Disparate impact is evidence of racism. Except when it impacts white people. In which case it's awesome. And then the disparate impact of firing white people to improve diversity can be celebrated with no fear of lawsuits whatsoever.
Oil major Chevron Corp expects to reduce the dominance of white males in company management during cost-cutting this year, upping the share of senior level jobs held by women and ethnic minorities to 44% from 38% last year, the company said in a statement.
Like most of its peers in an industry struggling with the collapse of oil prices this year, Chevron is cutting spending, consolidating business units, and has asked some managers to reapply for their jobs.
In an email sent to employees this week and seen by Reuters, Chief Human Resources Officer Rhonda Morris said the company selected 26% women for global roles in a second round of appointments and, in the United States, 29% of candidates selected were from ethnically diverse candidates.
A spokeswoman for the company confirmed the details and said those selections were permanent and that the diversity ratio was expected to remain at around 44% at the end of all appointment rounds.
I suspect that most of the people being fired offer more value than Rhonda Morris does. But, as I've repeatedly said, wokeness is a fetish among overvalued massive companies with limited competition and less imagination. The woke/broke formula holds, it's just a long term process. Wokeness is just the latest gimmick embraced by...
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I worked for a company that had a home office out in Iowa where almost all management was white male. I was making a great living as a supervisor field tech back in GA. They got into government contracts and made the decision all new managers must be a minority or female. In the span of 4 years we went from the most profitable section office to loosing money due to the new management at our remote office where there was a complete management turnover. Having managers who didn't have the qualifications to make big buck decisions was a bad mistake.
ReplyDeleteI too once worked at an engineering company that had government contracts - which required affirmative action. The percentage of white males went from 95 percent down to 15 percent. That company was Boeing aircraft. 'nuff said.
ReplyDeletethe old Peter principle where crap is passed off as gold. Lowest bud over quality. PC diversity over Experience and ability. Saw it at Raytheon. Meetings where no one could make a decision where in the past a manger ended the meeting how, when, who will the task completed .
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