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I tried to find the original source, I could not. That being said, I have witnessed this non sense during my professional career, we had meeting discussing the
by soueuls 4y ago
I tried to find the original source, I could not.
That being said, I have witnessed this non sense during my professional career, we had meeting discussing the need to hire woman or black people.
As an engineer I can't possibly agree to that. I want to work with engineers, problem solvers. I don't think Melatonin or the presence or absence of a vagina to be a useful metric.
That's also the reason I left the Western world for the foreseeable future. It's clearly impossible to focus long enough on a problem without being disturbed by the new shiny ideology of the moment.
- jbrr 4y agoThat’s a pretty strong reaction to HR wanting more diversity. I wouldn’t call that a “new shiny ideology of the moment” either. Affirmative action dates back to reconstruction. I think the fallacy here is that there’s a single best applicant for any given position. There are often multiple qualified candidates, why shouldn’t race or gender be a factor if you’re just going to choose arbitrarily anyway.
- soueuls 4y agoYou can use gender or race or any other factor. I just don't want to have anything to do with that company because I am afraid I will lose IQ point on the long run. I am a capitalist, I am not sure which factors are the best factors when it comes to correlating with performance. Is it hard skills? Communication? Do I need a generalist? A specialist? Is it better to hire people with ego or not? One thing I am pretty confident is that vagina or Melatonin are pretty weak factor. And I would not trust any HR or managers optimizing for it. I am a lot more happy since I live in a country where that does not value these things.