I know this is the case in Oregon (where I live), but is it true in every state?

Fucking lol

I agree. Source: US Citizen

A company I do work for sometimes recently had an open req, within 48 hours they had received over 400 applications.

Another 300 or so over the next few days following.

It then took a month to wade through them all (even with automated help) and do some preliminary phone screens.

Another couple few weeks to do legitimate interviews with prospects.

Another week to decide.

And then executive leadership claimed the company didn’t have the budget anymore and closed the req down.

Insane.

Honestly if I didn’t live literally across the nation I’d maybe consider it.

The geographic spread of the US makes things like this difficult. It makes organized revolt difficult too. But hopefully not impossible.

Why aren’t we just burning these places down?

You assume there is an end to the term.

Unless we, the people, do something, we’re kinda fucked.

C) The Big Shithole Bill has put a cap on immigration judges to forcibly create a neverending backlog so good luck handling it in court.

Hell, I guarantee there are Lemmy instances running on AWS.