#politics

Lately it feels like success depends a lot on who you know at the top. Is anyone else noticing this trend?

$40 billion more approved for 2026 and beyond.

It doesn’t matter that they are rolling in cash. They want you gone because there is never enough cash for those who worship it.

Capitalism destroys itself without a strong democratic government that protects its citizens. The government we have is bought by the capitalists.

Judging by the market reaction to David Ellison's layoffs, his plan for Paramount alongside his lack of CEO experience, poor, risky decision making in the past and letting one of the best content creators walk into Universals arms, I think he has two years at best before he either sells up or he is ousted.

Also depends on Trumps dictatorship bid in a few years.

Shouldn't job preference be given to American workers first? The economy is struggling, and many young people can't find decent jobs. Yet, this administration is not enforcing any rule in the labor or immigration process to ensure that companies interview American workers before hiring others.

Support the BNY PAC ?? Anyone see Robin's message?
for what? To fund politicians who don't care about rule of law??

freaking ridiculous.
While we get replaced by AI??
30,000 corporate Amazon employees will be flooding the job market because of AI. Good luck competing with those people.

We're all going to need UBI soon, if not food stamps.

The collapse of Fiserv should be a warning sign for every US citizen. The executive branch of the US Government is operating in the same way as Fiserv...even some of the same players are involved. The outcome will be the same. Find a safe haven for your assets and buckle in because this will be a wild ride!

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna239481

Guess who’s on the list?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/ford-foundation-funnels-51m-into-no-kings-protests-over-2-700-marches-supported/ar-AA1OYYDy

That's just some next level stupidity.

The so-called leaders play politics and mumble through meetings and promote people who don’t even understand the work. Things are getting worse every day and nobody seems to care. Sometimes I feel like I'm watching a slow collapse of a once great company in real time.

Council Chairs established and members nominated. Mobility surveys have not closed yet but ppl have already started disappearing from QP (most are involuntary). Staffing & selection process is on by first week of November and we all know how this game works - similar to how PADP is run in this company, rife with politics. Good luck to those who wants to remain employed!

India buys Russian oil yet we continue to offshore jobs to that country. Should this continue? Forget H1B visas because they just offshore the jobs instead. Tell you elected leaders to look at the job board for conformation. Knowledge workers do more for the economy than manufacturing jobs.

As we continue to see high-performing Canadians increasingly targeted by their American managers for political reasons, a concerning disparity is also emerging in termination practices, with a disproportionate number of minorities being affected.

… I’m clearing out my personal belongings and beginning to work with a couple of headhunters. I do not accept being lectured to in what is a violation of standing company policy to not politicize our workplace. This company, now aka Fox News Jr., no longer deserves me and my talent. I will no longer contribute to what it has become over the last several months. Everyone has their last straw and this was it for me. Only I have power over my work life. I do wish circumstances were such that we all, in unity, could walk out in a show of solidarity but I know that it’s not realistic, I understand we all have obligations. But for myself, I can at least start planning my exit. Wondering if this has affected anyone else in a similar way.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-supreme-court-rejects-software-giant-saps-bid-avoid-rivals-antitrust-suit-2025-10-06/

If you want a promotion here, it’s not about performance, it’s about who you grab lunch with. It didn't take me long to figure out the game is all politics and timing. Plus, the raise is usually so tiny that in the end, it's better to jump ship than wait for some half-hearted bump.

To poke this administration. Why, why come out with this media stance now? Keep your head down and plow ahead with your plan. No need to pick a public fight. I haven’t seen a single company win from posturing like this. Apple , Boeing , NVIDIA, Microsoft…. Not a single one has come out on top. If we can bite our tongue to do business in countries with dubious human rights track records, surely we could STFU and just plow ahead silently for 3 years and 3 months more
And to what end, so we can all feel better that we have publicly signaled this.. what’s the point if we just end up getting shadow banned in the permitting and less than favorable tariff carve outs… good grief.
https://www.ft.com/content/7e3a2879-d7d9-40a3-8ea8-ae89a9e29121

Fear of Donald is what has delayed a 20% layoff in the US. It is inevitable.

NASA Watch reports that the threat of actual federal layoffs is rising during the ongoing government shutdown, adding to furloughs already in effect. NASA headquarters has contingency plans for such layoffs, but with the agency’s public affairs office on furlough, official communication is limited.

The report cites several developments: the Congressional Budget Office warning of imminent layoffs, a budget director telling Republicans that federal job cuts are days away, claims that directives to fire workers during a shutdown may be illegal, and agencies like the Patent Office already laying off staff.

