Tell yourself that. You’re admitting that you trick white applicants to come in under the guise of an interview when you’re not hiring whites. You do realize this behavior fits several personality disorders. |
If you followed directions and read the post on 5/6 at 15:23 you would see that it has nothing to do with getting "Offered" the job. |
Clearly they hired white applicant with is why they only have white employees. No more giving a friend a job, just tell him he needs to apply and compete instead of getting a leg up from his buddy. |
So you're arguing white males are entitled to interviews? Btw you're using the example of a person who somehow managed to land a "high level detail" after and during his unsuccessful job applications as someone who has been oppressed in the job market. Come on. |
You're inventing an imaginary character in your head and then acting like it is some kind of gotcha to assume I am this character you invented. My workplace is majority White and has hired White people in the last 4 years. |
No, the problem here is that you're cruel for wasting people's time. And I know you're very smart because I had to spell this out. You can google applicant names and see if they're white, should you be so committed to racist hiring. As you've described, you were never going to consider them for a job anyhow, so don't bring them in. People spend hours, if not days, preparing for an interviews. They often buy new clothes to look sharp, take vacation days and/or arrange for childcare. Whether or not you work in an office with a high concentration of white people doesn't excuse the sadistic behavior. |
What does a previously obtained job have to do with an agency head telling this person that it was highly likely they weren't invited to interview because they are a white male. Are you saying that this hiring practice is fair because the person was successful in landing a job in the past? This is why we are going to have Trump 2.0. Just effin' great. |
Not only that, but slaves were often sold to other farms and plantations and separated from their families. Sometimes as young as 4 or 5. And sometimes a slave was forced to breed with another slave at the direction of their master. Sure, being poor is traumatic but being a black slave in 18th century America was a whole other trauma. |
And its also illegal. |
I don't think hiring practices are typically very fair. I think if a person can get a "high level detail" I am really not concerned about their prospects or the impact on them of a temporary, reactive effort among some employees to hire more POC. Lots of people get excluded from specific jobs for dumb reasons. |
pp here whose husband didn't get multiple jobs bc they self reported needing a diverse candidate.
i think what people get wrong is you are doing it wrong if your pool of candidates is not diverse NOT if you don't hire the diverse candidates. You have to actively seek sometimes a diverse candidate pool. If you have a pool of just white people, that's bad. Diversity is a strength. In those cases when I've hired I have actively sought to reach out to diverse candidates or work with talent to do it. But at the end of the day i hire the most qualified person. |
pp - he was unemployed for a year. this was at the height of covid when there was so much conversation about BLM and race was everywhere. He works in an industry which was facing a rough landscape overall, but accusations of racism were rife all over it at the time and no one wanted to hire a white male manager. I could actually understand given the tenor of the times, but it coincided with a major health problem of mine that I had to grind my way through because he was just freelancing and scrounging for work. It was hard. No one, but no one, sits around and thinks - oh well it's fair enough that i'm unemployed because x minority has been oppressed and therefore alan is more deserving of that role. They sit around thinking F*** i am poor and anxious. I think we have too often approached this with a blunt tool. We needed to be much smarter. How can you increase diversity, increase equity, increase inclusion without it being a zero sum situation? DEI consultants were brought in to help panicking companies cover their *sses, and do performative stuff, rather than - for example - forge real robust relationships with HBCUs and integrate a talent pipeline for example |
So he could get a job just not the one he wanted. Welcome to competition |
I used to get a lot of interviews and outreach on LinkedIn pre-Covid. My experience has actually gotten a lot more desirable. Nowadays, I apply for jobs that I am well-qualified for. I get *0* interviews. There’s another white guy in my field who is applying for many of the same jobs and we discuss (he also is getting no interviews). I track the jobs I apply for, around 67% have gone to women, about 30% have gone to POC. Many of these candidates have fewer years of experience and/or less meaty experience in the field. Some don’t have any direct experience in the specific field but in an adjacency. 1 job has been filled by a white guy who was way over qualified for the role. I haven’t had a recruiter reach out to me on LinkedIn in over 2 years. Fortunately I have a great job. But I’m resigned to the fact that I won’t be moving up (my company has conspicuously stopped promoting white guys to the level above me for the past year+… which has some merit because the senior leadership was rather homogenous so I do have some hope that once things get a bit more proportionate, there will be opportunities) and I won’t even be able to lateral somewhere. So I’m stuck for now. I am absolutely the best hire for a lot of openings I am applying for and am a top performer in my field - as I said, I used to have recruiters contacting me frequently and that has all ended. It’s absolutely a fact that white men are being discriminated against in a way that no one would ever accept if it was against other populations. |
A lot of these responses read like when white people tell black people that security doesn’t actually follow them around Best Buy in a targeted way.. |