The worst H1-b visa story I've heard so far...

[AngryOldDem]

62. It's basically become slave labor.

Corporations have corrupted the concept because they found they can get away with paying very little (compared to industry standards), offering no benefits, and treating people like garbage. Work suffers, but then you can bring in other workers (often American workers, go figure) to fix it (and the fixes often end up costing more, as usual when something isn't done right the first time).

And it's not just H1B workers. For many years I did contract work and was pretty much treated the same way.

Complicit in this too are the consulting firms that bring the workers to the employers. This whole business model needs to be looked into and regulated. My family has been dealing with this bullshit since about 1993. It sucks, never knowing when you're going to be replaced.