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It's a class thing. Young aspiring tech entrepreneurs in SF are living a completely different reality from the minimum wage earning people in Las Vegas. Whoever

It's a class thing. Young aspiring tech entrepreneurs in SF are living a completely different reality from the minimum wage earning people in Las Vegas. Whoever he's hanging out with in SF is much closer to that crowd. So yes, of course people think he's a Russian terrorist. I know a Russian guy below said the same thing but there is generations of working class people who watched those action movies from the 80s and would think that. I'm 30 in tech and have lived in both sf and Lv and at least get what he's talking about. Look at how he's dressed, his strong "Russian" facial features and just imagine how he talks. He probably literally sounds exactly like the Russian bad guy from the movies. The people he's likely applying to jobs to likely can't wipe that image from their heads. He's not a nerdy skinny 25 year old Russian with glasses and a MacBook in hand, roaming around SF from startup office to startup office. That you guys don't get it is akin to the common perspective that was posted several times on hacker news and by Silicon Valley types this past week about how the left really didn't get the working class and that's why Hilary lost to trump--cuz I assure u his fellow 55 year old security guards back in Las Vegas made the joke that he sounds like a Russian terrorist many times, and it's no wonder you don't get what this guy is going through, you're likely the same people in SF that wouldn't hire him. It's crazy how perception can be the difference between a near-minimum wage security guard job and none at all. Im no different. There's plenty of candidates for minimum wage work, I'd hire the one who speaks English without that sorta accent. He'll have to have a network to get a job, which he admitted he doesn't since he's a private sorta guy. The guy's in a very bad spot. I feel sorry for him.

smsm42 10y ago
There's a difference between joking about being Russian terrorist and actually thinking he's one. And even more difference between that and denying him a job "because he's a foreigner". It's true I work in IT but I also meet other people. And both myself and these people hire and are hired. So I assumed if there was a strong reluctance of people in SF to hire foreigners (despite SF being a "minority majority" city, and having a real lot of "foreigners") I'd at least heard about it, as I hear about many other issues without experiencing them directly myself. Yet I didn't, so I want to hear about them now.
- BerislavLopac 10y ago
  > There's a difference between joking about being Russian terrorist and actually thinking he's one. From his point of view, what they say is what they think. > It's true I work in IT but I also meet other people. And both myself and these people hire and are hired. And how many of those people are foreigners with thick accent and 40+ years of age?

smsm42 10y ago

There's a difference between joking about being Russian terrorist and actually thinking he's one. And even more difference between that and denying him a job "because he's a foreigner". It's true I work in IT but I also meet other people. And both myself and these people hire and are hired. So I assumed if there was a strong reluctance of people in SF to hire foreigners (despite SF being a "minority majority" city, and having a real lot of "foreigners") I'd at least heard about it, as I hear about many other issues without experiencing them directly myself. Yet I didn't, so I want to hear about them now.

BerislavLopac 10y ago
> There's a difference between joking about being Russian terrorist and actually thinking he's one. From his point of view, what they say is what they think. > It's true I work in IT but I also meet other people. And both myself and these people hire and are hired. And how many of those people are foreigners with thick accent and 40+ years of age?