Being a minority in America is tougher than you think.
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give it some time
Caregiving is a great job for those who don't have a job. More importantly, SV seems to be forgetting the human component of care giving. A robot _cannot_ possibly take the place of an actual human. It's just not the same.
If that were true, we would not have any trust in global trade. There are plenty of IT companies that have all American IT workforce and still have suffered data breaches. The issue at hand is not checking someone's credentials here. The issue is the political undertone that OP has taken.
1. H1B ties employees to a specific employer. This bonded labor prevents free labor movement. This allows the employer to exert tremendous control over the employee. Free labor movement is important to discourage employers from depressing wages for American workers.
2. H1B is allowed to participate in the EVC model. This would be fine if the H1B was not tied to the employer and instead it belonged to the employee. In absence of this, it explicitly allows exploitation of H1B workers hurting American employees.
3. H1B is dual-intent non-immigrant visa and is the first step to permanent residence. The employer dangles this carrot and exerts further control over employees. The long wait times (on the order of a decade or longer) due to the greencard backlog for certain countries (primarily India, China, etc.) make it worse. More importantly, the employer can rescind the application throughout this process and completely destroy the employee's professional and personal life.
4. Outsourcing companies will not start the greencard process for H1B employees until they're in the 5th year of H1B. Combine this with the 10+ years wait for certain employees, ties the employee to the employer for at least 15 years.
5. Until recently, employers could've rescinded the H1B any time and the employee had to exit the country immediately (no grace period). It was only recently that the US government gave a 60 day grace period for H1B visa holders. Imagine how a human being would feel if they have lived in the country for a decade, making their lives here, having to wind up and leave within a few days or even 60 days. Its simply inhuman. However, this is where we are right now.
This issue is more nuanced than it looks like but the underlying problem is due to the fact that the H1B visas and permanent residence process is tied to employers. If we look at visa programs in pretty much any other country, visas belong to employees, their PR process is between the government and the individual applying for the PR. The employer has very little control over the employees. This is why such large scale exploitation doesn't exist in other parts of the world.
There have been attempts over the years to fix this issue. The infamous Neufeld memo tried to eliminate the EVC model. Unfortunately, that did not fly and was eventually rescinded. Honestly, a tiny percentage of H1Bs are used by tech companies that genuinely treat their employees well. If you eliminate the bottom 80% of the H1B employees, EVC companies will shut shop and you'll also hurt foreign new grads.
Are you asserting that the breach would not have happened if the IT operations were in-house? Could you also clarify why did you feel it necessary to qualify the location of outsourcing? If the project was outsourced to any other country besides India, this would not have happened?
P.S.: If you check their twitter feed, you'll know what I am talking about. It is also an engineering failure from the get-go. Not being able to retrieve your itinerary online is an engineering failure on so many levels.
Nobody is debating whether people will continue using RH and that was never the issue. RH has massively damaged its reputation and reputation _is_ everything.
I understand GP's tone wasn't exactly nice here. But here's the rub with RH's outage. RH is unfortunately in an industry (Finance, Healthcare, Aviation, Food, etc.) where people _need_ to trust them to be successful. The consequences of failure in these industries is very catastrophic not only for them but their clients. Sure failures happen but the scale at which RH has failed and the lukewarm response they've put out has pissed off people. I don't recall any brokerage, old or new, that has failed so catastrophically and has responded to it so poorly. If you think you have a worse example, I am all ears.
In Tesla's case, AutoPilot's lane keeping feature did not keep the car in the lane. Instead it drove the car into concrete at 71mph killing the driver. More over anti-collision feature did not stop the car from colliding with the concrete barrier. See where the issue lies?
Will you tell the people who faced safety issues with their Takata airbags to get rid of them? or the Toyota owners whose vehicles had unintended acceleration that they should rip out their accelerators?