Former Yahoo Employee Challenges the Legality of Yahoo's Ranking System (nytimes.com) 250
whoever57 writes: A former employee of Yahoo is challenging Yahoo's performance review and termination process. The ranking system was introduced to Yahoo by Ms. Mayer on the recommendation of management consultants McKinsey & Co.. Gregory Anderson, an editor who oversaw Yahoo's autos, homes, shopping, small business and travel sites in Sunnyvale, Calif. is claiming that the ranking and termination process was flawed to the extent that the terminations were not based on performance and hence constitute mass layoffs, which require notice periods under both California and Federal law. He is also alleging gender discrimination, under which women were given preferential treatment over men in the hiring, promotions and layoff processes.
it looked so much like layoffs (Score:3, Insightful)
Maybe I misunderstood and they were just trying to get rid of bad programmers. From what I understand, Yahoo had a lot of them.
Re:it looked so much like layoffs (Score:5, Insightful)
It looked so much like layoffs that I thought it was layoffs.
Well, it does seem pretty obvious they are coming...
Really, this guy should be thanking Yahoo, not suing them. They've given him a head start over the thousands of other Yahoo employees that'll soon be flooding the marketplace.
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Yahoo has no choice but to get rid of as many people as they can, as quickly as they can. We can assume from the article that they're doing it as cheaply as they can as well, using a system that other companies have decided is bad business, but why would Yahoo care what the staff think?
They're going to have next to no staff soon anyway, when the Alibaba owning bit is spun off, (which will need very few staff), and the res
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What's funny is they make money (the non alibaba part), just not enough for the hedge funds and not growing enough for the hedge funds.
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You can make Wall Street happy by constantly creating new companies that kill and replace the old favourites.
Wall Street thrives on instability.
Clarity in the title might have helped. (Score:5, Insightful)
I had to read several sentences in the find out we are talking about some kind of work rank system, not search ranking. You know... it being a search engine company and all.
Re:Clarity in the title might have helped. (Score:5, Funny)
You know... it being a search engine company and all.
A shareholder activist is demanding that Yahoo get rid of its board of directors and sell the search engine to focus the core business on... something else.
Re:Clarity in the title might have helped. (Score:5, Insightful)
You know... it being a search engine company and all.
A shareholder activist is demanding that Yahoo get rid of its board of directors and sell the search engine to focus the core business on... something else.
Yahoo hasn't been a search engine company for years. They outsourced that to Microsoft Bing a long time ago.
Yahoo is essentially Google Lite -- they make all their money from advertising. But, unlike Google, they aren't very good at it.
Re:Clarity in the title might have helped. (Score:5, Insightful)
They make decent money, rather consistently actually. But it's not growing very fast. That doesn't meet the hedge funds demands. The hedge funds aren't satisfied with 2% growth, they want 20%. So rather than see 2% they will see the company destroyed. They call these hedge funds "activist investors", but their goal is to squeeze every dime out then sell the stock. The actions they advocate are never good for the long term.
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Yup. Doesn't matter if you make a profit, you've got to make a big enough profit. This isn't just with hedge funds, but even having a great year but making record profits but less than predicted by an analyst can cause huge selloffs. These are not longer investors, they're gamblers. We've also changed what it means to be a good company to invest in; it used to mean steady and reliable dividends, now it means continual quarterly increase in stock value.
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You know... it being a search engine company and all.
A shareholder activist is demanding that Yahoo get rid of its board of directors and sell the search engine to focus the core business on... something else.
Yahoo doesn't seem to exist for any reason other than to make other people rich.
They made Mark Cuban a billionaire when they bought his worthless bullshit company. They paid $30 Million for a "company" that turned out to be a 17 year old kid who wrote an app and had no interest in working for Yahoo. And since Marissa Mayer has been in charge, they've spent a few hundred million $$ buying worthless bullshit companies started by former Google employees.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat . . . .
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You know... it being a search engine company and all.
A shareholder activist is demanding that Yahoo get rid of its board of directors and sell the search engine to focus the core business on... something else.
The navel lint classification field seems to be wide open...
Re:Clarity in the title might have helped. (Score:4, Funny)
You know... it being a search engine company and all.
A shareholder activist is demanding that Yahoo get rid of its board of directors and sell the search engine to focus the core business on... something else.
The navel lint classification field seems to be wide open...
