He made one obvious mistakehttps://t.co/A5IRsuwC2Z

— Vorraine (@TOA_Painting) April 5, 2023

Conversely, if you're a black woman and basically just graduate high school then you'll get into all of them just by signing your name on an application.

White males should get good at building / fixing ***** We will be responsible for rebuilding after clown world collapses.

alternatively, just lie and say you're 25% latino or something. my mexican ass went to an admitted latino students weekend at duke way back when and 80% of the other attendees looked like they could have been the children of mike pence and laura ingraham

It's not about equality, it's about making retribution a virtue. Vengeance based on race, even though nobody involved in the past offenses is involved anymore.

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and then be blamed all over again.

And yet there still persists this narrative that minorities are somehow discriminated against in hiring practices and education when all of the empirical evidence is completely counter to that.

As a SWM, having to hear about companies DEI initiatives is really frustrating. They're basically saying "we prioritize people other than you because of their skin color and sexual preferences" and rub it in pretty much every employees face.

Um ok...what might one call that? Discrimination?

Oh no...it's DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION.

I still see that bull**** copypasta meme on linkedin about "I submitted X amount of applications with a white sounding name and X amount of applications with a black sounding name and the white sounding name got more interviews!!!" Sure. that might have been true a decade ago.

Every single application asks you to identify your race, and your gender, and if you are hispanic or not, if youre a veteran or if you are disabled... so what good would using a "black name" versus a "white name" matter anyway, they can just see what you self-report as.

And with as many companies pumping each others asses over DEI, there's no way there is discrimination towards minorities anymore. It's clearly reversed trend.

White males are being groomed to be beta males. Kinda sad thing to watch.

The absolute brain drain that will occur in America is gonna be insane. You're gonna see entire national rail networks halt for days at a time in the next decade - all because there were some "normal, expected delays" due to "staff issues." https://t.co/KmzM6Io5pD

— ☀️AliquisNovus☀️ (@AliquisNovus) April 5, 2023

Oh gosh, I hope this doesn't have any future consequences for infrastructure, scientific research, engineering, or anything else that actually matters. 😬 https://t.co/UJQltaLqpm

— 🔺ʀᴇᴍɴᴀɴᴛ. (@remnantposting) April 5, 2023

We're going to see many technical fields destroyed because of this.

That may be the only way to kill DEI for sure: give them garbage information and date them to call you out on it, such that EVERY candidate is a "protected minority".

Claim non-binary sexuality or any tiny bit of ethnicity, and I mean EVERYONE. Flood the system with garbage information.

I was told back in 1985 by Texas A&M's Co-op director that with my GPA, he could send me to all their top companies (eg Motorola; big at yhe time) if I was a female or a minority, but because I was a white male, my options would be very limited, so this thing has been going on for a long time.

I was kind of shocked at how "matter of fact" he said it, but there were no witnesses, so I suppose he felt he could be more candid. Also, the limitation wasn't caused by him or the university, but by what the corporations would likely accept. So, yeah, long time. The lack of women and minorities in STEM fields is absolutely NOT due to systematic racism against them. Quite the opposite.

This thread is a hot button for me. Seeing my sons go through it as one is in college and the other will be soon. My youngest in particular would be upset watching that video as it sounds like the future for him.

As for me I'm in Technical Recruiting and have a highly successful record and 25 years of experience and was laid off recently. The company I worked for is overwhelmingly Engineers and overwhelmingly male except for one area, HR. Among the recruiters they kept hiring females and a young gay guy that wears pride shirts to work. I knew my days were numbered. The thing I just kept shaking my head at was in meetings they would all complain about how they had issues with the hiring managers (for some reason 20 and 30 something women with liberal arts degrees don't relate well with 40 and 50 year old engineers) and I got along great with them, especially the ones they had the most trouble with that were "mean". I actually could have in depth conversations with them about their technology and what they needed and knew when to push back and how, I also could relate with them.

I knew I would be the first to go as things tightened up though because I didn't fit with the rest of the group. I did everything I could to be friendly and professional but I still stuck out. They seemed especially annoyed with me as they would talk about their divorces and failed relationships and I would sometimes mention how I had been married for almost 28 years with 2 amazing boys. So when I got my notice I wasn't surprised similar thing happened to me many years ago.

It amazes me how many recruiting jobs I apply for now and the managers are ether female or minority or both and have DEI stuff all over their profiles. I actually have a great record of hiring minorities and women but it is because I focus on finding a great candidate and then pushing them to hiring managers instead of pressing hiring managers to hire based on "targets". I have always had very strong response rates and have a strong network but there just aren't many jobs out there and so many of them are DEI focused and a middle aged white dude isn't what they want even if they don't implicitly say it. I refuse to play the game and put pronouns in my bio and make up some diversity language in my resume even though I probably could as I understand how to be successful at it more than the "experts". It amazes me how every time they push one of these DEI initiatives and try to force it the turnover rates are 2 or 3x other employees and they can't understand why or they don't care because they already hit their number.

Been doing this long enough though to know that competence counts and eventually someone wants an "old school" recruiter that knows how to find technical talent. I am thinking of going back to being my own agency again so I don't have to worry about it anymore but I really prefer sinking my teeth into a company and helping them grow. God has a plan and it'll be fine and I've found that all of the most challenging and difficult times in my life and career had a greater purpose to put me on a better path even when I had no way of seeing it at the time.

As a positive/negative it is giving me more time to waste on Texags until I get my next gig.