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01-02-2013 | 06:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Red Forman

I'm surprised no one has been "terribly offended" by this thread yet.

How about mildly irritated? And I am a 53 year old white guy, which makes me old enough to have worked for operators that did not hire women, blacks or Jews.

The EEOC determines minimum hiring qualifications in discrimination cases by going back through the records. So if you have a 500 hour female hired at XYZ airlines is because they had a track record of discrimination AND at some point hired a 499 hour nephew of a board member or son of a Chief Pilot. You guys complain about women and minorities, but I never hear anyone complaining about those who use the advantages of birth.

And for the record, the discrimination case that really got the ball rolling in the airline industry was age, not race or gender.

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