At Meta, 90% of my coworkers were Chinese, and non-Chinese were routinely excluded, disadvantaged, and targeted for layoffs.

推上蛮火的帖子 这人美韩混血 被layoff了
https://x.com/jeremybernier/status/2058243373161722185

我知道发过了

明显是被layoff气不过 破防了

但我觉得说中文这点挺有意思的

老中大声说中文 不把美国人放在眼里 (可惜开会用英文 抓不到把柄)

The most blatant and obvious way that non-Chinese are excluded is that Chinese primarily speak Mandarin at work. I’m not talking about one-off conversations, I’m talking about every single conversation. Loudly and brazenly with no respect for others. 10+ teammates and leaders having a group conversation in Mandarin while the 2 non-Chinese don’t understand and feel excluded from the team. Although everyone at least has the decency to speak English during formal meetings with a non-speaker present, it was common that right after the meeting ended everyone would immediately switch to Mandarin.

吃中饭不带他

Lunch was another place where non-Chinese were blatantly excluded. Recall that the team I joined was an all Chinese team with only one other non-Chinese person. The Chinese would always get lunch together and never invite us (except for one of them who occasionally would, though at some point stopped). Me and the non-Chinese person would invite them, they’d always refuse, and then shortly after they’d disappear and get lunch together. As a result, it was usually just the two of us getting lunch. (caveat, some of the newer Chinese who joined afterwards also experienced similar treatment. So it’s moreso a clique thing than a Chinese vs. non-Chinese thing, though 100% of the clique was Chinese)

On Wednesdays and Fridays I’d often be the only non-Chinese person on my team in the office, and they’d all get lunch together without inviting me. It was depressing, and made me not want to come into the office on those days.

喷完又叠甲

I want to make it clear - I have nothing against Chinese people. Most of them are very kind (strong correlation between kindness and not engaging in the kind of exclusionary behavior I mentioned above), and I have many good friends who are Chinese. I get that some barely speak English (though I question how they got hired). I do genuinely believe that most are good people, and not deliberately trying to exclude others. But regardless of intent, the result is that non-Chinese get excluded. The fact that 6 of the 7 layoffs I observed were not Chinese in a 80-90% Chinese dominated org is testament to this. The fact that 90% Chinese dominated orgs even exist in the first place is testament to this.

我想起两年前泥潭的帖子

我们老中也有今天啊 :star_struck: :star_struck: 在AI领域享受majority

说实在的 老中占多数的组 真的没动力说英文 变扭

就比如说怎么翻译 老钟 old clock? 还有泥潭 :locked:男 , 摸 :fish: , 完全不是一个语境

下面回帖怼应该学中文 融入团队 老美无能狂怒 哈哈

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