Why is this automatically a good idea?
Surely the important thing is that everyone has similar opportunities to pursue the career they want. The actual numbers taking particular opportunities will depend on individual preferences. You can't force people in to doing jobs they have no interest in to try to enforce some spurious idea of equality.
You're right it's hell on earth. I work in a National Health Service hospital in the UK and the process takes forever.
We choose what we need from a catalogue. We then need to write a required specification which matches it. Then we need to see if anything cheaper will meet the specification. This whole process can take an age.
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Who let Jim Anchower from The Onion on here?
Why is this automatically a good idea? Surely the important thing is that everyone has similar opportunities to pursue the career they want. The actual numbers taking particular opportunities will depend on individual preferences. You can't force people in to doing jobs they have no interest in to try to enforce some spurious idea of equality.
You're right it's hell on earth. I work in a National Health Service hospital in the UK and the process takes forever. We choose what we need from a catalogue. We then need to write a required specification which matches it. Then we need to see if anything cheaper will meet the specification. This whole process can take an age.