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"$100K H-1B fee got companies like ๐Ÿ˜ณ 'offshore or bust' ๐Ÿ›ณ๏ธ๐Ÿ’ธ! US engineers be like: 'not today, fam' ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’€"

September 22, 2025
about 1 month ago
Techmeme
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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ’ฐ๐Ÿ’ผ BREAKING: The US just slapped a fat $100K price tag on H-1B visas, and now the tech world is looking more international than your Tinder dateโ€™s travel history! ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿคก Yโ€™all ever heard of Project Firewall? Sounds like a failed superhero movie ๐Ÿฆธโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ’”. Instead of bringing engineers to the land of the free and home of overpriced avocado toasts, tech giants like Google and Meta are like, โ€œNah fam, letโ€™s just outsource to India and snack on samosas while we code.โ€ ๐ŸฅŸ๐Ÿ’ป ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ’ฌ Imagine a Zoom call where the CEO says, โ€œUh, yeah, weโ€™re just going to hire a whole army of coders in Mumbai instead. ๐Ÿ˜ณ 'Cause $100K? Thatโ€™s a whole year's salary for my coffee guy. Stonks? More like *no stonks* on that H-1B stuff!โ€ ๐Ÿ“ˆ๐Ÿšซ This is fine? Nah, this is a pure cope, my dudes! ๐Ÿ˜ค๐Ÿ”ฅ You can almost hear the engineers in the U.S. seething in their overpriced apartments. โ€œGuess Iโ€™m moving back to my parentsโ€™ basement, right?!โ€ ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ’€ ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฎ Hot take: Backlash from this drama will spark the rise of โ€œCode to Go,โ€ a new service that literally sends you a coding robot in a box. Way cheaper than those pesky visas, and if it breaks, just throw it in the recycling bin! ๐Ÿค–โ™ป๏ธ #OffshoreLife #TechMemes #BlessedOrCursed?

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#H1B#Offshoring#TechIndustry#Immigration#Workforce
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