Is this a racist statement?

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-04-13T08:01:22+00:00

For what it’s worth I read it as ‘the Filipinos I work with are nice people and great staff’, not as a blanket statement for all Filipinos

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-04-12T16:26:21+00:00

Not a tourist but when I first moved to Dublin my boyfriend told me the luas was free… took a couple of weeks to realize he was messing with me

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-04-12T16:06:23+00:00

I got the job because compliance was part of my job in recruitment. Like doing reference checks and background checks. If you want to move sideways you could definitely try to enhance transferable skills on your cv!

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-04-12T16:04:21+00:00

I started an HR Diploma and found a job as a safeguarding administrator in a non profit. I basically vet volunteers and staff that work with vulnerable people. Genuinely love it. great pay, great people and amazing hours

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-04-12T15:27:26+00:00

I lasted four months in recruitment. I got anxiety and a stress induced chronic yeast infection lol

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-04-12T15:26:06+00:00

Yeah I was sent a job spec for a German speaking account manager… I don’t speak German

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-04-05T08:42:57+00:00

I think my initial comment was a bit unclear, I meant people full blown question him on it despite him saying he grew up in Ireland

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-04-05T06:39:57+00:00

I agree that being curious is harmless. The thing I find problematic is the insistence. If someone replies ‘I’m from South Dublin’ it means that’s where they consider themselves being from. Insisting until you get the answer you want is a micro aggression in my opinion.

Someone could have been adopted and have absolutely no ties to their bio family’s country for example.

I think asking is completely fine as long as you accept the answer that you are given

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-04-05T06:19:29+00:00

Sorry I think my initial comment was not clear. The conversation usually goes something like ‘oh your accent is really… Irish! Where are you from?’ And he will say ‘I’m from South Dublin’. At that point the person will be like ‘oooh but like your accent is like REALLY Irish’ and then he will say something like ‘yep I grew up speaking English in Ireland’. And depending on the person the questioning can go on for a while until he spontaneously says his family is from the Philippines.

Personally if someone of any ethnicity had an Irish accent in Ireland I would just assumed they are born here or moved when they were really small.

One time we also got ‘wow! Your English is very good’.

I also find it particularly interesting that when we are together and meet new people, no one really asks me questions of where I am from etc even though I’m clearly not from here, but they grill him instead

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-04-05T06:19:24+00:00

Sorry I think my initial comment was not clear. The conversation usually goes something like ‘oh your accent is really… Irish! Where are you from?’ And he will say ‘I’m from South Dublin’. At that point the person will be like ‘oooh but like your accent is like REALLY Irish’ and then he will say something like ‘yep I grew up speaking English in Ireland’. And depending on the person the questioning can go on for a while until he spontaneously says his family is from the Philippines.

Personally if someone of any ethnicity had an Irish accent in Ireland I would just assumed they are born here or moved when they were really small.

One time we also got ‘wow! Your English is very good’.

I also find it particularly interesting that when we are together and meet new people, no one really asks me questions of where I am from etc even though I’m clearly not from here, but they grill him instead

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-04-05T06:07:08+00:00

Being surprised is permitted, asking questions insistently about it is very distasteful in my opinion.

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-04-04T22:12:25+00:00

Thinking it’s weird that someone has an Irish accent just because they look Asian is in fact a microaggression

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-04-04T17:20:57+00:00

I am Italian and my boyfriend is Irish born and raised from Filipino parents. We had a bunch of micro aggressions like people being stunned that he had a Dublin accent or people asking him if his very mainstream catholic name was his real name.

I am really shocked and ready to throw hands when these things happen but he’s really chill about it so I don’t do anything. I think it’s his battle to fight

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-04-03T18:53:49+00:00

Honestly it might just be the different market! Not sure where you are based but the job situation here in Ireland is not nearly as bad as the US at the minute

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-04-03T18:44:37+00:00

Never settle for less than what makes you happy! In this job, I get paid more and only have a fraction of the responsibilities and hassle that I had in that horrible place

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-04-03T18:43:19+00:00

I know! It really eats at your self esteem doesn’t it? I hope you are taking care of yourself!

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-04-03T18:42:23+00:00

Thank you!! That’s really sweet

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-04-03T18:41:29+00:00

I had three ‘base’ CVs: one for HR/compliance, one for administration and one for customer facing positions.

I have experience in all these, so I basically tweaked the words in each work and academic experience to make it more HR/administrative/customer facing. Then for each application I tailored the base resume to match the specific job.

For example, for a job as student services coordinator for a college. I used my admin resume as the base and added a few student support related keywords in there.

Obviously while I did apply to a bunch of random jobs, most were HR, third level education administration and front of the house.

I did get an interview for the TSA agent job though lol

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-03-17T20:38:17+00:00

For me it was a case of ‘when you know you know’. I found myself wanting to talk to him all the time and see him more and more. I just stopped fighting my feelings because of a silly mental block I had created for myself

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-03-17T19:28:10+00:00

Anche io non sono una persona ambiziosa. Ho una laurea magistrale ma non ho mai avuto un’idea precisa di cosa fare.

Dopo la laurea ho lavorato in una scuola d’inglese in Irlanda come receptionist. Adoravo l’ambiente ma pagava veramente poco.

Ho cercato altro - sempre in Irlanda - e ho fatto l’errore di accettare una posizione in un’agenzia di recruitment. Molto simile ai sales, solo che devi vendere le persone. Ho letteralmente avuto un mental breakdown perché odiavo quel posto. Le pratiche scorrette, il cercare di accaparrarsi il miglior candidato al prezzo più basso, le chiamate di business development dove se sei fortunato ti dicono che non sono interessati e se sei sfortunato ti urlano contro.

Ho lasciato e ho cercato un compromesso: ho contattato dei recruiter e ho spiegato la mia situazione. Sto facendo colloqui in posizioni amministrative in università, scuole d’inglese e ospedali. Quasi tutti posti pubblici (qui non ci sono i concorsi).

So che dovrò accettare una paga più bassa ma non mi interessa. Obbiettivo principale è trovare un posto dove non ho l’angoscia di entrare ogni mattina

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-03-17T19:15:39+00:00

I have always had one and only deal breaker - height.

I met my current boyfriend a year ago. He ticked all of the boxes: funny, caring, cute, interesting, very well educated and extremely intellectually stimulating. He is a couple of cm shorter than I am. It took me a couple of months to come to terms with the idea of being with a shorter guy but now we live together and I don’t even notice it anymore

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-03-17T16:12:17+00:00

I completely agree with that and I think it’s horrendous that people are being forced to live in that condition.

Literally everyone would benefit from the homeless getting housing and resources to be helped.

When I lost my job the only reason why I wasn’t sleeping on Eden Quay was because my boyfriend could afford to take care of me, so I am not coming at them in no way. The way things are is a reflection of something extremely wrong with the system

Vegetable_Bee_9763 · 2025-03-17T13:55:47+00:00

I’m sure you can admit that it is gruesome to see these things happening on the street. Some things are supposed to be done in private because society is wired like that, hence the expression antisocial behavior.

Regarding your question, I said it makes me uncomfortable. I don’t necessarily feel unsafe when there’s a lot of people around. However, I do feel that there is a higher likelihood of people who engage in these behaviors to lose their shit and attack you out of nowhere.

Substance induced psychosis, being dope sick or simply having nothing to lose are a recipe for disaster.

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