The future looks so bright for Taxachusetts. Not.
The approach is to have a minority of workers at a certain level do the skill part of the job but pay all of them at that level the same. The smart ones will slow down their productivity.
It is like in college, they switched to team assignments where they grouped students to complete team projects. That way the dumb ones can get good grades and pass and be “qualified” for STEM degrees, but they don’t really have the knowledge or horsepower.
MA also has walking upright as optional.
This is a good thing. You need a college degree to be a doctor or an engineer. You don’t need one to be some faceless bureaucrat.
Over the years, the written exam was dismissed and then so was the requirement for any kind of a degree. "DEI" was not a term of art at the time, but "hiring goals" were, and they were met my some beyond-less-than-incompetent mouth breathers.
Even for this liberal place of employment, the experiment was a grand fail, and quietly abandoned. The clericals-turned professionals showed little interest in technical knowledge upgrading, and were necessarily assigned to out-of-the-way, do-nothing jobs that hopefully the public would not encounter.
“If your standards are too high, lower your standards!”
ALWAYS WORKS!
More DEI please! as if we cant communicate with the idiots we have now in government when we need to
Looking for a job wit the gubmint?
Self identify as a trans illegal!
Massachusetts leaders praised the move as important for establishing an ‘inclusive’ workforce.
Translation : Cheap labor aka illegals who can’t read or
write English.