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Re:Twilio CEO: Layoffs were carried out through an Anti-Raci... by mizzack on Thursday September 15, 2022 @03:46PM (#32857546)
> If two employees are otherwise equally performing, the company has to lay off one of them....but one would have significantly greater difficulty finding re-employment, that's something they want to consider in the decision of which employee is laid off.

This completely ignores that most companies have their own DEI and ESG based hiring initiatives.

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Re:Twilio CEO: Layoffs were carried out through an Anti-Raci... by KennyBlanken on Thursday September 15, 2022 @05:52PM (#32858938)
The existence of DEI and ESG hiring initiatives doesn't mean an outgroup candidate won't still face a tougher time finding re-employment.

Read through all the outraged comments here (and the other three discussions about this) about "woke" this and "diversity programs are illegal discrimination" that, and tell me with a straight face that because some companies have diversity programs, that minorities in tech have just as much of a fair shot at employment as a white worker.

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