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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on August 18, 2022, 07:34:13 am ---The problem is, discrimination in the opposite direction, known as positive discrimination in the UK or affirmative action over the pond, is now making things worse. It results in unsuitable candidates being selected and a poorer quality workforce.
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Literally right up the vice president of the United States who was as great of an example of diversity hire as you'll ever see, and admitted to as such.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on August 18, 2022, 08:12:51 am ---Look for jobs in smaller organisations, which are less likely to be so woke.
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Fortunately all this has happened after I left the corporate work force.
But part of me wishes I was still there to see what my reaction would be if they tried to force me into the training and job selection etc  ;D
But again, I'd have screw-you money to speak up, but many people don't have that luxury and have to protect their jobs.
And yes, far less likley to find this at smaller companies. Not sure how pervasive it is here in Australia? I don't think it's as extreme.
Hard choice for the OP, depends on their circumstances.
paulca:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 18, 2022, 07:00:09 am ---And these attacks are always in the one direction from extreme left to supposed right.

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It feels like someone connected a very, very left voltage source to that scale and while I thought I was slightly left of centre, I now find myself out on the right apparently.  They shifted the scale under me and now I feel a little unsafe.
paulca:
Honestly.  I thought my message was simply pointing out an in balance, but on another forum of mostly middle aged bikers, where I thought there might be support, I got called a fascist and the after the admin had called me names he locked the thread.  Then when I started a new thread to ask WT Heck? He did the same things again.

I sent him a Subject Eraser request with a catalogue of entries removed emailed to me as confirmation as they don't provide a "delete account" feature.  He is free to ask me for a reasonable admin fee.  I'm tempted to make his life hell over this and keep going back and asking for individiual entries with my name or a mention be removed also.  It might be fun, but I expect it's not worth it.

Anyway, I think I'll take the advice in here, I was starting to get the idea anyway.

SHUT UP.  It's not worth fighting it and saying anything does really present a risk, not just to your job!  Time to stay quiet for a while longer.  My gut feeling is there will be others behind me soon enough, including some women, who are not happy with wondering if they are a diversity hire or not.  Now is not the time.  Let it simmer for a while yet.

I do fear for the industry though.  I expect this simmering will go on too long.  Software industry is in deep troubles at the moment with over capacity and bottom end quality.  We don't need this right now.  We do need more women and more good people generally, but we do not need this at this time.
Circlotron:
One way to address all this gender nonsense is when certain people clamour for a female head of state, or for half of the board of directors of a company to be women, or some similar situation, is to ask them would it be an  acceptable solution if those male incumbent people now identified as women? And if that is not acceptable, why not? Would they not actually be women despite identifying as such? A large enough group of people will be divided on this issue and begin fighting among themselves. Then just walk away and leave them to it.
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