• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I bet morale is so fucking high if you’re employed by Twitter right now.

    Not only has their “boss” shown to fire people indiscriminately, he is also willing to fuck over whatever contact they’ve sign.

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        Honestly it’s probably mostly immigrants on a work visa and people who haven’t found another job and can’t afford to quit without something lined up. Sure, some of them are still there because they’re Elon stans, but I don’t think even they would last long without extenuating circumstances.

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          While I do feel for those people, the only reason they’re here to begin with is to avoid paying US workers market rate…

          Edit: to clarify I meant the corporation is at fault for exploiting them by bringing them here to start with.

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            Whose fault is that? The workers or the boss exploiting their labour?

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            10 months ago

            I can’t fault some poor person from another country for coming to the US to try to make a better living than they could where they came from. If I were in their position, I might very well do the same.

            I can fault big corporations for not only screwing over US workers by using foreign labor to drive wages down, but for also screwing over foreign laborers by paying them substandard wages and using work visas as a way to hold them over a barrel. Greedy fucks.

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              10 months ago

              I agree, sorry if my post wasn’t clear (rereading it is ambiguous). The corporation is to blame not them

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            10 months ago

            Sorry, but that it is absolute nonsense at best, and dangerous anti-immigrant rhetoric at best. Your edit makes nothing better, and if anything makes your comment more stupid.

            People move countries all the same, and most sane businesses believe that diversity in the workforce breeds innovation and more productivity. Many people at Twitter likely joined from transfers from offices all around the world, likely to spend time in the US or to move to a team that better suited their skills. They’re now trapped not because they’re “wage slaves”, but because their visa likely doesn’t allow them to move jobs.

            If the US were to relax their L1 visa during the layoffs last year and allow people to transfer to a new employer, Twitter would probably be dead today.

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              10 months ago

              This has nothing to do with immigration or a diverse work force. Nice strawman. These are temporary limited visas that the sole purpose is to allow these tech. companies to bring cheap labor that they have leverage on.

              I’m all for immigration reform and improvement. But again that has nothing to do with these visas.

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                I literally work in the tech industry, at a large tech company, WITH people on work visas. They are all paid on the same pay bands as everyone else, with many earning more due to joining at a time when more RSU’s were issued. You’re talking utter nonsense. Outside of extreme cases like WITCH companies, this isn’t even remotely true.