Originally Posted by BetsyRoss
Something's fishy here. I AM a tech worker, who knows lots more of my kind, and the level of desperation amongst our unemployed kindred is very high. Usually we see complaints like this when the big bosses are gearing up for a campaign to raise the H-1B limits. We're about due for one of those. This is just like when farmers say they can't get workers: then you find out they pay pocket change and there's no transportation (as there often is for illegals who are often brokered by their own bodyshopping industry). Or restaurants. When ICE raided the meatpacking industry in Greeley, the line of local citizen applicants for the vacated jobs stretched around the block.