Google HR 'suggested medical leave' for racism victims

Re:Google HR 'suggested medical leave' for racism victims by magicalhippo on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @06:11AM (#26397673)

I had something like that some years ago. My sister has a friend called Christine, and my sister had mentioned her several times before I first met her.

Turned out that while Christine was born and raised here in Norway, she had two Thai parents.

There's not a large Thai population here, and Christine is not a name I associated with Thais, so I was quite surprised by it. Not in a positive or negative way, just plain old surprised.

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Re:Google HR 'suggested medical leave' for racism victims by toto444 on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @06:24AM (#26397775)

I actually have one as well. At some point I was chatting a lot with a customer agent from one of our partner. To me their name sounded Russian so I assumed they were of Russian origin. Turns out they are from a Sub-saharan African country. Like you I was very surprised when I learnt it.

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