The news reports say that after yesterday’s affirmative action decision there could be a trickle down effect to businesses and perhaps more lawsuits using this decision as precedent. In other words, hiring practices based on anything but merit are in the crosshairs. Fiserv’s entire self-made identity as a haven for every group is now threatened.
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@2bdg+1nnfJCos you are 100% right. They have hired or promoted a few token employees to maintain the DEI image, but they aren't in key decision making roles. They exist purely for aesthetics. Make no mistake, this place is run by grumpy old white men.
What do you mean? Fiserv is so diverse. We've hired people from north India, south India, central India, etc.
I keep getting these emails from HR saying maintaining diversity is very important. But when the resumes come there is no diversity. I think they put some minority people in some high positions to make it looks like they are diverse.
Fiserv will spin this to their advantage.
I don't care who I work with, just do your job so I don't have to do it for you. I have enough of my own sh-t to do.
Don't worry that doesn't affect us. We only will hire from India from now on anyways.
It won't be as easy in the workplace. Colleges did not hide the fact that they were using race as a deciding factor and, frankly, it would be impossible to claim otherwise. The raw data showing applicants with far higher standardized college admission test scores and high school grades being rejected for others with far lower scores is available for all to see.
Company hiring processes are far murkier. They can hide all sorts of biases (in any direction, mind you).
You see how long it took the judicial system to act when the favoritism was not only flagrant but essentially celebrated. Now apply that glacial, reluctant response to the aforementioned murkier systems in the business world.
Hurray for EQUAL rights