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Pretty weird that the story doesn't involve him bringing up the problem with HR or other engineering managers. The people who do the main revenue-generating wor
by ghufran_syed 6y ago
Pretty weird that the story doesn't involve him bringing up the problem with HR or other engineering managers. The people who do the main revenue-generating work of a company (e.g. engineers in a tech company, the finance people in an investment bank) usually have a lot more power in an organization than HR / recruiting. So if he didn't do that, does that make him complicit in the racism? Or if he did try and got stonewalled, he should share that, along with the name of the company.
And it doesn't smell right that an organization would risk giving a bunch of candidates food poisoning and getting a lawsuit by serving them day-old catered food. I'm certainly willing to believe it could happen, but 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence' - in this case I'd settle for him giving the name of the company so that either others can confirm, or they can rebut.
- arshbot 6y agoI've spoken out against HR for dissimilar reasons and found myself out of the job not too long later. I don't blame him for not raising his head at his workplace...
- flumpcakes 6y agoI think that still makes him morally complicit.
- stale2002 6y agoI think you need to spend less time attacking people who bring issues to light, and more time recognizing and agreeing that there is a problem in the industry that needs to be solved. Attacking the person who is bringing the issue to light makes it seem like one is trying to distract from the issue being brought up, and put blame on the individual for talking about the problem.
- stale2002 6y agoIt really is not an extraordinary claim to say that companies often have systemic issues that hurt certain groups disproportionately.