OK, I'll admit the uses for such information are a little fuzzy...
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I am gonna admit this in public... So, I just checked and I did, indeed, have belly button lint. I surely can't be the only one who checked or will I be the only one who admits it?
Oddly, it was blue. I'm wearing a green shirt and I'm quite positive that I showered today. I have no idea where/why I accumulated blue lint in my belly button. I'm half-tempted to take a picture.
See! This is the kind of data Yahoo could begin classifying...
They could even get experts to tell us that the lint is not really blue, it is a color that absorbs all other wavelengths and only reflects blue light back to the... OMG.. observer!
That lint may or may not have existed until you checked!
This makes a lot of sense. Whomever is in charge of such cosmic minutia had to do a rush job because they did not expect you to check...
so you got the wrong color.
I'm going to have to skip my meds more often...
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Well they made all their original money on malware and viruses, so maybe they're going back to that.
Advertising? Google owns that now.
CEOs: what a life! (Score:5, Interesting)
It's great to be a CEO: get paid millions, then use the company's money to bring in consultants to do your own work!
Re:CEOs: what a life! (Score:4, Interesting)
Or even better - hire your friend as COO, fire him after less than a year, but still make him earn $109M. http://www.forbes.com/sites/je... [forbes.com]
Food Fight! (Score:2)
Will be fun to see who prevails.
What works for Jack Welch doesn't always work... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:What works for Jack Welch doesn't always work.. (Score:5, Interesting)
I've seen a couple of places do this with a forced bell curve.
They had pre-defined that you can only have so many at each level, and had to fit -- if you had 10 people, the number at each level was defined by a formula.
Which meant the ranking system couldn't say "wow, I have a bunch of good people", or "shit, I have a bunch of dullards".
Morons who manage by arbitrary metric tend to do a lousy job of it. Because apparently reality is a problem for such people.
I find that style of management pretty pathetic, because it's just drooling idiots blindly following stuff they don't understand, and can't see why it's failing them.
Re:What works for Jack Welch doesn't always work.. (Score:4, Interesting)
They had pre-defined that you can only have so many at each level, and had to fit -- if you had 10 people, the number at each level was defined by a formula.
The company I worked for had a bell curve at one point. They funny thing is that the QA department as a whole did an honest assessment to fit the bell curve perfectly. The other departments, especially the department managers, all ranked themselves very highly. The executive team had a hard time bringing reality to the other departments that not everyone was a special snowflake.
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A lot of groups can be kept to a minimal number, so even if you have a bell curve you can not afford to lose the bottom person, there's just too much work to do. But then management insists on across the board cuts and open job reqs are closed and the pinch really hurts with those who are left. Which means your top performers are likely to start leaving voluntarily.
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Morons who manage by arbitrary metric tend to do a lousy job of it. Because apparently reality is a problem for such people.
I don't think reality is the issue. The real problem is those people are simply bad at their job (managing) - but they are being paid large amounts of money do do exactly that. They are constantly terrified of being found out, so they grasp onto any simplistic "management" notion their little intellects can actually grasp.
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That's sort of why I hate layoffs that reduce 10% from every department across the board. Which means you lose some really great employees while also retaining some utter morons.
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I had a manager who was a big fan of Jack Welch
Ahhh. Neutron Jack. Brings a tear to my eye when I think back to him!
Re:What works for Jack Welch doesn't always work.. (Score:5, Insightful)
It's called "stack ranking" and it doesn't work period.
From an article in Vanity Fair: “Every current and former Microsoft employee I interviewed—every one—cited stack ranking as the most destructive process inside of Microsoft, something that drove out untold numbers of employees,” Eichenwald writes. “If you were on a team of 10 people, you walked in the first day knowing that, no matter how good everyone was, 2 people were going to get a great review, 7 were going to get mediocre reviews, and 1 was going to get a terrible review,” says a former software developer. “It leads to employees focusing on competing with each other rather than competing with other companies.”
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I had a manager who was a big fan of Jack Welch and implemented a policy to fire the bottom 10% every year. Except he didn't hire replacements and the middle soon became the new bottom. The top 10% saw the writing on the wall and vacated for greener fields elsewhere. I was the third of a dozen senior testers who left the company. The manager rode the company all the way into bankruptcy, unwilling to admit that his channeling of Jack Welch was wrong.
