Random Ramblings

The wonders of bureaucracy!

I just saw this in a tech-y magazine the other day (infoworld.com, Ephraim Schwartz) ... talk about your government dollars being wasted. The gov't allows companies to hire foreign workers through various visa programs. In the tech fields, it tends to be the H1-B visas which are supposed to be somewhat specialized -- the company can't hire a US citizen because they couldn't find any US citizens with the proper technical skills. So the Dept Of Labor has a database of all these open positions so that they can consider whether to grant the visa application.

Hmmm, database of open job positions. You don't think anyone else would want to take a look at that, do you? Turns out the DOL will **NOT** allow any US citizens to search this database ... you know, 'cause why would any US citizen want a job? especially a high-paying job in the tech sector??

With all the uproar about overseas outsourcing, you'd think they'd reconsider this. But then, this is the US gov't. They have a database of jobs, they have people who want those jobs, but they cannot connect A with B.