Election Thread

[Doc]

I used to work for a local University, and sat on a few hiring committees. We had to run all of our hiring decisions through the affirmative action office, but never had any problems, even when hiring a "majority" candidate. There were never any quotas that we had to fill.

Edited to add- I think one of the reasons that the system worked so well for us was that we had a pretty coherent system of screening applicants and interviewees agreed upon in advance, so it was pretty clear that our decisions were based on the merits of the candidate.

For the love of God we need more of that here. A lot of positions, like library, various city jobs, parking clerks, various government desk jobs, all of these are hired through the Employment Office. A lot of places here can't do their own hiring because of wretched nanny influence. Beaurocracy has concluded that a lot of these places can not be trusted to hire on their own, so, the positions are filled through the SCEO. Sadly, the SCEO is a major dumping ground for Affirmative Action. About a year or so ago, maybe two by now, there was a real problem with the minority rule in the SCEO... All of the minorities hired to fill quotas decided that white folks didn't deserve to work and started destroying their applications. The solution? Hire more minorities and increase quotas so they wont feel "left out of society." Jesse Jackson had his hands in that mess. Damn.

Ever seen a government desk jockey that had to type with a pencil because her damn press on nails were 3 inches long? The department of social services, the social security offices, the department of health and human services are all FULL with folks like these. People who can barely read, people who have to read outloud very very slowly carefully pronouncing each and every word, can't do simple math, have no manners, damn sure can't use a computer with any real skill, can't type, can't do a damn thing. All they can do is fill a quota.

Quagmire. I don't see an end to this mess.

I miss the open minded idealism of the west coast.