AZrailwhale
Diamond Member
When I was hired by the phone company, we had a mixed race group of new employees in training. One of us couldn’t do the work because he was color blind and all phone wiring is color coded. The company fired him. He filed a EEOC complaint and the government not only forced the company to rehire him, pay him back wages but put him into a comparable technical job. They made him a cable splicer, it still required him to be able to discern colors but there was a slow and tedious work-around, they could give him a helper on every job and they could identify each conductor by sending a tone down it. One conductor at a time and some cables had 14,400 conductors in them. Oh, by the way he was a black man, a white would have been told just what he was “ you don’t meet the physical requirements for the job, goodbye and good luck with your next employer”, and it would have stuck. They might have found this guy a non- technical job that didn’t require color vision, but they all paid far less and the EEOC order specified that he be given a job with equal or better pay. The phone company had a very aggressive AA program and bent over backwards for minority employees and vendors to keep from getting hit with a consent decree mandated by some judge.Are you being intentionally disingenuous.
The Civil Rights bill of 1991 said, "Trust me, I'm not a quota bill", but then made it a LOT easier for aggrieved minorities to sue for job discrimination. And the best preventive measure for that was to simply hire more minorities. Which is fine if they are qualified. But then you get the person who gets hired because they are just trying to fill a Diversity, Inclusion and Equity quota.
I've seen it happen. I saw it happen when Myself and another white guy who were contractors were passed over for a full time slot to hire a black woman who had no idea what she was doing. They gave her a bunch of work, and then when she failed repeatedly to do it, the rest of us got stuck doing her work while she shopped on Amazon all day.
Ironically, this nitwit gave me a call after I landed my current gig, and said she was interested in a slot we had open. I told her how challenging the job was, and how we need to put in long hours to make things work. (Which was mostly true.) Hard work? She quickly lost interest!