It's about time people protested Silicon valley's discriminatory hiring practices.

Silicon Valley high tech firms are on the hot seat over accusations that they're not hiring enough minorities. Three non-profit groups targeted Google for a protest because it wouldn't provide a breakdown of its workforce by race or ethnicity.

You'd think horror stories from the 1950's against women in the work place would be gone. But not in high tech, according to the New York Times. Nope. Below is a story of a women trying to obtain funding for a start-up:

CANDACE FLEMING’S résumé boasts a double major in industrial engineering and English from Stanford, an M.B.A. from Harvard, a management position at Hewlett-Packard and experience as president of a small software company.

In my opinion, anyone who has worked in the Bay Area knows Silicon valley doesn't believe in hiring Black people, women, Hispanics and especially anyone over the age of 35. If they do, it's as token whatever and maybe cannon fodder to be hit on for a date.

The National Black Chamber of Commerce is calling this Jim Crow after the discriminatory segregation laws.

Finally a major news organization covers an ad most U.S. techies see every day.

Fox News has discovered discriminatory job ads and this one says Help Wanted -- 'Arrogant Americans' Need Not Apply:

An information technology staffing firm based in Rolling Meadows, Ill., posted an advertisement for a technical writer that warned that an "arrogant American" would not flourish in the position.

Infosys, an Indian body shop company, is being sued. What's even better is what they are being sued about.

Who says you can't celebrate Thanksgiving?

Promila Awasthi, a Silicon Valley computer consultant, says her bosses at Infosys did.

In a lawsuit filed Monday in Alameda County Superior Court, Awasthi, an India-born American citizen, says her bosses at Infosys's Fremont ,Calif. office mocked her for observing American holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas and refused to pay her overtime according to California law.

Often we see brazen discriminatory job ads. This topic is to post them online, link to the original posting and the company.

For example, this ad by Technosoft Corporation, posted on Dice is brazenly discriminatory.

Title:
Audio Digital Signal Processing
Skills:
Audio DSP, Noise cancellation, echo cancellation, Debugging
Date:
6-19-2009
Description:

Take yourself back for a minute. Imagine you are in the 1960's, during the civil rights movement. Now imagine that some corporation in the United States said in a public speech all Blacks are unemployable simply because they are.....black. Now what would that be?

Today we have this:

Top Indian CEO: Most American Grads Are ‘Unemployable’.