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

[Fandroid]

Being around cacs all day mentally breaks you down, I'm telling you.

 

[AlainLocke]

suicide remains the easy way out for weak folk

So when the ancestors committed that to avoid being a slave...they should've just been a damn slave...

Yall nikkas need to really think when Black folks been committing suicide to avoid racism since the slaveship...

 

[Gold]

Persistent unbearable pain...

I think your family would understand this one.
I've actually been in this situation (as the family member).. and I understood.

Going to prison for life...

Hmm... I dunno

Shaming your family doing some extremely shady shyt...

Pretty sure your family would still want you around. Unless what you did would make them want to kill you themselves

 

[Fandroid]

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

Nah breh centuries of racism doesn't psychologicaly affect the average black person.

 

[NoChillJones]

I'm really trying to understand what is going on in some people's lives to push them to suicide.

That Black teenage couple and now this.

Now from reading this article briefly --- his life didn't seem hopeless or THAT painful.

What in his mind said "suicide is the only way" ?

From my side of things --- it wasn't really the job stress or racism. He was suicidal way before Uber. He just decided to do it now and used Uber as his excuse.

More then likely he was suicidal....being made to feel inadequate and or trapped..or disliked likely triggered those emotions...its sad he didn't feel like he could talk to anyone though

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

What a tragedy

Black men need professional help too..see a therapist when shyt gets hard brehs

 

[Fandroid]

No one knows why he really did it, and no one will....

Yeah I don't understand why this article was made.

 

[Neuromancer]

Black people don't address mental health post #46574655

 

[TillWeDie]

Subs, sad story....

 

[SeveroDrgnfli]

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.

 

[Hard Times Nakamura]

Yeah I don't understand why this article was made.

Awareness -Because Black people need to boycott working for Uber corporate. 1 suicide when we are only 1% of their corporate workforce is too much.

 

[Da King]

So when the ancestors committed that to avoid being a slave...they should've just been a damn slave...

Yall nikkas need to really think when Black folks been committing suicide to avoid racism since the slaveship...

Compare slavery to working at Uber brehs

Now we got two more black kids with no father

 

[Astroslik]

Heard Uber is a shytty place to work as well. Know a cac from high school that works there and he hates it. Couldn't imagine it for a black person

 

[semtex]

I'm a black software engineer myself. Glad I have a good work life balance

 

[DrX]

jobs cause mental breakdowns for black people....because u have to deal with racism, normal job stress, worldy stress and at home stress