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The Cisco Massacre

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  • Aqua LetiferA Offline
    Aqua LetiferA Offline
    Aqua Letifer
    wrote on last edited by
    #2

    According to Cisco’s (NASDAQ: CSCO) latest diversity report, 3.8% of its overall workforce is Black, along with 2.2% of its “leadership and people managers.” No board members are Blac: Cisco’s report states the board is 90% white and 10% Asian.

    And so this is how they fix that problem. Geez.

    Please love yourself.

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    • HoraceH Offline
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      Horace
      wrote on last edited by
      #3

      I really would not want to be a white person competing for a job right now.

      Education is extremely important.

      Aqua LetiferA LarryL 2 Replies Last reply
      • HoraceH Horace

        I really would not want to be a white person competing for a job right now.

        Aqua LetiferA Offline
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        Aqua Letifer
        wrote on last edited by
        #4

        @Horace said in The Cisco Massacre:

        I really would not want to be a white person competing for a job right now.

        A handful of my rejection emails have come after my Skype call. I'm sure it's just because I'm ugly.

        Please love yourself.

        JollyJ George KG 89th8 3 Replies Last reply
        • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

          @Horace said in The Cisco Massacre:

          I really would not want to be a white person competing for a job right now.

          A handful of my rejection emails have come after my Skype call. I'm sure it's just because I'm ugly.

          JollyJ Offline
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          Jolly
          wrote on last edited by
          #5

          @Aqua-Letifer said in The Cisco Massacre:

          @Horace said in The Cisco Massacre:

          I really would not want to be a white person competing for a job right now.

          A handful of my rejection emails have come after my Skype call. I'm sure it's just because I'm ugly.

          Nah. Well, maybe...😄

          “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

          Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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          • MikM Offline
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            Mik
            wrote on last edited by
            #6

            Well, not so much that I wouldn’t hire you.

            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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            • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

              @Horace said in The Cisco Massacre:

              I really would not want to be a white person competing for a job right now.

              A handful of my rejection emails have come after my Skype call. I'm sure it's just because I'm ugly.

              George KG Offline
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              George K
              wrote on last edited by
              #7

              @Aqua-Letifer said in The Cisco Massacre:

              @Horace said in The Cisco Massacre:

              I really would not want to be a white person competing for a job right now.

              A handful of my rejection emails have come after my Skype call. I'm sure it's just because I'm ugly.

              DIdn't I post something about "blind auditions" a while ago?

              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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              • HoraceH Horace

                I really would not want to be a white person competing for a job right now.

                LarryL Offline
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                Larry
                wrote on last edited by
                #8

                @Horace said in The Cisco Massacre:

                I really would not want to be a white person competing for a job right now.

                thugs.jpg

                "We'ze coming fo yo job!"

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                • George KG George K

                  @Aqua-Letifer said in The Cisco Massacre:

                  @Horace said in The Cisco Massacre:

                  I really would not want to be a white person competing for a job right now.

                  A handful of my rejection emails have come after my Skype call. I'm sure it's just because I'm ugly.

                  DIdn't I post something about "blind auditions" a while ago?

                  Aqua LetiferA Offline
                  Aqua LetiferA Offline
                  Aqua Letifer
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #9

                  @George-K said in The Cisco Massacre:

                  @Aqua-Letifer said in The Cisco Massacre:

                  @Horace said in The Cisco Massacre:

                  I really would not want to be a white person competing for a job right now.

                  A handful of my rejection emails have come after my Skype call. I'm sure it's just because I'm ugly.

                  DIdn't I post something about "blind auditions" a while ago?

                  ?

                  Please love yourself.

                  George KG 1 Reply Last reply
                  • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                    @George-K said in The Cisco Massacre:

                    @Aqua-Letifer said in The Cisco Massacre:

                    @Horace said in The Cisco Massacre:

                    I really would not want to be a white person competing for a job right now.

                    A handful of my rejection emails have come after my Skype call. I'm sure it's just because I'm ugly.

                    DIdn't I post something about "blind auditions" a while ago?

                    ?

                    George KG Offline
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                    George K
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #10

                    @Aqua-Letifer I can't find it at the moment, but in the discussions of various organizations (musical in this case) expanding the "diversity" of their staff, I wondered whether "blind auditions" for orchestras would be a thing of the past - where the candidate performs behind a screen and the staff can't see gender, race, age...

                    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

                    Aqua LetiferA 1 Reply Last reply
                    • George KG George K

                      @Aqua-Letifer I can't find it at the moment, but in the discussions of various organizations (musical in this case) expanding the "diversity" of their staff, I wondered whether "blind auditions" for orchestras would be a thing of the past - where the candidate performs behind a screen and the staff can't see gender, race, age...

