weirdly, it's the opposite for my company (at least in terms of race) > join pharma company > maybe 70/30 women to men > both genders very clever, the men were lazier though > doing good work, coming up with inventive solutions to manufacture problems we had > but the work was constant and stressful to meet deadlines and demands > we start hiring more people but company refuses to offer appropriate pay > the result: whites don't want to work for us > blacks and browns apply > my manager begrudgingly brings them in for interviews > barely qualified, not experienced, out of their depths > my manager is forced by his manager to hire some to fill a dei quota > we decide they'll start on a lower level than the junior specialist role offered, basically assistant level > try to train them > they're ridiculous > slow to pick up what they're taught (something that took me a 15 minute demonstration to understand fully when i started either takes dozens of reminders, or never sinks in) > won't ask for help or advice, to try to hide their incompetence (their lying was always going to get caught but they did it anyway) > not just breaking the rules but skirting them entirely to push through bad work (we could literally kill people if we don't get things right) > they start turning up late or not at all > formed their own little group and started spreading lies about white colleagues to try to get them fired > luckily, the lies were badly thought out and easily disproved > they all ended up getting "fired" as part of a re-shuffle of the department hierarchy (lucky they got labelled as assistants, so we could try to refill the junior specialist roles again) > manager's manager is annoyed that we had to fire them as he got shit on by his boss, but understands it was necessary > decided to pool the pay packets into half as many roles for the same cost > this works and brings in whites again > no issues at all this time around
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