Yeh that's a diversity hire. Hiring someone for a position that they do not have the qualification for based on gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation is the Websters definition of diversity hire. If people were offended by your term they should pull their heads out of their behinds. Usually a hire for a position to manage PHD's is at minimum a Masters, with a PHD holder being the prefered candidate. Someone with only a BS, or BA is not qualified so you would have to hire them as a diversity hire to be able to hire them over a qualified candidate to reduce your chance of being subject to a law suite.
The first story: This is why you NEVER hire based on ethnicity, gender or religion, you hire based on experience, work ethic & character. "why worry about a speck in your friend's eye when you have a log in your own .." - Matthew 7 : 5
You’d be surprised how many people assume north = Canada. On a trip in the early 00s to nyc on the way back I told my aunt not to go north(we were coming across the rainbow bridge). She wasn’t from the area and just assumed I was wrong. Living pretty close to the border I could navigate that area with my eyes closed. She took us on a huge detour and eventually had to admit she was wrong and turn around. This was before smart phones and with printed google maps, so we couldn’t just look it up on the fly.
I feel like you’re the only uploader who posts new content, while others will post a story you’ve already read the day before. Don’t get me started on the robot channels.
Hate to tell the commenters on the first story that are "offended" at the term diversity hire(hard to find people who aren't offended at something these days! ) but that's what people like the new hire, manager whatever name you put on it, were called at the time the story took place. It's why companies now have to label all job posts and workplaces Equal Opportunity Employers.
It really is still a diversity hire. I hate to tell those folks, but when you try to force an increase in diversity in a field, you end up with companies not hiring the most qualified people for the job, but instead hiring to meet a diversity quota. That's literally where the term comes from. And honestly, as a person of a minority (Native American), I HATE those diversity quotas. Like, with a passion. Because I can't take a job without wondering if I was actually the best person for the job or if I was just hired because of my skin color. I'm almost always the only Native applying, so I always feel like that is the only reason I get a job. I wish those diversity quotas had never happened so I would know if I got a job, I really was the one who deserved it, and not feel like I was just the diversity hire who might actually be the dumbest guy in the place.
@@raeishimura I hate those quotas as well because of what you stated. They're not fair mostly to those who they're meant to help. You just have to own your skills and know your worth. Don't ever question your knowledge. The one thing no one can take away from you is your knowledge. Please don't ever underestimate yourself. If you feel that you're qualified enough to apply, then you're qualified enough to be in that position.
Only reason i can imagine to be upset about the term "diversity hire" is if you are one tbh. If you earned your place, you would only be called one by someone who's actually blatantly racist.
This is related to the second story. Just like Detroit is North of part of Canada, not all of Illinois is actually east of the Mississippi. Kaskaskia Island is accessible by land from the Missouri side of the river, but not from the Illinois side. Napoleon basically wanted to start from Perryville, drive up to St. Louis on I-55 and cross into Illinois, and take route 3 south. Cross back over at Chester and get to the island, but on a much larger scale.
When my dad drives to visit his mother who lives in St. Claire Shores, MI (a suburb of Detroit), he drives through the Ontario providence as that leads a direct route to Detroit. For the 3rd story Napoleon had them driving through Michigan's upper peninsula
the fresh from the oven manager broke one of the rules of a company which is ' if the person or group is effective with both quality and quantity in and of the workplace, don't try to mess with the effectivity.' trust me that very rule is the cause of the turn over rate.
Who is actually getting triggered by that, it’s real and IMO it’s pretty stupid. Like it’s not bad to hire different ethnic groups but to not make it the only requirement. I would feel pretty bad if I was told I only got hired because of my ethnicity.
The oil company story is another case of new managers getting rid of the one guy that was making things work. Me big boss, you just worker, what I say goes, until .... the place goes to crap.
It doesn't seem like anyone at that company thought anything through. 1 person in charge of the super secret algorithm? Putting a greenhorn in charge of people with 10-20 years experience? Bad decisions all around.
This channel is one of only a few that has someone reading the stories instead of using a bot to narrate them. I like this channel. The living voice adds so much richness to the story that a bot cannot. Keep up the great work, Rob.