That manager was a "fan" of Jack Welch the same way a baseball-bat murderer is a "fan" of Derek Jeter.
I worked for GE under Jack Welch. On the day I was hired, there were about 6-7 people between me and Welch. That's it.
Then the group I was in - GE Aerospace - was sold to Martin Marietta because Welch was tired of the GE Aerospace business model of being a mere body shop for US government contracting that was using the GE name to attract young engineers, then underpay them while billing them out at a high
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I was at a rather bizarre all-company video conference meeting years ago on this topic. The head of software dev had been pushing to fire the "bottom" 10% each year, because he was a psycho who enjoyed firing people. The head HR woman came on the conference first and announced that there was a new policy that the "bottom" 10% would be place on an "improvement" program. Then dev head comes on and starts talking about firing people. HR woman drags him off, they come back in a few minutes, HR woman talks a
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Good luck with that... (Score:3, Informative)
> He is also alleging gender discrimination, under which women were given preferential treatment over men in the hiring, promotions and layoff processes.
That could be long and expensive to prove. I talked to a lawyer recently about "protected classes" (in the context of a large layoff the preponderance of which were over 50). Going from memory (IANAL), the issue comes down to what is a "protected class", which makes suing for discrimination a realistic possibility. Age is indeed a protected class. The female gender is a protected class. Races other than white tend to be protected classes.
Interestingly enough, she said specifically that contractors from India working in the US are a protected class (at least in this state, YMMV) which is why it's so difficult to go after H1B abuses. But that's another story.
Anyway, point is, he's going to have a difficult time (more difficult than this ever is) proving gender discrimination against males.
Re:Good luck with that... (Score:5, Interesting)
Yeah, except that that's incorrect: http://www.lawfficespace.com/2013/12/yes-white-males-are-protected-class.html.
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Gender in general is a protected class. You don't really need a lawyer to tell you this - the classes are explicitly enumerated in the law [cornell.edu]:
"(a) Employer practices
It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer—
(1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin;"
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Interestingly enough, she said specifically that contractors from India working in the US are a protected class (at least in this state, YMMV)
Do you mean in Michigan where the this former manager is suing Yahoo from?
One big problem with Yahoo is that they also fired their lawyers. Firing your own lawyers for "low performance" is never a good idea. Now Anderson has a lawyer as an ally who is highly motivated to prove Yahoo wrong whatever happens.
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You just made his case.
If I understand your point, I don't disagree. The lawyer very specifically said that even if you're suing as a protected class, it takes forever to get a resolution and there's maybe a 50% chance you won't get anything. If you're suing against a protected class, it takes even longer, and the evidence has to be absolutely airtight and particularly egregious. Fair or unfair, that is the way things are. As you're probably heard, this (holds hands outstretched) is the truth, and this (holds palms a few inch
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Hint: they're paid by the hour, win or lose.
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Also, in practice, claiming that a tech company discriminates against men really isn't going to go down well in front of a judge.
I work for a tech company. A very senior female manager explicitly supports and helps promote female staff members because of their gender.
It happens that she's supportive of men too, and has actually been very good to me individually, but it is discrimination when certain individuals get extra coaching and management support purely on gender grounds.
I'm sure a judge will take a more balanced view on this than you appear to.
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Also, in practice, claiming that a tech company discriminates against men really isn't going to go down well in front of a judge.
I work for a tech company. A very senior female manager explicitly supports and helps promote female staff members because of their gender.
It happens that she's supportive of men too, and has actually been very good to me individually, but it is discrimination when certain individuals get extra coaching and management support purely on gender grounds.
I'm sure a judge will take a more balanced view on this than you appear to.
In my case it was an H1B manager explicitly supporting, coaching, and helping promote other H1B employees at the expense of locals. The lawyer said that a case would be nearly impossible to make, because the principles involved belonged to a protected class (non-white).
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Also perhaps because the principals involved cannot bother to learn the one language they grew up speaking and writing well enough to actually make a case.
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I'm sure a judge will take a more balanced view on this than you appear to.
A judge will only care if you can show harm. Otherwise we would have to put urinals in the women's bathroom, to make sure everything is absolutely the same for both genders. It doesn't have to be the same, it just has to avoid disadvantaging one group.
So if this manager is helping women more than men, you should have to show that men are now at a disadvantage. I'm sure she would argue that the low number of female engineers is evidence that she is actually just trying to reduce gender bias an inequality.
