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re: My company just instituted racial quotas

Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:13 am to
Posted by Turbeauxdog
Member since Aug 2004
24273 posts
Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:13 am to
This is how we beat China economically, through race quotas.
Posted by trinidadtiger
Member since Jun 2017
19961 posts
Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:20 am to
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Remember when they would headhunt the best persons in their field. Now they will be headhunting for color to fill their ridiculous quotas.


Corporate America has been doing this for decades. Ill give you a few examples in my experience that would make you puke, but Id probably be sued.
Posted by MrLarson
Member since Oct 2014
34984 posts
Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:22 am to
This is so stupid

Non attainable goals unless you just hire tokens and dump their work off on the qualified employees.

Sometimes it's frustrating working for a small business but thank god I don't have to put up with shite like this. I'd lose my mind.
Posted by BugAC
St. George
Member since Oct 2007
57828 posts
Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:27 am to
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This is what I don't get. Capitalism would or should preclude such criteria.


Capitalism works on it's own merits. However, purposefully inserting a variable that prevents the capitalist model from functioning properly changes the end result.
Posted by Pianoman
New Iberia
Member since Dec 2003
2874 posts
Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:32 am to
Do what many of us have done and become self-employed....
Posted by mightyMick
Member since Aug 2018
3067 posts
Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:32 am to
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I still don’t understand why 13% of the population should make up 50% of leadership positions


Black privilege.
Posted by Muthsera
Member since Jun 2017
7319 posts
Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:34 am to
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Remind me of your company so I can cash out any money invested


If you're still asking this question, you don't yet understand that this is every company.

We are entering the Phase where companies now go public with their efforts to do this. It's no different than municipalities ordering their cops to execute non-complying perps then passing the buck to "independent review boards".

The single biggest things my company could do to help minorities would be

(1) to onshore manufacturing to depressed minority areas

(2) cut field headcount, increase wages and hours for hourly workers, begin applying predictable schedules for most work centers

(3) stop hiring the cheapest and most diverse Bay Area college grads to staff HQ, develop a genuine field -> HQ pipeline so that John or Jane Doe could start working the floor at $12/hr and see a path to corporate in front of them

Point #3 is the biggest roadblock to me. You have 80,000 candidates already working for you. You don't have to compete for them. You don't have to retrain them. With a commitment to remote work, you don't even have to find a regional fit. All you have to do is ask what they're interested in doing Next and find a way for them to do it.
This post was edited on 6/18/20 at 8:38 am
Posted by tiger91
In my own little world
Member since Nov 2005
40226 posts
Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:35 am to
I don’t think I’d want to be hired because I was a certain color — in my eyes that’s demeaning.

I mean I wouldn’t want to NOT be hired because of my skin color but I don’t want to be hired because of it either. Catch 22.
Posted by Bottom9
Arsenal Til I Die
Member since Jul 2010
25202 posts
Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:35 am to
Where do you work? I'm brown and this seems like a great opportunity for me.


I'm also a conservative but I can pretend to be a liberal. Been doing it for years now
Posted by thelawnwranglers
Member since Sep 2007
42312 posts
Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:37 am to
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Where do you work? I'm brown and this seems like a great opportunity for me.


I'm also a conservative but I can pretend to be a liberal. Been doing it for years now


Lol good for you
Posted by GeauxFightingTigers1
Member since Oct 2016
12574 posts
Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:38 am to
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I don’t think I’d want to be hired because I was a certain color — in my eyes that’s demeaning.

I mean I wouldn’t want to NOT be hired because of my skin color but I don’t want to be hired because of it either. Catch 22.


Yeah, its actually twice as bad... its pandering (which is racist) to the person that got the job and than a more qualified candidate loses out which would be due to a racist decision process.

I would rather someone hate my freaking guts than to pander to me like I'm not capable.
Posted by geauxbrown
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
27225 posts
Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:39 am to
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Professional and college athletics.


That’s not diversity. That’s rewarding the most qualified.
Posted by tigerfoot
Alexandria
Member since Sep 2006
61428 posts
Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:49 am to
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you don't yet understand that this is every company.
No, it is not. It may be the big national companies, but there are smaller companies out their churning it out with hungry, bright people being rewarded on their merit. That is why Trump is in office. If EVERY company succumbed to this mob PC mentality we would see every company fail. Some are enormous and will fail slowly, or just never be what they could. But it will damage every one of them.
Posted by CleverUserName
Member since Oct 2016
17441 posts
Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:52 am to
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Isnt this just asking for incompetence? Just hire unqualified people and watch the company sink.


Why do you think everything ran by government is a shite show?
Posted by RebelExpress38
In your base, killin your dudes
Member since Apr 2012
14303 posts
Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:53 am to
Is it a publicly traded company? Got a stock symbol for us?
Posted by jchamil
Member since Nov 2009
19469 posts
Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:55 am to
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If you're still asking this question, you don't yet understand that this is every company.


Maybe larger companies, this shite isn't going on in small businesses
Posted by AU86
Member since Aug 2009
26257 posts
Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:56 am to
If they run companies like they run cities or countries that corporation is done.



Posted by Langland
Trumplandia
Member since Apr 2014
15382 posts
Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:59 am to
This is admitting to black people that they aren't smart enough to get the job on merit. This is saying white people are better therefore black people need the help of white people to make it in this world.
Posted by xxTIMMYxx
Member since Aug 2019
17562 posts
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:00 am to
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Corporate America has been doing this for decades. Ill give you a few examples in my experience that would make you puke, but Id probably be sued.


Yea, there has been a strong push for diversity at my company. I haven't seen a white male hired in at least 5 years, and it's obvious some people are hired for diversity criteria.
Posted by ihometiger
Member since Dec 2013
12475 posts
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:01 am to
What industry are you in?
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