| ▲ | kuerbel 2 hours ago |
| Also swiss here. So many people seem to think that this is about refugees. Wrong. It's about Europeans. Mostly Germans. They are educated and highly skilled and for some swiss, that's a problem. They blame them for not finding a job or an appartement. Just read the comments on inside paradeplatz, you can translate with any llm, on a post about the referendum. A subset of the swiss Middle class has decided that they don't like competition, they want them gone. Of course they themselves are never the problem, the german with a middle management position is however, because quote "they are only hiring other Germans". Also voted no of course. |
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| ▲ | jansport123 an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| seems to be a common concern amongst the local population everywhere "X identity is hiring only X identity" |
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| ▲ | xenonite an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes, we have a really well recognized Spanish team lead here, yet he’s mostly hiring Spanish people (in Switzerland), oh yes and one Italian is the exception. Also we had a German team lead hiring Germans, well surprise it is easier being with similar ones. Diversity back in the day meant Physics, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering working together… | | |
| ▲ | meken 37 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I’m an American and I just had the thought - if I was working in Japan at a Japanese company and I had the opportunity to hire, would I have a bias to hire other Americans? Honestly probably, since I understand them the best. | | | |
| ▲ | deepsun 32 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Yes, and that's normal (except for maybe eastern European cultures who better hire an American/west European). | |
| ▲ | vasco 30 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | > well surprise it is easier being with similar ones. It's not easier dealing with people from your own country but it is biased. From someone who has hired hundred+ remote developers in europe for 10 years to lead them and out of those hired a total of 2 people from my country. Wouldn't have been hard either. At the same time I see some managers doing this, currently in another fully remote company have a manager colleague that has hired 3 brazillians back to back. Go figure. Just shows you that it's a biased person in other respects (we all are) and that they make zero efforts to keep it in check (this is a decision you make). |
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| ▲ | einpoklum an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The text of the proposal disagrees with your claim. Or - are there lots of Europeans seeking asylum in Switzerland? |
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| ▲ | 0xWTF 30 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Swiss as racists. Amazing. People know Americans harbor racist feelings because they are surrounded by people of many races. But it's trivial to demonstrate racism among any population as soon as you introduce an "other" of virtually any type. |
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| ▲ | xenonite 11 minutes ago | parent [-] | | No it isn’t racism as Germans had the same skin color. Keep in mind that Germans aren’t stereotypical anymore. In Switzerland live over 41% migrants and children of migrants (just 8.4%). So the native Swiss are not just “surrounded” but greatly diminished. |
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