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According to the Wall Street Journal, Intel is doubling referral bonuses for women, minorities and veterans. Employees can receive $4,000 bonuses for suggesting candidates that meet the company's diversity goals. Intel had previously pledged $300 million over the next five years to address "Silicon Valley's disappointing diversity numbers," and has set a goal of "full representation" of women and under-represented minorities by 2020:
The new programs at Intel and across the tech sector come as companies report little-changed diversity numbers. Intel's diversity statistics for 2014 showed 24 percent of Intel employees are female. The company is also predominantly white and Asian, with only 3.5% black and 8% Latino employees. The company did not include statistics about veterans in its report.
Christine Dotts, a spokeswoman for Intel, said in an email that higher recruiting bonuses have been used by the company in the last decade, but she declined to comment on when or how much the bonuses were for.
Also at The Register.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Hairyfeet on Wednesday August 05 2015, @02:39AM
Yep nice to know that no matter how hard you work to better yourself or how hard you study all that matters in the end is the color of your skin and your sex.
Remember kids you can't spell reverse racism without racism!
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by anubi on Wednesday August 05 2015, @05:57AM
Only if old age was one of the valued attributes...
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 1, Troll) by Hairyfeet on Wednesday August 05 2015, @11:47AM
What I personally love is those that claim they are for "social justice" which then promptly spit on the memory of Dr King by using the exact.same.racist.shit. he was fighting against, only thinking by changing which race is being targeted that somehow makes it right!
That is why I urge all that remember the civil rights movement to stand up to these bigots, so that one day Dr king's words will finally come true: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." And I'm sure if he were alive today and saw this bullshit he would have added " they will not be judged by the color of their skin or their sex" because he was fighting for EQUALITY, not for preferences, tokenism, or treating any race or sex as inferior and therefor needing special privilege just to get what others do by hard work.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @02:49PM
What I personally love is those that claim they are for "social justice" which then promptly spit on the memory of Dr King by using the exact.same.racist.shit. he was fighting against, only thinking by changing which race is being targeted that somehow makes it right!
Shows how little you know. [cnn.com] How unsurprising. MLK said things like:
"A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for the Negro."
And in an interview with Playboy: [kinja.com]
Playboy: Do you feel it's fair to request a multibillion-dollar program of preferential treatment for the Negro, or for any other minority group?
King: I do indeed. Can any fair-minded citizen deny that the Negro has been deprived? Few people reflect that for two centuries the Negro was enslaved, and robbed of any wages—potential accrued wealth which would have been the legacy of his descendants. All of America's wealth today could not adequately compensate its Negroes for his centuries of exploitation and humiliation. It is an economic fact that a program such as I propose would certainly cost far less than any computation of two centuries of unpaid wages plus accumulated interest. In any case, I do not intend that this program of economic aid should apply only to the Negro; it should benefit the disadvantaged of all races.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @09:00AM
msicar?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @04:26PM
What the fuck is "reverse" racism?
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @06:00PM
What the fuck is "reverse" racism?
"Reverse racism" is an american idiomatic expression for racism directed in the opposite direction of historical stereotypes, most commonly referring to racism directed toward white people by black people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @11:40PM
> most commonly referring to racism directed toward white people by black people.
That is incorrect. Reverse racism is a term nearly universally applied to anti-racism programs in attempt to discredit them by simplifying context out of the equation, exactly as hairy used it in his post.