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> Compensated more than their non-PoC colleagues for doing the same work? How is being a token at career fairs "the same work"? The point is that Black employe
by _qulr 6y ago
> Compensated more than their non-PoC colleagues for doing the same work?
How is being a token at career fairs "the same work"? The point is that Black employees are being asked to spend time on activities that do not lead to raises and promotions in the company. In other words, they're asked to sacrifice their own personal career to make the company look more diverse than it is.
- secondcoming 6y ago> How is being a token at career fairs "the same work"? Because they're doing the same work as non-Black employees at the career fair? I'd have thought that being a face of the company externally would be a good thing for when it comes to review time. Are the non-Black employees handicapped career-wise in a similar way? How would you suggest a company portrays externally that PoC are more than welcome to apply for a job there?
- _qulr 6y ago> I'd have thought that being a face of the company externally would be a good thing for when it comes to review time. Why would you think that? If that were true, then engineers would be competing and fighting over who gets to go to the career fairs. Have you seen any evidence of this? The article is very clear that Black employees are paid less on average. It doesn't seem to be a career advantage.
- secondcoming 6y agoIt's not that uncommon for employees to volunteer their time doing charity work via their employers. It looks to me like employers are damned if they do, and damned if they don't.
- _qulr 6y ago> It's not that uncommon for employees to volunteer their time doing charity work via their employers. Yes, emphasis on "charity". In other words, it doesn't directly help the employee at review time. > It looks to me like employers are damned if they do, and damned if they don't. No, I'm not sure why that's the conclusion. If the company requests volunteers from the whole staff, and minorities choose to volunteer, fine. If the company disproportionally requests that minorities "volunteer" in order to help the company look diverse, that's unfairly singling them out. It's not quite as voluntary when your boss specifically asks you and nobody else.
- _qulr 6y agoAnd if they say no, then they're considered "not a team player", which could hurt them at review time, even though they're personally forced to carry the entire team's diversity efforts.
- secondcoming 6y agoAlright fine. Jeez. If you had a company and wanted to diversify your workforce, how would you go about it?