Posted on 04/09/2021 5:01:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
United Airlines has decided that it’s time for a little makeover. The airline is not going to do that by changing its paint scheme, its in-flight service, or its billing structure. No, it’s got a much more ambitious objective in mind. United will polish its woke credentials by giving its clientele what it wants most -- diversity in the cockpit. United has announced that 50% of its new pilots entering training will be females or people of color.
To fully appreciate the flaw in United’s decision, it’s important to understand the reasoning of the diversity industry. When I was an engineering manager, I had occasion to hire a number of new engineers. To ensure diversity, our HR department would be intimately involved in the hiring decisions. Their reasoning was that any person that met the job requirements could do the job. They had no recognition that a person with greater capabilities may do the job better. The qualifications were to be treated as strictly binary -- the person could either do the job or not.
Since I was prohibited from looking for the best candidate, I was required to make selections from the remaining pool of qualified candidates, based on various diversity hiring criteria. It was presumed that a person with greater qualifications/capabilities wouldn’t provide added value over those who were merely qualified. Therefore, as the hiring manager I was not permitted to seek competitive advantage by hiring the “best.” As long as a candidate could do the job, and met diversity criteria, that was good enough.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The cockpit? What is it?
It’s a pressurized enclosure with flight controls, instruments, and pilots, but that’s not important now.
A very good article - worth a read.
A place where roosters fight to the death.
I dunno, sounds like White roosters are at the bottom of the pecking order.
The airline that advertises qualified pilots over diversity hires should garner lots of business.
Just don’t live in the flight path of any United flights
for diversity, should not one of the pilots
be a murderer of an excited insane pre-murderer??
And why isn’t Air Force One now employing black female pilots only.
They’ll do great on those new places bidet told us are going to be flying 21,000 mph
Make this illegal.
* planes
It’s getting to the point that one questions whether a Black professional you may hire or have working on you is the best, competent or a social promotion.
Something Blacks should ponder.
Nothing good has happened since the personnel department became human resources...
Non binary pilots. Questions for Human Resources. Is there a place United can advertise for non binary gender pilot trainees? Does a third bathroom have to be installed on the plane? Does the cockpit become a Idunnopit?
When the pilots are male, the flight deck is called the cockpit. When they’re female, it’s called the box office.
Getting to the point?
It’s been that way for several decades now.
Judging applicants by the color of their skin, not by the content of their character.
Hook MLK up to the drive shaft of a generator...
Ain’t that the truth! And all headed by some middle-aged woman bitter over the glass ceiling.
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