Story1: There's plenty of fail to go around here. Miss-manager was certifiable, but OP's dad picking unnecessary fights with her, what did he think was going to happen? On that note, assigning a fresh out of college greenhorn to manage people with 10-20 years xp?* Who thought this was a good idea?? And having only one person with knowledge of the super special algorithm? Single point of failure much? Doesn't seem like anybody at that company thought anything through. *I'm reminded of my own job, where I was tasked to train up 2 people. Both of whom had 15-20 years with the company, where I was just a contractor with barely 6 months there. I'm not a rookie in my line of work, but still I was worried they'd resent some outsider like me telling them what to do. Thankfully they were both cool dudes.
It’s pretty cool. It can be scary crossing it in high winds. They actually have to shut it down at times. One year a yugo was blown off and a lady drowned.
I actually checked out the suggestion of the road trip and it's a 200km road trip just driving around Lake St Claire. Since it's Detroit, I suspect this is one of the Great Lakes. THe 700mi/10h trip seems a bit far fetched for something you can do in a good 2h30, pitstops excluded.
People bitching about calling someone a diversity hire. They are a thing. They are sometimes not the best person who could have been hired. Deal with it. In the first story, it’s grotesquely obvious she wasn’t the best possible hire.
the guy with an immigrant dad, the OP is actually the first gen, it applies to the first generation BORN in a country. like my father was born in scotland, i was born in canada, this makes me first gen canadian.
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computer more powerful than the system itself acting as a media drive, yeah that pretty much sums up the entire field of retro computer media replacement, floppies, tape and gen1 scsi, all dying, all replaced by stuff that could emulate the entire host system
Pretty sure diversity hire was just the wrong term for what he described. Diversity hires are often described/derided as being incompetent but hired because they ticked some boxes so that a company can say "Hey, look! We aren't racist/sexist/etc.!" but diversity hiring just looks to remove any biases from the hiring process that might otherwise disadvantage people from some groups *who are otherwise qualified for a position.* This person... was not very good at managing and had minimal skill in the field they were to oversee. Why they were hired is beyond me.
What's the 1st Foreign Country you hit when traveling Due South from Detroit can only be correctly answered if you ask them where in Detroit am I starting my trip from? Because the correct answer is both Canada AND Mexico...it literally depends on what spot in Detroit you head South from...
Yeh that's a diversity hire. Hiring someone for a position that they do not have the qualification for based on gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation is the Websters definition of diversity hire. If people were offended by your term they should pull their heads out of their behinds. Usually a hire for a position to manage PHD's is at minimum a Masters, with a PHD holder being the prefered candidate. Someone with only a BS, or BA is not qualified so you would have to hire them as a diversity hire to be able to hire them over a qualified candidate to reduce your chance of being subject to a law suite.
The first story: This is why you NEVER hire based on ethnicity, gender or religion, you hire based on experience, work ethic & character.
"why worry about a speck in your friend's eye when you have a log in your own .." - Matthew 7 : 5
Some countries require you to hire a certain amounts of minorities. (Ethnicities or genders)
@@K_1_T_S_U_N_E but that never ask it to be managerial positions
You’d be surprised how many people assume north = Canada. On a trip in the early 00s to nyc on the way back I told my aunt not to go north(we were coming across the rainbow bridge). She wasn’t from the area and just assumed I was wrong. Living pretty close to the border I could navigate that area with my eyes closed. She took us on a huge detour and eventually had to admit she was wrong and turn around.
This was before smart phones and with printed google maps, so we couldn’t just look it up on the fly.
I feel like you’re the only uploader who posts new content, while others will post a story you’ve already read the day before. Don’t get me started on the robot channels.
He does a better job curating and hasn't gone woke. Love this channel for this.
@@Kevin7557 Hasn't what?
I listen to several Reddit channels where there are living voices. Rob's channel was the first one I started to listen to that had a human voice.
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Hate to tell the commenters on the first story that are "offended" at the term diversity hire(hard to find people who aren't offended at something these days! ) but that's what people like the new hire, manager whatever name you put on it, were called at the time the story took place. It's why companies now have to label all job posts and workplaces Equal Opportunity Employers.
We still call them that. That is the business term for it.
