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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]it's so hard.

when dh lost his job just before the pandemic, it coincided with the apex of all this and he had multiple interviews for over a year where people said look - you are not a diverse candidate and that counts against you. I think the issue is that DEI has too often been either presented as or misconstrued as an 'at the expense of' situation. which actually runs counter to the entire premise. I dont know the answer but it sucked at the time. [/quote]

Utter BS [/quote]

Not this poster, but why do you think this is BS?  I work for a large organization and our hiring practice is if all things are equal, hire the diverse candidate.  It does count against you not to be a diverse candidate.  I can also tell you with certainty it is much more difficult to deal with performance issues with a diverse employee.  They will get a lot more chances and a lot more rope than a white person.  No one cares if you fire a white person.

The issue (to me) is there are so many environments, systems, and employers where black people genuinely are discriminated against and are treated unfairly.  Those persist and then in these more DEI-forward environments, or whatever we want to call it, the pendulum has swung so far the other way it's causing other problems that I believe actually hurt the issue overall in the end.

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I was on a call with a large Federal agency last year about increasing diversity in the workplace and was so disgusted. They said that as long as someone meets the minimum qualifications for a position, then hiring managers should be picking the "diverse" candidate. No consideration for the "non-diverse" who have strong qualifications above the minimum such as an advanced degree, extensive experience etc. The message couldn't have been more clear. [/quote]

One of the few advantages of a Trump presidency is that this will go away pretty quickly. His team clearly have their knives out for the Fed bureaucracy and DEI metrics will be the first to be devastated. I can't entirely blame them. [/quote]

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