My 1st incident in IT of dealing with racism was going to a career fair
The 1st vendor was some Asian guy who's a senior at some Asian-owned tech company; Handed him my resume and he just looked at me with thinly veiled disgust and reluctance; then proceeds to lecture me about how I needed to have "passion".
Passion is liberal, tech industry code-speak for non-black, exploitable and privileged enough to have had access to spare PCs to tinker with since the age of 7. I cut him off and told him to keep it to himself and moved on
2nd vendor was some company hiring for alot of PC repair positions. Table of about 7 representatives, Mostly white with a couple asians, and indians. They looked visibly uncomfortable and unsure what to say. Then, some 50yr old cac dude let's out a subtle sigh and tells me how I can go to their website...yada, yada. I already knew what time it is by that intense "I wanna call you a ni&&er, so bad" look in his eyes. Gave him my resume anyways. As expected, Never heard from them.
3rd vendor was the same shyt , I was fed up. It was clear as day, nobody was gonna fukk with me. they was
tough. That's when I just stared every single one of them Mfers in the eyes very intently and snatched my resume back and shook my head while walking off.
I ended up finding my 1st job on my own through indeed, It was an Asset Management job paying $18/hr; It was cool for a while until I noticed they had no intention of letting me cross train and learn other shyt so I can move up; Even though I showed I was more than capable. Also, they ended up hiring these herb ass dudes. One of them the son of the VP and the other the son of Director of purchasing. They did the bare minimum, sometimes less, but nobody in the office was going to say anything to them, so it was all on me to get shyt done or risk falling behind til I got burned out. Asked the manager to put me on a 3 day work schedule. That's when I got heavy on my self-study grind and started prepping for my exit.
2 months later got a VDI support/SysAdmin job (hell of a leap, I know) paying 28/hr. shyt changed my life, But there was alot of shyt that came along with that as well. This irritating middle aged gay cac was always trying to instigate shyt and had a fukked up attitude in general. Had an incdient where another breh was in a meeting with me getting training. He's trying to cram in some snack to keep his blood sugar up and the mic is picking it up. Gay cac comes over furious like he bout to wreck some shyt, slamming his hands on our cubicle and shouting and cursing and threatening us. I motioned to get up but OG breh was quicker on the draw and he got up and was about to come around that cubicle and beat his azz. Me and OG breh decided to calm down and just WFH for the rest of the day to keep from killing this fukking bytch ass cac. As we're walking out of our little room, we see a soultrain line of MFers who came from all over the office to huddle around our room because the commotion between us and that gay cac.
Multiple people witnessed the shyt but our manager insisted that we were imagining the problem. I wanted to kill this MF, quite literally for even having the gall to try and gaslight me and OG breh. Me and OG breh started holding secret Webex meetings to talk about all the fukk shyt and to make sure we synchronized with each other to Cover our asses just in case. When OG breh left for something better, Once again everything was on me. I was the one knocking out 170-210 tickets per month while the gay cac, still gainfully employed is doing the bare minimal. The other people on my team were mostly people who didnt have acces for MONTHS. except this other older breh who was a complete fukkin idiot who tried to throw me under the bus when the heat was on his ass for fukking something up.
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I found another job paying $85k soon after and they were fukked.
Long post, but I just want to give my personal story of shyt I 've deal with in IT. If you black and got the money, lawyer the fukk up just in case. and Document everything.
most of these white owned asian owned tech companies not letting black folks in the door like that...
Anything black positive is banned. You can't say shyt on there either. I swear most black people love to take shyt from whitey.
...'cause she's excited for the weekend, as her friends and she are driving to Vegas to see Migos. Y'all know how white folks do the "ROCK ON DUDE" hand sign, but with their hands in front of their chest, pointed at an angle? That's exactly what she did, with her right leg raised in the air for some reason, when she told us, "...and I'm PUMPED!" 
Brehs, I'm so glad the elevator arrived for her then, 'cause five seconds later dude and I were fukking on the floor crying laughing. 
Most everyone I know of who wasn't black's main "friend group" were their co-workers. They do everything with each other. After work, dinner together. Weekend events together.
I'm not even Christian. 
But, I grew up in church like most black kids in my age group and gospel music from my era still goes. So many people were aggy af at me that day, but fukk it, I was in a Christ-like mood jammning out Fred Hammond, Mahlia Jackson, Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, James Cleveland, etc. etc. 
