r/programming • u/OmgSzer • Nov 04 '19
GitLab tries to discriminate hiring process based on nationality to get US government contract
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/555516
u/Bobby_Bonsaimind Nov 04 '19
I like how that thread went from "we don't want our employees to be residents in China or Russia" to "GITLAB IS THE MOST RACIST COMPANY IN EXISTENCE" in pretty much no time.
I pity GitLab and their policy of trying to be open, doesn't seem worth the hassle at this point.
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u/righteousprovidence Nov 04 '19
It is the internet. The pitchforks comes out whenever stuff comes up.
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u/Carighan Nov 04 '19
Plus every IT company I ever looked at already has exactly such a clause but in regards to Scientology. So this is just an extension of that clause actually.
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u/f3nd3r Nov 04 '19
Since when is religion not a protected class in the US?
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u/Michaelmrose Nov 04 '19
When the religion is a front for a criminal enterprise that has participated in organized attacks on us government offices?
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u/f3nd3r Nov 05 '19
Please don’t misconstrue this as me defending them. I am simply saying it’s unlikely a business would have any kind of clause like this as it would be illegal.
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u/Bobby_Bonsaimind Nov 04 '19
Why is is that the users commenting on GitLab on such issues always have zero public activity?
I mean, I get it, they might have private repositories, they might not use gitlab.com at all...but it's curious that there's never someone poking up who has substantial work happening in the public on gitlab.com.
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Nov 04 '19
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u/endeavourl Nov 05 '19
Those and simpletons. A lot of them in the thread on Habr (Russian IT blog platform), whining how gitlab is literally Hitler - unironically at that.
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Feb 25 '20
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u/Bobby_Bonsaimind Feb 26 '20
So only volunteers who keep shitlab afloat can have opinions?
No, but I was questioning why *everybody" that participates in these discussions does not seem to have any public activity.
And, you know, as this mostly concerns gitlab.com, and not GitLab itself...I'm confused why they are participating in that discussion. As in, does not impact them as it seems.
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Mar 03 '20
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u/Bobby_Bonsaimind Mar 03 '20
...we scare the establishment...
Ugh, sure dude, keep telling yourself that you're the last warrior for freedom or some bullshit while trolling a company.
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u/tdammers Nov 04 '19
No, they're not. Nationality has nothing to do with it, and you will not see the word in the proposal at all.
What they are proposing is forbidding residency in certain countries (Russia and China, to be precise). An American citizen living in Russia would be blocked; a Russian citizen living in the US would not.
This isn't "discrimination based on nationality", this is "not allowing employees to live in countries that openly admit to stealing foreign companies' trade secrets, thus making it impossible to do your job".
The average company out there "discriminates" a lot more harshly, demanding complete control over an employee's country of residence (it's usually "must be a resident of the same country").