Me also. Lately, the knee-jerk reaction to the corruption and mis-management is to pull the plugs on the programs all together, which still does nothing to the politicians who were abusing them while hurting those that actually did benefit.
I think Milei has already shown the way, not we just need more people to follow.
It makes me wonder if it is the same printer making company that had 10 open possitions, organized an exam, picked the 7 best and then 3 random DEI picks, and eventually none of the DEI picks showed up for the job. And then when they
went to pick the next 3 best they had excluded they could not find them. Karma
is a bitch..
Musk tried that and screwed a bunch of stuff up because there are laws against that here. There *are* ways to do a lot of it legally, he just didn't bother to figure out how.
Musk tried that and screwed a bunch of stuff up because there are laws against that here. There *are* ways to do a lot of it legally, he just didn't bother to figure out how.
whats screwed up? i dont see anything screwed up.
whats screwed up? i dont see anything screwed up.
They fired a bunch of NWS employees. After a couple of deadly storm outbreaks, they are trying to hire a bunch of them back (125 at last count).
Sounds like the issue is picking "random" people, DEI or otherwise. If
they felt like they had to pick "3 DEI," they should have picked the 3 best to start with and not 3 "random" ones.
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Sounds like the issue is picking "random" people, DEI or otherwise. If
they felt like they had to pick "3 DEI," they should have picked the 3 best to start with and not 3 "random" ones.
I think the problem there is there are many DEI candidates to pick from and human resources kind of asumes they aren't going to be good,
therefore they don't care.
I mean, the purpose of those 3 picks is not to work, it is to fill the statistics in the HR spreadshet.
What bothers me is they kicked 3 candidates from the regular pool in
order to bring people in who didn't even bother to show up later.
Fuck this shit.
whats screwed up? i dont see anything screwed up.
They fired a bunch of NWS employees. After a couple of deadly storm outbreaks, they are trying to hire a bunch of them back (125 at last count)
dude that shit happens all the time in the govt. i think that was just some shit the media was focusing on.
i'm sure a lot of them got the axe (if they even did) because they were supposed to reply back to that email and did not. on facebook there were people saying that they refused to do that email contact form.
regarding the people in my area who got the axe, their jobs seemed like fake jobs where somehow they got in a position where they did very little or nothing.
that firing and rehiring shit happens frequently without elon.
Sounds like the issue is picking "random" people, DEI or otherwise. If they felt like they had to pick "3 DEI," they should have picked the 3 best
to start with and not 3 "random" ones.
I think the problem there is there are many DEI candidates to pick from and human resources kind of asumes they aren't going to be good, therefore they don't care.
I mean, the purpose of those 3 picks is not to work, it is to fill the statistics in the HR spreadshet.
What bothers me is they kicked 3 candidates from the regular pool in order to bring people in who didn't even bother to show up later.
Fuck this shit.
Well, for starters, any political program that talks about
"reparations" consisting in you having to pay a protected group for something somebody else did to a third party 250 years ago. It is virtually blaming you for things done by other person just because you happen to be an evil white motherfucker who has to pay.
That's a very reductive argument. There's been 250 years of systemic
prejudice against a people that somehow needs to be remedied. The
people who've lived under those conditions are the poorest, most
incarcerated, least represented citizens.
Our current administration is actively removing tributes to
famous and successful African-Americans.
Our current administration is actively removing tributes to
famous and successful African-Americans.
Haven't heard about this one. Any examples that you could provide?
Also, is this like the previous administration removing all kinds of tributes/statues/memorials of famous and successful Southern-Americans
from the Civil War era, because of what they stood for? Oh, and also
like the renaming of military installations because they had
"offensive" names?
I'm not claiming reparations are the solution I'd choose, but the
problem persists.
What solution *would* you choose, pray tell? How, exactly, can this
problem be "fixed"?
dude that shit happens all the time in the govt. i think that was just some shit the media was focusing on.
Not to this degree it does not.
You should never respond to someone without going through your chain of command. It looked very much like a potential phishing scheme, which is something you should never respond to. I have seen the email and would
have reported it to our IT Security team.
Dumas Walker wrote to GAMGEE <=-
Our current administration is actively removing tributes to
famous and successful African-Americans.
Haven't heard about this one. Any examples that you could provide?
Google "US renaming Tubman" to find something regarding the renaming of naval ships. IMHO, it was a little odd to name ships after civil
rights leaders, social activists, and Supreme Court members who weren't
in the Navy.
That isn't saying that some of them, like Tubman, don't have a very significant place in our country's history, as they do, but I think it
was a little weird they named a ship after Ruth Bader Ginsberg to begin with. That said, it was done and I don't really support spending the
time, effort, and money on changing these things.
They have also considered renaming a military base or two. Fort
Cavazos, the former Ft Hood, is one that has been floated as up for a possible rename (back to Ft Hood). The person it was renamed after is
a former military man -- a four star general -- so the name makes more sense. But, since he's hispanic (and Hood was CSA), having his name on
it is "DEI."
Also, is this like the previous administration removing all kinds of tributes/statues/memorials of famous and successful Southern-Americans
from the Civil War era, because of what they stood for? Oh, and also
like the renaming of military installations because they had
"offensive" names?
I didn't necessarily support the renaming of Ft. Hood but, now that it
is done and (IMHO) it was renamed after someone deserving, I don't
support changing it again. It was wasteful then and would be wasteful now.
I'm not claiming reparations are the solution I'd choose, but the
problem persists.
What solution *would* you choose, pray tell? How, exactly, can this
problem be "fixed"?
I am not sure there is a solution, at least not one that the government would come up with. IMHO, it would be best remedied if persons could
stop looking at the color or sex of an individual and base everything
on their merits but, in practice, I am not sure humans are capable of doing so.
dude that shit happens all the time in the govt. i think that was just some shit the media was focusing on.
Not to this degree it does not.
how do you know? you are only going off what the media is telling you.
media has you on a hook. quit being a simp for the media, dude.
I am not sure there is a solution, at least not one that the government would come up with. IMHO, it would be best remedied if persons could stop looking at the color or sex of an individual and base everything
on their merits but, in practice, I am not sure humans are capable of doing so.
Absolutely right, but I agree that it's likely not possible. What isn't right is to have people/taxpayers pay money to people who are
generations removed from anybody who was mistreated. "Correcting" a
wrong by committing another wrong is not the way.
One of us has spent most of their life working for the government and has a pretty good knowledge of how things work, and how they (don't) work if someone tries to break them.
The other one apparently gets their info from some sort of media, maybe social, and maybe straight from the accounts of Trump and Musk.
So I think the more pertinent question is how do *you* know?
Dumas Walker wrote to GAMGEE <=-
I am not sure there is a solution, at least not one that the government would come up with. IMHO, it would be best remedied if persons could stop looking at the color or sex of an individual and base everything on their merits but, in practice, I am not sure humans are capable of doing so.
Absolutely right, but I agree that it's likely not possible. What isn't right is to have people/taxpayers pay money to people who are
generations removed from anybody who was mistreated. "Correcting" a
wrong by committing another wrong is not the way.
Part of me feels that way, that they are generations removed. However, there is some belief in this country that the "wrongs" continued far beyond the Civil War. I would agree that they certainly continued
until at least the Civil Rights Era of the 1960s.
What has happened since then, until recently, I would place at the feet
of our politicians (Democrats, too) who've spent their time benefiting from having a "downtrodden" class to manipulate... a class you cannot manipulate if they do not remain downtrodden.
Recently, it seems that pre-1960s attitudes are being brought back into the mainstream. Not sure what has brought that on but it does need to stop.
They have also considered renaming a military base or two.
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