USCIS reported over 7 million active H1B visas since 2015!
This is a shame!!!
GM should stop hiring H1B, OPT, H4 and CPT visas.
The amount of incompetence I’m exposed to on a daily basis at work in quite frightening.
We have more qualified and hardworking locals who can get these jobs.
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Which Americans are we taking about? The ones who arrived after 1457 as immigrants or native? Aren't everyone immigrants here?
@nb You just described leadership and hr. Not skilled talent.
They do entry-level jobs. Their obedience is what GM is paying for. A poor EGM is unable to manage a free-thinking and untethered (by immigration status) employee.
It’s hilarious when the ones I work with spend weeks on tasks that should a day but my white guilt keeps me from calling it out.
@j3 Your entire premise only makes sense if the H1B "skilled talent" actually was skilled and talented, and wasn't just lying/scamming/forging documents and skill. Combine that with the nepotism of one of them in management, and we have the mess that we've got now.
@j3 lol how is it helping America in first place? Letting it's own people jobless?
The need for H-1Bs for a corporation is parallel to the need for an elite music camp for your kid. Both beliefs come from the same underlying assumption: that scarcity is real and unavoidable, and that outside validation matters more than building things up at home.
The "rare genius" myth drives both. Elite music camps and H-1B sponsorship both operate on the premise that top-tier talent is scarce enough that you have to go hunting for it rather than growing it locally. That premise gets used to justify skipping over slower, homegrown development in favor of importing people who've already been vetted somewhere else — a camp audition, a corporate sponsorship process — and treating that stamp of approval as the real measure of worth, even when plenty of qualified people never got that specific stamp. And underneath both is the same anxiety: parents worried their kid will fall behind without the camp, executives worried their company will fall behind without instant access to global hiring.
Parents convince themselves that a regular teacher and regular practice aren't enough — that only a pricey, so-called elite, high-intensity summer program can unlock real talent. In reality, most musical skill comes from unglamorous daily practice over years, not a few weeks of pressure-cooker intensity.
Companies argue domestic workers simply don't have the skills they need. But a lot of labor economists and critics point out there's often qualified domestic talent available — the visa system just gets used because it locks obedient workers to their employer, or because it's cheaper than training new grads yourselves.
Both are shortcuts. Both hurt America. Instead of putting in the slower work of developing talent where it already is, both systems reach for something that looks "ready-made" and comes pre-certified by someone else's gatekeeping process.
Send them back or GM will soon be an Indian company.
What do you care? It's not like you'll do anything about it. Salaried members have no leverage or backbone to speak up at a serious level. Everyone sees the double standards, the corner cutting, and the lack of care from counterparts but the extent of the complaint is an "anonymous" msg board. Report your leaders for misconduct, call out lazy co workers or any number of valid solutions, the choice is yours
Agreed! This type of blatant discrimination against hard-working Americans needs to stop! Ban all visas that steal jobs from qualified Americans! America First!
We need more H1b's. 7 million are rookie numbers.