[Parmy]

Yeah! I had a run-in with affirmative action roughly 30 years ago. I was out of a job, so I began taking tests for State employment. Got called in for an interview. The interview went fine but I was told that they had a minority who was a woman that they had to give preference for the hire. She was also given points on the test because she was a woman and a minority.

About a month later I was called and asked to come in and reinterview.

Same job, so I asked what happened. Was told that the employee didn't work out.

So, I asked if I got the job. NO! There had to be another interview.

My response---I told the woman supervisor that I wasn't going to be the token white guy so they could say they met the interview . criteria. And she could take the job and put it where the sun didn't shine. Only, not that nice.

The phone went, "click".

I am not 73 and have survived quite nicely.

[bgill]

My run-in was along about the same time. I applied at a state park and was hired. Filled out all the paperwork, got settled into a new house, the whole nine yards. The day before I was to start, they called and said I was unhired because HQ in Austin said they had to hire a minority. I am female applying for a male dominated position but that wasn’t diverse enough. It must be a black person. That job number was on the jobs listings for many years without ever being filled. Why? Because no blacks lived in the area.

A short time before that, I applied to work for the post office. I had the highest test score and the post master was required to interview the top 3. He flat out told me he wasn’t hiring me because I was female. Wish I’d not been so naïve back then and had sued his butt off.