Subj : Re: Neuralink
To   : Moondog
From : Dennisk
Date : Thu Aug 20 2020 22:16:00

-=> Moondog wrote to Dennisk <=-

 Mo>   Re: Re: Neuralink
 Mo>   By: Dennisk to Vk3jed on Wed Aug 19 2020 10:33 pm


 >
 > On a side note, I find it very amusing that companies always talk of the val
 > of diversity, because of different views, etc,blah, blah, but they
 > simultanesouly want people who fit the company "culture".
 >
 >

 Mo> Companies also hire lesser skilled recruits because of their diversity
 Mo> rather than experience and knowledge.  I'm not sure if this is done
 Mo> because they believe diversity outweighs experience and knowledge, or
 Mo> they are afraid to be ridiculed and judged if they didn't choose
 Mo> diversity.  On one project I worked on a department supervisor told me
 Mo> they were sent an edict from HR that theu must always hire the most
 Mo> diverse candidate, period.  However, if they were asked, they were told
 Mo> to deny it.

This happens more than you think, the outright discrimination.  What is odd is
how HR openly states to managers to hire this way.  I think the reasons are
mostly shallow.  Executives and managers want to be seen to be doing the right
thing, to be on track with the "current thinking" and do what it takes to have
a good brand name.  Arguments that it improves the bottom line, I don't know if
they believe it or not.  There is a lot, a LOT of "motivated reasoning" when it
comes to matters like this.  You want to believe what is good for your career. 
People that can actually think for themselves, wont' do well in such positions,
just like people in a church who can question and think independently may run
afoul of the church if the thought process lead them astray.


 Mo> I worked on one project where I'm guessing one of my co-workers was
 Mo> hired due to diversity.  He was a smart guy originally from Honduras,
 Mo> however he had a weight restriction of 10lbs due to a car accident.  We
 Mo> were rolling out desktop systems and would have to pick up as much as
 Mo> 50lbs.  He would've been better suited working in the call center than
 Mo> assigned to working on a deployemnt team.  We had a similar project
 Mo> involving some interns from a local tech school, however they were best
 Mo> used when kept in the staging area performing desktop imaging and
 Mo> outprocessing the old equipment.

I have similar stories, but we don't live in a free society, so I'll leave it
at that.

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