Sounds like your job shouldn’t have hired or promoted that white guy who didn’t know what he was doing. Just like my old company shouldn’t have hired that new chick who had zero work experience for an upper management position.
I don’t give a shit about inclusion or diversity. If someone is the best person for that job they should get that job. I don’t understand what is so complicated about this concept. If I only had one arm you wouldn’t fucking hire me to do your underwater welding.
Life isn’t fair. I do not care to force fairness. Everyone should have equal opportunity to do what they want, but nobody should be forced to make exceptions for special situations.
Right, so where’s that equality of opportunity? So many people won’t have that opportunity due to accident of birth or upbringing, class structure or demographic favoritism. Maybe it’s as simple as never seeing a good example to follow. We all lose out when they never have the opportunity.
In my example, my manager would typically not have that opportunity, and I would have lost out.
DEI was putting effort into looking for those situations, finding ways to identify or develop talent that would never have that opportunity. No one should get a pass or automatic favoritism, but it’s naive to believe we start from the same place with the same doors open in front of us
Sounds like your job shouldn’t have hired or promoted that white guy who didn’t know what he was doing. Just like my old company shouldn’t have hired that new chick who had zero work experience for an upper management position.
I don’t give a shit about inclusion or diversity. If someone is the best person for that job they should get that job. I don’t understand what is so complicated about this concept. If I only had one arm you wouldn’t fucking hire me to do your underwater welding.
Life isn’t fair. I do not care to force fairness. Everyone should have equal opportunity to do what they want, but nobody should be forced to make exceptions for special situations.
Equality of opportunity: Yes.
Equality of outcome: No.
Right, so where’s that equality of opportunity? So many people won’t have that opportunity due to accident of birth or upbringing, class structure or demographic favoritism. Maybe it’s as simple as never seeing a good example to follow. We all lose out when they never have the opportunity.
In my example, my manager would typically not have that opportunity, and I would have lost out.
DEI was putting effort into looking for those situations, finding ways to identify or develop talent that would never have that opportunity. No one should get a pass or automatic favoritism, but it’s naive to believe we start from the same place with the same doors open in front of us