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<blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 3194285" data-attributes="member: 22662">No.&nbsp; First, I have no idea if I was hired as an affirmative action quota or not.&nbsp; It&#039;s entirely possible.&nbsp; It&#039;s also just as possible that at RPS in 1996, the company was just looking for a body with a pulse.It&#039;s been my experience that all companies insist that they hire the best qualified applicant for each position.&nbsp; I find that hard to believe.What I don&#039;t find hard to believe is that companies have embraced Affirmative Action not as a righting of any social ill but because they have come to find value in the diversity it creates.It&#039;s like the governor of Wyoming (Montana?) was talking about the other day about global warming.&nbsp; While he said he remained skeptical, it really didn&#039;t matter because his worldwide customer base not only value clean sources of energy, they demand it.So whether by mandate or just good business a diverse workforce is a good thing and it doesn&#039;t matter to me how it is achieved.<a href="http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/11/07/matt-mead-wyoming-coal" target="_blank">Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead On The Future Of Coal</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="bbsam, post: 3194285, member: 22662"] No. First, I have no idea if I was hired as an affirmative action quota or not. It's entirely possible. It's also just as possible that at RPS in 1996, the company was just looking for a body with a pulse. It's been my experience that all companies insist that they hire the best qualified applicant for each position. I find that hard to believe. What I don't find hard to believe is that companies have embraced Affirmative Action not as a righting of any social ill but because they have come to find value in the diversity it creates. It's like the governor of Wyoming (Montana?) was talking about the other day about global warming. While he said he remained skeptical, it really didn't matter because his worldwide customer base not only value clean sources of energy, they demand it. So whether by mandate or just good business a diverse workforce is a good thing and it doesn't matter to me how it is achieved. [URL="http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/11/07/matt-mead-wyoming-coal"]Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead On The Future Of Coal[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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