It really is still a diversity hire. I hate to tell those folks, but when you try to force an increase in diversity in a field, you end up with companies not hiring the most qualified people for the job, but instead hiring to meet a diversity quota. That's literally where the term comes from. And honestly, as a person of a minority (Native American), I HATE those diversity quotas. Like, with a passion. Because I can't take a job without wondering if I was actually the best person for the job or if I was just hired because of my skin color. I'm almost always the only Native applying, so I always feel like that is the only reason I get a job. I wish those diversity quotas had never happened so I would know if I got a job, I really was the one who deserved it, and not feel like I was just the diversity hire who might actually be the dumbest guy in the place.
@@raeishimura I hate those quotas as well because of what you stated. They're not fair mostly to those who they're meant to help. You just have to own your skills and know your worth. Don't ever question your knowledge. The one thing no one can take away from you is your knowledge. Please don't ever underestimate yourself. If you feel that you're qualified enough to apply, then you're qualified enough to be in that position.
@@Kevin7557 I wasn't sure if they still used it because of today's culture of "you oFfEnDeD mEeEe".
Only reason i can imagine to be upset about the term "diversity hire" is if you are one tbh. If you earned your place, you would only be called one by someone who's actually blatantly racist.
the first story, there is no way the new manager didnt get in trouble for that
This is related to the second story. Just like Detroit is North of part of Canada, not all of Illinois is actually east of the Mississippi. Kaskaskia Island is accessible by land from the Missouri side of the river, but not from the Illinois side. Napoleon basically wanted to start from Perryville, drive up to St. Louis on I-55 and cross into Illinois, and take route 3 south. Cross back over at Chester and get to the island, but on a much larger scale.
When my dad drives to visit his mother who lives in St. Claire Shores, MI (a suburb of Detroit), he drives through the Ontario providence as that leads a direct route to Detroit. For the 3rd story Napoleon had them driving through Michigan's upper peninsula
The UP is beautiful though. They would’ve gotten to see the best part of Michigan!
It didn't dawn on me what he was doing until they hit Flint MI. Then I was like OMG what an idiot.
The old man should have gotten a royalty for himself on top of his pension
the fresh from the oven manager broke one of the rules of a company which is ' if the person or group is effective with both quality and quantity in and of the workplace, don't try to mess with the effectivity.' trust me that very rule is the cause of the turn over rate.
I appreciate the update/edits you include when you read these stories. Other channels don't and we don't get a fuller picture
Haha I worked this those ancient buggers in the Air Force in the 80's. Programming that disk was a major pain.
Don't change it from "diversity " that's what it sounds like it was. If someone's offended, screw 'em.
Who is actually getting triggered by that, it’s real and IMO it’s pretty stupid. Like it’s not bad to hire different ethnic groups but to not make it the only requirement. I would feel pretty bad if I was told I only got hired because of my ethnicity.
Yup hire someone because they tick a box not because they can do the job.
The oil company story is another case of new managers getting rid of the one guy that was making things work. Me big boss, you just worker, what I say goes, until .... the place goes to crap.
It happened a lot back in that time. More so then nowadays, even, believe it or not.
It doesn't seem like anyone at that company thought anything through. 1 person in charge of the super secret algorithm? Putting a greenhorn in charge of people with 10-20 years experience? Bad decisions all around.
I hate people who fight for others feelings when they weren't ask too
This channel is one of only a few that has someone reading the stories instead of using a bot to narrate them. I like this channel. The living voice adds so much richness to the story that a bot cannot. Keep up the great work, Rob.
Story1: There's plenty of fail to go around here. Miss-manager was certifiable, but OP's dad picking unnecessary fights with her, what did he think was going to happen? On that note, assigning a fresh out of college greenhorn to manage people with 10-20 years xp?* Who thought this was a good idea?? And having only one person with knowledge of the super special algorithm? Single point of failure much? Doesn't seem like anybody at that company thought anything through.
*I'm reminded of my own job, where I was tasked to train up 2 people. Both of whom had 15-20 years with the company, where I was just a contractor with barely 6 months there. I'm not a rookie in my line of work, but still I was worried they'd resent some outsider like me telling them what to do. Thankfully they were both cool dudes.
And the idea upper management went apeshit after knowing only 1 person knew how to operate X, was hilarious.
All snuggled up ready to listen to great stories and Rob's wonderfully relaxing voice.
If you are not hired on merit then do not complain when people call you what you are.
