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Also, a good incentive to hire people that have no kids or chronic conditions.
by merraksh 9y ago
Also, a good incentive to hire people that have no kids or chronic conditions.
- VLM 9y agoOr breasts. Women today supposedly have a lifetime odds of 1 in 8 of living long enough to get breast cancer. I mean, sure, we'd love some diversity, but we "Just Have To" stick to only hiring male devs, you know, solely to maintain our group bonus, not because girls have cooties or we're a sexist company or anything like that, nope solely just because of the bonus. And let me tell you a fascinating statistic that prevents hiring a certain skin color because of sickle cell anemia, I mean we'd love to get some diversity in this department, sure, listen to me virtue signal about how great it could be, but that darn group sick day quota means we just can't so we all white males here...
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoIsn't prostate cancer [UK, 1-in-7 men] more prevalent than breast cancer [UK, 1-in-8 women]? [Stats from mass media sources eg The Independent; prostate stat is supported by nhs.uk .] Aside, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3411479/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3411479/ suggests we've got a mismatch with funding and health/societal costs of different cancers with Breast, Prostate and Leukemia all being relatively richly funded FWIW.
- mynewtb 9y agoOr prostates. If you are not a sexist.
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- lsiebert 9y agoAh but prostates are an issue more for older men, right?
- bloodbeard 9y agoDon't forget about the Semites. While the diversity would be great, but you have to keep in mind that many of them won't work from sundown on Friday. They'll also skip out on all 12 days of Ramadan.