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st3v3r on May 25, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Racial Fault Lines in Silicon Valley

"When the recruiter called as congratulated me on getting an offer, I immediately declined, citing “severe cultural differences.”"

It would have been great to see the recruiter's reaction if they had straight up said, "It's because your boss asked me why he can't say nigger." Although I can understand exactly why he didn't say that.

trhway on May 25, 2016 [–]

>I immediately declined, citing “severe cultural differences.”"

a good guy. An opportunist in his place could most probably have scored a nice settlement for racial discrimination after few months on the job :)

st3v3r on May 26, 2016 | [–]

I fail to see how he'd be an opportunist considering there's a very real chance of it happening.

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