Tesla replaced laid off US workers using H-1B visas

[rmk]

Article does not give a single specific example of a senior engineer laid off in order to hire a (cheaper and more pliant) junior engineer. Is that so hard to do? There is a claim that every department was affected, but again, no specifics. Were H-1Bs hired to replace people across departments, or were they hired in specific departments?

Looks like someone just decided to pick USCIS numbers in support of their argument that the intention is to reduce compensation and exploit workers, but failed to provide any substantive evidence, or even a cogent argument.

[Sohcahtoa82]

Oh, please.

Elon has literally been calling Americans lazy and explicitly calls out a desire for expanding H1B programs to replace American workers.

When he lays off thousands of workers and then requests over 2,000 H1Bs, it's simply bad faith to try to claim "Well, you can't prove the H1Bs are replacing the workers that got laid off!"

The Pyrrhonian Skeptic act of "WELL YOU DON'T KNOW FOR SURE" just makes you look foolish. It's obvious what's going on, and acting like you don't doesn't make you look smart.

[bunfunton]

Instead of hiring american automotive engineers, elon just imports h1bs from mexico to work in his Texas factories. Personal knowledge.

[rawgabbit]

Buy a Tesla, lay off an American.

[dyauspitr]

Buy BYD, lay off 10 Americans. It’s all rock and a hard place nonsense.

[NoZZz]

Exactly.

[toomuchtodo]

http://web.archive.org/web/20241228223956/https://old.reddit...

https://archive.today/yLpMq

[benreesman]

I guess that's what "fuck your own face" looks like represented as a chart.

[ritcgab]

How many laid-off workers are H-1B owners though? You cannot just assume Tesla laid off 100% US workers then hired foreign labors to fill the gap. This is not an apple to apple comparison.

[GuestFAUniverse]

<sarcasm> If it serves your Neopharao, everything is fine. </sarcasm>

[pedalpete]

Without any numbers to this, it is meaningless. "Some" could be 2 H1B visas and there is nothing to say these people were laid off in order to hire 2 new people.

But, I guess bandwagoners are going to bandwagon.

[Sohcahtoa82]

The article literally states that over 2,000 H1Bs were requested. There are numbers.

[rawgabbit]

The article said 15000 were laid of in April and at the same time 2000 H1B visas were requested.

[yehbit]

Populations don’t just vanish because they are not some oligarchs employee.

Lay off all Americans and they can stand their ground collectively against a handful of aged like moldy cheese people.

Physics rules the world not our dipshit philosophy.