boyce watkins talk about this...but black men get hyper tension, do drugs and drink because the pressure is too much....im telling u...our conditions aren't normal....
Suicide of a Black Uber engineer: Widow blames job stress and racism
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Exactly brotha. If it is that serious you leave......your wife and children need you alive. Then if you kill yourself not only do they lose you......your life insurance is voided and then you leave your family with nothing.
R.I.P. to breh. I'm glad I've had my brehs to vent to and vice versa because we've def been in that position before too. It's important for us to have people that share our background to vent to after we check out of the office.
Uncle Kendrick
I'm just bout that action
It is important that black men and women have an outlet to decompress from the workplace. A place where we can mingle among people who look like us and talk about our ambitions, goals, relationships, and our personal issues. For some it could with family, a social club, a fraternity, an online based community etc. It's unfortunate that our brother felt like suicide was his only option.
Ineedmoney504
SOHH ICEY...WE EATIN
ZKG bounce from job to job whenever we want. Your boss is a dikk head? Tell him to fukk himself, then find a new job.
Having a family means putting your ego aside and doing what's best for them. It's not easy to just up and leave a job when you have mouths to feed, and you've invested so much time and energy into it. I sympathize with the breh cus I know I couldn't handle that kind of stress. But I would've shot up the office first.
RIP
Going postal
Not to mention that added pressure of social media nowadays. Breh was only 34, which means his 20s came and went with the rise of Facebook, Instagram, etc.
A lot of wives value the status of their husbands titles, professions, etc.
Breh was carrying the weight of all of that.
We need Capitol and Blacks in position to create these businesses.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, performance reviews, 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.
He couldntt move back. Atlanta is full.
I'm a Software Engineer. My base salary is close to what he was making. I worked at a company that hired mostly H-1B visa ppl because they could pay them less and force them to work longer hours. Management would assign us projects that would usually take 3-4 weeks and expect them to be done in 1 week. My manager would be over my shoulder all day long watching my every move. the job was paying very well so I was trying to ride it out for as long as I could. I was with that company for 9 months until one day I couldn't take it anymore. I took an early lunch break and never returned to the office. I got a new job 2 weeks later with a higher salary, cool manager and less stressful work environment. Moral of my story is If You Dont Like Where You Work Get a New fukking Job!!!!
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G*d dammit. I wish this didn't happen. fukk Uber for real I been saying for a long time there is a huge culture problem at that company.
Black engineers at these ultra-competitive tech companies are hard to come across. I try to search and learn all the black people who work at them. I never knew about this breh though. By the looks of them pics, he looks like he was not a tap dancing nikka for them cacs.
How could he sink so low so fast? Had a black wife and black kids and the talent to take his family very far in life. This is sickening.
Black engineers at these ultra-competitive tech companies are hard to come across. I try to search and learn all the black people who work at them. I never knew about this breh though. By the looks of them pics, he looks like he was not a tap dancing nikka for them cacs.
How could he sink so low so fast? Had a black wife and black kids and the talent to take his family very far in life. This is sickening.
Nah...that wasn't just work stress. He had been courted by Apple so there shouldn't have been any pressure to remain with Uber. Or any other job for that matter. There's dudes out here with NO job and families to support. Yo body yourself, leaving a wife and kids, because your job was stressful? Nah...something else going on here.
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King of Creampies
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Dam this is sad and his wife is a fine woman.
Wish breh wouldn't of went out like that, can't let no cacs get to you like that, they want you to break. But I'll never know what he was really going through to make him lose hope like that. RIP
