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U.S.Laws May Make Online Job Hunting Harder
j00bar writes "CNN/Fortune is reporting that applying for a job online is going to get harder. 'New federal guidelines meant to standardize how employers track data on the diversity of their job-applicant pool are taking effect starting today for jobs at federal contractors -- and similar rules will kick in later this year at U.S. companies with more than 50 employees. And resumes and search approaches that worked perfectly well before may no longer do the trick.'"
It seems they are going to regulate this country to the point where it's impossible to find a job. When's the last time any of the people making all these stupid laws actually tried to get a job? In the olden days you could walk into a place with a help wanted sign and get a job that day and just work - maybe for just that day or maybe for twenty years. Now it's so expensive for companies to hire people and such a risk for them to give someone a try that they often don't fill vacancies for great periods of time and only then when they find an applicant that has exactly the needed skills and referenced. No more picking someone with some skills and the ability to learn and just training them. God no - they could turn out to be a moron or lazy and you can't fire them because it's such a nightmare to do so. The number of unemployed in this country is pretty huge and the time a lot of people can go unemployed can be many months and it all comes down to all the red-tape involved.
It's great to protect people from shitty employers but not a good idea to create so much red tape that you're keeping a significant number of your citizens from finding work. All this red tape is a good part of the reason temps and illegals are so popular as employees.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
What would happen, if I just tell them that my grand-grand-grand father came from Africa so deep down I feel like I am part of a minority?
Actually I never check the "White" or "Caucasian" box on the race section on the forms, because putting myself in a race category just reinforces the fact that there are race categories and people are somehow treated differently because of it. Actually the word "Caucasian" comes directly from studies of eugenics at the turn of the century and I consider using it just as offensive as someone using the "n"-word, because it implies endorsing the values and attitudes of the time.
Congress passes these ever more bigoted laws (in the name of diversity of course, gotta love NewSpeak) so they can feel good about having 'done something' about a problem that increasingly is made worse by more laws because it has been mostly solved. We long since passed the point where the negative impact of more laws were outweighed by the positive benefits. Thirty-forty years ago, yea, there were some serious problems still lingering in society. We talked a good "everybody is equal" but practice didn't match theory very well.
But these days we have, if anything, overshot equality and went to tribalism amok. These days it seems the only ones who quotes King's "I have a Dream" speech's line about judging everyone on their ideas instead of their skin is Jack Kemp and Newt Gingrich because the entire 'Civil Rights' establishment has invested all their political capital on maintaining quotas and pretending to be victims while having all the trappings (limo, jets, mistresses, etc) of the wealthy. Listen up folks, when (in theory if not in practice) the left, the right and just about everyone in between are in agreement on an issue it really isn't much of an issue anymore. The only reason it is still an issue is because too many people have made an industry out of "Oprah Nation" style victimhood as career.
Democrat delenda est
Yup, I'm white, but let's see... I left home at 16. I didn't get any scholarship help, so I didn't get to go to college. I taught myself to program on school computers though. I got married young and my wife had some health problems. We were both working service sector and couldn't afford health care so we tried welfare... and I quote their response: "Well, we can't help you because you are white and you aren't pregnant. I suggest you get pregnant if you want health insurance." Needless to say, my wife went without health care because we were white.
I was lucky that a few years later, while I was bartending, A mexican man gave me a chance to program for a small company when I told him I had taught myself C++ years before. I became a software engineer and worked my way up. I am now a senior level engineer and make a nice middle class income. Suddenly though, I find myself attacked for being a "priveledged white man". WTF? Everything I earned I did through blood, sweat and tears in SPITE of the fact that I'm white, not because of it. I was poor and underpriveledged and didn't qualify for your scholarships or health care or anything else that the underpriveledged sometimes get because the color of my skin was wrong.
Somewhere along the line I must have misplaced my white priveledge coupon book because I missed out on all these favors I was supposed to receive. I'm not bitter or anything, just absolutely offended that people look at me as an excuse why they CAN'T be successfull because I'm white instead of seeing me as an example that anyone can make something of themselves regardless of origin.