February 21, 2004
Somebody's thinking..
AOG writes:
I came up with a great money making idea, for anyone out there looking to score some cash.What's needed is a disadvantaged ethnic group with blonde hair and blue eyes... Posted by John Weidner at February 21, 2004 04:36 PM | TrackBackIn corporate America today, there are plenty of “diversity” programs that attempt to hire more minorities of various types. The key question is, what makes some one a member of these minorities? It seems to be the case that it’s primarily self-identification: if you tell the corporate recruiter that you’re [ethnic], then you are as far as the corporation is concerned. I’ve looked for years and never found any legal basis for determining or disputing such a claim. However, the problem is that the recruiter can’t ask you and it seems a bit awkward to blurt it out. The standard technique is to have a key award on your resume that indicates your ethnicity.
Here’s the idea - sell those awards! You set up a website as an institute or foundation, make up some blather (or copyright infringe it from some other website). Once you’ve got that set up, you charge people an “entrance fee” for participating in a contest for an ethnic award. Oddly, it turns out that every one who applies wins! Then the participant can honestly put on their resume “won Best [ethnic] Rising Star Award, 2004”. Of course, you’d need a set of stock phrases for the award, with a few web pages for each. Charge $20 or $50 for the entrance fee and go....
Blond hair? Blue eyes? You sound like one of those Viking scum. I tell you, I wouldn't hire one of those strawheads even if a miracle happened and one of them decided to actually look for work. Had a whole family of them move in down the street last year-- damn sellers wouldn't listen to us, just grabbed the money and ran, leaving their poor neighbors to deal with the noise and the garbage and the crime. I just hope we can "persuade" them to move somewhere else before someone's dusghter gets raped.
Is that good enough? I could come up with some more in the same vein-- just let me know how oppressed you need to be.
Posted by: Paul Zrimsek at February 22, 2004 12:00 PMWhich one? You've got Scandinavians, Slavs, Germans, Celts, who knows how many others.
Posted by: Alan Kellogg at February 23, 2004 09:02 PM"What's needed is a disadvantaged ethnic group with blonde hair and blue eyes..."
Sounds just like some Swedish guys I used to work with in Gothenberg - poor fellas, they thought a 40% to 50% income tax rate was quite normal, and that working more than 40 hours/week was next to immoral, if not unlawful. Talk about disadvantaged...
Posted by: JB at February 24, 2004 04:19 PM