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Hah. (Score:2)
He is also alleging gender discrimination, under which women were given preferential treatment over men in the hiring,
Yeah, let me know how that works out for you...
Hmmm... (Score:3)
What is interesting to me here is the charge of gender discrimination. Typically you would expect this to be levied by a female. In this case it appears to be a guy that is alleging discrimination. Reverse discrimination basically and it flies in the face of what Silicon Valley and indeed corporate America have been promoting for quite some time now.
To me this is a perfect example of how two wrongs don't make a right. This guy had nothing to do with what happened in the past so why must he be made to suffer for it?
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"This guy had nothing to do with what happened in the past so why must he be made to suffer for it?"
Why not wait until the lawsuit's been judged/settled before considering guilt please? For that matter, please take out the value judgement 'wrongs' out of a law story entirely. Either the company colluded against men to suppress equally capable male counterparts or they didn't. The only thing we can say for sure is that definitively is that people who get fired almost always feel like they got dumped on by ma
Re:Hmmm... (Score:4, Insightful)
It's the SJW version of "equality." If a group discriminated against you in the past, then it's okay for you to discriminate against them now. Of course, that means it will eventually come back around and make it okay for white males to discriminate again against minorities and women, but we won't worry about that.
Just curious (Score:2)
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Money is Money (Score:2)
I'd work for AOL or WebCrawler if they pay. Who cares.
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"Ranking and rating" (Score:2)
Nice try, Yahoo (Score:2)
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It's obvious Yahoo is trying to redefine these as "not layoffs"
They aren't "layoffs", we're just umm..."laying you off". See, it's TOTALLY different!
Stack Rankning (Score:3)
Sounds like Microsoft's completely fucked-up "stack ranking" bullshit, where you HAD to give the lower 10 or 20 percent of your team "failing" grades no mater how good or talented or productive they were. So fucking STUPID.
So you have this awesome team of ten people, they're all really good and the team works well together. Everyone is, in fact, a valuable contributing member with useful skills and knowledge.
TOUGH SHIT! At least two of them will have to be marked as "no good" or "non-productive" and fired. It doesn't matter that they were good, all that matters is the lowest 10% or 20% is marked for pruning. And sure as shit, it all came down to who you knew and how hard you could suck or buddy-up to the manager.
As a contractor I saw this time and time again at Microsoft. I was never subject to it (I was a contractor, ha ha!) but good, talented people would get cut from the team simply because "those were the rules". Utter stupid bullshit. It was appalling.
Didn't suck your manager's dick hard enough? Didn't bring her enough cookies and compliment her hair often enough? Didn't make enough small talk?
Out you go, and good luck finding another spot after being one of the "discards".
Yeah, this stack ranking idiocy contributed to a LOT of needless unhappiness at Microsoft and the back-biting and sabotage reached epic proportions, with people actively fucking one another over so their all-important "value" would stay above their coworker's "value".
It's what made me decide to never, EVER take a direct position at Microsoft. Any company that does this is fucked up. I'll work there and I'll drink your free soda, but at the end of the day I get to go home and leave all that office politics horsecrap behind.
Unlike the hapless direct employees, I never spent one sleepless night worrying about getting cut, or if I had to play "me suck you" with my managers. The instant I walked out the door each day it was, "Fuck you and the greasy dildo you rode in on", and that was that.
I was happier and better paid than any of the directs I knew, and I fucking reveled in it. I was out the door at 5:01 while the rest of the much-vaunted direct chimps slaved away until 7 or 8 each night hoping to be seen as "industrious" or "productive". Lol, losers.
Ha ha, suckers! You thought the Holy Blue Badge was the Key to Heaven, but it was nothing but a portable heartache and a clip-on reminder to buy more Xanax. Ha ha!
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Sounds like Microsoft's completely fucked-up "stack ranking" bullshit...
Google has the same system. [dice.com]
The beatings will continue (Score:2)
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I really don't have a problem with it, it's better than seeing incompetent dumbasses coast along while everyone else carries the weight.
That's fine, except that's not how it actually works. If you are female and/or a "person of color" its perfectly OK to be an incompetent dumbass because firing you would be racist/sexist discrimination.
