew up with immigrant grand parents with thick Italian accents so I'm not criticizing their accents). The problem was that there were local BASIS programmers that could have filled the positions but the Corporation decided to bring in H1-B visa holders. They got paid shit wages, they worked long grueling hours, they had no family in the states and if their wives joined them, the wife was not allowed to work. Those women were trapped at home, literally, usually with children to care for and get schooled, as well. They had healthcare coverage and that's about it. They barely made enough to live on and a couple of the single guys went back to India to get married and were gone for a month. Somehow, the Corporation allowed that but regular employees couldn't take a month off, ever. no way. The H1-B were treated like slaves and I hated that the company I worked for treated humans that way. I left and never followed that crew that showed up one day many moons ago, but I'll never forget them. I hope they are doing well because about 3-4 yrs after I left, they shut that site down and the 500 souls that were there were either transferred or riffed. That employer is an international corporation still in business today. They do it because it's sometimes cost effective and the tax laws allow them to write off expenses like that also because it's legal.
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