Indian Education: Actually Terrible !!! 1779

alexy ok.

that depends on whether the conditins have been given to them well in advance of their relocating to the US. Once a person moves, esp if he is from the working clbutt -he cannot go back coz he doesn't like the terms. Relocation to another country even from east to west coast is prohibitively expensive if people earn in Rupees in location X and spend in US dollars in location Y. When you go back to india by dumping your stuff in a garage sale, its going to take ages to recover that amt by working in India. To the best of my knowledge, no H1B knows that the US govt is hand in glove with employers to create legislation from the ground up that restricts their rights.

H1Bs never had any rights in the US -but they buttumed that their civic rights as they existed in india would be intact when they move to the US for work. If that isn;t going to be the case, you need to tell them up front about all of the stuff I mentioned here. When you provide a fair disclosure, then regardless of what you call it slavery-gradient etc. -the person cannot point an accusing finger on the govt for taking away his civic rights.

by difficult circumstances, I don't mean lots of work in office, deadlines etc.. More oftne than not -the H1B who comes in to the US works way down the value chain -and the mgr in charge is more interested in exercizing control than getting work done. In India, people work about 50-60 hrs or even more despite being free and the no of working hrs could be less with higher pay in the US. But the difficult circumstances relate to the H1B's very presence being in the hands of the visa sponsor or later on in the hands of the green card sponsor.

My dreams were not shattered and I left Mtl, canada (the last workplace in NA) on my own and have refused all offers to date for returning to the US. Because of the nature of work I do, My salary is usually higher than that of the avg american worker regardless of mkt conditions, but less than that of the highly priced US consultant I end up replacing.

if the union workers rights outside office are affected by the employer's decisions and if the worker could be arrested-deported by law enforcement without committing a criminal offence -I would categorize it as slavery -otherwise not. I have come across many individuals use this term in relation to H1Bs, illegals etc. They don't have to be Indians or be influenced bymy pov to make this reference. How could so many people be arriving at the same conclusion if there was no substance to the allegation?

regards -kamal