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My Daughter's Job Interview (Teaching)
colocdn's daughter
| May 8, 2012
| Vanity (colocdn's daughter)
Posted on 12/05/2012 10:53:12 AM PST by ColoCdn
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This was my daughter's synopsis of a recent job interview. This is my only vanity up to this point, but I wanted to share it because I thought her writing was brilliant. She sent it on to see if it might be published in a commentary form. It wasn't. (Shocker)
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posted on
12/05/2012 10:53:18 AM PST
by
ColoCdn
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To: ColoCdn
Thanks for sharing the wonderful prose. Best wishes for your daughter.
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posted on
12/05/2012 11:00:05 AM PST
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: ColoCdn
Reality is not the lies they sell on tv. There endeth the sad lesson.
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posted on
12/05/2012 11:00:50 AM PST
by
Andrei Bulba
(No Obama, no way!)
To: ColoCdn
Sounds like she may have a great case for a discrimination lawsuit.
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posted on
12/05/2012 11:00:53 AM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Why is the government more concerned about protecting a microbe on Mars than an unborn baby here?)
To: ColoCdn
‘Diversity’ is so much more important than knowledge and achievement in Obama’s America. In the summer of 2008, I received an e-mail from my cousin's son, a white college student working for Obama’s election. It simply said ‘when Obama is President, white people are going down’. Our country has been sacrificed on the altar of past injustice. I doubt I will see a successful, prosperous America again in my lifetime.
To: ColoCdn
I once had to tell a highly qualified white man that he would not get the job he was interviewing for because I had been given orders to hire a minority.................
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posted on
12/05/2012 11:02:37 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: ColoCdn
"MLKs eyes looked down at me stillcareworn and concerned."That is just sad.
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posted on
12/05/2012 11:03:07 AM PST
by
NoGrayZone
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
To: ColoCdn
I've emphasized the key word in this paragraph that explains why your daughter didn't get the job.
“I wouldn’t call that diverse.” She caught me with smug eyes. I looked down at my WHITE hands, and knew she was right. The word, “diverse,” stuck in the air, stranded between generations, mollified by affirmative action, silently accusing me of a skin color I had no control over.
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posted on
12/05/2012 11:03:31 AM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: ColoCdn
Have you worked with diverse students before?
We are all Africans.
To: ColoCdn
I do not want to come off negative but your daughter needs to learn to think fast. Turn the question around - what do you mean by diverse? Do you mean gender? Do you mean skin color? Do you mean nationality? Get the interviewer to define the terms and then answer the question from.
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posted on
12/05/2012 11:07:07 AM PST
by
7thson
(I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
To: ColoCdn
“Diverse”
And libs accuse us of using racist code words.
Another one of my faves? “Bilingual a plus!”
That means we’re gonna hire a Mexican - legal or not - and pay them 25 percent less than we could pay you. So don’t bother applying.
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posted on
12/05/2012 11:07:34 AM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: ColoCdn
Tell your daughter to make the interviewer define the term “diverse”.
Then she can tailor her answer to meet the understanding oif the defined term.
Diverse can have many meanings. Never presume to know which one is being discussed or meant.
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posted on
12/05/2012 11:07:41 AM PST
by
exit82
("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
To: Red Badger
....I had been given orders to hire a minority.... That game goes both ways. I was constantly involved in the hiring process for degreed engineers of all types. Dozens and Dozens and Dozens.
Whenever ANYONE even suggested that I give preference solely because of diversity, I responded "Sure! All you have to do is to give me that directive in writing." In case one thinks I was prejudiced and looking for a defense, I can honestly say my unit was the most diverse of the whole organization that I knew of. The difference was that I didn't accept incompetence because of diversity. Everyone I hired was well-qualified.
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posted on
12/05/2012 11:09:06 AM PST
by
Gaffer
To: ColoCdn
"Have you worked with diverse students before?"My response: "No, they were all human beings."
Regards,
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posted on
12/05/2012 11:11:19 AM PST
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: ColoCdn
I’m a minority and an immigrant. To my mind, diversity covers many parameters. It is *far* more than skin tone. None of us should miss opportunity to further that argument and not ced to the skin color issue. When in doubt, draw it out.
To: 7thson
That’s what I’d been thinking. She ceded to the interviewer’s parochial view. They both had narrow horizons.
To: ColoCdn
From personal stories I've seen and things I've witnessed I have concluded that if a black person is put in charge of hiring they will do everything they can to hire a black person and not hire a white person. I know of at least 3 such people who have been “counseled” about it. Of course, a Caucasian doing the same thing would be fired out of hand. I think the best answer to the diversity question is, "Of course I've worked with diversity of people. All people are individuals, from individual backgrounds, and bring individual problems and talents to the table."
The follow up would be of course, "What about skin color?" to which the only good response is, "I don't categorize people's needs by their skin color. Is that a requirement of this job?"
Then file a grievance with the persons manager and start a lawsuit for racial discrimination.
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posted on
12/05/2012 11:15:00 AM PST
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: ColoCdn
I would advise your daughter, or anyone who is put in that position to ask the interviewer,”what do you mean when you say ‘diverse’? Are you referring to diversity of ability, diversity of skills, or diversity of beliefs?”
Put the inquisitor on the spot and make them tell you that they are talking about identity politics.
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posted on
12/05/2012 11:19:42 AM PST
by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: Responsibility2nd
Again, your daughter needs to get strong, and when the inquisitor says, “I wouldnt call that diverse” answer, “Really? Why not?”
Don’t let these pieces of crap Mau Mau you.
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posted on
12/05/2012 11:23:52 AM PST
by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
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