The White House and Office of Management and Budget have reportedly issued strict warnings to agencies against sharing shutdown-related details publicly.

Brave of them to take questions after the chaos of the selections. I’m sure they will filter the questions and provide their own questions to control the narrative.

Along with Oracle and its co-founder Larry Ellison, Trump said at the press conference that other investors include media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the CEO of Dell computers Michael Dell. “Great investors. The biggest. They don’t get bigger,” Trump said. Vance added that more details about who is involved in the deal will be announced over the next few days.

https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/aos/2014-11/1303261.pdf

The People of Alberta own the Oil Sands.
No one is going Edmonton !
Provincial Legislation will be passed within the year to prohibit Outsourcing of jobs that are related to the Oil Sands Industry. So not only will the large majority of the 900 jobs not go to BTC . BTC will lose their jobs which will be brought back to Alberta.
We own the product … Exxon.
You Don’t !
We need Companies that Put Alberta First. Not Companies like yours and Tim Hortons who displace Albertans from their jobs with foreign workers.
So when your Oil Leases come up for renewal, your Camp permits require approval don’t think they can’t be rejected.
Like you rejected 900 Albertans and their families.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) will introduce a bill on Tuesday that would sharply reduce the number of H-1B migrants working in U.S. white-collar jobs.

The bill, to be announced Tuesday morning, would begin to count visa renewals as new visas, so ending the current practice of allowing unlimited renewals for most of the 85,000 visas granted to companies each year.

The unlimited renewals policy allows roughly 750,000 H-1B visa holders to retain white-collar, career-track jobs that would otherwise have gone to young U.S. graduates. Without the exemption, the number of company-employed H-1B visa holders would drop to roughly 250,000.

The Cotton bill would also end the policy of exempting H-1B visas from the 85,000 limit if they are awarded to non-profits, which include corporate-affiliated research centers, universities, hospitals, and government K-12 teaching jobs. The non-profit H-1B workforce is large and growing and is also harming many young Americans who are both skilled and eager for careers in laboratories, hospitals, lecture halls, and classrooms.

A 2016 count by Breitbart News showed that roughly 100,000 H-1B and J-1 visa workers were employed by the non-profit sector.

“Colleges and universities shouldn’t get special treatment for bringing in woke and anti-American professors from around the world. My bill closes these loopholes that universities have abused for far too long,” Cotton said in a press statement.

Cotton’s draft bill would pressure companies to accept job applications from the growing lack of underemployed and unemployed American STEM graduates.

“Reducing the number of foreign workers being imported to replace American workers is a good thing,” said Rosemary Jenks, cofounder and policy director of the Immigration Accountability Project. “But the H-1B program needs to be eliminated,” she added.

The bill joins the rush of other reform plans being pushed by Sen. Jim Banks (R-OH), Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and by President Donald Trump.

“The large-scale replacement of American workers through systemic abuse of the program has undermined both our economic and national security,” said the September 19 proclamation by Trump establishing modest curbs on the H-1B program:

The number of foreign STEM workers in the United States has more than doubled between 2000 and 2019, increasing from 1.2 million to almost 2.5 million, while overall STEM employment has only increased 44.5 percent during that time. Among computer and math occupations, the foreign share of the workforce grew from 17.7 percent in 2000 to 26.1 percent in 2019. And the key facilitator for this influx of foreign STEM labor has been the abuse of the H-1B visa.

The abuse of the H-1B program is also a national security threat. Domestic law enforcement agencies have identified and investigated H-1B-reliant outsourcing companies for engaging in visa fraud, conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, and other illicit activities to encourage foreign workers to come to the United States.

A recent survey showed that a large majority of Democrat-leaning tech professionals see the H-1B program as a threat to their careers.

The survey reported 56 percent of the Americans polled said “they view H-1B visa holders as direct competitors for jobs.” Sixty percent of U.S. citizens said that “U.S. citizens and green card holders should be given hiring priority.”

Adam Mitchell thought he was doing everything right. He majored in computer science at Georgia State University and interned at State Farm doing web development. He’d been told since he was a teenager that a degree in computer science was a guaranteed path to a high-paying job right out of college.

“I was under the impression that since I’ve got three years of internship experience under my belt, this will be a cakewalk,” Mitchell said. “I was pretty quickly humbled. There’s nothing available.”
More than seven months after graduating, he’s applied for more than 100 jobs and gotten two interviews and only one job offer — for the 4 a.m. shift at Starbucks, which he didn’t take because the hours would make it too hard to pursue other opportunities. Among the jobs that turned him down: an hourly role at Costco and a customer service job in the call center at State Farm.

