re: Chief Diversity Officer?

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As far as safety. There's a reason the vast majority of refinery baws etc have all fingers etc. In old days guys hurt all the time. There's a reason it's rare nowadays.

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If anything a decent safety guy will at least ensure the compliance of the administrative and engineering controls in place

He's probably thinking of a QC guy. A lot of people use QA and QC as if they're the same but they're not.

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QA guy

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Cut out these departments and you'll be the reason we can't have nice things, from toilet paper and steak to tires and gasoline.

They might not like the safety man or QA guy because they enforce standards but they are worlds and above more important than any “diversity officer”

The only diversity in a high risk setting should be competent and incompetent and the incompetent shouldn’t be hired

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What do they do?

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Advocate for a preferred race of people in the workplace.

In fact, this kind of corporate position has been around for a while. I believe it started with German companies sometime in the early 1930s.

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Kind of like you should be less concerned that the guy operating on your heart is qualified, competent and careful

And more that he is brown, non-binary and woke.

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If he's operating on your heart, he's probably the most qualified, competent, and careful. And there's a good chance he's brown, but Indian brown, not urban.

Not too many companies in the business of making money will risk that just for PR points. My company has a director of diversity and inclusion, they do a ton of work/events in that area, yet the executives are a who's who of straight white dudes, albeit a lot of Jewish guys. Maybe it's different when you're publicly traded? I don't know and don't care.

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If my team gets too white I’m told I have to hire a minority. I’ve been forced to hire dumbasses in the past over very qualified candidates.

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Maybe this explains OweO & DavidtheGnome’s post counts here...

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But if a hiring process dictates that a quota of some sort must be met that isn’t based on competence

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I'm just saying I've never come across this. Granted, I've only worked for 3 companies over the last 12ish years, and was only involved in hiring at 1. It just seems more of a meme than reality to me. Kinda like the gender pay gap.

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Only person more useless than the QA guy or the Safety guy.

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dumb

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How do you train someone to be more diverse?

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By treating anyone that isn’t a straight, white male like you would a kid. Give them whatever they want and assure them their mistakes weren’t their fault.