The Oi
Ahhhh chachachacha
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I was cracking up over this last night.
"Look at this job application. Hmmm Shaquille. I was going to put it with the Leclefon's and Answer'fernis but I looked it up and it turns out it is simply a misspelled variant of a real Arabic name first popularized in the late 1680's. This is definitely going in the maybe pile."
The (not really) funny thing is...
I promise you this happens. Shaquille would get written off too though.
Some guys/gals just look at the resume and ignore the name, no doubt. But I know for a fact that hiring managers will start out with a bad impression of a candidate or out and out discriminate if they see a particularly "alternative" name. And I again want to stress that this isn't right, but I'm telling you that there's an immediate assumption based on the name that the parents are ignorant and thus the candidate is ignorant too. This is a strictly black thing for some, but for most I'd say it's a strictly stupid name thing- white or black. Like if you can figure out based on the resume or a voice over the phone that a girl is a white Destinee or Bryttney, they will also be assumed to be ignorant. If you can't figure out the background, same thing...if the name is considered to be ignorant, the person is assumed to be ignorant.
I say this as someone that has been part of many hiring processes and has been working in a corporate environment with almost exclusively white people for a decade now. The black people I've worked with in the workplace over time have been very "light-skinned," and without exception have had very traditional names.
I am in absolute SHOCK that @gourimoko hasn't stopped in yet. I assume he has zero interest in S'DP and hasn't bothered to stop by OR his cabal of secret black posters that ask him to speak for them hasn't alerted him to it OR he doesn't have the energy right now/ever again to deal with the racist white echo chamber that is RCF.
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