Morpheuswipe face/off  1d ago (x.com) 1,253 thread views #328638 earned 328 coins from votes

Elon is now quadrupling down with backup from :scott: and has turned into :marseyhillary: . MAGA very much not happy

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1872744295884841262

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While I didn't think the Elon Trump love in would last I did think it would at least last until he actually became president

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I'm as affected by the :marseytunaktunak: invasion as much as anyone could be. I was saying this on here the other day, but it's happened to IT at the same pace regardless of anything anyone's done with H1-Bs. (The only time H1B-s were reduced, probably ever, was during Trump's first term). Companies that wanted cheap indian labor simply relaxed their policies regarding remote work and kept on trucking.

That's the reality of the situation. H1-Bs are for hiring actual W-2 employees. Not being able to get one doesn't mean a company is going to hire an American. It means they're going to consider hiring a contractor instead of an employee, and that contractor can be from any country they want. My biggest client has hired dozens of contractors from India, Poland, and South America (can't remember which country specifically). Our core team for IT support doesn't have anybody working remote from India (yet) but that's mostly due to the time zone difference. They are hiring consulting firms to supply their satellite teams with Indians and some of those firms (CapGemini and HCL for example) will send you 100 morons if you're dumb enough to ever pay them money. I have to work with these people every day and it is painful. None of them would ever make it here on an H1-B in a million years and yet there they all are working for a valuable American company anyway.

Because of the above, though, you too can play the contracting game. Contractors don't go through the HR department. You will never get filtered by DEI rules. You won't get filtered by irritating HR foids because they won't be involved in the procurement process. You can outcompete :marseytunaktunak: by learning something they haven't caught onto yet. I've been doing it for so long (13 years) that all this hand-wringing over the great replacement feels like a stale rerun to me.

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Please teach me to secure clients as a solo contractor, or point me in the direction of a small group of white people who are good at finding work

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You'll probably have to start out by talking to recruiters for consulting firms who have tons of business arrangements already. If your linkedin is up to date and your skillset is anywhere in the vicinity of what they're looking for, they're probably already flooding your inbox and you've just been ignoring them. I get tons of irrelevant messages from them. Like I did an integration with some product called Demandware once and they kept sending me job postings for "Demandware consultant" because they literally just keyword search and shit out recruitment messages. So you'll have to do some filtering.

If you think it looks like it's going to work out, your next step would be to form an LLC as a sole proprietor (which will cost about $100 - $125) so you can receive corp-to-corp payments on 1099.

The upside of doing this through someone else's consulting firm is that they will find you contracts if they're any good, so you're avoiding the entire "running a business" side of things. The downside is that they will take a cut of your hourly pay, typically 15 or 20 percent but you won't know how much it is unless you work at a place for so long that someone spills the beans or tries to direct hire you. Usually this isn't a huge disadvantage, though. You'll tell the consulting firm what you want to make per hour, and if they agree they'll just bill the customer like 20% more than whatever you said.

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you too can play the contracting game

Yeah, you're still getting fricked over. If you're going to waste thousands of dollars and years going to university to get an education, you would think at bare minimum you can get a permanent job with benefits, including healthcare, and retirement funds. Contractors are just a company's way of getting cheap labour without the costs that would come with permanently employed staff. You're going to get fricked over the second a company has a dip in profits and needs to reduce costs. You'll be the first to go because it's so easy to just not renew a contract.

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Ok r-slur

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