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Racism in the IT Industry (contracting or otherwise..)
What, other than on this board? IRL nothing serious, occasional comment that's probably out of place and wouldn't be appropriate to blurt out to the recipient, nothing major.
Then again I've spent the last 12 years working in environments where every variation of race/colour/religion is represented so wouldn't expect to see too much of it.
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Yes, once myself, I was dropped because I am white from a proposed contract because the client wanted positive discrimination for black minority contractors.
A black colleague with the same qualifications and experience was paid £10 less per hour by the agent but the same rate was charged to the end client who was assured by the agent that we were being paid equally.
A similar story with an Indian IT consultant who also was paid £10 less that the rest of the contractors but charged the same to the end client.
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Some clueless agent phoned me up waxing lyrical about a contract with all mod cons. When he told me it was in Dubai I laughed at him and said they probably wouldn't be interested in me. He was completely non-plussed by this and said that my CV was perfect - I had to explain that I had bumpy bits in all the wrong places. He was most indignant and would only go away when I said I would definately take the contract if the client wanted me.
At least he had the decency to phone up mortified and apologied for the 'confusion'.
Bless.
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