

Society & Culture
The Subtleties of Religious Discrimination
The interviewer was adept at discrimination with such a subtle manner that one could never make the claim
This story is likely to be the opposite of what you’re thinking based on the title. When I left my first consulting position, I cast a wide net, seeking to land a job with a larger consulting firm. I was pleased to be contacted by Arthur Anderson Consulting, and looked forward to my scheduled interview.
On that evening, I met a man named Roger in one of the restaurants downtown. Roger was staying there for a long time while working with a client in the area.
From the outset, Roger wasn’t as cordial as I had assumed someone in his position would be. He seemed to take an immediate disliking to me for one reason or another. A bit into the conversation, I understood what was occurring. Roger was fishing around to see whether or not I was of the same faith that he was.
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Adept at Discrimination
Roger was smart enough to not play his cards outright, but I was sufficiently aware to determine that this interviewer was seeking to reject me, and apparently all others, who did not share his faith. Roger was adept at discrimination, with such a subtle manner that one could never make the claim. In carefully chosen words, he let me know that I didn’t have “what it takes” to be an Arthur Anderson consultant.
Still, the discussion revealed, if anything, that I was abundantly qualified. Indeed, on critical consulting issues, I was more qualified than Roger. Of course, when someone is predisposed to discriminate in a job interview, it doesn’t matter how qualified the applicant might be. In this case, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that I was the more competent of us two; on some level, Roger knew this to be so.
As years passed, I bore no ill-will toward Arthur Anderson Consulting. Moreover, in my travels as a management consultant with a another firm, and then as an author and speaker, I had encountered numerous Arthur Anderson Consulting partners and associates in my audiences. I found it to be particularly rewarding to receive “raving fan” type letters, kudos of high praise from such individuals.
Arthur Anderson Consulting subsequently filed for bankruptcy following the fallout from the scandal at one of its major clients, Enron. Nevertheless, I proudly display my Arthur Anderson kudo letters when a consulting firm inquires about my services.
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Family
Student Drinking and Drug Abuse on Campus is Over the Top
What kind of society, de facto, condones such reckless behavior?
The senseless loss of five university students in a house fire has stung my community. These were top students, accomplished individuals, and potential leaders.
Someone has got to ask the tough questions right now, while the pain of their loss is intense. In what kind of society do presumably the best and brightest engage in highly questionable activities? An all-night party? Started at what hour? Preceded by what? To end when?
How much alcohol flows? How many drugs are dispensed? Obtained from and by whom? Ingested by whom? How many cigarettes are lit? How many butts wantonly burn down to nothing? What else is lit and smoked?
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Foolish Behavior Condoned
The largest and toughest question of all behind these is what kind of society, de facto, condones such foolish and, in too many tragic instances, reckless behavior? Drunk students falling out of windows to their death, engaged in chugging contests until they vomit, on weeknights no less, walking the campus in a state of high lethargy? Being rushed to emergency wards?
Sure, install the proper sprinkler and alarm systems, but acknowledge the ruthless reality that confronts us. Colleges today are the stomping grounds for legions of students who drink and take drugs with abandon. They sit like zombies in morning classes if they can make it out of bed at all. Professors pretend that it is not happening. University administrators accept such behavior as ‘part of the times.’
Such phenomena are more wide sweeping than anyone cares to admit. They are testament to the abandonment of standards, the ‘everything is allowed’ overly permissive culture in which no student is safe.
Break the Silence
If the students who died were among the finest people that communities engender, what does their loss portend for others? And when will responsible adults break the silence about the utter absurdity with which too many students live their lives?
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Faith
Here’s Why Satan – and Democrats – are Obsessed with Sex
This is what the bible says about sex…
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PolitiCrossing Founder Chris Widener takes us through a scriptural understanding of exactly why Satan and Democrats are obsessed with sex and pushing the issue so hard on our country.
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