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Wednesday, June 3. 2020

Is it your protest strategy to piss me off?

Riots are not good persuasion and will not get you a job. Scott lost three promotions in his business career because he was a white male but he'd love to be helpful if somebody told him how.  (brilliant podcast) "Not a f-ing corporation in America is looking to hire a white person."


Or stay out of trouble and learn a trade. He tells it like it is. 


I agree that doing things for other people is a foundational life strategy. Never expect gratitude, though. People resent helpfulness because it makes them feel helpless. It is complicated.  




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It's been five, in my case. At least that's how many they'll admit to. What's even more tragic is the extent to which affirmative action has been used to weed out and drydock the best of the protected classes. The nomenklatura aren't interested in anybody getting heard, just herded.

There are at least a couple of times I've helped when asked and gotten stabbed in the back for it. I was able to turn both into very effective elements of my preemptive defence strategy, but like any good defence, I won't discuss it ;-) ...
#1 Phil, Jr. on 2020-06-03 15:57 (Reply)
A corollary is the affirmative action ban on criticism: it hasn’t been possible (I think for about 25 years) to constructively- or otherwise - criticize anyone who is dark skinned. So mentoring some of the newer hires (Or even someone who’s just been promoted into your group as “ experienced”) is not possible - you can not criticize their work so they know what they should be doing. You cannot tell them what they must learn, improve or get better at to perform well. Further, you cannot tell them to read the professional literature and keep up on technical stuff on their own time. Or, point out when they missed something they should have known but did not because they aren’t reading journals.
#2 Annie on 2020-06-03 16:08 (Reply)
Twenty-five years is about right. It started in 1990 with the sudden arrival of the Cultural Diversity agenda, but that didn't get an even roll-out due to some ironically funny circumstances.
#2.1 Phil, Jr. on 2020-06-04 07:09 (Reply)
A company that a family member works for hired a woman of color to help fill the diversity thing. She had everything going for her and they worked very hard to let/help her get ahead. The family member discovered she was not being honest with the company and was stealing by deceit. After weeks of documentation to prove her actions and many meetings with the company lawyer she was let go. She was given a good chance to succeed in a good company and given every opportunity to do so. People felt bad but they had to let her go. Now they will have to hire another diversity candidate to fill the vacancy. Some people never learn.
#3 JC on 2020-06-03 16:32 (Reply)
"Never expect gratitude, though. People resent helpfulness because it makes them feel helpless." There's a lot of truth there, NJ. I'm not a fan of Maya Angelou, but she was definitely correct when she wrote: “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
#4 snopercod on 2020-06-03 17:22 (Reply)
I agree that doing things for other people is a foundational life strategy. Never expect gratitude, though. People resent helpfulness because it makes them feel helpless. It is complicated.

Don't know how it makes them feel but I fully agree. I have helped/done things for people many many times in my life & always been treated like I was slapped in the face for it. I don't help any more.
Oh, & when I needed help they were not available.
#5 rick9911 on 2020-06-03 21:10 (Reply)
I got super screwed in 1989 when I was moving back to Dallas from Minnesota where I had been trying to make a living for three years. I had some start up plans for a business with some money but I needed a bridge job to tide me over as I brought my family back to Texas.

A friend told me about the 1990 Census needing staff and said that working for the census would be an ideal job for about at year. I flew down to Dallas, filled out and application, took a test which I aced, it wasn't really hard at all. I had a BBA in management and Veteran's preference for four years duty 1966-1970 and thought I would have a job. A month later I was send a notice to report at, a certain place at a certain time, in Dallas so once more I flew down at my expense, reported in, and I was told to take a seat and then they handed out the test I had already taken.

I sat there for a few minutes and then I went up to the test administrator and told her that I had already been given the test a month ago and what was going on. She asked me to wait a minute, went through a door to another office and after a bit asked me to come on back. At that time a nice Black Woman who was in charge looked at me and heard my story. She told me that she would deny ever saying what she was going to say to me but then she said, "You do not meet the profile I have been charged to hire, you are not right for the job.", I asked her what that meant and she said she was sorry but she was not able to hire any white males regardless of qualifications and she was being sincere in her apology, I think she wished she could have hired me for her team.

That my friends was during the republican Bush One administration and, sure enough, the census was pretty well screwed up that year and every time after due to staffing with people who had no idea what they are doing or how to plan and lead people. That is my 30 year old story of your government at work.
#6 OldTexan on 2020-06-03 21:14 (Reply)
Old gaming strategy - if you want to get in good with a stronger player, asking him for help/advice is a better ploy than offering help/advice.
#7 Jerryskids on 2020-06-03 21:33 (Reply)
Scott is spot on. I’m really at a loss to explain why anyone would want to work for a large corporation. Two years was all I could take. Just mind numbing.
#8 DblTap on 2020-06-04 04:22 (Reply)
I agree that doing things for other people is a foundational life strategy. Never expect gratitude, though. People resent helpfulness because it makes them feel helpless. It is complicated.

It's taken me many years to come to that realization, and even now I haven't figured it out completely. You said it very well and very succinctly. Thanks.
#9 DrTorch on 2020-06-04 08:48 (Reply)
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Which kinds of laws require a public vote? None, so shut-up.

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#10 Ron Liebermann on 2020-06-04 12:34 (Reply)
Donald Trump can't cross the street without the MSM building multiple false narratives about him.
#11 itsatax on 2020-06-04 12:40 (Reply)

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