Department of Education: Discrimination isn't (Score:5, Insightful)
When I worked for a state university system I had occasion to read the DOE regulations about discrimination. Colleges are required to file various paperwork about racial and gender statistic of students who apply, students admitted, and students who graduate, to prove that they aren't discriminating. I was a bit surprised to find out that the DOE regulations explicitly state that discrimination against males and caucasians is not discrimination. I wonder of the Department of Labor has a similar rule.
Re:Department of Education: Discrimination isn't (Score:4, Insightful)
I was a bit surprised to find out that the DOE regulations explicitly state that discrimination against males and caucasians is not discrimination. I wonder of the Department of Labor has a similar rule.
Isn't this unconstitutional or against Human rights? I don't know about the US, but the German constitution says "All Humans are equal".
Re:Department of Education: Discrimination isn't (Score:4, Insightful)
I was a bit surprised to find out that the DOE regulations explicitly state that discrimination against males and caucasians is not discrimination. I wonder of the Department of Labor has a similar rule.
Isn't this unconstitutional or against Human rights? I don't know about the US, but the German constitution says "All Humans are equal".
Don't be silly. Some humans are just more equal than others.
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Yes, ED, Education Dysfunction (Score:2)
You are of course correct - ED.
Not ADA. Deep in the racial reporting regulations (Score:3)
No, it's not ADA and it's not an easy-to-read guide like the link you mentioned. It's deep in the actual Department of Education regulations themselves. There are probably a thousand pages, so I don't have an hour or two to try to find that bit now. The wording is interesting to me because it says "discrimination ... is not discrimination ".
To paraphrase the part abbreviated by ellipses since I don't have it memorized, it's something like:
Discrimination in admissions or program assignment which is deemed
That's nice (Score:3)
You didn't read a thousand pages of regulations in a few minutes. I'm pretty darn sure I remember quite clearly being surprised that it said so clearly, "discrimination ... is not discrimination". Think what you will, though. If you ever have to decipher the regulations you'll find it; until then you can imagine your own facts and believe your own imagination.
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In addition to that, you now only have the right on TV and movies to be stupid, fat and a general duffass (sp?)...the butt of any jokes. Since minorities and women cannot be made fun of, or risk having the commercial, tv show or movie insensitive, it is only the white guys that can be made fun of these days.
Pretty
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What word were you going for, doofus?
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Except that the majority of upper management and executives are still white male. Of course you don't get that high up without friends giving you a leg up.
As for females? All my jobs in over three decades have become more and more male dominated over time.
Re:Same way they do things at my employer. (Score:4, Insightful)
Oppressed? Maybe not.
Educational outcomes, family court outcomes, criminal justice system outcomes, health outcomes, employment discrimination.. I see a lot of reasons for men to be concerned.
Poor white boys have the lowest educational outcomes, so don't go playing the race card.
As for how white men are treated by universities and colleges.. clear discrimination, abuse and frankly yes, oppression.
Re:Same way they do things at my employer. (Score:5, Insightful)
Here's what I say to my kids when they get caught up in some kind of Internet jihad: there are 30000 tons of brussels sprouts produced in the USA every year (7500 acres planted x 8000 pounds/acre typical yield). So clearly some people like brussels sprouts, peculiar as that is. If you take a large enough group of people you can find exemplars for any behavior, preference and outcome you need to "prove" any point (e.g., "brussels sprouts are yummy"). Everything that Gamergaters say about feminists is true -- of somebody, somewhere. It proves nothing about what a typical feminist is like.
To get at the truth you need to do two things: (1) find aggregate data which tells you whether your generalization has even a chance of being true; the disaggregate that data to find the kernel of truth that makes your over-generalization feel convincing. It's bound to be true of some people, and that's where you need to focus your attention.
So lets take the notion that white males are discriminated against educationally. The aggregate data clearly shows this is not generally true. For males age 25-29, 55% of Asians have a college degree, 37% of whites, 17% of blacks, and 13% of hispanics. In total 31% of males have college degrees and 37% of females. This paints a picture where white males don't get quite as much education as females, but are still in a very strong position compared to their black and hispanic counterparts. Some of the male/female educational disparity may be due to high-paying trade jobs generally being more open to men; if you look at income, the median male income is $860/week vs. $706/week for women.
