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OneTenthofOnePercent

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5. We had layoffs and the only person in our group to get whacked was a fem/black engineer.

Reply to Starry Messenger (Original post)

Fri Jan 13, 2012, 07:53 AM

Jan 2012

First off, female mechanical ngineers are pretty scarce. Female black engineers even moreso. She was also a very productive good engineer. I'm not just saying that either, she always got compliments about tackling tough problems. We probably had about 20+ engineers in our workgroup.

I have no clue how the company didn't get sued for laying off a (the only) black empoyee who was also a (the only) female engineer.

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Men get lion's share of new jobs, women suffer most from public sector layoffs [View all] Starry Messenger Jan 2012 OP

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We had layoffs and the only person in our group to get whacked was a fem/black engineer. OneTenthofOnePercent Jan 2012 #5