Now that the USSC has stopped racial based consideration from the applicants to our universities, how long can RM continue to justify racial consideration in job applications?
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Legacy recruitment at Chevron is prevalent. Not a huge percentage but significant nonetheless. I’ve seen so many under qualified kids joining with immunity to low rankings etc because of their parent’s position and immediate supervisors scared of being honest for fear of their own retribution. I was involved in the 2016 reorg where every position was analyzed and cut or kept based on BCG targets. It was ruthless. Next came filling the remaining positions with existing employees. Maybe 50% of then current employees would fill the reduced positions. Obviously legacy employees would likely be favored at the expense of others but I was astonished when HR filled the first box with the VPs daughter. No debate, no discussion, no ranking. She’s off limits. The first employee to be safe, unbelievable. I couldn’t take the process seriously any more. Likewise many of the VPs favorites were preferentially saved for no logical reasons. Unfortunately, or in retrospect fortunately, I was not on the buddy list and after 34 years was ditched. No hard feelings about my own lay off. But disgusted at the protectionism of legacies who can’t perform.
When the preferential treatment of one group ceases and they are then held to the standard of everyone else, it suddenly becomes discrimination. Everything needs to be based on MERIT.
My department’s D&I council circulated a slide deck boasting that 8 out of 10 intern offers were to “diverse” candidates or women.
@3uwf That is truth, despite the fact that it’s supposed to be illegal.
If you didn't know this then you're way behind the curve. They have been preferentially promoting women and minorities for years. It finally busted out in the open when the pandemic hit and the re-org forced everyone to re-apply for their job. They told everyone to not try to get a promotion but magically some people did get one. All the HiPots were exposed.
Countless scientific studies have shown that diversity and inclusion positively impact a company's bottom line. By embracing affirmative action and creating more diverse workforces, organizations can access a wider talent pool, enhance employee engagement and retention, improve problem-solving capabilities, and increase customer satisfaction. Additionally, diverse companies are more adaptable and resilient, allowing them to better navigate changing market dynamics and complexities.
Oil companies have been historically low diversity and underperformed the broader market.
Legacy admissions next? “Harvard’s Admissions Is Challenged for Favoring Children of Alumni- activists filed a complaint, saying legacy admissions helped students who are overwhelmingly rich and white.”
Race should not be a factor in any job including with layoffs.
Diversity is inherently evil. In business we need everyone to think and act exactly the same. It works well for Oil and Gas companies need to make all employees swear allegiance to the GOP and purge the deviants.
The only Affirmative Action anyone needs is to get off their lazy @ss everyday and tow their own weight. Those who support AA are opportunistic takers who want a little something off the backs of others. Those in government who continue to support AA are people we the majority need to flush out of a job, because they perpetuate a societal problem for us, the producing members of society.
It’s about time we got back to basics of life. School admissions, and job recruitment, should be based on qualifications and merit. Full stop.
Hopefully this is just the beginning and we see this translate to the work place. Very tired of the women, black, lgbt, etc overly repeated discussions and the segregation they make.
Discrimination of any kind is still discrimination. Everyone knows that.
So ban Legacy recruiting? How else are wealthy white kids who are below standards going to get degrees?
@ilf. Race should not be a factor, period. The solution to discrimination is not another form of discrimination.
Note that for the vast majority of their existence, both UNC and Harvard used a strict race based admissions - whites only need apply. No person of color had a chance. Now, they use legacy admits as a white preference mechanism. In no way were either giving less qualified under representative minorities preference over more qualified individuals, only using race as one of 40 factors (eg. a musician, actor, special talents, socioeconomic background, athlete, other).