Originally posted by 49erBigMac:
Originally posted by 9erson3:
Isn't it the way it works? It's easy to pull a race card all the time it seems.
Here is an example. I am a hiring manager for a small department at my company. We are currently a start-up that is now ready to move into an IPO very soon.
I had an employee that left in December. An employee I inherited when I moved to the company.
I have a former employee who worked for me for 8 years at my last company. I am recruiting her bigtime and she is awesome and I want her.
Although I have pretty much made up mind I am required by HR to go thru a series of interviews to meet certain laws. So although nothing will stop me from going after Erika I will set up a series of interviews per HR requirements. This is at almost any company you go to. Even if you have a candidate in mind you must go thru a series of interviews.
This process is no different than the NFL. You typically like to hire a candidate with a proven track record and you have had visibility with your own eyes. Erika never received a lower performance rating below excellent. But I will set up a series of at least four interviews to satisfy company requirements. What happens in the NFL happens everyday at your own places of employment.
Does this make me a horrible manager or the company a horrible place to work? I think not.
It doesn't, it really doesn't.
Though you have personal experience with her, which could outweigh another candidate killing an interview.
What if you were just working from the recommendation of a fellow manager? What if you ignored a more qualified or better candidate?
What if you held onto Erika despite a long run of poor performance, you then replaced her and gave the next candidate a much shorter leash.
What if you then recommended Erika to a buddy of yours to give her a second chance, but bad mouthed her replacement.
Also, as a heads up, it's a really bad look to claim someone "is playing the race card"
Do you know what else is a really bad look? Playing the race card. I am curious why pointing out someone doing it, seems to be worse to you than the actually doing it.
People like Colin Kaepernick that fake and manufacture "issues", actually take away from real people that are experiencing legitimate racism. It's kind of like the boy who cried wolf, except it is affecting others, not themselves. I'm not sure if the Flores situation will end up being the same, but it certainly has a similar feel to it.
