• scorpionix@feddit.deEnglish
    562·
    9 months ago

    Same situation here in Germany, where companies are worried about attracting skilled foreign workers while right-wing extremist parties are gaining more and more votes.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      481·
      9 months ago

      It’s kind of baffling that the saner elements of these conservative parties simply don’t get that all the really smart people who tend to have disproportionately large positive impacts on their country’s economies simply won’t put up with authoritarian governments, and will straight up leave if push comes to shove. The politicians in question are evidently unable to understand the catastrophic impact that brain drain can have on a country in the medium- to long-term.

      • solomon42069@lemmy.worldEnglish
        411·
        9 months ago

        Show me where in the Western world / developed world where to go… please.

        I’m in Australia and it’s just as bad here. Totally insane bullshit being normalised by a comatose media and populist scoundrels.

        I miss the days when conservatives at least had a sense of real nationalism. Now they’ll commit treason and openly support foreign enemies like Putin and no one bats an eye.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        342·
        9 months ago

        They don’t care. They’re happy with their little fiefdoms, even if all they rule over is mud.

        • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          My homeland, Portugal, was until 50 years ago governed by the Fascists.

          There were maybe 9 extremelly wealthy families all the while the country was crushingly poor with most of the population below the poverty line (we’re talking children walking to school barefoot in the middle of Winters as my mother did levels of poverty).

          The country required a Revolution to overthrow Fascism.

          Personally all of it tells me all I need to know about just how much the hard right (which nowadays in many places includes a lot of the old “center”-right mainstream parties) and beyond cares about the fate of the rest of their country.

      • Furedadmins@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        They don’t care. They aren’t even looking at the small picture, they are busy trying to decide which crayon to eat.

      • Fisch@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        I think that those people might actually think that what they’re doing is good for the country and that that’s what people want

  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
    171·
    9 months ago

    POTENTIAL CURBS ON FOREIGN STUDENTS Around 40% of ASML’s 23,000 employees in the Netherlands are not Dutch

    hell, when I interviewed at ASML in San Jose, California, i had the vibe that most of the employees there werent American born. sounds like its an internal hiring problem.

    • LemmyHead@lemmy.mlEnglish
      111·
      9 months ago

      A lot of IT companies in NL hire foreigners. There’s just too little local offer. They throw with work visas as a result, because they’ve never heard about remote-first work being possible after covid. They can’t modernize their work culture because of stupid old fashioned managers and as a result NL has one of the worst housing crisis in Europe. And pay ain’t that good either in a lot of cases, taking into account how much you lose on rent.

      • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
        8·
        9 months ago

        the problem is at least on the U.S end, San Jose is part of the Silicon Valley. Talent is not the problem, its the people who ultimately choose to hire is going out of its way to hire talent that seemed non local.

      • corsicanguppyEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        See this is the sad part.

        I’d take a job in NL only if it let me relo there for awhile. My bro did that for a few posts, and got a year or two in new country to explore on the weekends with each new posting.

        So while remote-first is how I want to work, I’d want resources and ability to relo to a new place every few years. You need to be in place that renews you mentally when you’re not working.

        Especially in I-T, if you can’t go somewhere new and enjoy new sounds, sights, smells and customs, and you’re stuck in a sad cube jungle with no excitement at the end of the week, you may as well report to the Soylent green plant.

        Time to refit the cruise ship for live-aboard remote global work for me and like 6000 of my friends. Starlink works on the cruise runs, right?

    • qaz@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      31·
      9 months ago

      Do you imply that they’re not looking at foreign employees when hiring? Because that’s what is getting more difficult due to regulations.

  • corymbia@reddthat.comEnglish
    1228·
    9 months ago

    I don’t understand. Why are they so keen on limiting video as of whispering ladies spreading gorilla glue on raw chickens with wire brushes ?

    • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      262·
      9 months ago

      You’re thinking of ASMR, this is related to ASML…two completely unrelated things.

          • bolzolol@feddit.deEnglish
            36·
            9 months ago

            To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Rick’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick’s existential catchphrase “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon’s genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools… how I pity them. 😂

            And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

    • TheFriar@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      Don’t worry, bud. I thought it was funny. In fact, I was gonna make the same joke, but saw you’d made it first and paid the price lol

    • bolzolol@feddit.deEnglish
      517·
      9 months ago

      So I think many of the ASML ladies have migrated to the Netherlands due to them being highly qualified in the area and there seems to be a lack of people who can do it locally. With the 30% tax ruling that’s a sweet deal if you’ve got the right background and experience.

      I assume whispering in Dutch would just sound horrible and insulting to the ears. I kinda get that they would want to move to France. I imagine French whispering to be more appealing, so they would need to hire less skilled workers from foreign countries.

      The only thing that I still don’t get is why they need a factory for this when it’s such a WFH friendly job.