American Problems:Part I
The depressed US economy is starting to show some signs of life in the midwestern state that I live in. One of our electricians found a union scale job at a major commercial vehicle manufacturer so is leaving the company. I was talking to the maintenance manager about this on Friday and he told me something that shows one of the problems that is destroying this country.
After the electrician gave the maintenance manager notice that he was leaving the company, the manager reported this information to HR. The HR director was shocked that an employee would leave the company for any reason, let alone higher wages and better benefits. She just couldn't understand why a $14 per hour pay increase would lure an employee away from our wonderful, exciting company. In fact, she was angry at the employee for leaving because she had just hired him a few months ago. How could he be so ungrateful?
After listening to this tirade, the experienced maintenance manager advised the HR director that he needed to replace the electrician immediately. The HR director said that he needed to find a black female electrician. That all his tradesmen were white males and the company needed a black female tradesperson. He told her that it was her job to find a replacement and that he would hire a qualified applicant regardless of sex or race. She told him that she couldn't find a black, female tradesperson and he should use his experience and connections to find one, or he wouldn't get any replacement at all!
The company that I work for is the most diverse workplaces that I've ever seen. Half of our hourly operators are Black, a quarter are Hispanic and the rest older white folk. Our salaried staff is Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Black, Arab, Hispanic, Persian, Indonesian, Korean, Various Europeans and white American. But apparently every function must look like a Coke commercial to the HR director.
I've worked in the automotive and semiconductor industry for 41 years and I've never seen a black, female electrician. I've only seen one female electrician and she was more masculine than me. Apparently most women don't want to be an electrician and no black women want to be an electrician. If one did, you can bet that the federal government would move earth and sea to educate and place one.
But our company's college educated HR director demands that the maintenance manager go find an elusive unicorn or just do without an important resource in the company. Shocking ignorance and arrogance! I can see where this is heading. The director will alter the job description to fit a black female, hire her and then, presto, we will have a black electrician. Never mind that she can't do the job. That will be the maintenance manager and other electrician's problem.
This kind of thing is rampant in modern american business. Unqualified individuals in jobs they can never do. I don't know how many times I've been asked to do someone else's job and when I ask why they don't see the person who by title should do the work am told the person is incompetent. I've been holding hands of affirmative action engineering managers and engineers who have no aptitude or ability quite a bit lately. It's killing me and the company. As well as america.
I suspect that the US business landscape is swamped with affirmative action incompetents and that is a big part of the problem. Universities award dumb-downed degrees to unqualified students then employers hire these useless cubicle occupiers to appear diverse. The government is absolutely full of this crap. Hell, even our president is an affirmative action case with no more ability to lead than a Kenyan cowherd.
After the electrician gave the maintenance manager notice that he was leaving the company, the manager reported this information to HR. The HR director was shocked that an employee would leave the company for any reason, let alone higher wages and better benefits. She just couldn't understand why a $14 per hour pay increase would lure an employee away from our wonderful, exciting company. In fact, she was angry at the employee for leaving because she had just hired him a few months ago. How could he be so ungrateful?
After listening to this tirade, the experienced maintenance manager advised the HR director that he needed to replace the electrician immediately. The HR director said that he needed to find a black female electrician. That all his tradesmen were white males and the company needed a black female tradesperson. He told her that it was her job to find a replacement and that he would hire a qualified applicant regardless of sex or race. She told him that she couldn't find a black, female tradesperson and he should use his experience and connections to find one, or he wouldn't get any replacement at all!
The company that I work for is the most diverse workplaces that I've ever seen. Half of our hourly operators are Black, a quarter are Hispanic and the rest older white folk. Our salaried staff is Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Black, Arab, Hispanic, Persian, Indonesian, Korean, Various Europeans and white American. But apparently every function must look like a Coke commercial to the HR director.
I've worked in the automotive and semiconductor industry for 41 years and I've never seen a black, female electrician. I've only seen one female electrician and she was more masculine than me. Apparently most women don't want to be an electrician and no black women want to be an electrician. If one did, you can bet that the federal government would move earth and sea to educate and place one.
But our company's college educated HR director demands that the maintenance manager go find an elusive unicorn or just do without an important resource in the company. Shocking ignorance and arrogance! I can see where this is heading. The director will alter the job description to fit a black female, hire her and then, presto, we will have a black electrician. Never mind that she can't do the job. That will be the maintenance manager and other electrician's problem.
This kind of thing is rampant in modern american business. Unqualified individuals in jobs they can never do. I don't know how many times I've been asked to do someone else's job and when I ask why they don't see the person who by title should do the work am told the person is incompetent. I've been holding hands of affirmative action engineering managers and engineers who have no aptitude or ability quite a bit lately. It's killing me and the company. As well as america.
I suspect that the US business landscape is swamped with affirmative action incompetents and that is a big part of the problem. Universities award dumb-downed degrees to unqualified students then employers hire these useless cubicle occupiers to appear diverse. The government is absolutely full of this crap. Hell, even our president is an affirmative action case with no more ability to lead than a Kenyan cowherd.
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