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Re: Why so much hatred?

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It's sounds like plain racism. It will probably hurt your odds of getting a job, but I wouldn't worry too much about personal info. What I've noticed is that India is a really big place and the spectrum consists of some of the smartest people you'll ever meet and some of the absolute dumbest people. Unfortunately, most people only really have access to the dumb ones. So they extrapolate that into a stereotype of all…

> spectrum consists of some of the smartest people you'll ever meet and some of the absolute dumbest people Wouldn't that be true for every country ?

"Lake Woebegone - where every child is above average" - Garrison Keillor

Re: Why so much hatred?

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"Hate is not good for business"

That's the takeaway here? Are we aiming so low these days?

If three employees at a company are sitting around a table making derogatory and racist remarks during business hours, that's symptomatic of a much deeper issue at PaymentCloud.

Re: Why so much hatred?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> spectrum consists of some of the smartest people you'll ever meet and some of the absolute dumbest people Wouldn't that be true for every country ?

"Lake Woebegone - where every child is above average" - Garrison Keillor

Wouldn't that be true for every country ?

Re: Why so much hatred?

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You will find hate everywhere. The US, UK, India and Czech Republics are, broadly, multicultural success stories, but you can find absurd hate, murder, and terrorism in all of those places. Despite the talk that "coders are masters of the universe", "girls should learn to code", "Mark Cuban wants you to learn machine learning", software development is a labor intensive business (I see managers with a $120k a month pa…

Czech republic is a multicultural success story?

There ain't a lot of terrorism in CZ, though the country is filled with hatred mainly towards gipsies and now muslims. Even the government in order to remain elected boycotts EU's directives about accepting migrants and anyone who's not white. I kid you not.

Re: Why so much hatred?

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post #2

It's sounds like plain racism. It will probably hurt your odds of getting a job, but I wouldn't worry too much about personal info. What I've noticed is that India is a really big place and the spectrum consists of some of the smartest people you'll ever meet and some of the absolute dumbest people. Unfortunately, most people only really have access to the dumb ones. So they extrapolate that into a stereotype of all…

He's not looking for a job.

Re: Why so much hatred?

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post #2

It's sounds like plain racism. It will probably hurt your odds of getting a job, but I wouldn't worry too much about personal info. What I've noticed is that India is a really big place and the spectrum consists of some of the smartest people you'll ever meet and some of the absolute dumbest people. Unfortunately, most people only really have access to the dumb ones. So they extrapolate that into a stereotype of all…

> spectrum consists of some of the smartest people you'll ever meet and some of the absolute dumbest people Wouldn't that be true for every country ?

A country with a billion people would have roughly 10x more outliers than a country with 100M people.

Re: Why so much hatred?

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You will find hate everywhere. The US, UK, India and Czech Republics are, broadly, multicultural success stories, but you can find absurd hate, murder, and terrorism in all of those places. Despite the talk that "coders are masters of the universe", "girls should learn to code", "Mark Cuban wants you to learn machine learning", software development is a labor intensive business (I see managers with a $120k a month pa…

>> Czech Republics are, broadly, multicultural success stories

This is bullshit.

Re: Why so much hatred?

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Good Morning ankitsoni, My name is Michael Wright, I am the VP of Sales at PaymentCloud Inc. I was alerted to your thread and wanted to take a minute to respond. This incident is absolutely not in line with our corporate philosophy and an issue that we take very seriously. I would implore you to call our main office and request to be directed to me so we can discuss the issue and take appropriate action. I agree with…

Curious, what are the possible steps that you can take? Can this be a valid reason for firing someone?

Re: Why so much hatred?

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In reaction to the majority of the conversation below being centered around the swift implementation of stern retaliation, if I were at the table of this conversation, I would introduce the following idea to the multiifaceted conversation. Not to be confused with the right way but an additional one.

What was said? Why is that not part of the conversation we are having?

Cultures meeting takes time. Think world history. Resist the urge to fight fire with fire. Cook meals on them or put them out.

Who's to say that these derogatory comments were not actually based on a documentary is about India that only highlighted the bad parts? Or who's to say that these peoples limited interactions were simply poor so far. A stern talking to is in order but not without further conversation about WHAT was said and WHY. Let these individuals walk away with a positive, personal interaction not a story about being caught.

Fix your PR problem by using this as an opportunity to put that person on the plane to India for the same price that it would cost for you to fire them and re-train someone else.

I would say in general, in America, Indian culture here is just catching on and it's going to take the persistant exploration of people's comments, and pulling them apart and not saying "all racial comments or bad or wrong" or "any comment that hurts anyone is wrong or bad" but what if we said: Can we talk about it?

Call the manager. We don't know enough about the situation to assume that those people are hateful. So far, just ignorant!

PS I am Ankit's classmate and he asked for my opinion.

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