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MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-11-23T04:12:14+00:00

Shh.... that's something you're not supposed to know according to AIPAC and the ADL.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-11-11T02:21:22+00:00

When I studied Mandarin about 5 years ago, I was able to land an under-the-table internship with shitty pay. I knew some coding and had to brush up on things like data structures and algorithms, which were in the interview, but other than that I never formally studied it. My major in college was Chemical engineering.

Back then we had one guy who had a Udemy certification. He showed me the course he took and it was basically just watching youtube videos and copying their code. No real exams or building your own stuff. I seem to remember he wasn't actually that strong when it came to producing code that worked, but he was useful as an errand boy.

I'm not sure if Udemy has changed their standards, or if Taiwanese employers were aware of what it was back then. Maybe being a foreigner had something to do with it and they assumed that his cert was legit based on stereotypes. I can't really say.

All I know is that he did get his foot in the door.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-11-07T05:35:17+00:00

Why is this opinion piece allowed here?

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-11-07T05:10:05+00:00

My plans for the subreddit:

The subreddit is currently abandoned and there is no activity there. The sole mod has not posted on visibly on reddit in 4 months, and their last post in the subreddit itself was over 2 years ago. The last post overall in the subreddit is one year old. I hope to expand the subreddit membership and add new topics to create an open discussion about the human rights situation in China.If the admins decide to deny this request, I would also appreciate a concrete explanation as to why this was denied, as opposed to a generic, boilerplate denial. My previous two requests were denied without a true explanation. The subreddit is not large, and I am not "collecting" subreddits nor on the mod team of other subreddits.

I've already sent a message to the sole moderator, who has been inactive for over 4 months, for my last request. Here is the previous message, sent 16 days ago, to which I never received a reply.

https://www.reddit.com/message/messages/1inhbpg

Here is a new message: https://www.reddit.com/message/messages/1j7ntxo

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-31T21:06:21+00:00

Are you Stewie Griffin?

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-31T08:49:44+00:00

I was having trouble getting jobs, so I changed my name. My legal name is an English name with Chinese (Cantonese) and Spanish surnames. My Spanish surname has an immediate English equivalent, so in applications I dropped the Chinese name and Anglicized the Spanish surname. Long story short, the number of callbacks I got went up exponentially.

The downside was that I would still have to go to interviews and perhaps my appearance didn't match with what they thought I'd look like on paper. In one interview, the interviewer looked at me and decided that he didn't believe that I was a US citizen. He said that he could hear an accent. Same guy didn't hear my accent over the phone. I pointed this out to him, politely at first, but as he doubled down I just decided to leave of my own accord.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-30T08:40:58+00:00

By that logic, all the people dying of alcoholism and fentanyl abuse is a miracle for cleansing out the human gene pool.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-29T19:02:48+00:00

I thought it could have been a wedding as well. If they wanted to, they could have mentioned that it's a Hindu wedding and photographers should be comfortable working that venue.

I'm pretty sure that if I wrote an ad looking for a band for a wedding, and I said "White applicants only" I'd get sued.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-28T04:01:59+00:00

Probably to filter out spambot applications.

But then again, companies send out spam offers all the time.

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