| theprof00 said: Let me break it down for you. AA tells a company that if you have two candidates for employment who both meet the required credentials, you have to pick the minority candidate IF and ONLY IF your minority quota has not been fulfilled. The whole reason it was enforced was because Equal Opportunity did not then exist in the workforce and still doesn't (It may not be as bad as it was, but the hiring biases are still there). It's a common misconception that less qualified minorities are taking jobs from the "whites who deserve them", but if that scenario actually did happen, those white people would be able to file for a discrimination suit (but they don't, because they know the qualifications were met). |
My father begs to differ. He hauled ass up the ranks in the air force for 12 years up to E-7 before AA came along. If you don't know they promote based on a scoring system (or they did at the time) Then suddenly with maxed out test scores, maxed out time in service, maxed points from medals, maxed out time in grade, several recommendations from senior officers, etc...he was passed up for 6 years running right as they started to implement AA....despite his extreme overqualification for the promotion. In the meantime he was given the command positions of an E-8 while still holding the rank of an E-7 and had every bit of responsibility without any of the respect or recognition the he had earned with it. After 6 years of cleaning up the mess caused by unqualified people who were shuttled up the ranks to fill quotas he took the early retirement offer for his own sanity. The only reason he stayed in that long was because his CO knew the situation the same as he did and "managed" the folks who they were given in place of what should have been very well qualified staff. Not all were out of their leaque or even incompetent mind you..they were just shuttled up the ranks so fast there was simply no way they were going to be able to have the broad and numerous skillsets these positions demand.
Oddly enough his CO was able to work his way up in the ranks despite his "disability" (which to me is what AA implies that skin color is)...oh did I not mention his CO was black? Yeah apparently knowing what you're doing and getting the job done is a pretty good way to get promoted and get ahead in the military and life in general. Who knew? /sarcasm
I think folks like yourself see the "on-paper" ideas and never see the reality of the mess it causes. It's a lot like communism in that it would work in a perfect world...but in a perfect world there wouldn't be a need for it anyways...
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