outright racist as worst. A person (usually non U.S) has to spend just a few days on the site to realize this.
Usually most of us ignore and sometimes even enjoy such discussions and take the site for what it is and don't normally have the time or inclination to argue against this bias.
The low quality and intelligence of the posters is a final deterrent.
As I have some time at hand today, I would like to point out to the very small minority of rational readers here that while slashdot considers it acceptable to play a scaremonger with articles ranging from tongue-in-cheek criticism to being of an outright inflamatory nature, it conviniently decides to reject a front page article from the most prominent Indian English daily The Times of India which concerns slashdot itself and shows an unpleasant side of outsourcing.
This is interesting as even the most biased party would atleast pretend to be non-prejudiced by publishing the front-page opinion of the most important newspaper of the country which is at the very center of this whole debate, while agreeing to publish irrelevant information from trivial sources.
Indian techie alleges racial abuse
CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA
[ Sunday, December 11, 2005 12:53:48 pmTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
To hear the full blast of invective against outsourcing, offshoring and other aspects of job migration from the United States, stop by at Slashdot.org . An online forum for nerds and nerdy natterings, it teems with angry young men writing under nom de guerres such as AnonymousCoward and TempestData, sgt_doom and pubjames. Many of them are obviously American, but you can see the odd Indian signature locked in verbal combat with a flaming Yankee.
On the day Bill Gates announced that Microsoft would be hiring another 3,000 people in India and investing some $1.7 billion (a lot of it towards opening outlets to sell MS products and making more money), nerdy narcissists were out in strength. "Why worry about H1B visas when you can just buy India?" sneered someone writing under the pseudonym Heck.
"So, what's the Indian equivalent to H1B?" asked someone called Hmmm. "More companies going to India? Well, I guess I am going down to McDonald's to pick up some applications -- anybody want me to pick them one up as well?" King Vance lamented.
"From experience of remote call centres, you'll get more sense out of what a dog says," related SatanicPuppy. "I find they speak English quite well," retorted someone. "In fact, they often speak English better than the ebonified English you get at times from some of the support folks based in NYC." "Microsoft Curry XP coming soon! And it's damn hot!" mocked someone else. "Khidkiyaan2006," bragged another, evidently Indian.
It was corrosive sometimes, nasty occasionally, but mostly it was good collegiate fun. Some of the more poisonous posts sullied the many intelligent observations made on both sides of the debate, but it was a welcome letting off of steam in a largely anonymous online forum. Heck, online flamebait is better than real-life threats and violence, as Neelima Tirumalasetti will say.
A Texas-based Indian techie who came to the US in 1998, Neelima wishes her tormentors had lit into her on Slashdot.org.
Instead, some days after her company Caremark Inc began outsourcing work to India in early 2004, her team members began harassing her -- mocking her accent, excluding her from conversations, and essaying jokes and insults based on her race, ethnicity and national origin, according to an affidavit she filed in a Texas court.
A co-worker ambushed her in the ladies room, she says, and called her a "brown-skinned b****" and a "dirty Indian".
When she reported the harassment to the management, it first did not take cognisance of her complaint. She was divested from major responsibilities in a project.
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outright racist as worst. A person (usually non U.S) has to spend just a few days on the site to realize this. Usually most of us ignore and sometimes even enjoy such discussions and take the site for what it is and don't normally have the time or inclination to argue against this bias. The low quality and intelligence of the posters is a final deterrent.
As I have some time at hand today, I would like to point out to the very small minority of rational readers here that while slashdot considers it acceptable to play a scaremonger with articles ranging from tongue-in-cheek criticism to being of an outright inflamatory nature, it conviniently decides to reject a front page article from the most prominent Indian English daily The Times of India which concerns slashdot itself and shows an unpleasant side of outsourcing.
This is interesting as even the most biased party would atleast pretend to be non-prejudiced by publishing the front-page opinion of the most important newspaper of the country which is at the very center of this whole debate, while agreeing to publish irrelevant information from trivial sources.
The submitted article was this (reproduced below): Indian techie alleges racial abuse
Indian techie alleges racial abuse
CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA [ Sunday, December 11, 2005 12:53:48 pmTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
To hear the full blast of invective against outsourcing, offshoring and other aspects of job migration from the United States, stop by at Slashdot.org . An online forum for nerds and nerdy natterings, it teems with angry young men writing under nom de guerres such as AnonymousCoward and TempestData, sgt_doom and pubjames. Many of them are obviously American, but you can see the odd Indian signature locked in verbal combat with a flaming Yankee. On the day Bill Gates announced that Microsoft would be hiring another 3,000 people in India and investing some $1.7 billion (a lot of it towards opening outlets to sell MS products and making more money), nerdy narcissists were out in strength. "Why worry about H1B visas when you can just buy India?" sneered someone writing under the pseudonym Heck. "So, what's the Indian equivalent to H1B?" asked someone called Hmmm. "More companies going to India? Well, I guess I am going down to McDonald's to pick up some applications -- anybody want me to pick them one up as well?" King Vance lamented. "From experience of remote call centres, you'll get more sense out of what a dog says," related SatanicPuppy. "I find they speak English quite well," retorted someone. "In fact, they often speak English better than the ebonified English you get at times from some of the support folks based in NYC." "Microsoft Curry XP coming soon! And it's damn hot!" mocked someone else. "Khidkiyaan2006," bragged another, evidently Indian. It was corrosive sometimes, nasty occasionally, but mostly it was good collegiate fun. Some of the more poisonous posts sullied the many intelligent observations made on both sides of the debate, but it was a welcome letting off of steam in a largely anonymous online forum. Heck, online flamebait is better than real-life threats and violence, as Neelima Tirumalasetti will say. A Texas-based Indian techie who came to the US in 1998, Neelima wishes her tormentors had lit into her on Slashdot.org. Instead, some days after her company Caremark Inc began outsourcing work to India in early 2004, her team members began harassing her -- mocking her accent, excluding her from conversations, and essaying jokes and insults based on her race, ethnicity and national origin, according to an affidavit she filed in a Texas court. A co-worker ambushed her in the ladies room, she says, and called her a "brown-skinned b****" and a "dirty Indian". When she reported the harassment to the management, it first did not take cognisance of her complaint. She was divested from major responsibilities in a project.
@coward you are BSiting and you know it..