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I really hope this is fake news. If this is real, it looks like they always end up hurting those people they shouldn't be hurting.
The tech guys are rarely political, well, generally speaking. Most of them are not racists, they are just very talented and creative people. Just because we cannot get the job lol, there is no reasons why we should be jealous about them. May the best survive and win.
What on earth are you talking about. The tech industry is heavily political, and if you deal with IT people regularly you would be fully aware that their creativity ends at different ways to offend women and minorities.
If you're so offended by this, you must be trembling at the thought that every single day, a Shaniqua or Jamaal is overlooked in the hiring process simply because they have a black sounding name.
If your goal is to be diverse, but you have a room filled with 10 people, and 8 of them are black, you can only increase diversity by adding people who are not black.
This isn't even the official job posting, this is an in-house call for referrals.
I disagree with the woman in that she should have made her decision once she looked at the resumes, as opposed to saying she didn't even want them.
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When they remove the "purportedly" then I will take it seriously. Until then just pure speculation. I hate when media outlets do that.
The link to the Daily Caller which has a screen grab of the email. We should assume it is real.
If no one you personally know said it, then no one ever said it?
Brilliant.
Walking around scared that you are discriminated against in tech is ridiculous. Heres a thought study hard in school and you will get hired at a tech company.
They are looking to fill tech positions within their organizations. An email went out pointedly stating to do not forward to cisgender males, in other words straight white males. I wonder if the ACLU would take this case???
What on earth are you talking about. The tech industry is heavily political, and if you deal with IT people regularly you would be fully aware that their creativity ends at different ways to offend women and minorities.
If you're so offended by this, you must be trembling at the thought that every single day, a Shaniqua or Jamaal is overlooked in the hiring process simply because they have a black sounding name.
If your goal is to be diverse, but you have a room filled with 10 people, and 8 of them are black, you can only increase diversity by adding people who are not black.
This isn't even the official job posting, this is an in-house call for referrals.
I disagree with the woman in that she should have made her decision once she looked at the resumes, as opposed to saying she didn't even want them.
i have no ideas what you are talking about.
I've never said my goal is to be diverse.
My point is if white men are the best for the job, no one should be jealous about it.
My white-as-the-driven-snow husband finds that South Asians outnumber whites in tech. I'm multiracial and have noticed the same.
It should be based on merit without regard to race, but you're talking about the DNC here - is it really a shocker? I'd be surprised if they didn't pull that nonsense.
It's getting to be that way in some companies here in DFW. Some teams are 90-100% south Asian. A lot of hiring managers won't look at your resume if you aren't south Asian and many south Asian recruiters in this area only forward resumes for other south Asian candidates.
My white-as-the-driven-snow husband finds that South Asians outnumber whites in tech. I'm multiracial and have noticed the same.
It should be based on merit without regard to race, but you're talking about the DNC here - is it really a shocker? I'd be surprised if they didn't pull that nonsense.
I agree with your bold.
I've dated two software engineers. One is Chinese-American, the other one is white. I don't care what they do, I don't understand it anyway. lol Both companies have a lot of white men and Indian men, that is what I noticed. I don't care. As long as they are the best for the jobs, who cares?
how is there discrimination when there's already enough white males there?
It would be discrimination in the wording of the email that instructed them to do that. I work in government IT. I have had to retrieve emails from archive for EEO and Civil Rights complaints that contained the very same type of discrimination as what was supposedly written in that email. Those people were fired for it.
As someone thats worked in tech since 1994, this is very true.
Not anymore. Indians are all the rage these days.
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