In large companies, diversity is about hiring and promoting people based on skin color and sex, and then pretending that it was solely on the merits, and that skin color and sex had nothing to do with it.
That sums is up as well as I have ever heard. It goes double for state and local government jobs.
Yep. I witnessed this first-hand when I worked for a large construction company (ISEC, Inc.). They were focused on hiring based on “diversity” rather than on “qualifications”. It was a real nightmare trying to do my job while trying to train unqualified morons to read blue-prints. Most of those “diverse” employees were hired based solely upon their “ethinicity” and were then fired when the construction industry took a nose-dive in 2008.
Stoopid company with a lot of stoopid politically correct idiots running it.