“I’m just kind of looking for anything,” he said. “I don’t know if the tech-side economy is ever going to be the same again.”

With 100k$ price tag for an H1-B and massive tariffs on outsourced labor and overseas remittances, get ready for an end to this scam of a program.

It's going to be a bright, sun shiny day.

Start packing, Saars.

The Trump administration is set to oversee the largest mass resignation in US history on Tuesday, with more than 100,000 federal workers set to formally quit as part of the latest wave of its deferred resignation program.

With Congress facing a deadline of Tuesday to authorize more funding or spark a government shutdown, the White House has also ordered federal agencies to draw up plans for large-scale firings of workers if the partisan fight fails to yield a deal.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/28/us-mass-resignation-federal-workers

Asking why Americans are being laidoff while hiring h1bs at the same time

I knew Billy would virtue signal. Hey Billy you don’t have to meet the revised lower emissions. You can keep the Biden emissions. No one will stop you or fine you. Toyota loves Billy

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/ford/2025/09/26/ford-urges-modest-epa-emission-standards-to-end-regulatory-whiplash/86347400007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=pp&gca-ds=override

I wonder if Verizon will have to pay $100,000 to the government for each H1B visa holder to work in the U.S. under the new executive order. How many employees do we have with H1B visa and what departments?

Intel is using Trump to collect 5B from every company. If the company does not give 5B, Intel will report to Trump to collect 100% tariffs on them. What a shame !

Project Firewall is an enforcement initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) on September 19, 2025, aimed at curbing abuse in the H-1B visa program. It focuses on investigating employers suspected of exploiting H-1B visas to displace American workers with lower-wage foreign labor, particularly in high-skilled STEM fields. The project prioritizes “America first” hiring by ensuring compliance with visa rules and rooting out fraud.
Key Aspects:
• Leadership and Scope: Led by the DOL’s Office of Immigration Policy, Employment and Training Administration, and Wage and Hour Division, with collaboration from the Department of Justice, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The Secretary of Labor can personally certify investigations for high-priority cases.
• Enforcement Measures: Investigations can start via secretary certification or standard channels, targeting violations like wage suppression, improper job displacement, and visa misuse. It aligns with a recent executive order by President Donald Trump requiring a $100,000 fee for H-1B petitions.
• Goals and Impact: As stated by Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, it ensures “highly skilled jobs go to Americans first” by ending abuses that undercut U.S. workers. Critics, however, warn of potential overreach affecting small businesses and innovation.
This initiative reflects the Trump administration’s broader immigration and labor priorities. For unrelated uses of “project firewall” (e.g., open-source software firewalls), the term typically refers to custom network security implementations, but the 2025 launch dominates current references.

What will you be thinking under oath when it hits the fan “U.S. Senate Committee hearing”?

Exxon CEO wants EU sustainability law scrapped

Today’s focus is all about the power of oil lobbying as ExxonMobil is ramping up its fight against the EU’s corporate sustainability due diligence law, warning it will push businesses out of Europe.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-switch-climate-focus-exxon-ceo-wants-eu-sustainability-law-scrapped-2025-09-20/

The bank could bring back 60K jobs from overseas. At least to get some positive publicity which the bank clearly needs. Just saying ......

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/modi-urges-indians-to-get-rid-of-foreign-products-amid-strained-us-ties/ar-AA1N081O?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=68d01daa6b9e4e33a6a6fb3e9134571c&ei=15

This is all about getting the Indian govt to get in line about fair trade. Russian oil, tariffs etc. trump is a master at getting the deal done so wait and see. No more playing both sides, either be fair or get left behind

We lost a great manager. They decided to nuke our department for no good reason and then handed the pieces to someone who loves micromanaging and playing politics. I went from enjoying my job to dreading it within a few weeks. Again, for no good reason! This place makes no sense to me.

Well, if I had to guess, theft is the railroads biggest problem in these two cities, I am sure many others as well.

The praise makes for a good laugh!

https://www.wowt.com/2025/09/16/trump-says-union-pacific-ceo-gave-advice-national-guard-deployments/?outputType=amp

Everything really clicked for me this week watching Safra and other tech CEOs line up at the White House dinner, kissing the DJT ring. They’re thanking him profusely for flipping the script. The era of employees holding the power? Over.

When’s the last time you heard an Oracle leader talk about wellbeing, mental health, or diversity? The buzz words of the last 5 years. Those conversations have all but disappeared. The employer’s market is back — and with it, the return of treating employees as expendable.