Anonymous wrote:HR is a dumping ground for the worthless and unproductive.

I must ask, why do you feel this way? For the record, I don't work in HR.

OP here- wow, lots of responses. I don't think my question came from a racist place... but I have noticed a trend and I have been curious!

HR is a dumping ground for the worthless and unproductive.

Mostly AA women at my state u.

By the way, here is a good article (not Wikipedia, but a US news article) explaining what a pink-collar worker is

http://money.usnews.com/money/careers/articles/2012/09/10/the-pink-collar-job-boom

Anonymous wrote:Sigh.
Woman of color here. As far as business classes go, I found the HR classes to be more interesting. When I was looking for work (in the Midwest) I mostly encountered white women that worked their way up from admin roles. I never got hired in HR and in my agency it is a good mix of different ethnic groups. I think locally there are more minorities in HR but that is not the case in every city.

This thread even suggests that many of you posters feel minorities aren't suited for technical roles.

No, at my place of employment it is not that they aren't suited but that they aren't as interested in technical roles.

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This opinion, all over this thread, is insulting. .

I would just like to clarify that, when I typed "insulting", I meant "racist". I don't mean you ARE a racist, but you should be aware that that's the implication by these statements so you don't.....you know.....say them out loud to anyone.

I disagree. If OP or anyone else here has an opinion, I want to hear it, and to discuss it, not to censor it.

I actually do not think OP was being racist. It is just a question. People wonder that short of thing. The responses are racist. People have racist thoughts all of the time, whether that's their general state of being or not. Sometimes they should just keep their traps shut. People should censor themselves..... at work in particular, so as not to offend others. Think before you type, people.

Sigh.
Woman of color here. As far as business classes go, I found the HR classes to be more interesting. When I was looking for work (in the Midwest) I mostly encountered white women that worked their way up from admin roles. I never got hired in HR and in my agency it is a good mix of different ethnic groups. I think locally there are more minorities in HR but that is not the case in every city.

This thread even suggests that many of you posters feel minorities aren't suited for technical roles.

Anonymous wrote:Why are so many plumbers fat?

If they were fit and handsome, no DH would let them in

I'm still wondering why men even venture into the HR world? The ones I've come in contact with really aren't qualified to work in that field but then again, so are many women. I've had so much of my information screwed up by them that I now do most of the footwork on my own before venturing to them.

My HR has mainly white and black with a few other races mixed in..

My aunt has a degree in HR. She's no longer in that field. When I asked why she decided on that, she said she was told it was an "easy degree" for most minorities to get. I don't know anything about the degree aspect for HR as I didn't get mine in that nor was I interested in that career field.

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Anonymous wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink-collar_worker Nurse and teacher are listed.

Just because you just edited the Wikipedia entry 5 minutes go to include it doesn't make it right.

"I read it on the Internet so it must be true"

wtf? Why so defensive. Nurses and teachers are pink collar jobs. It's not a bad thing. They're just female dominated and were the first careers women gained access to.

Anonymous wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink-collar_worker Nurse and teacher are listed.

Just because you just edited the Wikipedia entry 5 minutes go to include it doesn't make it right.

"I read it on the Internet so it must be true"

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Anonymous wrote:

This opinion, all over this thread, is insulting. .

I would just like to clarify that, when I typed "insulting", I meant "racist". I don't mean you ARE a racist, but you should be aware that that's the implication by these statements so you don't.....you know.....say them out loud to anyone.

I disagree. If OP or anyone else here has an opinion, I want to hear it, and to discuss it, not to censor it.

I spent most of 2015 interviewing for jobs. The HR managers I have encountered this year:

Indian woman
Black woman
White woman (x3)
White man
Hispanic man
Black man

These have all been private sector employers.

Why are so many plumbers fat?