Thought it would be fun to share our experiences about the enlightened scientific community. For reference I'm a white dude in Canada.
>be undergrad research assistant in plant physiology lab.
>everyone in lab grew up in Canada, except for Iranian girl and Chinese guy (postdoc).
>Iranian girl is chill
>Chinese guy is not.
>he continuously rags on the Canadian-born people about how they are lazy
>"How you get so little work done"
>Other MSc and PhD students get comparable amount of work done, are just more efficient.
>Chinese guy resents this.
>starts calling the cute thesis student girl a "white slut", at multiple points just slapping her ass in the middle of the lab.
>nobody can do shit because our supervisor is turbo-autism and this guy is the most senior in lab.
>wtf.mov
Later, working for a startup...
>company has about 180 people
>QC department has like 5, and almost 50% of work done by one black woman.
>super smart, super eloquent, very hardworking
>was literally 5th employee at the company, set up all testing equipment and authored most of relevant QC SOPs.
>held back from promotion to supervisor or manager by boomer VP of quality.
>one day the QC manager quits
>company refuses to promote black girl and gaslights her although she is by far the most qualified.
>they hire 50ish year-old Indian guy.
>he treats black girl like shit consistently, old Indian boomer type stuff.
>layoffs occur due to COVID, and black girl is only one to be let go from QC department.
>one month later Indian manager hires 2 Indian dudes. Now QC lab is 80% Indian.
>QC department sucks now, ultra slow and unorganized.
And now I just recently started a job and a pharmaceutical company...
>Orientation
>company is HQ'd in India.
>herewegoagain.jpeg
>getting tour of place, probably 70% Asians and Indians, rest are white.
>actually nice people
>remember that this factory is right next to most racially diverse city in Canada
>not a single black person
>be undergrad research assistant in plant physiology lab.
>everyone in lab grew up in Canada, except for Iranian girl and Chinese guy (postdoc).
>Iranian girl is chill
>Chinese guy is not.
>he continuously rags on the Canadian-born people about how they are lazy
>"How you get so little work done"
>Other MSc and PhD students get comparable amount of work done, are just more efficient.
>Chinese guy resents this.
>starts calling the cute thesis student girl a "white slut", at multiple points just slapping her ass in the middle of the lab.
>nobody can do shit because our supervisor is turbo-autism and this guy is the most senior in lab.
>wtf.mov
Later, working for a startup...
>company has about 180 people
>QC department has like 5, and almost 50% of work done by one black woman.
>super smart, super eloquent, very hardworking
>was literally 5th employee at the company, set up all testing equipment and authored most of relevant QC SOPs.
>held back from promotion to supervisor or manager by boomer VP of quality.
>one day the QC manager quits
>company refuses to promote black girl and gaslights her although she is by far the most qualified.
>they hire 50ish year-old Indian guy.
>he treats black girl like shit consistently, old Indian boomer type stuff.
>layoffs occur due to COVID, and black girl is only one to be let go from QC department.
>one month later Indian manager hires 2 Indian dudes. Now QC lab is 80% Indian.
>QC department sucks now, ultra slow and unorganized.
And now I just recently started a job and a pharmaceutical company...
>Orientation
>company is HQ'd in India.
>herewegoagain.jpeg
>getting tour of place, probably 70% Asians and Indians, rest are white.
>actually nice people
>remember that this factory is right next to most racially diverse city in Canada
>not a single black person
