In reply to HollywoodBQ

HollywoodBQ said:

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I posted a few months ago about a corporate initiative to have a female or "underrepresented" minority on every interview panel.

Today's update is that apparently URM - Underrepresented Minority - was considered offensive so the new term for the DEI initiatives is URT.

Apparently URT stands for Underrepresented Talent

The irony of course is that if these folks were in fact talented, they would not be underrepresented, they would be hired.

I just wanted to share this new buzzword so our TexAg-ers stay up to date.

For those of you who are retired or own your own business. God Bless you Cabron

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Did they define what a person of URT is considered?

Dealing with NIH, they would use a term for URM but they had specific criteria for groups considered underrepresented in SCIENCE rather than in society, so black, Hispanic, alaskan/PI, native american, but not Asian or Indian.

The term "minority" depends on what population you want to include or exclude. As Hispanics are less of a minority, the term needs to change so they are still given accommodations.

...a rose by any other name...

They'll ban it when URT'er (RRRRrrr-terrr) inevitably becomes a derogatory term.

"Talent" has been used in HR/personnel circles for many, many years. this is not new.

As an HR consultant, I loathe this word because it doesn't mean what people think it means.

In reply to HollywoodBQ Underrepresented Talent is all that graffiti on the walls of private businesses, bridges, street signs, subway/light rail cars, etc.

Last time I was in Chicago it was URT- rich.

In reply to Petrino1

Petrino1 said:

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HollywoodBQ said:

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I posted a few months ago about a corporate initiative to have a female or "underrepresented" minority on every interview panel.

Today's update is that apparently URM - Underrepresented Minority - was considered offensive so the new term for the DEI initiatives is URT.

Apparently URT stands for Underrepresented Talent

The irony of course is that if these folks were in fact talented, they would not be underrepresented, they would be hired.

I just wanted to share this new buzzword so our TexAg-ers stay up to date.

For those of you who are retired or own your own business. God Bless you Cabron

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Did they define what a person of URT is considered?

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Since I look like a member of the Hitler Youth, I didn't have big enough cojones to ask that on a call where my name would be included.

I'll have to wait for an all hands call where I can ask anonymously.

In reply to rocky the dog Solid Gold!

When my group of friends happens on the subject of one of a women's more observable parts of her upper physiology, we refer to it as the size of her 'talent', which makes the subject of this thread rather funny.

In reply to Ryan the Temp

Ryan the Temp said:

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"Talent" has been used in HR/personnel circles for many, many years. this is not new.

As an HR consultant, I loathe this word because it doesn't mean what people think it means.

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Wow, Ryan the Temp sighting. Very rare.

In reply to zoneag

zoneag said:

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Today's Under Represented Diversity (TURD)

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HE has a name

As shiny a TURD as there ever has been.

In reply to HollywoodBQ

HollywoodBQ said:

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I posted a few months ago about a corporate initiative to have a female or "underrepresented" minority on every interview panel.

Today's update is that apparently URM - Underrepresented Minority - was considered offensive so the new term for the DEI initiatives is URT.

Apparently URT stands for Underrepresented Talent

The irony of course is that if these folks were in fact talented, they would not be underrepresented, they would be hired.

I just wanted to share this new buzzword so our TexAg-ers stay up to date.

For those of you who are retired or own your own business. God Bless you Cabron

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Hilarious. As usual, that wasn't thought through.

My former company implemented diversity panels after I left. All new hires required to be interviewed by the minority panel before you can get hired. If they only get a white person/people that apply for the job, the process stops until a non-white candidate is identified.

In reply to LoudestWHOOP!

LoudestWHOOP! said:

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zoneag said:

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Today's Under Represented Diversity (TURD)

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HE has a name

As shiny a TURD as there ever has been.

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Clean and well spoken too.

In reply to zoneag

zoneag said:

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Today's Under Represented Diversity (TURD)

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DEI and talent are mutually exclusive.

In reply to UTExan

UTExan said:

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Underrepresented Talent is all that graffiti on the walls of private businesses, bridges, street signs, subway/light rail cars, etc.

Last time I was in Chicago it was URT- rich.

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Seems rather presumptive or inaccurate in many applications. Talent implies talent is possessed and exercised.

I'm surprised the left hasn't removed the mask completely and just called it what it is: discrimination.

The irony is that they always use this image, showing a physical shortcoming that needs to be remedied. These DEI folks are too stupid and well intentioned to recognize they are essentially saying minorities are not as smart or capable in there trade, and therefore need help. It's incredibly insulting and racist. Just like all those white libs on the street saying black folks are too stupid or poor to get an ID to vote.

To win at this game, you need to get these DEI leaders to outline the specific disadvantages that need to be overcome. This is where their unconscious racism shines thru, and you expose how out of touch with reality they are.

In reply to 4stringAg

4stringAg said:

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I'm surprised the left hasn't removed the mask completely and just called it what it is: discrimination.

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There are a few that will admit discrimination is OK against whites, males, Christians, heterosexuals and conservatives, but most are still pretending that isn't what's happening.

In reply to BlueTaze

BlueTaze said:

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The irony is that they always use this image, showing a physical shortcoming that needs to be remedied. These DEI folks are too stupid and well intentioned to recognize they are essentially saying minorities are not as smart or capable in there trade, and therefore need help. It's incredibly insulting and racist. Just like all those white libs on the street saying black folks are too stupid or poor to get an ID to vote.

To win at this game, you need to get these DEI leaders to outline the specific disadvantages that need to be overcome. This is where their unconscious racism shines thru, and you expose how out of touch with reality they are.

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Sure, you can resolve height differences with a box, but what about intelligence, work ethic or talent? Not so simple.

All just codespeak for "make sure your company leadership positions are all given to political appointees whose demographic is absolutely loyal to the Democratic Party

In reply to WHOOP!'91

WHOOP!'91 said:

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BlueTaze said:

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The irony is that they always use this image, showing a physical shortcoming that needs to be remedied. These DEI folks are too stupid and well intentioned to recognize they are essentially saying minorities are not as smart or capable in there trade, and therefore need help. It's incredibly insulting and racist. Just like all those white libs on the street saying black folks are too stupid or poor to get an ID to vote.

To win at this game, you need to get these DEI leaders to outline the specific disadvantages that need to be overcome. This is where their unconscious racism shines thru, and you expose how out of touch with reality they are.

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Sure, you can resolve height differences with a box, but what about intelligence, work ethic or talent? Not so simple.

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NO - you can't even resolve height differences with a box in real life! If we take this "meme" at face value and try to apply it to folks sitting inside the stadium - what would happen?

The stadium would have to supply free booster seat boxes for short people. The short people would increase their seat height with these boxes until someone behind them can't see and then that person would need to go get a booster seat box. This demand for booster seat boxes would continue until the stadium runs out of booster seat boxes. At that point, cleaver patrons will start hording booster seat boxes and then sell them to their neighbors at ever inflating prices. Many patrons having already spent an arm and a leg for the ticket just to get in will not be able to pay for their much needed booster seat box. Now instead of just height inequity, we'll also have socio-economic inequity.

Of course the story would be different in Lubbock, Philadelphia or most soccer games where people would instead use the booster seat boxes as projectiles.

In reply to HollywoodBQ

HollywoodBQ said:

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I just wanted to share this new buzzword so our TexAg-ers stay up to date.

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It's all commie indoctrination garbage