Re:Fired Googler says she was told heavy Baltimore accent a ...
by ajuc on Thursday December 24, 2020 @09:23AM
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If you fire a white guy nobody cares.
If you fire a person you hired to fill a minority quota - there's a big risk of bad PR or a court case.
How do you think this influences people hiring minorities? It becomes "necessary evil".
BTW I'm Polish, my English pronunciation is very bad, never had problems because of that and I don't consider myself "minority" nor want preferential treatment. I highly doubt it would be different if I worked at Google (especially looking at accents of some people from Google I worked with).
If you fire a person you hired to fill a minority quota - there's a big risk of bad PR or a court case.
How do you think this influences people hiring minorities? It becomes "necessary evil".
BTW I'm Polish, my English pronunciation is very bad, never had problems because of that and I don't consider myself "minority" nor want preferential treatment. I highly doubt it would be different if I worked at Google (especially looking at accents of some people from Google I worked with).