/——/ I worked in Fortune 50 companies for 35 years and witnessed affirmative action. We had to pass up qualified, motivated candidates for AAs who would do the least work possible and taunt management to fire them so they can sue. Your pie in the sky ideas are failures
Not only is that not
case law evidence, it seems you're ready to skip over all the numbers, too.
Are we supposed to take your word for it that the number of NON-AA employees who sued for wrongful termination was less, and on different grounds? Also, you seem to have skipped telling us whether they attempted to sue on discrimination grounds, because if they did, there would be case law precedent where a specific AA statute was referenced.
I encourage you to help enlighten us by filling in exactly which statute in AA law was violated.
Somehow I suspect we'll get CRICKETS for a response.
Somehow I suspect your firm just had lazy, complacent and underpaid, or overworked HR staff that just hired anyone without due diligence, and it's more convenient for management to just blame Affirmative Action.
No one in government puts a gun to HR's head to "pass up qualified, motivated candidates for substandard ones".
Is the HR manager actually READING resumes and actually TALKING TO candidates or scanning the resumes into a computerized ranking system and then talking AT the candidate from a canned script?
Do they even have
the TIME to do so?
Keywords have turned hiring into a pass-the-buck game, with HR complaining it can’t find talent!
Well, HR isn’t
looking for talent. HR isn’t
looking for
anything! Phony algorithms are keeping the talent unemployed while HR gets paid to do something else.
I've been in meetings where top level management complained that they "couldn't find people".
HR managers who there piped up that they were a member of several large job-search networking groups, with membership in the thousands in the area. HR offered to put them in touch, help them post positions, and contacted them multiple times afterwards to help facilitate this.
Nobody took HR up on it.
They just wanted HR to keep plopping resumes into the same phony algorithms and crunching the numbers.
Garbage IN = Garbage OUT.
I asked for CASE LAW cites. I did that for a reason. I asked for that because if your gripes are real, and based on actual firsthand experience, you would be able to cite case law instances where it was an actual Affirmative Action statute being argued.
Five bucks says it had absolutely nothing to do with AA at all, and that you're just passing the buck.