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0 pointscromka8mo ago0 comments

You use the same system for Business visas. Hard to imagine US wouldn’t want those as easy as possible.

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You don't have a good enough imagination for how stupid our current leadership really is.

I guarantee the visa system was created before the current administration.

I don’t know if you’re US-based or not but in the US, government work has the stigma of attracting the bottom of the barrel. It is nearly impossible to get fired for performance reasons. Combine low pay and high job security, and you’re not going to attract the most innovative, motivated, or competent people.

Early in my career, I was warned that if I took a job with the state of California, I’d be stuck there for my whole career. I’d be unhirable in the private sector.

klipt8mo ago

> high job security

Not so much after DOGE fired entire departments for dubious reasons.

I don't know why anyone would work for the federal government now - pay still sucks, and job security has been demonstrated to no longer be guaranteed.

snapetom8mo ago

Recent events isn't going to change decades of stigma and reputation. People aren't saying, "Oh cool, they purged the low performers. I'll go work for the government!"

xp848mo ago

During 8 years of Obama and 4 years of Biden, none of this was different or better. Perhaps this isn't a partisan political issue.

schlauerfox8mo ago

From 2014 until it was, in effect, obliterated by DOGE actions this year there was the "United States Digital Service", a crack team of programmers, a sort of skunkworks who worked to improve U.S. government websites of departments that wanted the help. So it seems to be partisan to want good websites, but there are countless people involved in politics with many agendas.

nkoren8mo ago

Hard to imagine that the US wouldn't be as paranoid, self-sabotaging, and bureaucratically inept as possible? </sarcasm>

conductr8mo ago

As a US citizen, I feel it’s opposite. Hard to imagine they’d want anything related to visas to be easy.

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jazzypants8mo ago

You don't have a good enough imagination for how stupid our current leadership really is.

more_corn8mo ago

I guarantee the visa system was created before the current administration.

snapetom8mo ago

Early in my career, I was warned that if I took a job with the state of California, I’d be stuck there for my whole career. I’d be unhirable in the private sector.

klipt8mo ago

> high job security

Not so much after DOGE fired entire departments for dubious reasons.

I don't know why anyone would work for the federal government now - pay still sucks, and job security has been demonstrated to no longer be guaranteed.

snapetom8mo ago

Recent events isn't going to change decades of stigma and reputation. People aren't saying, "Oh cool, they purged the low performers. I'll go work for the government!"

xp848mo ago

During 8 years of Obama and 4 years of Biden, none of this was different or better. Perhaps this isn't a partisan political issue.

schlauerfox8mo ago

nkoren8mo ago

Hard to imagine that the US wouldn't be as paranoid, self-sabotaging, and bureaucratically inept as possible? </sarcasm>

conductr8mo ago

As a US citizen, I feel it’s opposite. Hard to imagine they’d want anything related to visas to be easy.

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