The FAA's Hiring Scandal: A Quick Overview

linhns wrote: post #3

skymast wrote: post #2

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Hopefully you won’t get downvotes for saying this. Last time I put on a similar comments got folks jumping in to protect DEI.

Probably because its important to stay on-topic: for example, here. article doesn't talk about DEI scores, DEI, or ESG.

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Post by gitfan86 » Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 12:16 AM UTC

linhns wrote: post #3

skymast wrote: post #2

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Hopefully you won’t get downvotes for saying this. Last time I put on a similar comments got folks jumping in to protect DEI.

It seems like a lot of the most liberal people left Twitter and some of them ended up here. They still believe that progressivism is calling people racist that disagree with policies like this.

I have hope that things will change though, once the virtue signalling result in something that can effect their safety theu will reconsider.

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Post by swagmoose » Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 12:18 AM UTC

Part of this tweet[1] stood out to me. I wish I was more optimistic about Buttigieg handling this appropriately, but I'm not aware of any significant action on his part over the Norfolk Southern freight explosion a year ago.

"He has been saddled with a messy, stupid lawsuit built on bad decision after bad decision, from predecessors who--between a rock and a hard place in the impossible task of avoiding disparate impact while preserving objective standards--elected to take the easy road and cave to political pressure to implement absurdities. He has extraordinary power to end this mess in a moment and begin to make things right for those who were directly denied a chance at the jobs they had worked towards thanks to an arbitrary and perverse biographical questionnaire."

[1] https://twitter.com/tracewoodgrains/status/17520918310959394...

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Post by peanutcrisis » Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 12:22 AM UTC

kanbara wrote: post #4

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If they are qualified, shouldn't they be able to compete fairly with the rest of the applicant pool? I think this scenario should only be a cause for concern if people are being passed on for anything other than their competency, such as race.

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Post by gitfan86 » Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 12:25 AM UTC

kanbara wrote: post #4

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Yes, if you define the role you are hiring for as one where the applicant would have failed science in high school you will be hiring the most qualified applicant if they failed science in high school.

But how is failing science in high school good for working on aviation safety?

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Post by 303uru » Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 12:30 AM UTC

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