Long story short, Salesforce offered to relocate employee to the US and then got fired and abandoned by the company. Since this employee is on a L1 visa, not a H1B, he can’t work until October and he is only 6 months away from receiving a green card. This is so F up. Edit: I am not the employee. #salesforce
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Think this is more on the immigration policy than salesforce. Even if we address the case of salesforce specifically, other companies would still be open to repeating this behaviour in the future. I feel for them. Uncertainty around whether if you will have a roof over your head would weigh on anyone.
people need to stop targeting the US for immigration for things to get better. I'm hopeful with more companies opening branches elsewhere and raising salaries, that maybe the US will realize they're losing out on skilled labor moving to other countries instead of the US but then again the immigration process is just one reasons why the country is not appealing to move into, I'd personally stay away even if the process got better
A lot of things suck about the US but there is no other place where you can get 400k TC as an L5 SDE…
Layoffs are bad as is but I'll be even more concerned if they are biased wrt visa status. I say this as some one on visa myself
Nothing here or in the news indicates companies are biased against visa holders. But if 1/3 of your employees are on h1b, 1/3 of the layoffs will hit h1bs
Usually no, but I’ve been on the receiving end once because of cultural differences- I could never respect the boss, and she couldn’t fathom an international worker not being grateful for the opportunity to work in the US. I would chalk it up to an isolated incident than anything systemic though.
What a sh*t show.. welcome to capitalism. I regret coming here too, might have to uproot the life I’ve built over 10 years. Just feel hopeless sometimes.
Lets build an empire in Russia
Why do people still fight to migrate to US, despite all these brutality?
boycott unethical companies
Let’s work for Amazon only!
…and Walmart
If he wanted stability, not sure why he would choose to move first time around. They should know what they are signing up for.
2 years back the situation was different.
I just loathe ppl like these who pass blanket statements and don’t understand that circumstances evolve. Someone who comes to the US initially with a notion of a couple of years of work might like this place get married, start a family or buy a house etc. point is every country has a reasonable immigration policy which allows people to naturalize but US system is archaic which doesn’t work anymore and needs overhauling. But sadly most lawmakers have the same myopic and idiotic pov like this person who doesn’t understand the details of how non immigrant evolve over time..
Another LinkedIn son/daughter post 😪
Its only “Another” until it happens to you. God forbid something like this to happen to anyone. But comeon man show some humanity. You jackass!!!
Money gets to the head of some people and comes at the cost of letting go of empathy and humanity, so I wouldn't change or judge people like these rather nature finds a way to hit these people hard and ground them. Eventually every breathing piece has to go back to the soil or ocean some day, that's what people forget.
This isn't as bad as it sounds when I thought about it. The company needs to pay to relocate you back. The 6 months of severance would last for years in India. But it sucks to uproot and restart your life.
I don't think anything in the original post mentions India.
Indians do not get green card in 2 years. It takes lifes.
I think the employee in question is more bummed because they are not getting green card in six months. The company’s have long abused multinational manager route to handover green cards; meanwhile H1bs are waiting for years and years to get a GC
Yea its just been 6 months of being in US and they already cant take it 😂
Sorry for your situation but these layoffs are random and excluding someone because of visa status is against immigration policy because why would they only layoff citizens and GC holders and keep visa holders!
You’d think people understand the hypocrisy
I came to say this too. It’s sad, but we can’t put a shield around visa holders vs everyone else.
Dang this is messed up :/ I am always curious, does company fire people with visa first? 1 yoe here
real answer they don’t care. for every guy who leaves US with resolving never to get tied up in visas there are 20 indian dudes writing gre and being prof’s bit*h to get recommendation letters
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