[ale] OT: H1B: PLEASE DISREGARD EARLIER POSTS

[Sergio Chaves]

Bingo!

Jonathan Rickman wrote:

>>This is supply and demand.  Would you pay $70 for a good you could get
>>elsewhere for $50?
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>
>Not to mention a case of the chickens coming home to roost. Remember
>the wild days of 10k signing bonuses, new cars, and 6 figure incomes,
>entry level sysadmins making >60k? What actually happened was that
>geeks collectively decided that they would just hop around from job to
>job (avg got down to less than 18 months at one point) taking bigger
>salaries all the way and demanding much more than they were really
>worth. In other words, they were milking the boom times for all they
>were worth. Now, employers are simply returning the favor. IT salaries
>got way out of hand for several years. Denying it isn't going to
>change reality. You probably are not worth what you think you are, and
>you may not even be getting paid quite what you are _really_ worth.
>The pendulum has swung the other way, and we are at least a year from
>it settling back down in the middle. Then the next batch of geeks will
>start pushing it again and we'll end up with another few years of the
>wage pendulum swinging back and forth wildly. As usual, those who do
>not rock the boat will still end up being dragged along. Sad, but
>true.
>
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