It was at this point that the more senior dude, the one who listened to & reassured me subsequently, came in to oversee the exercise.
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Again, to this guy's credit: he noticed that I didn't speak, saw that I was visibly upset on departure, and invited me to give criticism.
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After 20 minutes of talk about which disabilities disqualified usefulness & the "fertility" of breeding women, I was pretty fucking shaken.
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That group exercise is clearly longstanding practice.
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Here is the QLD State Government webpage stating their commitment to "building an inclusive and diverse workforce". https://www.qld.gov.au/gov/inclusion-and-diversity-commitment …
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I really hope that nobody in the government departments using TactiCall signed off on that group activity as part of employee screening.
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Until I was able to respond at the end in private, I was strongly made to feel that objecting to the content had cost me work opportunities.
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I spoke up first out of shock, then out of principle, and then became silent out of practical necessity. I wonder how many others have, too?
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I just. As I said to the guy, it would be *so easy* to make a similar puzzle - picking settlers for a new colony, for ex - non-offensive.
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am rly sorry this happened to you <3 FWIW though, not sure "settlers for a colony" is a more morally neutral exercise (!)
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the one I proposed was for a new planet colony, not one here, and based on different criteria
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my bad, that sounds fine ^_^ <3 as long as you don't care about the Martian microbes
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