highschoolcoach
Guru
From the book Great Government Goofs* by Leland H. Gregory, III:
"The United States Government's Food and Drug Administration takes longer to approve or disapprove drugs than similar agencies in any other country in the world. It's great to think that they're being cautious: but maybe there's another reason. The FDA recently put out their Equal Employment Opportunity Handbook spelling out 'practical' guidelines for hiring. One segment of the handbook related this hiring tidbit: The normal requirement of 'knowledge of rules of grammar' and 'ability to spell accurately' should be overlooked, since it may interfere with hiring of 'underrepresented groups or individuals with disabilities.' The statute later explains that the interview process should not be used 'to judge highly subjective traits such as motivation, ambition, maturity, personality, and neatness.'"
Makes sense to me. Of course, the rainbow of diversity should always be favored over something as trivial as competence.
*the book was published in 1997, but do you think that anything has changed?
"The United States Government's Food and Drug Administration takes longer to approve or disapprove drugs than similar agencies in any other country in the world. It's great to think that they're being cautious: but maybe there's another reason. The FDA recently put out their Equal Employment Opportunity Handbook spelling out 'practical' guidelines for hiring. One segment of the handbook related this hiring tidbit: The normal requirement of 'knowledge of rules of grammar' and 'ability to spell accurately' should be overlooked, since it may interfere with hiring of 'underrepresented groups or individuals with disabilities.' The statute later explains that the interview process should not be used 'to judge highly subjective traits such as motivation, ambition, maturity, personality, and neatness.'"
Makes sense to me. Of course, the rainbow of diversity should always be favored over something as trivial as competence.
*the book was published in 1997, but do you think that anything has changed?