"Lawyers for the men contend IBM reduced the payments not for its stated reasons, but because upper-level managers had set up and were enforcing an informal, hidden budget for commission payouts. Under it, the salesmen faced cuts simply because they otherwise stood to make too much money."
That doesn't stop them from being racists and making much deeper cuts to darker skinned sales people.
"Also it seems cheaper to me to not hire black guys in the first place if I was racist. But what do I know?"
Seems obvious to me it's not the same people doing the hiring. Why would that not be the case?
Re: Big Blue made a big boo-boo (Score:5, Informative)
From your link:
"Lawyers for the men contend IBM reduced the payments not for its stated reasons, but because upper-level managers had set up and were enforcing an informal, hidden budget for commission payouts. Under it, the salesmen faced cuts simply because they otherwise stood to make too much money."
That doesn't stop them from being racists and making much deeper cuts to darker skinned sales people.
"Also it seems cheaper to me to not hire black guys in the first place if I was racist. But what do I know?"
Seems obvious to me it's not the same people doing the hiring. Why would that not be the case?