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It's notable that you completely skipped over the following point: > Two-thirds of the members fired by New York Times management since the Times Tech Guild fo
by dwallin 2y ago
It's notable that you completely skipped over the following point:
> Two-thirds of the members fired by New York Times management since the Times Tech Guild formed have been from underrepresented groups.
- whimsicalism 2y agothis seems like it could easily be a symptom of aff action policies. Making it so firings have to be perfectly representative will discourage companies like these from taking a chance on an underrepresented candidate who might have a slightly weaker resumé if they are stuck with the decision
- bushbaba 2y agoAffirmative action at the companies I’ve worked at was hard to hire less qualified individuals into roles. Those folks were often under performing but marked as “meets” at request of hr. Now with economy and other factors, they are being performance managed out given a worse output/impact than peers at same level.
- loeg 2y agoThe statistic, just like the other ones, doesn't tell you whether these firings were reasonable or not.
- kingkawn 2y ago[flagged]
- darby_nine 2y agoOur labor laws are so weak in this country this is nearly impossible to determine unless someone fucked up.
- BurningFrog 2y agoNote that a majority of the employees can easily be from underrepresented groups.
- jimbokun 2y agoThat's worthy of further investigation to understand if there's bias in these decisions or some other explanatory factor.