I'm on a roll, and I'm procrastinating on some research proposals, so here's the "Fuck You!" of the day.
Disney took a break from raking in money and selling annoyingly sexist toys to kids and just laid off a bunch of programmers and replaced them with H1B employees from an Indian outsourcing company. Yeah. I'm not anti-immigration, or even anti-H1B. I think it's a great way to hire highly specialized science and tech folks, many of whom are educated here in the states and have PhDs. It's not supposed to be a way for Disney to get rid of a department and bring in a whole new cadre of programmers who do the same thing but cost slightly less.
While Disney was doing that, several of my students were unable to get H1B visas since the outsourcing companies had taken most of the slots for the year. So fuck you, Disney! If I weren't boycotting you already I'd start now.
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