Also, minorities often get preferential treatment with regard to raises. I’ve seen a couple of cases within recent years as evidence of that. In both cases, promotions came after about just one year on the job. This never happens with white men.
I’m watching this happen. There are two horrible white males in my group that are well long years overdue for promotions and raises. They do automation so 17 hour work days, and 21 day work weeks (away from home), are the norm. There is a female who is in our group who not only refuses to travel, but is a good thing since she is completely incompetent at the job anyway (and has several plants that don’t want her back). She now does stuff at the office, of which every single thing she touches must be redone. She is getting rapid promotions and raises. And probably now makes double the evil white guys salary despite the fact they have similar amounts of years with the company.
The ironic thing was during the last round of mega layoffs, we had a black female who had been in the engineering department for over 20 years who was very competent, get the axe. Although you would think being a black woman in an engineering department would be the ultimate kryptonite shielding in a diversity obsessed company, I guess that shielding evaporates if the person in question is actually an asset to the company and is actually competent at her job.