Thread regarding Microsoft Corp. layoffs

It's because Indians have become BETTER at doing the work. Much better. Why? US education system and family failure. Make no mistake, there are still excellent American employees. But there aren't enough of them.

If the stated purpose of the H‑1B program is to fill roles where there isn’t enough qualified U.S. talent, then a company claiming it needs to cut 60,000 jobs raises a serious contradiction. By definition, H‑1B workers are here only because the employer certified that no equally qualified American worker was available.

So if an American citizen at Microsoft is laid off before a similarly qualified H‑1B worker in the same job category, that’s not just unfair — it undermines the legal justification for the H‑1B hire in the first place. In that situation, the American employee has a legitimate basis to question whether the employer complied with the spirit and intent of the program.

The logic is simple:
If the company says “we don’t have enough U.S. workers,” then U.S. workers shouldn’t be the first ones shown the door.

@ba

If you believe that the H1-b visa holders are innocent in this scheme you are wrong.

From the fraudulent degrees, the fake family sponsors, to the shady company and LLCs and the "single family" homes.

IT'S ALL A SCAM.

OP you do not even know that 60k number includes Canada, UK, US and India. Most people who receive this communication are employees based in India compare to other. So stop spreading lies and hate

Nothing about my Indian brothers. I'm from USA but have enjoyed working my entire career with them.

The truth is that H1B fuels the greed at the corporate level. But, when it comes to licensing, they do sell them here charging big $$$ USD.

Program should be reformed.

OP so in your mind a perfectly innocent software engineer was sitting at home in India when he got kidnapped and brought to the US by Microsoft? Did Microsoft also forge his papers? Did Microsoft force his spouse to come over on a H4? Did Microsoft go looking for just the right candidate in the specific village that happened to be the same village of the manager who the H1B would be reporting to? A candidate that was of the acceptable caste that spoke just the right language? Wake up, the H1B candidate is just as culpable. Probably more so because this scam does not work without active participation of the H1B. Blame goes from the candidate all the way to the CEO and the board of directors, and even politicians . The CEO who set the strategy, the board that approved the strategy, politicians that took the lobbyist's money and looked the other way, the ca$trated HR that nodded along silently, the other management layers that were created to look important, every last one of them is guilty.

@am reasonable folks don't consider the phrase "bad faith actor" to be derogatory. It is simply accurate.

OP, the tactic of labeling people ("bad faith actor","h-ater"," r-acist") who disagree with you is old and no one cares any more. You risk people labeling you (m-ron, id-iot, smooth brain).

Your statements are valid and would have stood on their own without the name calling.