So the overall picture is mixed, but for the most part the picture looks relatively rosy from white men in general. But no individual white man is in exactly the position of men in general. It's clear that a lot of white men are in a bad situation now, which they may attribute to benefits going to their hispanic or black neighbors, but in fact those group are in a similar or worse place if you compare hispanics and blacks of similar educational attainment.
Uniquely in the developed world mortality for American men aged 45-54 has increased; men who should be near the apex of their earning capacity and benefiting from a reduction in smoking and advances in medical treatment of degenerative diseases that start to kick it that age. But if you disaggregate that data you see that it's driven by a massive increase in mortality for men with only a high school education.
What this tells me is that we have an economic class problem in this country. Some white men look around and think the weight of all those hispanics and blacks are making the boat sink, but the real problem is that the boat has a hole in it.
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I was talking trends, and it is going downhill for the average white guy...and he has no recourse to complain as that it isn't PC to say he's being targeted.
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Criminal Justice outcomes [slate.com]are also widely accepted as being worse for non-whites, as well as health outcomes [rwjf.org]. Granted, much of this is due to poverty which you can pretend is not related to race, despite boatloads of evidence to the contrary.
What some cursory evidence does seem to indicate is that the gap between outcomes for different races is narrowing, slowly. This is probably what your really noticing.
I'll
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dey took ar jerbs!
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White males don't need to hear about it on some crazy AM radio broadcast anymore to know the discrimination is there. It's happening in the open now, especially in government and at universities. Being a white heterosexual male makes you almost a second-class citizen in public service or education now, and increasingly in many liberal areas too (like Silicon Valley).
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Silicon Valley is not all that liberal overall. It's got a very strong libertarian streak. You're thinking of other nearby regions, like San Francisco, Oakland, etc.
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I see tons of incompetent white men running departments or entire companies or even countries.
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According to US demographics projections, Caucasians will soon be a minority, period.
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The fact that white guys got it good for most of history is cold comfort if you're one being shit on today.
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Carly Fiorina did wonders for HP...
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Carly Fiorina did wonders for HP...
... by leaving the company. HP stock shot up 7% the day she left!
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She's ok, but she's no Janet Reno!
there's a new porn in town (Score:2)
I just saw "SJW" for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and already I'm seeing it everywhere.
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Any real worker in Silicon Valley hated her. They knew she was destroying the heart of the tech culture. The media thought she was great, but the media resides outside of Silicon Valley. The media never understands Silicon Valley, they think it's all about entrepreneurs and investors and is just like those Hollywood movies and tv series.
We just got a new white male CEO end of last year. I don't think any woman was considered. Any time a woman is appointed CEO in Silicon Valley it makes the front pages;
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To be fair quite a few people have not seen the website for some time and so quality testing might be a bit laggy. I have always loathed the colour purple, don't know why, just really, really do. The site leaves me feeling nauseated, really off putting to say the least. You can see the brains of an M&M at work, https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com], what has Yahoo become under that particular M&Ms direction or lack there of, more consultants required ASAP.
Re:It's a start (Score:5, Insightful)
As to the women given preference, considering they're paid less, on average, than men
The problem is that they're not. Women get paid on average the same as men, once you factor in experience, hours worked and contribution.
Women under 30 get paid more than men.
Women in part times roles get paid more per hour than men in part time roles.
Women spend most of the household income, even where it's earned by men.
Please, do some fucking research before spouting spurious divisive bullshit about gender pay differentials.
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When it happens to them it's discrimination. When it happens to others it's because of unrelated reasons.
Re: It's a start (Score:4, Insightful)
So it's "whining" to complain about open, pervasive, and unfair discrimination? I guess that makes Martin Luther King, Jr. a black-whiner.
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"Whiney man-babies" aren't the ones demanding preferential treatment. We just want REAL equality.
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I'm hispanic, but ethnically ambiguous. I get asked if I'm asian often and I thought I could pass for white, but my white wife disagrees.
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Count all the CEOs in Silicon Valley, the majority are white male. If you look at the entire country the vast majority are white male.
And last I checked, Microsoft isn't a Silicon Valley company and its CEO doesn't work here.
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Or, they could do away with stack ranking type of systems and go back to the old fashioned way of evaluating employees - by having the managers pay attention.
That method can't handle web scale.
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Re: Let me get that right (Score:2)
And the rankings were wrong, and known to be wrong and adjusted by those with no knowledge of performance. And this was so layoffs could be called performance based termination.