Onboarding onto my project and my manager said I shouldn’t have a problem getting approvals because “I have a generic name like him and won’t require Visa approval”🤦🏾‍♀️

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Lmaoo sometimes it just b like that. All the south Asian ppl on my project had a hellish time onboarding/getting approval despite being born in the US.

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We can thank the Brits for that Colonial South Indian takeover.

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Err sc1, first of all that statement is generalized and in general wrong. I didnt even get the whole context but first tons of northeast eastern states have english sounding names, so does goa . If you mean more English sounding names that is. And of course there is kerela too.

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