Someone in the Trump administration should remind employers that racial discrimination in hiring is illegal.
Like I needed another reason to never again set foot on a plane.
It’s comforting to know that the plane I’m in at 30,000 feet has been designed or built by somebody who was hired for his skin color rather than qualifications and competence.
I really do not want to see Boeing fail, but doing crap like this leads to failure. The most effective and profitable businesses are able to singularly focus on a vision. Perhaps their vision is watered down with a bunch of diversity and social justice bull schiff. When I earned my degree in business it was well before PC, multiculturalism, diversity, social justice, etc. Day one of college I learned that the purpose of business is to “maximize shareholder wealth.” I suppose those words are not recognized by many these days.
“The manager is black.”
I know some engineers and managers at Boeing. Based on their lifestyles I’m guessing they make upwards of $150,000 a year. But yeah - give him another $30k a year because of the color of his skin.
Tokenism is a Black Privilege. There is no White equivalent.
Boeing should hire SpaceX to tow the Boeing Starliner capsule to the ISS.
Mantra changes...”If its Boeing I ain’t going.”
Why not just do what the NBA does and hire 85% of your athletes as black
Is this some sort of admission that they’ve been consciously underpaying blacks for many years?
ML/NJ
You would think they should want an increase in QUALIFIED employees no matter what color of skin.
Get ready for the inevitable reverse discrimination lawsuits.
If Boeing wants to recruit QUALIFIED individuals to build planes, I suggest they recruit them from U.S. Navy and Air Force aviation repair sailors and airmen. They are plenty of black within those groups.
Well, that’s a twist. Who doesn’t want race normed AA hires engineering the aircraft they fly on? If it’s Boeing I ain’t going.
The fact they don't tell you what the "racist symbol" is implies it's something like a coffee mug with a decal of a Southern state flag.
If it was purposely left on the desk of a black employee, he has a right to be ticked. I'd be ticked if someone put up a Biden-Harris bumper sticker somewhere in my cube.
gee... hiring solely based on skin color
totally not racist at all
/eye-roll
I don’t care if the employees are black or white. What I do care about is that they are talented and qualified to the point that air planes with hundreds of people on them don’t crash into the ground. It appears that Boeing only cares about Quota’s and that they have learned nothing at all. Maybe their business license should be revoked before they kill a bunch more innocent people due to incompetence.
My friend was an engineer there there when early diversity hiring reared its head. The more diversity, the lower the quality of work became. So here comes more diversity, and she’s worried about what will happen to her pension.
Really, why would they need to hire more if they've already hired all qualified applicants?
Go down to the Seattle day labor center, hire all the Black faces there, and put them in charge of engineering the MAX improvements.
Let’s face it - they can’t do any worse than the last guys did.