Where's the diversity

Grab All Association · 12-10-2019 2:33am #1

Ooo is this like a Where's Wally puzzle, or are the black and Asian students in it but are ghosts?

Yamanoto · 12-10-2019 8:23am

Trans Rodney Trotter in the middle is pretty diverse

Badly Drunk Boy · 12-10-2019 8:35am

They've embedded "equality, diversity and inclusion into policies and practices within the College". That doesn't mean they can round up 'diverse' people and force them to enrol.

ToddyDoody · 12-10-2019 9:43am

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

They've embedded "equality, diversity and inclusion into policies and practices within the College". That doesn't mean they can round up 'diverse' people and force them to enrol.

They could at leaat show off whatever bit they have.

Bobblehats · 12-10-2019 9:45am

Yamanoto wrote: »

Trans Rodney Trotter in the middle is pretty diverse

I’ve got the one to the left of him pegged down too, along with the one who looks like Tulip Tattsyrup. Tricks are for kids!

Montage of Feck · 12-10-2019 9:49am

Diversity is like ****, it only rolls down hill.

biko · 12-10-2019 10:04am

17 people, 5 men.
Not very equal is it?

Your Face · 12-10-2019 11:17am

Weak outrage today but the gravy is good.

Insect Overlord · 12-10-2019 11:20am

Stroll around the campus some time and see the reality of the place, instead of judging them by a photo op of some members of staff.

statesaver · 12-10-2019 11:21am

It's only diversity when they say it is

vriesmays · 12-10-2019 11:21am

Diversity means more women.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 12-10-2019 11:36am

I'd say the xmas party is some craic.
Herman fcukin Munster there up the back looks a bit of a mad bastard.

biko · 12-10-2019 11:40am

They are diverse in everything but opinion...

vriesmays · 12-10-2019 12:17pm

biko wrote: »

They are diverse in everything but opinion...

That's what diversity is about - people of different gender, nationality, age, religion but all thinking alike.

Bobblehats · 12-10-2019 12:32pm

What a peculiar working environment. Suddenly a bit of hard graft doesn’t seem so bad, does it fellas

Bobblehats · 12-10-2019 12:41pm

biko wrote: »

17 people, 5 men.
Not very equal is it?

The way I see that is guys muscling in on girls jobs. By masquerading as them! We’ve seen it in sport and it’s not right.

SEPT 23 1989 · 12-10-2019 3:24pm

what colour did you think they were going to be in Thurles Ireland?

vriesmays · 12-10-2019 3:38pm

White.

12-10-2019 3:55pm

As a man on the Internet I once again find myself outraged

TheValeyard · 12-10-2019 4:39pm

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

As a man on the Internet I once again find myself outraged

*white man

JohnnyFlash · 12-10-2019 4:43pm

I wouldn’t want to live in Tipperary either.

vriesmays · 13-10-2019 1:17pm

All these pro-diversity dopes should move their families to Africa and see how long they last there.

pgj2015 · 13-10-2019 2:00pm

every time I see pictures like that all I can think is how sorry I feel for men who have to wear suits every day to work.

the_pen_turner · 13-10-2019 2:01pm

whats going on with the hand rail

beejee · 13-10-2019 2:49pm

Imagine getting paid for this.

Bobblehats · 13-10-2019 3:06pm

the_pen_turner wrote: »

whats going on with the hand rail

Let the colours of diversity guide you

Whether ascending or descending is your call. Either way it looks tacky

Edgware · 13-10-2019 3:13pm

Of course there's diversity in the group. At least three came in from Borrisoleigh

Strumms · 13-10-2019 6:34pm

Diversity as a concept is completely flawed and even unfair...

Example...

If I’m a hiring manager for say a gym...

I need 3 new trainers, I put add in paper, on gym notice boards, online, making it perfectly clear that ABC gym is an equal opportunity, fair and whatever else employer...

My own view is that for the benefit of the company, facility and customer the hiring process will be open, transparent, fair and with a view to hiring the best 3 candidates, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, or age... right ? Wrong ! While in my own mind ‘the best’ could be 3 females, 3 males, 2/1 or 1/2 just as long as I hire the most suitable candidates....

The now politically correct thing is to hire... one female, one ethnically diverse individual and one gay person or similar demographic... so you are entering in reverse discrimination...the very well qualified and experienced Dermot from the Navan Road, two kids, hard worker, gets on with everyone and with a CV to die for will be getting the suit pressed, shoes shined, practicing his interview techniques and questions for a week with the wife and kids hoping this will be successful, job he always wanted, can provide a better standard of life for the kids and family, but...

It’s not going to work out...why ? Because...he has a penis...that people is discrimination..

13-10-2019 9:31pm

Strumms wrote: »

My own view is that for the benefit of the company, facility and customer the hiring process will be open, transparent, fair and with a view to hiring the best 3 candidates, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, or age... right ? Wrong ! While in my own mind ‘the best’ could be 3 females, 3 males, 2/1 or 1/2 just as long as I hire the most suitable candidates....

But nobody is stopping you, or anyone, from doing that.

Diversity targets are implemented, by choice, by organisations who can see that they are employing workers from one disproportionately large demographic, without any clear reaeons.

That's what I find so strange. Let's assume that one-third of the population had blue eyes, one-third had brown eyes, and one-third were other. Why, heretofore, has it never been a problem that, for arguments sake, 80% of a firm's employees had blue eyes, and the lowest 20% work in menial roles?

Shouldn't *that* be setting off alarm bells, and causing policymakers and employers to ask themselves what's going on?

Obviously there can be clear reasons for how employees are distributed in terms of their demographics -- You'd expect to see a higher proportion of non EU doctors and nurses than that of non Irish civil servants.

But when there is no clear reason for the disproportionate representation of any demographic in the workplace, I don't see the harm in trying to rectify that over time.

Bear in mind, nobody is being forced to do it.

And it's interesting that any formal attempt to rebalance the workforce always receives a backlash, when everyone seems to ignore the initial imbalance that was going on, for years, unremarked.

colm_mcm · 13-10-2019 9:34pm

As a self-identified lesbian of colour, I find this thread offensive.

beejee · 13-10-2019 9:43pm

The problem with perceived "privilege" is that it is seen as everything but privilege. It's normality for those concerned.

There's been such a rush to hammer people over the head about their unknown privilege, that I doubt the consequences were thought through.

So now that people have been convinced, have recognised their privilege and how lucky they are to have it... The idea was that they'd willingly give up their advantages, make their lives harder, all in the name of "fairness" for some ethereal stranger?

You've only convinced someone that what they didn't value in the first place IS valuable.

Hm! Good luck with that, I say.

Where's the diversity

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