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15 votes
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New Deliveroo contract shifts liability for undelivered food to riders
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Discrimination based on English (and accent)
I posted an article yesterday about name-blind hiring processes, and it got me thinking of discrimination slightly differently. I actually don't feel that we run into outright racial...
I posted an article yesterday about name-blind hiring processes, and it got me thinking of discrimination slightly differently.
I actually don't feel that we run into outright racial discrimination as much nowadays. Instead it's more subtle. It's not about technical merit, but about cultural fit. Often times, distilling down to one skill - English (both spoken and written).
It brings up questions such as:
- Can a candidate communicate verbally for the job? (Technical, though sometimes this may be judge harder than for a native English speaker that isn't always clear)
- Do they "get" jokes and other subtleties? (Cultural fit)
- Do they have an accent? How heavy is it?
I believe this is for a couple reasons:
- Candidate just can't display enough charm or charisma during the hiring process
- Raise doubts about a candidate's education/upbringing. This in itself is discriminatory (though location is not a protected class), but some regions are though to train their students in more blunt force manners than skills in problem solving
What do you all think?
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Reality check: Does name-blind hiring help improve diversity?
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Deliveroo threatens to terminate workers after losing their contracts
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Walmart's newly patented technology for eavesdropping on workers presents privacy concerns
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The futility of trade war explained by economist Michael Pettis
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How to get rich quick in Silicon Valley
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Japan’s vegetable-eating men - A nation of suit-wearing salarymen educates its first generation of stay-at-home dads
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Poland's supreme court constitutional crisis approaches a standoff. The government’s attempt to lower the mandatory retirement age of judges is due to come into effect this week
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We hired a man and a "girl"
A rant honestly, but I thought this might belong in tech since it's a bit more of a tech society thing for me. I'm sure other industries have this issue too, but tech definitely does. If others...
A rant honestly, but I thought this might belong in tech since it's a bit more of a tech society thing for me. I'm sure other industries have this issue too, but tech definitely does. If others disagree, please feel free to move it.
So yesterday, we had two new hires show up and we were informed this in our weekly leads meeting, so this is a pretty private setting. When our manager gave a quick blur of one, it was "we expect a lot from him, he's a bit more knowledgeable, did well on our tech test", that kinda thing. And then, when discussing the woman, he kept referring to her as a "girl", so I pointed out that maybe we should use "woman" instead.
I got made fun of - "maybe we can use lady or female or ..." honestly started tuning it out, can't remember the rest. Also accused of nitpicking.
I've been in the industry for a while now and though in general things are good, every now and then something small like this happens and it makes you check the date (yes it's still 2018, I didn't go back 20 years).
To be fair, I know my manager was being funny, but it's easy to joke at someone else's expense.
Wondering, other's experiences on both sides. Have you noticed changes in your workplace, for better hopefully? Maybe other ways you were discriminated against or singled out?
73 votes -
'Bonded like a slave': Workplace watchdog investigation into labour exploitation reveals poor conditions
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Call for a general strike for Amazon workers across Europe during Amazon Prime Day
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Women ask for raises as often as men, but are less likely to get them
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Punching the clock: An essay on bullshit jobs
7 votes -
What was the worst job you had, and what made it terrible? What makes a job a good job?
What was your worst job? What were the things that made it terrible?
9 votes -
Workplace sex harassment inquiry launched
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Dining 'al desko': How workplace snacking adds up to thousands of empty calories
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Chasing the American dream has got me jaded
I live in the US. I used to play music every day. I used to skate almost every day. I used to surf TWO times a day. I used to write songs and poetry. I used to contemplate the cosmos and reality...
I live in the US.
I used to play music every day. I used to skate almost every day. I used to surf TWO times a day. I used to write songs and poetry. I used to contemplate the cosmos and reality and come up with fun projects with friends. I used to garden. I used to spend more time with my pets.
Now I work.
I work and stress so hard that I wear myself out, drink too much to "help me sleep", still stay up stressing about my job - how I can improve my standing, and stress about needing to do side projects to supplement my income AND stress that I don't do any of the fun things I used to do.
This is all to be able to afford a living space and ensure that if a disaster (personal or natural) happens I won't be completely screwed.
Any friends that did have loans are still paying them off. I have been fortunate enough (and diligent enough) to pay off all my loans, but I had to ditch my hopes and dreams.
Will I ever be able to afford a decent house in a metropolitan area? No. Will I ever do the things that used to make be happy? I don't see how. Will I ever be truly happy? I have no idea.
