Re: Hiring Practices

Subject: Re: Hiring Practices
From: "Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:32:21 -0800

At 12:56 PM 4/1/97 -0500, Pete Kloppenburg wrote:
>Wayne, you wrote:

>> I didn't know English majors were a protected class. I really *must* revisit
>> those EEOC guidelines.
>
>Now Wayne, you deliberately misread that. Clearly I was referring
>to the practice hiring those folks who resemble you in certain ways.
>If you hire only white men because you are a white man, that is
>illegal. Hiring only English majors because you have an English
>degree is not, nor is the reverse.
>
>I must learn to not be so elliptical in my postings. That cut and paste
>feature can deliver some great quotes out of context if you wield it
>without inhibition.
>
Uninhibited - that's me. But I bet you say that to all the posters.

--Wayne Douglass

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