another linux job from recruiter

[Vaughn Treude]

Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 08:47:52AM -0700, George Toft wrote:
>> Today's market is awesome for job seekers.
>>
>> I posted my SA resume on Dice 10/7/06 and was flooded with calls and 
>> e-mails.  I accepted a position 10/12/06.  (No - I don't work for Dice, 
>> nor have stock in the company.)  In speaking with the recruiters, there 
>> are lots of companies wanting tech talent, which is in short supply 
>> right now.  One recruiter even told me that the client had virtually no 
>> qualified candidates.  Another told me that every candidate presented 
>> accepted a position elsewhere.  In both cases, the rate was good - not 
>> dotcom-ish obscene, but more than I've received since 2001 and almost 
>> twice what IBMGS pays.
> 
> That's great news, and I'll take some encouragement from it. I'm sure
> there are some on this list who would not agree, but perhaps they should
> try Dice or another of the big services.
> 
>> This could lead into a rant about John Shadegg sponsoring a bill to 
>> raise H1B Visa limits to help with the tech labor shortage, and a 
>> correlation between the bill and the market, but since I can't tie in 
>> Linux somehow, I'll not go there.  Nor will I suggest you express your 
>> feelings for any elected government official who wants to undermine your 
>> lifestyle, which you can do via snail mail or by getting off your butts 
>> and voting in November as that would also be off-topic.
> 
> Oh, yes. Surely off-topic. NOT! At the times when it was difficult to
> find a tech job they were screaming for more H1B visas. It's not about
> finding tech labor. It's about finding it very, very cheaply and being
> able to get 70hrs/wk on salary with no overtime.
> 

Hear, hear!  As free-market as I am, I totally despise the H1B visa 
program.  It should be abolished entirely.  The whole idea is to 
_exploit_ foreign workers by tying them to a job.  Even if you let the 
same number of engineers in per year as regular immigrants, it wouldn't 
hurt our incomes as much, because the market would tend to bring the 
immigrants' wages in line with ours.  Ditto for those lame-brained 
"guest worker" programs the GOP and some Dems keep pushing.

Vaughn