Is anyone else in this situation? What are you doing to mitigate? Moving to a more affordable area (leaving friends and family)? Are you learning a new trade to up your financial standing? Are you as bummed out as I am that we have to work so hard just for a mediocre standard of living?
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A tough week for tech workers, and it won’t be the last
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Tesla workers say they pay the price for Elon Musk's big promises
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AI ethics: How far should companies go to retain employees?
5 votes -
Why do some job adverts put women off applying?
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Tesla is laying off about 9% of its workforce as it restructures the company
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Calling all people who have lived and/or worked in Yellowstone or other national parks
Next month I’m dropping everything and moving from Kentucky to work in Yellowstone with my girlfriend. I have been to other parks but never stayed more than one night and never taken on multi-day...
Next month I’m dropping everything and moving from Kentucky to work in Yellowstone with my girlfriend. I have been to other parks but never stayed more than one night and never taken on multi-day trails/hikes. To other users who have done something similar or stayed in national parks for extended periods of time, what advice do you have? Where are the “must see” parts of Yellowstone? What was the adjustment period like, and what are some safety precautions we should definitely take note of?
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LGBT teachers in the countryside are nine times more likely to have mental health problems, says study
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What’s the craziest team building / off-site that you’ve ever had the misfortune to be part of?
I’ll go first. Back in the late 1990s I worked at a startup out of Seattle. The founders had a previous exit and had a winery in Sonoma. They flew us all down there and things started out fun. We...
I’ll go first. Back in the late 1990s I worked at a startup out of Seattle. The founders had a previous exit and had a winery in Sonoma. They flew us all down there and things started out fun. We had a scavenger hunt in San Francisco, we all picked grapes at their winery, and saw how the wine was made. The third day got weird. We were all supposed slaughter a goat and eat it. No one wanted to kill the poor thing, so a farm hand did it, and we all ate the terrible meat.
On the final evening we were all sat down in a barn with lots of candles. We did some semi-normal stuff like write down everything we have been avoiding in our lives, then we burned the lists.
Next, the person running the thing thought it would be a good idea to reenact the biblical thing where Jesus washes poor peoples’ feet. But she got it backwards, and some of the VPs were supposed to wash the CEO’s feet.
A couple of us vocally freaked out, then the whole thing fell apart and we all went home early.
I know my story may be extreme, but does anyone else have any misguided or just strange team building events like this in their work history?
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America may soon face its biggest labor strike in decades
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What are you trying to accomplish this week?
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Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs
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Hell on wheels: Fatal accidents, off-the-books workers, a union once run by a mobster - The rogue world of one of New York’s major trash haulers
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Are there any people in the industry here?
New group, new topics, this is all so exciting. I'm a chef myself and enjoy discussing the business and philosophies of what I do. I'm wondering if other people in the industry have found their...
New group, new topics, this is all so exciting. I'm a chef myself and enjoy discussing the business and philosophies of what I do. I'm wondering if other people in the industry have found their way unto Tildes at this point.
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Shift work and sleeping
Hey folks, so I've worked nights for the last two years and it sucked. flat out sucked. I would average 4-5 hours of sleep before and after a shift and now I've moved to afternoons (3pm-10pm) I...
Hey folks, so I've worked nights for the last two years and it sucked. flat out sucked. I would average 4-5 hours of sleep before and after a shift and now I've moved to afternoons (3pm-10pm) I find my body still thinks 5ish hours is great.
Often I wake in the middle of the night and then that's it. I'm up. it truly sucks. anyone got advice on how I can change this? I've been on afternoons for a little over a month now, so could it be more I'm still adjusting? appreciate any help and advice.edit ** thank you all for the advice. I will have to work out a routine and make sure to sick to it, then just not get too down when only making small steps.
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Starbucks’ bias training finally happened. Here’s what it looked like
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Brazil truckers slow to end strike, despite concessions
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MI6 airs TV ads to recruit more women and ethnic minorities
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Talk to Deliveroo couriers. See a dystopia that could be your future – the realities facing the ‘contractors’ are grim. No wonder their union is appealing to the high court
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A woman has been named as NYSE president. It only took 226 years.
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US Supreme Court decides arbitration agreements overrule class-action rights
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Steve Jobs' secret for eliciting questions, overheard at a San Francisco cafe
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The weird, dangerous, isolated life of the saturation diver
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The burnout crisis in American medicine
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The American Dream
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A fast-food problem: Where have all the teenagers gone?
7 votes