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Overall, I think it's pathetic that there is this outdated working ethic still being played out amongst the Asian community

No, that's just plain wrong. I've seen/heard many instances where non-asian managers are overworking their staff. This is a problem with the entire tech industry (actually in other fields as well), don't blame it on one ethnicity.

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of course but what's interesting to note is that there were no managers overworking the Asian engineers, they were doing it to each other. I never blamed it on one ethnicity I just saw the discrepancy that was commonly acknowledged by other people working in the industry.

of course but what's interesting to note is that there were no managers overworking the Asian engineers

Well, that's your opinion of what you saw. Have you asked the Asians why it is they "overwork"? And what of the non-Asians that were working past 5? What would you call it?

I already went into lengths to discuss why I think this might be more prevalent amongst visible minorities in my other post so just read that. Also this came out of a discussion with several Asian engineers/workers from wide variety of industry not just tech in Vancouver.

In fact, non-Asian co workers thought it was unfair and actually spoke out against them working overtime without need but it fell on deaf ears.

Also I'd use > or the quote formatting to make it clear you are replying to my excerpts to avoid confusion.

Ok, have a good night.

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