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I was at a management training and HR was covering protected classes of people. They asked if it was ever ok to discriminate when hiring. I thought it was a trick question, and said yes. Everyone was shocked because they were expecting me to say something racist. I said it's perfectly fine to discriminate against someone with no work history, bad references, multiple jobs in a very short time etc.
Moment of silence and then they say: "No. It is NEVER ok to discriminate."
Fucking morons.
From a dictionary perspective, you're right. From a business legal risk-avoidant and financial self-protection perspective, you're dead wrong. Words are often used with a context-specific definition, and you're not supposed to use the word 'discrimination' at all in a workplace. Because it will cause the legal and HR departments more work, and therefore cost the organisation more.
Just let the HR rep do the script and teach you how to avoid accountability when prioritising profit over people. It's less painful that way.
Profit over people IS painful to me. Eat the rich.
It's also painful to me, which is why I sat quietly through the training, gave the answers they wanted, and then made managerial decisions that were deliberately people-prioritising and at least somewhat inconspicuous. Luckily, they had trained me to know what they're looking for.
As a fairly logic/science based thinker, it’s so frustrating seeing people drop all nuance and detail from their knowledge. And then they pass it on, judge others by their “knowledge” and it just keeps spreading. Eventually the general public knows that an elephant has a trunk, but will scorn you if you say it also has a tail.
The whole point of the “protected class” is that you may not discriminate using those criteria. The corollary is that you may discriminate using other criteria.
I love your post; it should be a copypasta. Topping off a semantic argument by insisting others are dense is so ironic that I don't know if you're sincere, or some kind of galaxy-brained performance artist.
Ps. please don't interpret my post as a rebuttal of your point. You want to argue about the definition of the word discriminate, I want to argue about the definition of the word definition.
No. The word differentiate doesn't work because I wasn't talking about identifying the differences in people I was talking about TREATING PEOPLE DIFFERENTLY based on a single trait.
I thought it was a trick question. That's why I gave the answer. I know it's not what they were looking for, but they didn't have to look at me like I was from another planet.
As a manager I DISCRIMINATED against people who didn't show up for work. I DISCRIMINATED against people who showed up drunk. Those people got different treatment. They lost hours. They didn't get raises. They got fired. I would NEVER discriminate based on race or gender or color of hair. Personally, I wouldn't discriminate against drug users, but that same company demanded that we did.
It's still discrimination it's just that sometimes it's legal and sometimes it's not.