I live near (enough like 30 minutes drive average) Detroit. So I know the area.
Diversity hire, it's an observation and not an insult ...
I will just say, I would have taken the detour regardless, as I would LIVE to see the Mighty Mac.
It’s pretty cool. It can be scary crossing it in high winds. They actually have to shut it down at times. One year a yugo was blown off and a lady drowned.
I have gone across the Mackinac Bridge sevral times It is Beautful!
I actually checked out the suggestion of the road trip and it's a 200km road trip just driving around Lake St Claire. Since it's Detroit, I suspect this is one of the Great Lakes.
THe 700mi/10h trip seems a bit far fetched for something you can do in a good 2h30, pitstops excluded.
ive always liked when i was asked to update dinotec. they go from kilobyte memory to terabyte memory
I'm surprised KCC touched this one with a 10-foot pole.
RWX!!! Whoot Whoot ! If you ever been to wuxiaworld you will know that name.
Aw heck yeah! When I heard RWX, I, too, lost my shirt. The whole family is pretty badass!
People bitching about calling someone a diversity hire. They are a thing. They are sometimes not the best person who could have been hired. Deal with it. In the first story, it’s grotesquely obvious she wasn’t the best possible hire.
Hello KCC. I love your videos so much that I can rewatch videos. Thank you.
Quit apologizing for your words. If it hurts feelings....well who cares.
Let the snowflakes melt. No great loss.
I guess Napoleon wanted to see the Soo??? That was great. I am STILL laughing! 😅🤣😂😆 Thanks for reading, Rob... thanks for sharing, OP.
Happy Thursday (Friday this week for me...) to my fellow KCCers.
Hi yourself.
Hey Thursdays are my Fridays too
As a Detroit girl I am internally screaming. Bruh. 🤦😂
Ah yes, my morning cup of KCC!
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the guy with an immigrant dad, the OP is actually the first gen, it applies to the first generation BORN in a country. like my father was born in scotland, i was born in canada, this makes me first gen canadian.
"revenge from beyond the grave"
"this is not my story"
... i mean...
Can you post the road route? I live in MI and still can’t figure out what route Napoleon was trying to take.
I dare to say, that instead of a J shaped route, he wanted to take an @ shaped one.
It is a wonderful day today Rob!! Thanks for the post!! Lol
I've lived in metro Detroit twice...and Windsor Canada is due south of Detroit
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computer more powerful than the system itself acting as a media drive, yeah that pretty much sums up the entire field of retro computer media replacement, floppies, tape and gen1 scsi, all dying, all replaced by stuff that could emulate the entire host system
Eva was Napoleon's Waterloo.
The last one was funny as I was born in Michigan and now live in Ontario. Relatives living in Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan.
Love, love your stories Rob💕
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There is no "beyond the grave" story here.
Spent many years being able to look up from my desk and gaze south into Canada.
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Good morning Rob
Good morning everyone 😊
morning (2 am)
Good morning! Nearly 11:00am here.
Don’t change the term diversity hire. Some people need to grow a spine.
Holy sh*t, first story is by RWX
I see you are a gentlebeing of culture! I have yet to read issth, but have heard good things.
@@pz41 Yeah, it's great, you should really give it a shot, but it starts slow so be patient with it.
Good rainy morning
Pretty sure diversity hire was just the wrong term for what he described. Diversity hires are often described/derided as being incompetent but hired because they ticked some boxes so that a company can say "Hey, look! We aren't racist/sexist/etc.!" but diversity hiring just looks to remove any biases from the hiring process that might otherwise disadvantage people from some groups *who are otherwise qualified for a position.* This person... was not very good at managing and had minimal skill in the field they were to oversee. Why they were hired is beyond me.
What's the 1st Foreign Country you hit when traveling Due South from Detroit can only be correctly answered if you ask them where in Detroit am I starting my trip from?
Because the correct answer is both Canada AND Mexico...it literally depends on what spot in Detroit you head South from...
TIME STAMPS PLS.
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Mister ROB have a good day a potato blessed u
Could you please tell me where your pfp is from?
I google mapped (SP?) the, possible, route.... 141+ mile U-turn vs. strait to Windsor, TO, CA 22.3 miles. I hope Neapolitan lost his job.
The last story... it cracked me up that they used those interstates,