Black woman denied job & told it's because her name is ghetto...company claims they were hacked.

[Rekkapryde]

Hermeisha...
You can't just add eisha to everything.

 

[Jemmy]

dap fishing nikkaz is the worst.

She got a fukked up name because it's a fukked up name . Hermeisha
You can't just a eisha to everything.

Its my opinion and the general consensus so fukk off with that babble.

Every culture has their own names and has made up their own names. I don’t see why Black Americans doing this is a problem. It ain’t dap fishing. They don’t mind giving out athletic scholarships to Saquan and Devonte’s when it benefits them but act like hiring someone with a unique name is such a problem. Y’all keep fallin for the game acting like it’s a you problem when it’s a they problem.

 

[Jemmy]

This isn't new, there have been multiple articles on this before. And yet people think Tyrone is unemployed or under-employed because he didn't "try" hard enough. Trying to get an interview with a name like "De'Vonte" or "Tae'Sean" is a challenge. I've seen first hand how those dudes resumes get critiqued just a little harder than Kyle and Steven's resumes.

I can only help on the panels I'm on though....who even knows how many times a good black candidate got passed up for having a 'ghetto' name when I wasn't on the panel.

A lot of dudes and women actually real upset these days with their parents for giving them some of these names because they aren't getting call-backs for stuff they should for sure qualify for - at least an interview or phone interview but nothing. Even if you don't check the 'black box' on an application, if your name is a dead giveaway, that's basically the same thing.

And Tyrone isn’t even a “Black” name in origin. It’s Irish. With stereotypes it became a “Black” name overtime. The problem isn’t us it’s them. No matter what we do it’ll be considered ghetto. They’ll look for any and every excuse. Our ancestors had “traditional names” what good did that do them?

 

[Jemmy]

most names are NOT MADE UP, most names have an actual meaning attached to them but yall wouldn't know because you guys don't speak any other language besides english

E.g.
Michael (hebrew) - who is like god
Kassandra (greek) - killer of men

That ain’t even how Michael is spelt nor pronounced in its original form bro. That’s the European version of it that they made up. I bet if it was spelt the way it was intended to be spelt in English form it would still be considered ghetto. Anything with a apostrophe in it is ghetto in their eyes.

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

That ain’t even how Michael is spelt nor pronounced in its original form bro. That’s the European version of it that they made up. I bet if it was spelt the way it was intended to be spelt in English form it would still be considered ghetto. Anything with a apostrophe in it is ghetto in their eyes.

I know, in fact the arabic version of Michael will leave you going .

Hebrew to English translations are trash

 

[Kasgoinjail]

Nothing wrong with her name
People don’t mind hiring Ivanoski Perotov
But Hermeisha is weird

Hmmm

 

[⠀X ⠀]

I used to hate my name, but now I thank my parents for having great wisdom and bestowing upon me such a distinguished sounding name. I be getting interviews like a mofo.

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

There's nothing wrong with naming your kid a traditional black name like Keisha, Aaliyah, Ashanti, Ebony, Jamal, Tyrone, Jermaine,Malk, Hakeem or anything like that.But when you start making things up and name your kid something like Cadillisa that's when it's a problem. And I have to ask where are all these names coming from when I was growing up bin the 90's and 2000's most Black people seemed to have traditional names, I mean yeah every once in a while you had someone with a name like Ladria or Shavonna or something like that, but most people had names like Michael, Kevin, Brianna, Vanessa and other traditional names. Now whenever I turn around there's someone with a name like Quankresha or something of that nature.

I feel like naming your kid ebony is so tacky

Literally you’re naming your kid black

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Yup the same reason my mom gave my sister a Jewish name and gave me a very general name. She already knew opportunities would be challenging for me as a black male anyway.

 

[Henny and_ HotWings]

To keep it a buck, it’s definitely fukked up that she would get denied a job solely because of her name.... her name has nothing to do with her character and her as a person nor does it reflect her knowledge or job performance... they might as well have called her a ******.



At the same time, Some Black people really do give their kids some hideous names.... I NEVER understood how and why we do that sometimes.... like bruh, u can’t tell your daughters name sounds a hot ass mess???

 

[MadameMoreaux]

Our sons have Nigerian names. Would never curse them with aprostrophes, dashes, upper case letter in the middle of the name, or any of those other crazy things. I think it’s best if black people stick to African names if we want to be “unique”

 

[Rawtid]

Hopefully the goal as a collective would be to own more businesses, so that we don't have to discriminate on our own kind and give opportunities based off merit.

That's my goal. fukk a name, can you do the work? There is a "John" or "Mary", somewhere being terrible at their job. Costing all kinds of time and money. If Qualiesha is better at it, she should be doing it.

 

[Wisdomkeyz]

What names are respectable to you?

Names that have real meaning like traditional african names and not some shyt that sound like you went on google at the last minute and typed in generate your baby's name.com

My cousin went to school with a girl named "shythead"
But its pronounced as "Sha-theed" that girl was clowned even by the teachers nikkah

And this in Georgia

Y'all coli militants can do all the mental gymnastics you want but a terrible name is a terrible name period

 

[newworldafro]

Exactly. This is why I encourage people to put either white on their job applications or leave the race option blank.

You can do that, but in the history of mankind, Deronte, Shavonte, Kevonte, Tavonte, Lavonte have only been African American names.

 

[Mook]

Daughter Brianna, I'm gone name my son Billiam

shyt comes from my nickname (Billz) and my nikka Lito randomly starting to call me that shyt , I think it's kinda dope.

How you gonna say your mom was on point then do the opposite?