Posted on 04/15/2017 5:34:15 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Clemson University’s ‘diversity education and training” teaches employees that every “cultural perspective regarding time” is equally valid, so it’s wrong to expect people to be prompt.
Clemson is spending $26,945 on “diversity education and training” for its faculty members. […]
In one slide, employees are taught that tardiness is acceptable because the concept of time is culturally relative. Thus, every culture’s perception of the actual time must be respected — since one “cultural perspective regarding time is neither more nor less valid than any other.” …
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bottom line: you can fire a white or yellow person for being late, but not a black person. As for Hispanics, there are white hispanics and hispanic hispanics.
Clemson! For God’s sake - the [former] seat of Southern gentility. Clemson!
These are the same loons that scream bloody murder if their flight pushes back 15 minutes late from the gate or has to hold due to some weather at destination
And that is why the state of development in Latin America is what it is...
I view promptness as meeting an agreed obligation, like a contract. If you are late, you have breached that contract and I expect that you will continue to breach other obligations that are decided in future encounters.
If you are a contractor coming to me to give me a bid, and you are 30 minutes late. It is a clear indicator of how the rest of the job will go. We will tell you that we have already decided how to go forward with the project and your services are not needed.
He may have his cultural view of time, but so do I. (And I have the money.)
Ahhh, the joy of picking up your papers at 4:00 or 4:30 am, folding them, delivering them, eating breakfast then going to school!
But, the $22 to $25 at the end of the week was always nice!
I like your rules. My experience is that one of those people is trainable one is not.
I lived in Spain for three years when I was a kid. Everything there was slow compared to the States.
My dad had a fireplace built in the house we lived in. The workers were there sometimes, sometimes not. Went on break in the afternoon for what was called "Mariana" which was really their two hour nap time.
Going out to eat was a nightmare for my parents with young kids. The restaurants and dining rooms didn't start serving until 10:00 PM, our bedtime.
When you ask someone when they would be a certain place, it was always answered with the common, "Mañana, mañana". That pretty much meant sometime in the future, not necessarily "tomorrow" or "in the morning", which is the translation of mañana. It could be three days later. Basically, whenever they got around to it.
I'm sure it's a little different now, over 50 years later, but the concept of time in the Spanish culture was much different than the one practiced in the US.
But timeliness related to racial lines is poppycock. Clemson is full of sh*t on this one.
It may be true that every “cultural perspective regarding time is equally valid, so it’s wrong to expect people to be prompt.” Is it just a coincidence that cultures that have no respect for promptness have a lot of similarities with a toilet?
My first real job was working for a company in a data processing job where the senior VP was of German heritage. Start time was 8AM (it was a bank). That meant at your work station ready to go. Not long after I started, I had one of those mornings wherein I got there at about 8:01. As I zoomed past the VPs office, his call beckoned like a hook. I got a seat in front of him and he asked if I had a medical problem that caused my delay. I said no, I over slept. He then pointed outside toward the busy corner wherein lots of people were milling about. He said, pointedly, those people are looking for your job. It was during a recession. I told him I got the point. He said I hope so or expect to exchange places with one of them.
I was never late again!
I wonder how many of those with this “cultural predeliction” lose track of time and stay on the job after quitting time?
My guess: zero.
More academic wonderment brought to you by James Clements, President of Clemson University!
Than you Clemson for taking him away from WVU! (Where he left a huge mess!)
Tom Coughlin when he was the first manager of the Jaguars, before moving on to NY Giants, had a policy that included being on time for meetings. One day one of the better running backs was late for the team meeting by about five minutes. Seems he had an small fender bender on the way in. Coughlin reputedly told him that would be a fine (1K?). The player argued he had the accident. Coughlin told him, if you are not five minutes early for meetings you are late! I think all meetings went on from that point forward with everyone there!
Vince Lombardi time - 15 minutes before start time.
Clemson University’s ‘diversity education and training” teaches employees that every “cultural perspective regarding time” is equally valid, so it’s wrong to expect people to be prompt
Can’t wait until the students that try this crap out in the workforce get fired and sue the school for teaching such nonsense!
Fine. And by all means let’s apply the same logic to “on time payment of tuition”.
That’s relative too, right?
That’s cultural too, right?
In fact, the meaning of “payment” is a culturally-loaded term, heavily culturally-loaded, much more culturally-loaded than “time”... so the whole concept of “we expect you to pay your tuition” MUST be filtered through the lens of mutlicultural correctness.
This manure only applies to faculty.
True bit it is teaching the student that their tardiness is okay. That will not travel well in the outside world.
agree 100%..!
Great post..!
Diversity Education and Training...
You will not find a geeater hive of scum and villany.
And lower IQs.
“Time is a relative concept”
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