Name bias

Article at bbc.com yesterday about name bias of employers and educational institutions.

I actually completely forgot about the time many years ago when I changed my name and gender legally and suddenly my job searching was no longer as easy as a knife cutting through butter.

As someone who had been very accustomed to job searching and going on interviews, often meeting with very high-level staff at different companies, I noticed a big difference. That is not to blame anyone either or to not accept my own personal responsibility.

But I did eventually become despondent and eventually left my profession, not only for that reason, but because I felt that, to continue doing what I did, it required continuing education which, unfortunately, was not available in a form I considered appropriate.

While they want to spend billions developing the city with all this money, where is the educational establishment to go with it? Education is only for the entitled class. If you do not make the grade for the entitled class, you can get state-sponsored flunkie-level education.

And I was always a bit bothered that companies usually expect technical employees to have all this knowledge, but then most don’t do crap to promote or provide educational training of their staff.

Downtown in my city should be the best public education system in the world. But what the city gets is a system that has been hijacked by the pro-illegal lobby and provides lots of classes at the flunkie-level.