quotas

Instead companies are becoming political parties trying to reach diversity quotas to satisfy the local demographics and government policy du jour.

During the sales interview it's ok to ask for precise performance against quotas, and it's fair game to confirm with references.

> We also need to remember that many universities have quotas for minorities Quotas for minorities have been bright-line illegal for decades (at least since Regents v.

By restricting immigration, and not allowing the overall quotas to align with where the people otherwise qualified and interested in coming are located?

The ones producing renewable energy should just export it so the ones that cannot or won't will be able to fill their quotas.

That's exactly the purpose of EU; regulate commerce by creating a system of quotas, preventing free competition but reducing the need for tariffs.

Maybe the drive to hire more women would counteract it, like in your example—that's the reasoning under which minority quotas are implemented, after all.

Way easier than Europe or the USA where there are strict quotas.

We also need to remember that many universities have quotas for minorities and give extra points on the SAT for just checking a box.

Killing our mobile quotas with your fancy 4k monitors, yo.

In big corps, patent attorneys have quotas to fill.

I'm all for diversity and everything, but hiring just to fill racial quotas or gender quotas is NOT the solution to building a successful company.

Also what do you mean by "overall quotas"?

I've seen quotas of, "Get 20 leads to sign an NDA, get 10 POCs, get 5 sales." If you can't tell me about the features of your product without an NDA I'm not going to understand the product after I sign it.

"If you get pulled over by the police, starting an argument and forcing them to escalate things isn't the best idea." Yeah, much better to let them do what they want, bully you and find something to arrest you and meet their quotas.

"I have not only never met an African American who thought they could buy themselves the advantages of a white American" African Americans have plenty of advantages in the US: free points on SAT/ACT, bank loans that cater to minorities, etc, quotas in many different industries (Police and Fireman to name a few).