Have you ever experienced microagressions by your fellows? Microagressions are characterized as day-to-day “innocent” comments and hostilities that aim to communicate a sense of difference, discrimination or not belonging to a target even though it may look like a joke or genuine interest over someone. I remember a couple of those I have been a victim of over my time there mainly for being an alien and my coworkers not being prepared to understand cultural differences and respect them, including managers. I remember some years ago I was laughed at by my peers when they asked me about my religion. I had people telling me my English was not “that bad” and had to sit on meetings and nod my head to managers to agree that people that worked on the GBC that I came from were low-cost and supposed to do monkey business for Houston. This continuous form of harassment made me feel ashamed of my culture and where I’m from over the years and made me think I was worth less than a local employee. All this happened in company premises over the years and nobody has ever done anything to bring this subject to the surface.
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No but I see plenty in this site!
At BTC all emoloyees experience this from Houston counterparts. Direct remarks or indirect through lack of opportunity to do real work and progress in company etc.
All y'all need more pthalates in your kid's food in my opinion.
Got them living in tx already.
Insulting yourselves everyday.
Funny how some people here think this company hires expats because they “have to”. You have to educate yourself of what an expat assignment is but I suspect you are never getting one anyway, it’s something only < 1% of employees will experience in life and for a very selective group of people. Enjoy your average paycheck and lower tax bracket retirement peasant.
Yes, but no different than any other large American or European company, and surprisingly far from the worst
@cnm OK boomer
Well bud, the guy/gal who claimed to be a foreigner is an obvious fake. Either that or he thinks that by sucking the American co-k through the virtual platform he’ll get far in life.
I’m with the American kid. The dude who’s telling the OP to get in line and assimilate is dismissing the OP’s valid concerns. Everyone here just remember you’re all part of the problem! I’m just a spectator watching with front row seats to the collapse of the Rockefeller Empire. #partyondudes
OP is a troll trying to impersonate somebody coming from India. But nobody in India cares about fringe leftist American academia notions. Ultimately, this is just about generating tensions; good for people with ideological obsessions, bad for foreigners who pay the price.
If somebody hasn’t yet figured out that in every corporation, in every country, regular workers get sc_rewed in every imaginable way by the management, you’ve got something else coming.
If you want to put a racial/cultural sl--t on it, your problem, who knows, with the current climate in this country you might even get some extra points. Respect is what you’re not going to get.
Forget microaggressions. There are very real, hostile work aggressions going on in the Houston campus...HR is part of these as well so forget about going to HR, just GTFO!!!
Engineers in this company also have special pride. Once in a discussion I challenged a point of view of another person (not knowing his background and neither he knew mine) he asked me whether I was an engineer by education to which I kindly replied "no". He then sarcastically said, "no wonder". Made me feel very insulting just because he couldn't hold a conversation and answer some of my exploratory questions that he felt challenged answering. And the worst thing was no one in the audience took an objection to his behavior towards me.
Cut the BS, or you want me to show you my passport ? YOU have no idea how foreigners think, because you grew up here with all the absurd ideas of a coddled life in LaLaLand. YOU have no idea how feels to be a professional making the equivalent of $100/month and not knowing if you and your family will have enough to eat next week.
People here treat you the way you tell them to treat you. You learn the language and you don’t bend in front of them, you do real work and you get their respect.
What on Earth do you even know about being different? Spoiled, narrow minded American suburbia kids.
It’s not surprising. An early career all-star recipient in UIT recently left the company for the same. The company only cares about diversity whilst on paper but only stay true to the ol’ boys club. Leave at your first opportunity and wish you well.
Santa Claus is real too.
Lol @qbr+1djoMkab you’re no foreigner. If you really were trust that you are different and will always be seen different. And will always get paid below a red blooded American would.
I’m also a foreigner and if I cared so much about my culture being understood and respected I could have very well stayed in my country and nurture it there. The last thing I needed to do is to come to this country to complain about “microagressions”. No better way than this to get people here p-ssed off and fed up with us. I didn’t come to this country to make shi_ty ideological and cultural statements, I came here for a better life, which is exactly what I got through hard work. Looks like you’ve learned the worst of what you found here - I bet nobody is talking about “microaggressions” in the country you’re coming from, everybody there is too busy trying to make ends meet.
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