• Katana314@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      From what I’ve read, Feb 5. I mostly divorced from Reddit, but /r/50501 has decent info.

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    My concern is that dei hiring practices are curtailing merit based hiring.

    I don’t care either way what ones political affiliations are or what one identifys as as long as they’re the best for the job.

    (This is simply a critical assessment of the issue and does not reflect any personal views on dei or what some refer to as woke)

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      My experience is that if DEI hiring ends in a bad hire, that the organization at large was likely going to do a bad hire anyway. Some people might find it easier to blame DEI, but the truth is that your leadership sucks at your business. DEI is a scapegoat.

      For example, people were jumping up and down at Boeing’s mission statement including DEI and pinning all their woes on that. Except the severe mistakes were made before that mission statement, and a more clear line can be drawn from how McDonnell Douglas leadership failed, got slurped up into Boeing, and ultimately somehow got to call the shots at Boeing.

      Hollow, insincere self congratulation around DEI was a common feature of bad leadership, but it’s not the cause of the problems. Plenty of successful companies with solid hiring also have DEI initiatives without detriment.

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        When they have connections based on a privileged upbringing so they should be considered first like a true american instead of those people who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps.

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        Where candidates have amazing credentials and accolades but are terrible at the job.

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      That’s why whenever I hear people claim someone was a DEI hire they always follow up with a meticulous assessment of their qualifications, awards, interview performance and achievements and they compare them accurately with another applicant that had better qualifications, awards, interview performance and achievements. They don’t simply look at the first non white cis het male in a position of power and scream ‘DEI!!!’ betraying the bigotry that is actually pushing this. No siree.

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    DEI had corporations promoting idiots because they represented a minority. We have idiots doing jobs they are not qualified for because of DEI. HOWEVER!!! I used to work for Nordstrom, I was an interviewing a tech, as a tech myself, the guy I wanted was damn good, smart as techs come, and hungry to make a name for himself, and Black. They chose the incompetent white boy that they felt fit the culture. SO! We went from hiring idiot white boys, to hiring idiots of different ethnicities. THIS DOES NOT FIX THE FUCKING PROBLEM YOU GOAT HOARDERS! Trumps merit, intelligence, requirements, sounds like what we should have been doing, I’m just concerned coming from him it’s a racist dog whistle and we are gonna be back to hiring idiot white boys…