One thing that I’ve noticed at Emerson is that a huge number of it’s employees attended parochial schools.
Why is this interesting?
Emerson is so narrow in thinking that they don’t see the problem with such a narrow demographic base.
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EMR needs to move HQ out of St. Louis. Should have been done a long time ago.
A lot of city catholic schools are diverse w many ethnicities but certainly not near the level of the city public schools. The superintendent of the city schools has made progress with lots of educational options.
I am hopeful that if we get a new circuit atty the city can build on many of the other positives.
My public school son was accepted into two Ivy League universities and graduated from Yale with zero debt. Metro High School is regularly ranked as Missouri’s best high school by USNWR. But there are lots of good Catholic schools too.
Maybe because public schools suck.
Good point!
We haven’t run all our businesses into the ground yet.
Also a good point is that the situation has not ruined every participant.
However, my point wasn’t “The system destroys everything “. It was “A closed system composed of homogeneous cohorts is likely to produce a herd mentality that is blind to many opportunities “
My son attended Saint Louis City Schools which are 13% white. Parochial schools are about 11% black. But that 11% looks pretty diverse if your neighborhood is 100% white
Narrow because???
Last I saw private schools do a better job relative to diversity, equality and problem solving. They are leas segregated than many public schools.
Oh and since old dinosaur companies across the US decline as has been the case for the last century new companies grow - Centene, Enterprise, World wide Techologies, Express Scripts etc. Jack Dorsey is one of the better know innovators from “St. Louis parochial school” as if that really defines anyone. And the St. Louis region has grown faster than other rust belt areas but doesn’t keep up w the south regions. Get your facts on both sides straight.
…and which city are you practicing brain surgery or rocket science in today being the quick study you appear to be?
St Louis is the most discriminatory town I've every lived in (for a short 18 months). I have lived a lot of places but when I moved to STL in the mid-00s, the first thing asked at any job interview at any company was "Where did you go to school?" When I said "USC" they were like "No, what HIGH SCHOOL did you attend." I mentioned it to a friend of mine and he told me that St Louis folks think they know everything they need to know about a candidate based on where they went to high school. I ditched that town.
‘Globalist Agenda’ didn’t create 16 layers of management between the workers and the CEO, or buy the helicopter and 9 corporate jets, or hire their friends from high school.
It might have something to do with outsourcing our jobs to Pune, Cluj or Costa Rica… and definitely has something to do with us teaching ‘deputized’ employees how to replace us.
The last comments make the point very well that the Globalist Agenda has been at work for many years.
I’ve worked for companies like Emerson who were ‘world leaders’… and chose the same path. (Top-heavy management, narrow employee demographics, pursuit of giant projects because they lack the agility to pursue small mom-and-pop jobs).
Remember TWA, Monsanto, Brown Shoe, MacDonald Douglas and… Anheuser-Busch?
Not to mention the car plants!
It’s possible to change, but I’d bet against it.
Ask yourself why the population of the City of St. Louis has been declining for 50+ years?
It’s Great!!! I hope it never changes!
This is not unique to Emerson but applies to most companies based in St Louis - one of the most conservative and provincial I have ever lived
This is right on. It has also led to conservative viewpoints and a general lack of diversity. There’s little middle ground.