Let’s say the ‘woke left’ has pressured the companies in your field to have diverse hiring policies or face casual social media backlash.
There is a premier widget company in your town. While impactful, it is small: twenty employees. The CEO, a single mom who voted for Hillary, decided she wanted the company to be roughly 20% ethnically diverse. She hired a Polynesian man as security, a Black woman to work reception, a Latinx lesbian in human resources, and a Black man in sales. Everyone else in the company, at all levels, and all of management is straight, white, and Christian.
The sales team has three tremendous quarters in a row, and the CEO decides it might be time to add to the team.
The widget company places an add on LinkedIn for their new position in sales. The add mentions they are an equal opportunity employer, but that’s the extent of the explanation for this woke ass quota she has going on.
Ten white men apply for the job. They have equal experience.
Five black men apply for the job. One has more experience than the entire group of applicants and a better sales record. In fact, the management team that interviewed him told him, “We think you have too much experience for this level of position. We don’t think you’d be happy here or could keep you.”
One of the qualified, though less experienced white men gets the job.
A few more good quarters go by and ‘I’m With Her’ decides to hire two more people: another person in sales and another assistant.
Ten white men apply and five Black men, including that same overqualified Black man, back again. Widget Co. has great benefits. He gets the same speech about his over-qualifications, another qualified white joins the sales team, and reception adds a young blonde woman from the CEO’s sorority.
A few more quarters go by, and the CEO decides to add two more. They’ll both be in sales, but they need to be green. Fresh. Trained within.
Five white graduates apply. Five black graduates apply. Equally unqualified. Equally lacking in experience, but all have 4.0 GPAs.
But that rapscallion of a CEO ain’t no slouch at math, and she wants to hold true to her woke lefty promise of providing opportunities for historically oppressed groups. She realizes she’s at 23 employees and about to hire up to 25. To keep her goal of 20%, she decides to hire one White graduate and one Black graduate to the sales team.
The company that once had 20 employees in total now has 25.
20 of those employees are straight and white; up from 16.
Straight white people made up 80% of the company’s original employees, and 80% of the current company is still straight and white.
In growing the company by 20%, all new hires but one were straight and white.
In one hiring phase, for two equal positions, the CEO made a coin flip choice in two demographics and chose one from each.
During the three prior hiring phases, Widget Co. dismissed a more qualified candidate because it wasn’t time to hire another one yet. Those jobs fell to the ‘qualified enough.’
AntiWidget Co., owned by a common sense anti-woker, is only hiring straight white men to help those being disenfranchised by the competition’s CEO, who is “hiring 50% Black people.” AntiWidget Co. is losing the sales race and could really use that over-qualified Black salesman, but it’s definitely not time to hire one now!
There are eighteen white men who didn’t get the upper-level sales job and four who didn’t get the entry-level job, and society will tell each of these twenty-two men, this new Black graduate took a spot from all of them. In fact, he probably took someone more deserving’s spot at the school he graduated from too.
If you want to believe you’ve been crowded out, you’ll find a way to turn 80% into extinction.
Altar’d Thoughts 