Comment on Foreign tech workers spurn US as if it were a rabid dog

• its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ll bite and share my experience. There is absolutely an issue. I’ve had applications for bank accounts denied, two people on hiring committees tell me I don’t belong here, a grant application simply withdrawn, another (confirmed insider knowledge) threw any application despite a valid work permit with any hint of US on the application into the trash. I have so many people ask me why I’m here, how I’m here, when I’m leaving. In professional settings and social. My partner, a entrepreneur, for the first time ever is having government entities stonewall her and representatives tell her off when she does any paperwork. She was in tears one day as she called to get some advice on a regulation and was told her business didn’t deserve advice. People. Are. Cruel. There is very little empathy left, and honestly, I get it. It’s not right, but I understand.

  I want to integrate but there is absolutely an informal unwelcome mat being put in front of the door to Europe, and Canada.

  I won’t be responding to posts as I am likely to get brigaded and trolled for writing the above. Americans wanting to get to safety, leave gun violence and fascism behind, and build a better world, are simply not welcome or have many barriers in place that didn’t exist before.

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  • Kissaki@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t have any experience or specific knowledge about it, but I suspect these things may have significant variance between countries or even cities.

    Really unfortunate and sad either way.

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    • its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Quite. I fear what this loss of empathy will mean for humanity.

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