                      Aqua LetiferA Offline
                      Aqua LetiferA Offline
                      Aqua Letifer
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #11

                      @George-K said in The Cisco Massacre:

                      @Aqua-Letifer I can't find it at the moment, but in the discussions of various organizations (musical in this case) expanding the "diversity" of their staff, I wondered whether "blind auditions" for orchestras would be a thing of the past - where the candidate performs behind a screen and the staff can't see gender, race, age...

                      You think they're going away from that, not toward?

                      That's yet another thing that makes freelancing all-in appealing to me now: in addition to not putting all your eggs in one basket, no one wants to meet you in person. It's "what do you have" and "yeah, we can use that." Aside from restaurant work, it's the closest I've come to working in a true meritocracy.

                      Please love yourself.

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                      • jon-nycJ Online
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                        jon-nyc
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                        #12

                        As if on cue.

                        https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-auditions-orchestras-race.html

                        Only non-witches get due process.

                        • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                        • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                          @Horace said in The Cisco Massacre:

                          I really would not want to be a white person competing for a job right now.

                          A handful of my rejection emails have come after my Skype call. I'm sure it's just because I'm ugly.

                          89th8 Offline
                          89th8 Offline
                          89th
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #13

                          @Aqua-Letifer said in The Cisco Massacre:

                          @Horace said in The Cisco Massacre:

                          I really would not want to be a white person competing for a job right now.

                          A handful of my rejection emails have come after my Skype call. I'm sure it's just because I'm ugly.

                          Maybe you should go with a first name of LaAqua

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                          • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                            As if on cue.

                            https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-auditions-orchestras-race.html

                            89th8 Offline
                            89th8 Offline
                            89th
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #14

                            @jon-nyc said in The Cisco Massacre:

                            As if on cue.

                            https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-auditions-orchestras-race.html

                            Literally the opposite of MLK’s dream?

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                            • jon-nycJ Online
                              jon-nycJ Online
                              jon-nyc
                              wrote on last edited by
                              #15

                              Yeah

                              Only non-witches get due process.

                              • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                Rainman
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                                #16

                                If my wife had an accident of some sort, and needed a surgeon, I'm not sure whether I would think it, or actually say it and follow through.

                                Me: "I'm sorry Dr., but since you are black or African-American (could you clarify which one I should use so as not to offend you?) I have to consider the possibility that you are not as qualified as I would expect, given the fact that you likely enjoyed affirmative action to get where you are, and that therefore you are likely not as capable as a non-black doctor. I would ask for another surgeon Dr., I'm sure you understand my apprehension in regards to your educational background and skills."

                                Of course if someone that looked like Dr. George walked in, with a big bird on his shoulder, and a humongous cat on a leash, I'd say:

                                "Excuse me, could you bring the black guy back?"

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                                • RainmanR Rainman

                                  If my wife had an accident of some sort, and needed a surgeon, I'm not sure whether I would think it, or actually say it and follow through.

                                  Me: "I'm sorry Dr., but since you are black or African-American (could you clarify which one I should use so as not to offend you?) I have to consider the possibility that you are not as qualified as I would expect, given the fact that you likely enjoyed affirmative action to get where you are, and that therefore you are likely not as capable as a non-black doctor. I would ask for another surgeon Dr., I'm sure you understand my apprehension in regards to your educational background and skills."

                                  Of course if someone that looked like Dr. George walked in, with a big bird on his shoulder, and a humongous cat on a leash, I'd say:

                                  "Excuse me, could you bring the black guy back?"

                                  LuFins DadL Offline
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                                  LuFins Dad
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #17

                                  @Rainman said in The Cisco Massacre:

                                  If my wife had an accident of some sort, and needed a surgeon, I'm not sure whether I would think it, or actually say it and follow through.

                                  Me: "I'm sorry Dr., but since you are black or African-American (could you clarify which one I should use so as not to offend you?) I have to consider the possibility that you are not as qualified as I would expect, given the fact that you likely enjoyed affirmative action to get where you are, and that therefore you are likely not as capable as a non-black doctor. I would ask for another surgeon Dr., I'm sure you understand my apprehension in regards to your educational background

                                  I was going to post three different funny replies and realized that each of them would mean my son couldn’t be elected dog-catcher if they ever went public.

                                  But trust me, they were hilarious.

                                  The Brad

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                                    Copper
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                                    #18

                                    Try this in the NBA.

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                                      Axtremus
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                                      #19

                                      Well, I was so close to buying a Cisco router, but decided on a much cheaper TRENDnet router instead. Nothing to do with this "massacre," however, just a simple business "bang for the buck" calculation.

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