Posted: 4/7/2009 6:13:35 PM EDT
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I know somebody that has held a job as a tenured professor at a city college for the last 20 years. The school was looking to hire a minority professor and this particular somebody is far from actually being a minority. Instead of looking for a different job, they simply died their hair, changed their name and learned to speak a foreign language. Of course this took awhile but they got the job and now 20 yrs later are being held up as a "model for the community".
This all happened when I was a child - and it seemed ok to me at the time - but now that I'm the age that this person was when they got their job I see it differently. Is it fair that this person fakes being a minority to get a job or is it a good example of sticking it to the man in a case of reverse discrimination? |
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One of my classmates in college sent out 13 resumes without a single hit.
Just for the hell of it, he changed his name on the first page to some kind of foreign sounding shit and got 11 job offers from the same firms. 
IIRC it was some ridiculous sounding shit like Marrakesh Garcia or something similar. |
