Affirmative action and millenials. Socialism in companies.

Started by Greg, November 08, 2017, 05:15:54 PM

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Greg

Contentment is knowing that you're right. Happiness is knowing that someone else is wrong.

Greg

Quote from: Carleendiane on November 09, 2017, 08:30:18 AM
Greg, the problem, seems to me, begins with the person doing the hiring for the company! I mean really? Who gave them the job in the first place?

It's like the Church.  Once the faggots infiltrate it, and the seminaries, it is quickly filled with queers and kiddy-fiddlers.

What might have happened here is that a departing employee (who secretly hated the company) gave stellar job reference to a no-hoper like sticking a person's toothbrush up your bum and then taking a picture of it in their mobile phone.

Interviews are strange affairs.  They can be marathons and they can be easy breezy.  When I finish the story you can judge what might have happened.
Contentment is knowing that you're right. Happiness is knowing that someone else is wrong.

Kephapaulos

Quote from: Greg on November 09, 2017, 02:11:02 PM
SO, the story continues.

One of the questions on my 3am "exam" was lifted from the very "case study" they had been sending to customers as an email attachment.

A very large Asset Management firm migrated away from many legacy systems, including some very old technology to ACME Investment Software, and realized 3 gains.  For each gain below estimate the percentage improvement by drawing a circle around the answer.  This comes from a case study on your own company's website, so as a hint, the results were very impressive.

ACME reduced system footprint by 10% /  30%  / 50% /  90% or  100%
ACME reduced system interfaces by 10% /  50%  /  90% or  120%
ACME reduced manual processes by 10% /  50%  /  90% or  110%

Now, 10% would have been badly wrong because no firm in the world would replace a core system for a mere 10% gain.

30% was the most acceptable wrong answer.

50% was correct.

90% was badly wrong because no system in the world could get that sort of improvement and even if it did, no market director would claim it because no customer would believe it.  They would say 65% instead and then deliver 90%.






They both answered 120%

I was badly wrong because I thought 90%. I made the wrong assumption that the question was dependent on being in the situation of the case study and did not pay well enough attention to the question.

Kephapaulos


ABlaine

Quote from: clau clau on November 09, 2017, 10:29:10 AM
Generation Z - perhaps Z stands for Zuckerberg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Z

Don't give them too much shit, lots of studies are showing that they are shaping up to be the most conservative generation in... well, generations.

Anyway regarding the topic post, the funny thing is neither of them would likely get hired by a French company (unless yours is one, idk). Technically, affirmative action policies are illegal here and basically every job requires a degree in that specific field, even freaking guiding museum tours and being a waiter at a good restaurant.

There's also no AA in school which is why even though the country gets more maghreb and African every year, école polytechnique, ENS, HEC (well the domestic students anyway) are all overwhelmingly ethnically French.

But yeah whiny 20 year old French girls are the worst... only after whiny francophone africans that find a way to bitch about how they were colonized, how the french ruined africa, how they should get all this help, how they are equal or better than everyone, how they don't need to integrate because its colonization, how the reason they didn't integrate is racism, how the police treat them poorly, how there aren't enough police in their neighborhoods, how the education in their neighborhoods is bad, how forcing their kids to speak properly in school is racism,  how catholicism is a colonizing religion, how the only good catholics are africans, how... I'm just going to stop.

Both are making far more than they would in France. Tell them to shut up or just fire them already.

Greg

So...the story continues.

When I added the test "scores" up.  2 questions right out of twenty for Miss France and 1 out of 25 for Miss Cameroon, I realized I had all the evidence needed for a conviction.

So, with 2 hours to go, and knowing there was absolutely no point in teaching people who would get fired to "sell",  (All that would do is make it more likely that some other poor company, where the HR manager was smoking crack, would hire them) I switched to entertaining myself by teaching them elementary school maths and 101 Economics until 2pm.

"So if you have 100 people working in a back office and the ACME system reduces the staff numbers by 80% how many do you have?"   Long pause.  Miss Cameroon says first, "two".
I nearly pissed myself but turned to the much better looking Miss France for the right answer.
"Forty?"

Wiping the whiteboard (good stress relief I have found), I wrote the number 100 again and said.  "If 50% left how many would you have?"

"Fifty" they both immediately shouted, their voices in union like some World Youth Day "ebony and ivory" moment.

I felt emotional.  It was their first right answer of the day, (not withstanding their test scores).

"Yes.  50% percent is a half.  So what fraction is 20%?"

Silence..... blank stares.  (Teachers should either get Nobel Prizes or be allowed to legally possess and use flame-throwers).

"Miss Cameroon, you told me earlier that you asked for a 10% pay rise from your boss.  If you are paid £65,000 how much extra money will you get per year?"

"I am not sure".

"Why did you pick 10%?"

"Because some other colleagues got a "ten percent" rise"

It transpired that "50 percent" to these millennial shoppers was simply an onomatopoeic and fancy way of saying "half price" or half-a-pizza or "half the calories of ordinary chocolate".  There was no arithmetical concept of what 50% actually meant.  I could finally scratch off the final item on my bucket list of life and die a happy man.   I had met two bi-lingual innumerates.
Contentment is knowing that you're right. Happiness is knowing that someone else is wrong.

Greg

And with the white board to myself and two more hours to kill I waxed lyrical about a basket of currencies and FX indexes, a black box trading inspired flash crash and the dangers to the stability of the financial system and the viability of cereal production in major economies.

It all went over their heads, of course, but mischievously ended up looking something like this.























Contentment is knowing that you're right. Happiness is knowing that someone else is wrong.

Greg

And when I showed the exam results to the management they did what they needed to do and fired them.

The marketing lady was sad but resolute that they had to go.  But I consoled her, and said, ever optimistically.

"Don't look on it that you have fired two young women who were trying to break through life's glass ceiling and the oppressive shackles of a patriarchal business world"

"Rather, that some ambitious young person now working at McDonald's flipping burgers and reading the Economist and the Financial Times, at the local library, and studying asset management in his spare time now has a chance to come into this lovely office, drink Nespresso coffee from little plastic flying saucers that you post like envelopes into the mouth of a $2000 machine, and take home a six-figure salary for actually doing his job properly.  He will win his $30,000 per year performance bonus.  You will look good for managing him, the company will earn more profit, shareholders will be happy and I will make $16k for finding training and recruiting him.

I believe in business, that is called a "WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN"

And an extra WIN, if you include the Nespresso salesman.
Contentment is knowing that you're right. Happiness is knowing that someone else is wrong.

maryslittlegarden

For a Child is born to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace

Greg

Contentment is knowing that you're right. Happiness is knowing that someone else is wrong.

Greg

This job is now 75k and on posted the job board.

I'm give them this.  They don't hang around.

If you think you have the balls of an elephant and the skin of a rhinoceros then read it.  I have FULL control of who gets hired.
Contentment is knowing that you're right. Happiness is knowing that someone else is wrong.

Gardener

I like the fact that your chart looks like a twig and berries. Or perhaps an avant-garde Kilroy.
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