When will this company stop hiring people based on irrelevant credentials. The amount of incompetent dark people they are hiring just to hit their quotas makes no sense. How can we be expected to maximize shareholder value while carrying around all this dead weight
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No doubt that there is unfairness, but the overwhelming unfairness is due to the good ole boy system. Most of the deserving competent minorities leave the company due to the system. If you are a white male, you've got to make a choice, do the elephant walk or earn your keep.
Any reasonable person would have seen that gender equality arrived around 10 years ago in L3 positions, around 5 years ago in L2 and about now at L1. Yes, women and minorities were promoted faster to get there so indeed it felt unfair for white males at times in the US.
And yes, pretty mediocre employees have been promoted to make the quota. The examples are quite obvious.
But Exxon was always unfair. It was a certain type of white male that was preferentially promoted anyway.
And to be frank, all decisions are made all the way to the top. The people responsible for stupid investment, bad positioning regarding energy transition, PIPs, culture are a few white males in Dallas.
So stop attributing the disaster that EM is to “wokeness”.
Life is not fair.
I have seen unqualified whites get high ranking because of their Sponsor and I have seen unqualified minorities moved up the ranking significantly to achieve an HR distribution target.
Just work hard and earn your pay and stop worrying about anyone else having an easier path to success.
OP is spot on. US has turned corporate America into an extension of its welfare system. The Company solution is to abandon it and hire abroad. F n geniuses. Some things never change, lazy, hands out and weaponuze their wood against white women.
There are a lot of unqualified honkies running around.
Racists.
@1gpn if you can’t see the racism in OP’s post, then you have to be a child of the 50’s and, thank f’ing Christ, on death’s doorstep - hopefully if you procreated you weren’t able to poison your kids with your ignorance
Well, white men ran the company into the ground. Time to give others the same space and opportunity to f&&k it up. Who knows, with a little hard work…that’s all it takes, right? soon we’ll occupy 1% of first level supervisor roles, 2% of middle management and 0.15% of executive ranks. Cry more, goobers. It’s our company now. Rahhh!!!
In the past, preference was given to hiring white males. Maybe this was largely due to engineering graduates being 99% white males.
It was wrong to give preference to hiring only white males. Also seems wrong to put any preference on any gender or race.
Limiting your pool of consideration to a specific race and gender can lead to less than ideal choices such as the current VP of USA.
Old school racism again? Dude, this company for the past century has employed literally the same white guy from State school #237 at all levels. And now we're worth less than a guy who smokes pot on podcasts. Bunch of white guys got us here and now those same dudes are blaming 22 yr old brown people who have zero power on corporate decisions. If the extent of your logic is "Wokeism" is the reason Rex wasted billions on XTO or that the 99% white management committee laid off a bunch of people and lied about it, then this company is destined for the history books. Get a grip on reality. You're not that smart, hardworking, or deserving.
When choosing a person to fill a position and disqualifying whole groups of candidates by race and gender, the result will almost certainly not be the most qualified person chosen. Potential for unqualified person getting chosen. Never choose any person based on race and gender or any other trait.
Alway choose base on qualifications and abilities.
I have seen EM campus interview 30 engineers- 28 male and 2 female, then make offers to the 2 females.
There are targets to achieve certain diversity numbers and those targets can result in hiring other than the most qualified applicants. Not saying unqualified, just saying not the most qualified.
This is reverse discrimination. Skipping over the most qualified to choose a person based on race and gender is unacceptable in either direction.
Put your hood on and the phone down, Jethro, your sister is planning your honeymoon and needs your help