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turtlepi1
Joined: 15 Jun 2004
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
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 Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 5:29 am Post subject: Re: bad form |
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| Thankfully, she didn't go back, and found something better. My friend said that WNP is now trying to hire a new webmaster, and placing ads that they would like to hire a filipino for the job. I'm sure a filipino is much more easily manipulated. |
That is kind of insulting to a filipino. Imagine if we substituted Jew, Black, or any other racial or ethnic group for Filipino. That is just plain wrong. You should be ashamed of yourself in making such racist comments. |
 That's a stretch trying to make some "board points" off of Gollum.
How many "white" westerners do you see working as DDD workers in Korea? How many "white" taxi drivers do I see here in Abu Dhabi.
While it might not be "PC" that specific nationalities end up in positions for "generalizations" about their culture/country pointing out that it is commonplace is hardly RACIST... |
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Canucksaram
Joined: 29 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 5:33 am Post subject: |
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CENSORED for the sake of a friend
Last edited by Canucksaram on Fri May 20, 2005 10:53 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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turtlepi1
Joined: 15 Jun 2004
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 5:53 am Post subject: |
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Sounds like I made the right choice in regards to them.
When my GF and I decided to go to Korea we originally wanted to work in the same school. Anyway, she got offered a public school gig through WorknPlay and they wanted me to come over and work for them (with my comp sci/web dev background).
They wouldn't tell me straight out they wanted me to work without a "proper" visa. Had they, we likely wouldn't have had the problem. Instead they danced around the issue and I got the impression they didn't know what they wanted.
So instead of traveling 50 minutes everyday to their office I found a job 1 block away from my apartment. I get the feeling if I had taken the job I might have not enjoyed my Korean experience as much.
On the other hand, as far a recruiters go they seem to be one of the better shops around as far as "Koreans servicing Westerners" go...
Did I actually say servicing?  I didn't get involved in that aspect of Korean culture...having a GF and all.  |
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Gollum
Joined: 04 Sep 2003
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 6:00 am Post subject: Re: bad form |
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| turtlepi1 wrote: |
| Whitey wrote: |
| Gollum wrote: |
| Thankfully, she didn't go back, and found something better. My friend said that WNP is now trying to hire a new webmaster, and placing ads that they would like to hire a filipino for the job. I'm sure a filipino is much more easily manipulated. |
That is kind of insulting to a filipino. Imagine if we substituted Jew, Black, or any other racial or ethnic group for Filipino. That is just plain wrong. You should be ashamed of yourself in making such racist comments. |
That's a stretch trying to make some "board points" off of Gollum.
How many "white" westerners do you see working as DDD workers in Korea? How many "white" taxi drivers do I see here in Abu Dhabi.
While it might not be "PC" that specific nationalities end up in positions for "generalizations" about their culture/country pointing out that it is commonplace is hardly RACIST... |
Whitey, maybe it's my fault for the way I worded it, but understand that I am very much a defender of philipinos as a workforce.
I just know some additional background infomation which isn't prudent for me to share for various reasons. I will say, however, that Turtle hit on the head...
Please don't take my post as degrading to filipinos... I can assure you that's not what I meant. It's more about what someone might pay a filipino (compared to a Korean or Westerner) for doing said work. And possibly what things could be manipulated, etc. because the new worker would be filipino. |
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