A friend for many years who happens to be chief financial officer for a Silicon Valley startup has this story to tell about his immigration problems at work:
This is the immigration battle that I fight day-in and day-out. How do we attract the best and brightest to our shores (H1-B visas) so the jobs stay in America instead of transferring overseas? The technologists that we work with could work anywhere. We have to make it easy for them to come here and to contribute here and to have bright babies here and to have those babies set higher standards here. I see very, very few Smiths or Joneses or Johnsons who contribute […]
A Tale of Two H1-Bs
Burn Baby Burn
Note there is additional new material at the end of this column — Bob
I am old — so old that when I was a college freshman there were dormitories filled with men and others filled with women but no dormitories at all filled with both men and women, at least not where I went to school. The women had it so bad that there was literally a time clock for signing-in and -out under the stern gaze of an old biddy tending the front desk — a desk she was determined that I, in particular, would NEVER get past.