Suicide of a Black Uber engineer: Widow blames job stress and racism

[JayGatsby]

suicide.....really though

 

[Hijo de luna]

I have no desire to be a six figure employee. These companies legit believe they own you when they pay you that kind of money.

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

I understand the feelings the brotha was having(all black men have been there, no matter if blue/white collar) but he has two boys that need him..
That should have been his focus and saving grace.
It's just a sad situation that will have ripple effects for years..

 

[Matt504]

If you're in predominantly white spaces and don't know how to maneuver the politics, YOU WILL BREAK.

shyt is really like that scene from Get Out when dude runs upstairs and everybody downstairs gets quiet.

 

[Ziggiy]

Most of you Coli friends saying there's more to the story likely haven't worked among cacs and other non-Blacks at these big tech companies.

Uber's culture is already under fire for its treatment of women.

Can you imagine what the culture is like for Black men?

In other industries such as finance, consumer goods, etc., diversity programs have been in place since the 1970s. Although they still have a long way to go, there is at least some form of support for Black people at companies in those industries.

In the tech industry, companies are way behind in terms of creating enviroments in which people other than cacs and asians can thrive and reach their full potential.

Cac and Asian hiring managers bring preconceived notions to the table about Black intelligence in their interactions with Black tech talent. Whether it is in the recruting/hiring process or in the day-to-day activities on the job in terms of project assignments, etc.

And if a breh is actually good at what he does, a lot of those cacs and asians feel threatened and will work to undermine.

Breh just couldn't cope with such a toxic environment.

We need some Black tech companies.

This is SO true

 

[Poitier]

some of the replies in this thread are disgusting.

 

[yardman]

Mental illness is something we have to discuss as a community as well as suicide.

 

[King Poetic]

That's why I'm glad i work with a heavy dose of blacks and other minorities..

U being 1 or 2 out of say 40 white people is really hard..

I experience that and man some days even though i never had racism in my face i felt racism was there..U HAVE TO BE BLACK TO UNDERSTAND THAT....it makes u want to hurt someone

 

[AlainLocke]

Underlying genetic vulnerability exacerbated by hostile conditions.

Either way I completely understand where he's coming from because he felt if Uber fired him he'd have a scarlett letter (especially rejecting a bid from Apple and potentially burning that bridge) become permanently unemployed, have his Wife divorce him and have to endure what the average Black Man has to deal with. Going in and out of jail from back child support and being a "has been" is a worse feeling than a "never was" because you remember when times were good and your Wife still wanted to fukk you and your kids looked up to ya.

Many of yall won't understand that a fall from grace is something that White Men fear worse than death and a Black Man typically will never have the "privilege " of experiencing. But when we fall we typically statistically don't get back up. His liabilities were high (Wife, 2 kids and mortgage) and leverage is low (affirmative action, declining white guilt and Patel Jr. H1-B ready chomping at his heels to take his job and perform at 65% for 50% of his pay).

Investigative reports will reveal he got put on a PIP and they gonna be paying OUT DEE AZZZ for this bullshyt...

A lot of yall don't realize how vulnerable brothers in Corporate Amerikkka are. One wrong move and we get knocked out the box for good. I've gotten fired early in my career was able to pivot back even stronger and laid off recently and came back from the dead again. But I'm in NYC and not Wonderbread capital of the world SF. And my fixed liabilities are low (No mortgage, no kids)

Have I thought of it at least 2x in my life ? Yes. And if you say you haven't then you're lying or never were up or had anything to lose to begin with. I have a Samurai mentality though. As I rather die by my own hand then utilized as a warm body in a White man's jail cell for being homelessness or other trumped up charges. Men in general but especially in America our identity is in our production. If we don't produce anything -We're considered dead by our Women. This man was on the verge of being let go and likely already reached out to recruiters on the low who gave him the run around and shuck jive two step. He probably concluded he'd be viewed as unemployable in the next couple of years lose everything and then what's the point in becoming another Black Male broke underemployed statistic?

I wish I had answers. My only solution is don't reproduce until you can feed your liabilities (Wife, kids, home) without full time employment. These days that's a cool MILLION easy....Good fukking luck.

I would rep you but I can't...

But pretty much this...

This dude probably thought he was better off dead than alive since he had an entire plan about working at Uber and Uber gave him the cold shoulder...

Now what he gonna do?

Go back to making 5 figures and he already went off and stunted and spoiled his wife and children...

He rather be dead.

 

[Rawtid]

Be mentally ill brehs

Blame racism brehs

So you don't think racism ties in any way to mental illness?

 

[AlainLocke]

Sad part is it doesn't get easier as we move up.

An Inside Look at What’s Keeping Black Men out of the Executive Suite

Black people need to decide how bad they want to be "successful"

Every nikka basically gotta be Jackie Robinson on a corporate level...

Is making 6 figures really worth that...

And if you decide it's worth that...well...this Uber engineer's end is a reality...

He could've stayed in Atlanta with other Black people, live a comfortable life...but no...he wanted to go to Uber...and look at what he got...

 

[Voice of Reason]

Be mentally ill brehs

Blame racism brehs

Neg

 

[AlainLocke]

So you don't think racism ties in any way to mental illness?

It's scientifically proven that racism shortens the lifespan and destroys the health of Black people...but let a smart dumb nikka say otherwise...

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/how-racism-impacts-health/
How Racism Is Bad for Our Bodies
http://www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/ethnicity-health/racism-stress.aspx
How Racism Is Bad For Your Health

 

[cjlaw93]

Choose not to move to Atlanta brehs

 

[mamba]

That's why I'm glad i work with a heavy dose of blacks and other minorities..

U being 1 or 2 out of say 40 white people is really hard..

I experience that and man some days even though i never had racism in my face i felt racism was there..U HAVE TO BE BLACK TO UNDERSTAND THAT....it makes u want to hurt someone

That's what some of the Coli brehs fail to understand.

In tech, as an African American, you are isolated.

You see all your Indian co-workers huddled up for lunch, Chinese huddled up, cacs huddled up, etc.

Right off the bat, you're up against steep odds in terms of having the same access to written and unwritten information by virtue of a lack of a natural network of peers. Which folks in other groups readily share among their own. Not to mention a lack of mentors who look like you, etc.

Then, the few nikkas actually around get on their shyt in an effort to not appear too Black!

How many of you Coli brehs actually see Black people--African Americans specifically--at your jobs openly having lunch together? 5 to 10 deep?