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Are you claiming that a recruiter, from a company in the United States, took one look at you visually and said "yeah, no" based on your skin color? I don't mean
by stickfigure 5y ago
Are you claiming that a recruiter, from a company in the United States, took one look at you visually and said "yeah, no" based on your skin color? I don't mean to sound rude or unsympathetic, but this is pretty hard to believe. It is illegal in this country. Please name and shame.
Despite how well written your message is and how much sympathy I have for you if true, it's fundamentally whatabboutism ("but what about American racism!") from a brand-new account on a Russia-related thread.
- 7speter 5y agoOkay, name and shame. Lemme just step back so that you're steeped in all the context. A childhood friend of mine had a girlfriend who was working on the web team at what is now called Ann Inc. He referred me to her, and she and her co-worker on the same team were my second round interviews. Her manager, a brown woman named either Sanae or Sana (I actually know Sana's from college, but my friend insisted I pronounce her name 'San-ay,' so maybe its not the same name?) who saw me on a Zoom (actually Cisco video conferencing, Zoom is becoming one of those brands that are interchangeable with the whole sphere of a generic idea, like Google and Kleenex), immediately smiled and said no. It was late 2020 and... when things like that happen you're just in shock, and you're also disappointed that, once again, you can't start your career. I don't even know who to call for that, and how would I go about proving it? The story ends with my friends girlfriend and her co-worker quitting and going to work elsewhere, so there was at least that.
- hodgesrm 5y agoThis sounds pretty believable.