DIVERSITY.MONSTER.COM - Jobs reserved for 'diverse' people.

N/A ^ | 6/30/2003 | SELF

[CyberAnt]

Monster.com has been around for awhile. They just created a new division - Diversity Monster.com

[buffyt]

I guess to get a job I can claim to be a gender confused cross dressing lesbian who is trapped in a woman's body who loves men?

[Mark was here]

The problem with past discrimination is that most of the time it was done with other people's property. Woolworth had a policy of not serving blacks, Columbia University has a policy of restricting Jews. Those were not individuals making decisions with their properties but would corporations making business decisions to discriminate. Since the government is the one that establishes corporations, it can easily tell them not to discriminate under the constitution.

If the owners of the cooperative effort are unhappy with the policies of their institution, (NOT THE GOVERNMENTS - UNLESS YOU BELIEVE EVERYTHING BELONGS TO THE GOVERNMENT), they are free to change it or sell of their interest.

It is not the function of the government to be a moral watchdog for "absentee landlords".

I do not care if a privately (Non Government Owned) business chooses to discriminate against Blacks, Jews or Germans. It is their choice to be stupid, and the marketplace will voice it's disapproval.

[HaveGunWillTravel]

How about: "Straight whites need not apply"?

[fuente]

I sent Lockheed Martin and Siemens a resume with a picture on it (not my own) and they called me within 3 days. Problem is, my other resumes (which were much better) went unseen, or so it would appear.

[longtermmemmory]

Diversity is OVERT code for this job will exclude certain people based soley on skin.

[cyborg]

Yep. Been putting that into practice for years.

[537 Votes]

Hubby tried for a YEAR sending out resumes to monster.com ..and they're all fake jobs!

They're not fake, but when you e-mail your resume to a company on Monster.com, you're drowned in a flood of 20,000 other e-mails.

[PattonReincarnated]

>> I support any private (not government) business' right to hire or not hire according to whatever criteria they like. Race, sexual orientation, religion, or whatever. I recognize that it is a legal issue, but I don't see that it should be.

You got that right. If I don't like the way someone smells in an interview, I shouldn't have to hire them. From a rational business point of view, the most qualified person for the money (there is a trade-off there by the way) should be hired. In hiring for any job, there is total discrimination as long as there are two or more people applying for the job. What I can't understand is why anyone in business doesn't want to be rational about hiring employees. This PC crap and diversity is complete stupidity - for businesses, the economy, and for so-called protected classes of people. If you go to Europe, less the UK, you won't find this kind of stupidity - and they are a bunch of socialists.

[templar]

What I can't understand is why anyone in business doesn't want to be rational about hiring employees.

I think the answer might lie (at least partially) in the educational/political background of the people who end up in Human Resource management positions (the term 'Human Resources' is interesting in it's own right). Activists have entered the business professions with as much velocity as they have the legal professions.

IMO only, and FWIW.

[PattonReincarnated]

>> I think the answer might lie (at least partially) in the educational/political background of the people who end up in Human Resource management positions

Let's call a spade a spade here. I ask only one question here: HR people make exactly how much money? Ok, I'll have to ask a few more questions, it's the Socrates in me. How to did HR come into existence? The answer is, at least I believe, to fulfill government regulations; such has keeping resumes on file for n-number of days, etc. Somewhere along the way, someone came up the idea that HR would be a good funnel point in a business to run all job applicants. Makes sense if you want to keep statistics. But ask an HR person to find someone to hire for you, and actually understand what questions to ask when vetting, you can forget it. And that takes me back to your education statement. HR folks can’t have the appropriate background to do anything meaningful in an organization since they do HR, and they don’t do real work. Get the government out of business and you would find HR people out of a job. Personally, I have avoided, gone around, and eliminated as much contact with HR has possible when hiring people. They are worthless when it comes to the bottom line of the business. (Unless you want some type of wimp-wristed rationale that it is cheaper to have HR people do their job than get sued. If conservative people stuck up for real rights, the liberal wackos would be squashed when it comes to legal proceedings based on equal opportunity issues.) I believe this is the time where I need to personally apologize for being insensitive to HR people. I am sorry, it’s nothing personal. In fact, I feel for you. I feel for you so much, that I will offer you words of advice to make up for my transgressions. I recommend that you go back to school, get a real degree, and get a real job. The result is: you will make more money, be more productive, and you can feel good about what you do for a living, and perhaps sleep at night.