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It's time for Silicon Valley firms to disclose the race, ethnicity, gender and age of its workforce
San Jose Mercury ^ | 06/01/2014 | Michelle Quinn

Posted on 06/01/2014 8:16:48 PM PDT by artichokegrower

What about the rest of you?

Silicon Valley companies, big and small, should follow Google's lead and disclose demographic information about their workforces.

Here's why: Disclosure of the race, ethnicity and gender of a company's workers is an act of goodwill to the community, a clear sign that the tech industry is ready to have a frank discussion about the issue, instead of deflecting the conversation to talking about their cool science and math K-12 initiatives.

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To: Chode
"Acting!"
21 posted on 06/01/2014 9:22:02 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: artichokegrower

White GUYS? Try lots of H1B1 Visa holding Asians who are either work 80 Hrs week for 40 Hrs pay or back to your shit hole with a rice bowl.


22 posted on 06/01/2014 9:28:36 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: EEGator
LOL... yup
23 posted on 06/01/2014 9:31:39 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Indeed. Looking in 20 CFR 655 and 20 CFR 656(and the law that enables them) has been enlightening in all the wrong ways.


24 posted on 06/01/2014 10:23:41 PM PDT by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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To: Jim from C-Town
My environment is H1B1 free. US citizens with DISA clearances. Mostly old white guys. We get the 80 hrs work for 40 hrs pay because we can't find enough qualified, cleared staff that can do the work. We're thankful for secure employment. If we don't get some young blood into the programs soon, the technology will die with the staff.
25 posted on 06/01/2014 10:25:06 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Silicon Valley firms are a lot less homogenous than the NBA.


26 posted on 06/01/2014 10:39:37 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: EEGator

“But in movies, the computer genius is a Black man...”

Add the guy from Terminator II; he’s the first instance I can remember. Maybe Silicon Valley threw those characters in there to keep the NAACP off their trail...


27 posted on 06/02/2014 3:55:42 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Nifster

“Most of the hardware is done by whites and asians. places like google and ebay and Facebook like young white males...preferrably under 40”

Great; the gender police will be on this like white on rice. Expect shares to drop a bit as a force of minority and female token are hired to make these companies “look like America”. Every company, under threat of federal lawsuit, has to employ their share of the unemployable...


28 posted on 06/02/2014 3:58:07 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

Damn, I forgot about him. I’m not sure if Morpheus from The Matrix counts or not.


29 posted on 06/02/2014 4:51:46 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: kearnyirish2

naaahhhh nobody in the Bay Area cares. This who write software are a different breed altogether and pretty much everyone else ignores them. The over 40s have been complaining and suing for years. Doesn’t help much. When you are 20 and the CEO you think others aren’t as smart as you.


30 posted on 06/02/2014 9:01:08 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: EEGator

“Damn, I forgot about him. I’m not sure if Morpheus from The Matrix counts or not.”

Too funny. It is creepy how the world of television strays further and further from the reality we see around us every day...


31 posted on 06/02/2014 2:24:19 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Nifster

“The over 40s have been complaining and suing for years. Doesn’t help much. When you are 20 and the CEO you think others aren’t as smart as you.”

Many of them are white; they have no voice anyway. Those companies will be forced to take on their allotment of tokens or else...(unless of course they’ve already paid off the Rainbow Coalition and such).


32 posted on 06/02/2014 2:33:03 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

nah... they hire the obligatory Indian and a few Chinese grad students and then they are good


33 posted on 06/02/2014 8:43:54 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Nifster

“nah... they hire the obligatory Indian and a few Chinese grad students and then they are good”

In the court of racial politics, that simply won’t suffice; those groups are considered “white”, and are reviled by the left because they demonstrate the failures of our own education system...


34 posted on 06/03/2014 3:55:14 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

In California that is more than good enough....I know you think you understand Silicon Valley but you really don’t


35 posted on 06/03/2014 6:38:08 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: Nifster

Easy there, Richard; I know little about Silicon Valley but plenty about CA and the country today.


36 posted on 06/03/2014 2:29:02 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

no you don’t....


37 posted on 06/03/2014 8:57:56 PM PDT by Nifster
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