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By H.L. Archer

If you look for advice after a breakup, you will get so much of it that you might become confused. One that you are sure to encounter is ignoring him to get him back. But, what does it all mean? Will ignoring your ex boyfriend get him back? To be sure of getting your ex back, use these sizzling tips to make it work.

Your friends may tell you to get in his face and demand that he tell you why he broke up with you, but that might end things for good. However, if they tell you to let him go and forget him, that advice is not too bad. Of course you do cannot just forget him, but you should let him go for a while. Just go about your life and act as if he does not exist.

That will get his attention in a hurry because he is expecting you to panic and be afraid of losing him forever. He figures you will want to stay close to him, so he will not forget you and find someone else. Your ex knows that you are still in love with him and he is expecting to be bombarded with phone calls, emails and text messages.

If you do that, it will allow him to go out and have fun, date other women and know that you will still be waiting when he wants you. That will make a great situation for him, but a rotten one for you. You cannot allow that to happen. You have to put some doubt in his mind and make him think he might lose you.

So, is ignoring him the answer to getting him back? It sure is, and here is why. You have heard the statement ‘absence makes the heart grow fonder’. Well, it is true. By taking yourself out of his life, he will be able to experience his life without you. The longer you keep from having any contact with him, the more he will begin to miss you.

Your ex boyfriend still loves you and never intended to lose you. He just wanted to have a fling. To make him see his mistake, you need to have a fling of your own. I don’t mean you should date other guys, but you can make him think you might. Get some of your friends together and go out for a good time. Be sure to look your best because you might run into your ex.

If you run into him, act as if your ex boyfriend is not there, but let him see how attractive you are to the other guys. Then leave before he can get close enough to you for conversation. If your group has a couple of guys in it, he won’t know if you are with one of them or not. This will make him see that you are not sitting around waiting for him. It will also show him that if he does not want to lose you he had better start making moves to get you back.

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Are H-1B Workers Paid Much Less Than US Workers?

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V. B. Velasco Jr., Ph.D.

Mention H-1B work visas to a bunch of American programmers or engineers and you re likely to hear a cry of outrage. H-1B visa holders, it is commonly said, are responsible for taking jobs away from hardworking American high-tech workers. In addition, disgruntled American techies often complain that H-1B workers are paid much less than their American counterparts. They claim that companies typically use H-1Bs as cheap labor, and that this results in lowered wages for Americans and foreigners alike. In response, defenders of the H-1B program argue that these foreign workers help the economy grow and that there are adequate safeguards to ensure that they earn comparable wages.

The truth, I believe, lies somewhere in between.

The issue of whether H-1B holders take jobs away from Americans is legitimate, albeit one that is seldom addressed thoroughly by either side of this debate. For now though, I d like to focus on the second of these issues, namely, Are H-1B workers getting paid much less, and thus, depressing the competitive salaries for US workers?

First, I think it s clear that some H-1Bs are being paid much less than their American counterparts. By law, companies are required to pay their H-1B employees in accordance with the prevailing wage for that job; however, determining the prevailing wage can be highly subjective and rife with loopholes. For example, a company can give its H-1B applicants a job title that does not accurately reflect his job duties. In addition, prevaling wage determinations (by necessity) rely on a fairly coarse means of classifying an applicant s job level and classification, which gives companies some leeway in deciding how to file their job descriptions.

Furthermore, tales abound within high-tech industries of companies that hire foreign workers from so-called job shops consulting firms that specialize in supplying low-paid H-1B workers, typically from India. Accurate figures can be difficult to find, as these reports typically come from either anecdotal sources or a government audit that was performed in 1996; however, these stories cannot be easily discounted either. I myself once worked with two programmers (one Indian, one Pakistani) who had been recruited by such an outfit, where they had been paid embarassingly low wages.

Nevertheless, while such abuses do occur, I think that the extent of this problem has been vastly overblown. Various studies indicate that H-1Bs are paid much less than American workers are; however, these studies are typically conducted by special interest groups that oppose the H-1B program. No definitive governmental investigation has yet substantiated these statistics.

In addition, I contend that such studies are based on questionable statistics and methodologies. Most notably, they fail to consider that your typical H-1B visa holder will be a recent graduate, and thus, relatively young. It should therefore be no surprise that they will earn less than many Americans who work in the same field. In fact, the National Science Foundation (NSF) reports that foreign-born professionals actually earn more than their American counterparts when one compares individuals with the same ages and degree levels, and when one considers the year in which these degrees were granted.

Additionally, when critics complain that H-1B holders are underpaid, these allegations are typically based on either anecdotal evidence or the prevailing wage declarations that were filed for those H-1B applications. Anecdotal evidence only pertains to individual cases though, and says nothing about H-1B cases on the whole. As for prevailing wage declarations, these figures only indicate the minimum wages that employers are allowed to pay; they don t indicate the salary levels that are actually paid.

Naturally, US Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) does not make the H-1B salary levels publicly available, thus making it impossible to compare actual income. However, the National Foundation for American Policy asked a prominent law firm to select 100 randomly selected H-1B cases from among its client files. These files contained both the prevailing wage level and the actual salary levels as reported to the USCIS. The result? On the average, the average wage was more than 22% higher than the prevailing wage. Furthermore, this figure does not consider possible wage increases after the applicant has been hired. While we cannot conclude that these cases are representative of H-1B salary levels in general, this informal study does illustrate the problem with drawing hasty conclusions based solely on the prevailing wage declarations.

In fact, hiring H-1B holders can be decidedly more expensive than hiring a native-born worker. When hiring a US citizen, the costs generally stop with the job offer; not so with H-1B visa applicants. Hiring on an H-1B basis typically requires almost $6000 in additional legal and government fees and that doesn t even include the cost of the extra work required from in-house human resource personnel. If the employee seeks green card sponsorship, this can require an additional $10,000 maybe more. On top of that, sponsoring for an H-1B visa or a green card can be a risky proposition with no guarantee of success. Perhaps some companies do sponsor H-1B holders in order to save money, but if so, these savings are greatly offset by the additional expenses and legal headaches involved.

What s more, other statistics refute the claim that foreigner high-tech workers earn much less than Americans do. A study by Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University reports that foreign-born and native professionals in math and the sciences earn virtually identical salaries. The same study showed that in computer science and mathematics, salaries were roughly the same for master s degree holders, and were actually higher for the bachelor s degree and doctorate holders. Salary levels were comparable for at all three levels within the life sciences. Native-born American engineers with bachelor s or master s degrees admitedly earned more than than their foreign-born counterparts; however, the situation was reversed when it came to doctorate holders.

So in summary, is it true that H-1B visa holders are paid much less than US workers? Sometimes, that s true. On the whole though, I think that this alarmist claim is greatly overblown, and we have good reason to believe that they are generally paid well. For this reason, I think we should not be quick to conclude that this influx of H-1B workers is dragging salary levels down.

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