Affirmative Action ...
Early 80, Minnesota, had a customer: Upjohn Pharmaceuticals Upper Midwest Distribution Center..
They had a black guy come in and apply for a job... they weren't hiring in the Distribution Dept...They had automated it on their own, going from 50 down to 15 employees....the 35 that had left, had all retired over time... of the 15 that were left, the lowest seniority was a guy who had been there 15 years...They told the black guy, that they didn't need anyone..
So our black friend went down and filed a complaint with the State of MN for discrimination, and then with the US Dept of Labor...
both government entities came in, to inspect the place.... no minorities, no women.. they officially shut down Upjohn's Distribution Center, until they came into Affirmative Action Standards...
so an add was thrown in the paper, and they started having applicants immediately because of the high pay they were offering and the economy sucked in the Twin Cities at the time....of course they were only interviewing minorities....no white folks..
by Friday their ideal candidate walked thru the Door... Female, Hispanic last name... part Black, part Indian, part Asian, and who knows what else... the dept was all guys, and she also had big knockers...so she got the job...so the Feds and State let them re open the Distrib Center...
Girls shows up Monday, goes home sick on Tuesday at noon, calls in sick the rest of the week... repeated next week...
Supervisor calls home office over in Michigan.. they tell him that he can't fire the girl, regardless if she doesn't show up for work.
They just count her present every day and give her a full weeks paycheck weekly.... so she quit coming at all, except to pick up a check on every other Friday....
State and Feds come in to review their Affirmative Action update in a month or so...
Do you have any Hispanics? YUP, her..
Do you have any Indians or Native Americans... Yup, her.
Do you have any Afro Americans... YUP, her..
Do you have any Asians? YUP, her..
Do you have any other minorities? YUP, her...
The State and Feds never batted an eye lid, over their answers...and came in annually to go over the same thing...
When I no longer covered Upjohn's Distribution Center, 3 years later due to a job change... Same chick came in and got a check every other Friday, for work she never showed up for.. got an annual bonus, got paid vacation checks on top of pay checks, pay raises etc...
Upjohn paid this all, just for Affirmative Action, to make the State of MN and the Feds happy.. so they could keep a Distribution Center open....
Liberalism.....$40K a year or more just to keep the State and Feds off their backs at just one location....
Worked out great for the bimbo....
