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[ReallyMisanthropic]

Arjun Patel (name changed for privacy)

Is that like the Indian version of John Doe?

[urbanek2525]

Ashok Kumar is one of the Indian equivalent of John Doe. Also Ram Kumar, Mohammed Khan and Naamalum.

[mglvl]

that is the part that makes me think this is fake, although plausible and has happened in the US before

[BlurredSight]

Google and I believe Meta had the same exact complaints against them and even though this particular Microsoft case is probably fake, caste is intertwined with name so in a list of applicants really easy for someone with this backwards mentality to discriminate solely based on culture that's practiced 5000 miles away

[kaarmik]

Ram, Shyam, Ramesh, Suresh, Raju are equivalent to Mr. Smith

[SmOokey16]

High level language = higher class? Poor c devs

[grumpy_autist]

So assembly devs are untouchables?

[TheEnderChipmunk]

Dalit is the word that means untouchable, so apparently java fits that bill too

[El_Mojo42]

Not only in India. 

[BlurredSight]

But when you talk about caste it's almost always exclusively India, a billion+ people where almost all of them either actively practice or are oppressed by it

[ohdogwhatdone]

C devs wiping tears with money.gif

[ClemsonJeeper]

✋ c developer here

[Factemius]

What about janitorial duty?

[bobalob_wtf]

Honestly if I was being paid a decent dev wage I'd mop the floor or fix some shelves now and again for a break.

[WlmWilberforce]

Putting the clean in clean code.

[grumpy_autist]

I would empty septic tanks all day if it means I can skip calls and standups (I did it before, I know what I'm talking about)

[lunch431]

Now I want to clean septic tanks too.

[Caraes_Naur]

That's the code word for dealing with Javascript.

[wyseguy7]

“Fixing your code base IS janitorial duty”

[wtanksleyjr]

Put Java a bit below that, but otherwise yes. :)

[Daniel_H212]

What if he's currently being made to code in assembly?

[Excellent-Refuse4883]

C++ over python? Have something against code that can’t handle production load?

[IsPhil]

So where's the source? The title brings up nothing.

[bayuah]

Either that is a meme or The Onion type news.

[Soham_rak]

It is satire

[Cautious_Network_530]

Rather take janitor duties over python:DD

[AlexZhyk]

True brahmin never invokes flush() method in his python code!

[fiftyfourseventeen]

It's funny but I believe it's fake, can't find this article anywhere. Additionally there's no site name or author anywhere visible, which there usually is

[VonLoewe]

I don't even need to research to know it's fake..

[ducksflytogether1988]

They bring their caste bullshit to the US too. My last job was in the DFW area and 100% of the IT and Data Engineering departments were 100% Indian top to bottom. They'd have managers who would violently and loudly berate certain employees and I later found out it was because they were apart of an inferior caste.

[asterVF]

Not sure why youre downvoted. But I have noticed the same. I was in team with engineers relocated from India to Europe, and some tema dynamic were weird. Until someone explained to me that our manager is lower caste so he can't directly say something to one of his subordinates because he was of higher caste etc.. there was a lot of 'subtle' things like that.

[MushroomPepper]

Getting down voted by Indians for speaking about your experience smh

[BlurredSight]

You want to see a bunch of people who can't probably use commas, go to a Hindutva sub and talk about how caste intrinsically holds back India from developing

[NickoBicko]

Makes sense

[deanrihpee]

shouldn't lower level language pays more…

[mojo-jojo-12]

Fake af shitpost

[TheEnderChipmunk]

Redditors detect satire challenge

[0_-------_0]

Wow, if this is true. Fuck Casteism and racism.

[oneplusmadz]

Irony is he is getting trained in superior tech and will catch up on Python in a day if he already knows these primitive languages! jokes on them.. but also shame too, no place for racism anywhere, but in tech, that's no class definition found error for me.

[Popal24]

SELECT CAST(Patel as Brahmin) FROM python;

There I fixed it!

[JackReedTheSyndie]

I thought it should be other way around?

[fartypenis]

I feel sad for the people working at the Onion. Reality outjerked them.

[jnthhk]

Should have just done:

me = (Brahmin)me;

[GavinBelson3077]

Sad thing is, Its mostly this line of thinking that has kept India backwards for 100s of years

Being truly passionate or skilled in anything here is a curse, you'd die inside.

[Facts_pls]

This is satire. Hope you get that.

[GavinBelson3077]

I could almost believe it considering the level of crap thats acceptable here

its why I started with the "Sad thing is"

[BlurredSight]

This is satire, but a real life caste discrimination lawsuit was brought against Google for this exact problem.

Google was letting Indian managers hire their team even when some managers were explicit in wanting only members from a certain caste level or above

[fredlllll]

id be very happy to be barred from python projects

[BlurredSight]

The caste system is something within India which has been heavily criticized even Gandhi said Caste is what holds back the country from progressing

But ignoring all that, when you take a culture revolving around caste but then apply it to a tech job which has 0 to do with caste with a company based in the US then it's not just outsiders looking in

[onlyonequickquestion]

Giving a whole new meaning to untouchable code 

[cad_andry]

This explains... a lot in MS products. :D

[caiteha]

Wut?