I am so sick of government contractors hiring H1-B over US Citizens

[Anonymous]

Here's the thing- every time there's a push to lower the amount of federal employees, they just RIF or don't backfill feds. But the work still has to get done so we go and hire contractors who actually cost more.

If they truly want to reduce the federal workforce, they need to include contractor numbers too. And maybe decide we need to not do some of our currently statutorily required programs. That would lower how many feds we need.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's the thing- every time there's a push to lower the amount of federal employees, they just RIF or don't backfill feds. But the work still has to get done so we go and hire contractors who actually cost more.

If they truly want to reduce the federal workforce, they need to include contractor numbers too. And maybe decide we need to not do some of our currently statutorily required programs. That would lower how many feds we need.

You mean do a holistic assessment before slashing jobs or changing programs? Now that just makes too much sense PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Ask the “ quite quitting “ Gen Z influencers on Tik Tok.
I want colleagues who show up on time, do their fair share of the grunt work, have a work ethic and good attitude.

So many American graduates are revolting: lazy, unreliable and delusional egotists without substance backing it.

Give me an ambitious competent immigrant instead! At my local hospital the black and brown staff where the ones who where doing all the work!

I don't think the typical h1 at tata is competent. They are just cheap.
Management has a temporary boost to cost KPI, with long term consequence.

Blame the government for wanting the cheapest contract.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why U.S. federal agencies allow contractors such as BAH, Leidos, SAIC, and others to staff IT support roles—both onsite and remote—with H-1B workers. At the federal agency where I work, more than 80% of the IT support staff are neither U.S. citizens nor permanent residents. Meanwhile, many recent U.S. citizen computer science graduates are struggling to find jobs, even though taxpayer money is funding these positions filled by H-1B workers. Please make it make sense to me.

Because they need workers who actually know how to do the job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree OP. I had a health insurance provider client (you would recognize the name) and almost all of their IT staff was offshored. We were working on a very complex IT implementation and between differing schedules - an IT PM we were supposed to work closely with couldn’t work after 1 PM EST - and communication challenges, it really made the process more onerous than necessary and led to a lot of frustration.

Companies do this to save money, but to what end? We’d rather a bunch of American workers go without jobs while enriching communities not even in our own country? It’s absurd and maddening.

Americans are already complaining about the cost of everything, especially healthcare. Corporations are in it for the profit, including healthcare companies.

Add those two together = hiring cheap offshore labor.

Blame the corporations for their greed. Execs in this country earn an insane amount compared to other countries that have universal or cheaper medical care. Not us. We like capitalism and greed too much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the thing- every time there's a push to lower the amount of federal employees, they just RIF or don't backfill feds. But the work still has to get done so we go and hire contractors who actually cost more.

If they truly want to reduce the federal workforce, they need to include contractor numbers too. And maybe decide we need to not do some of our currently statutorily required programs. That would lower how many feds we need.

You mean do a holistic assessment before slashing jobs or changing programs? Now that just makes too much sense PP.

+1. That’s not how the gov works at all. Look how much money Congress wastes in special projects, etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Ask the “ quite quitting “ Gen Z influencers on Tik Tok.
I want colleagues who show up on time, do their fair share of the grunt work, have a work ethic and good attitude.

So many American graduates are revolting: lazy, unreliable and delusional egotists without substance backing it.

Give me an ambitious competent immigrant instead! At my local hospital the black and brown staff where the ones who where doing all the work!

I don't think the typical h1 at tata is competent. They are just cheap.
Management has a temporary boost to cost KPI, with long term consequence.

You two are both correct - they are hungry to work and cheaper. Op is typical blame the others generation.

DP

I’m not one to typically blame others but when I see multiple people in my generation (45+) get laid off and become unemployed and unemployable it makes me wonder- and think there is more to it.

People doing low level IT work are the new factory workers in that it is cheaper to outsource the work. It is the reason that most top CS departments do not, and never did, focus on teaching IT or programming, but rather focus on science part of CS that will never be outsourced.

Unless you’re talking about Freddie/Fannie/Amtrak, this isn’t true and you’re just trying to stir up an anti-immigration discussion.

The H1B “Best and Brightest” are the tail end of the bell curve.

the reality is the vast majority of H1Bs are low skilled entry level and are hired because they are cheaper.

Newly released gov't records show the vast majority of H-1Bs approvals are for entry & junior level jobs

83% at Wage Levels I & II -> Way below market salaries

These jobs can and should be filled by unemployed & underemployed American graduates. But the investor class demands cheap disposable labor.

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18473.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why U.S. federal agencies allow contractors such as BAH, Leidos, SAIC, and others to staff IT support roles—both onsite and remote—with H-1B workers. At the federal agency where I work, more than 80% of the IT support staff are neither U.S. citizens nor permanent residents. Meanwhile, many recent U.S. citizen computer science graduates are struggling to find jobs, even though taxpayer money is funding these positions filled by H-1B workers. Please make it make sense to me.

Because they need workers who actually know how to do the job.

there you go again, those damn deplorables. how DARE they want to support their families.

you and people that think like you are the reason the Democrats are lost.