JCSoxFan wrote:
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I find it quite ironic that you criticize FAB made up story, and then go ahead to make up facts on your own.

In the large corporations and banks that are in both NYC and Jersey City, there are a number of immigrant workers that are both contract workers and employees of the corporations and banks.

For those that are full time employees they're generally on H1 visas, which are valid as long as they are employed. In the event that they're laid off they generally have a couple of weeks to find work before they are no longer legal aliens. Considering that many companies have notice periods and/or salary continuations for laid off employees, that might buy them a bit more time and while they will still often get severance they are not eligible for unemployment benefits. While they can usually afford plane tickets to fly back home and move their stuff, it gets more complicated if they're early on a 12 month lease or have student loan debt after getting their Bachelors or Masters degrees in the US.

For those that are contract workers, it depends on what type of consulting firm they're going through. Some (like Infosys, the employer that received the most H1 visas last year) pay their entire salary, benefits and they'll receive full pay until Infosys finds them a new job (or lays them off and pays to send them back to India). Other consulting firms only provide basic assistance mainly attaining an H1 visa, and some job placement. While their visa will remain valid and allow them to stay in the US, they may be receiving very little or no pay at all, and likely did not receive any money from being laid off as a contract worker.

anon2009 wrote:
The person in this story was a friend of mine. He was not an immigrant and this incident was not caused by the economy.

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matchjames wrote:
Can we take a step back here? FAB INVENTS a speculative "saga" of some "overseas" worker? When he knows virtually NOTHING about what happened to this person and why? It's EXACTLY what I said.. speculative idiocy. To call out MY comment as worthless when I just read a four paragraph MADE UP story about what happened to this poor soul?

Agree. Also the process of bring in foreign consultants, the ones who live in newport and work by the waterfront are not how fab described at all.

The consultants work for a large consulting company, so they are perm employees of that company and get paid by it. Then the big US banks deal with the consulting company, not the person directly. The person just does the work.

So even if the person's contract got cancelled from the US bank, he will still get paid the same from his firm. They usually find him another contract, or during tough times like now fly him to work back home at a lower salary. All the airfares are paid for by the company, and it certainly doesnt take "borrow money from relatives" to come work here.

FAB is just going off by his clueless generic belief saw on tv of some immigrant borrwing money from relative and come to the us hiding in a boat etc.. That's far from the truth (for the ones living in newport).

The suicide could be due to shame, or losing their house, etc.. who knows. I agree wth matchjames' post.

matchjames wrote:
Can we take a step back here? FAB INVENTS a speculative "saga" of some "overseas" worker? When he knows virtually NOTHING about what happened to this person and why? It's EXACTLY what I said.. speculative idiocy. To call out MY comment as worthless when I just read a four paragraph MADE UP story about what happened to this poor soul?

as per usual, speculative idiocy.