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nenjin

*hackwrongnamecough* Probably, anyway.

Bit belated, but...

What I really get angry about on the whole equality thing is this idea of positive discrimination. I mean, they really should have figured something was wrong just by looking at the name of the twisted thing they'd created. Jobs should be allocated because of merit, not because of gender or race. Saying you're doing it for the benefit of one side doesn't mean you aren't doing it to the detriment of the other side as well.

So stupid. So very, very stupid. It's still discrimination.

It's also good that it doesn't exist to any meaningful degree, aha! Affirmative action, at its "worst" generally just means if you have two people of equal merit, but one a minority, the minority is favored. It doesn't mean that someone less qualified will get the position strictly because they're a minority. T'be honest, if they were -- at least in the states -- I'm relatively sure that would still be able to push through a discrimination case, if it actually happened (and being a minority didn't meaningfully impact the position requirements -- which it can, rarely).

That doesn't mean they won't get the position, mind. There's quite a number of reasons an employer will prefer to hire someone of less merit. Most reports I've seen of "positive" discrimination is people making an attribution error and assuming it's because the person (they were passed over for) was a minority, instead of, y'know, the employer wanting to hire someone less experienced. Though I wouldn't be terribly surprised if there's some company owners out there using affirmative action as an attempted PR move to hide they're trying to build a more exploitable and/or cheaper workforce.

I given up for any work out here in the west and finding a contractor out in DC area. This state country doesnt support job stability for shits and Colorado is still in a recession so I'm not going to find any work.

FTFY

Seriously though, you should hear some of the stuff coming out of the business-related classes I've been trudging through, lately. It's morbidly hilarious seeing people trying to spin "Companies no longer even try to fake giving a shit about keeping you around" as a good thing. Or give the whole "rapid increase in temporary work" (read: Companies no longer want to pay benefits fucking anything) a positive light. And trying to make it sound like us younglings want to be spending several straight months every few years job hunting, haha.

It's honestly kinda' depressing, really. Grade A propagandist bullshit. Funny when the teachers get called on it and just kinda' go, "Yeeaahh... next topic, haha >_>"

Anyway yeah. Job stability isn't part of the "new contract" between companies and workers, T. You're probably not going to find it, except in companies that are likely to get torn apart by modern short-term focused business practices in relatively short order. E: I think it got traded for what the doublespeak is calling something along the lines of "right to professional self-development", i.e. companies don't want to spend as much money training you. Job stability traded for the financial burden of training being shifted partially or entirely on the employee. Fair trade, haha!

My WTF for today:
How the hell did Bravely Default get released with a T rating? Like, the red mage sidequest alone is one of the darkest things I've ever seen in an RPG ever, and that isn't even the darkest thing in the game.

Stuff that's not sex-related or overtly violent tends to slip through the cracks, from what I've seen.

Clothing is obfuscation of the truth of the flesh. Lying in form for the language of your body. I'm genuinely glad to see you and Kaij are functioning in healthy naturist enclaves, but I will be over here, enjoying my second set of fur forged from deceit.

The manipulation and presentation (consciously or not) of selective truths -- lying by any other name -- is as fundamental to human interaction as love~

Yeah... if I were going to set something like that up for a school, I'd alternate trips. One year Mecca, one year Jerusalem, one year something-Hindu, etc. Try to time it so, say, if it's a four year school (9-12 equivalent), students interested in going somewhere each year would get a full spread.

I wonder what kind of magic would make a gigantic, hammer-wielding fat man bear Sean Bean's son.

Copious amounts of booze mixed with the wonders of near-future medical science.

Yes. Yes, they are.