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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
20%!!!! ROTFLMAO!!!!  One of my jobs is on a Military Post. I could find maybe 1% of the people who think that way. |
In a building where several thousand IT workers feel as if they are under constant threat of job loss due to outsourcing, a lot of interesting hate directed at foreigners develops when you dump in more than 1,000 H1Bs from other countries who follow different beliefs and barely speak English. Force them to interact under harsh deadlines, and it often gets ugly. In my old group of 12, there were three people who were very vocal about their desire for laws that would ship off every single non-citizen and lock up every Muslim for the security of our country. In my current group there are not as many who voice those opinions while on the job (less than five out of a room of 41), but some of the chatter at the bar suggests the ideas are just as strong and just as prevalent.
I don't talk politics over beer with co-workers, anymore. Ever.