“Per OPM statistics, it looks like the federal workforce already represents the national racial distribution accurately. But that’s not good enough! No, we have to have more racial minorities in federal jobs than in the general population. (shaking my head) So much for my hope of getting a federal job.”
I doubt that. Can’t find a copy of the actual order but from the commentary it looks like this is directed at increasing diversity across labor categories and at higher pay grades. IOW, not enough women and minority engineers especially at the GS-15 level.
Read this twice if needed, but understand the implications of this practice. If you are a federal employee and you decline or fail to check a box for ethnic or gender identification then the default choice is caucasian male. That means that it is absolutley possible for an entire department of black females to register statistically as white males for hiring quota targeted areas. So then more black females are hired to remedy the imbalance. Trust me this goes on all the time.