As you guys seem to have an aversion to the quotation tabs, I'm not sure who said what.
Goofy, please understand that the concept of socioeconomic status has been around for decades and is a legitimate sociological term.I think you've confused my words on that topic with those of my friend Tom. You might re-read our exchange.
Yes, It was I (oh shit - in American English should that be "me" not "I"?) who attacked the use of that term, and you w[/quote]ho used it.
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Listening to you today, I'm not at all sure that your major interest is the overall welfare of your IT organization. Maybe you should become a social worker.
No, I think I'm doing just fine as an IT manager, thanks.
I personally think that the average social worker (in the uk, anyway) is an incompetent fool so trapped by idiotic dogma that they can do nothing useful. So I thing it is excessively offensive to suggest that someone should become a social worker. But then, in my experience, the average IT manager isn't all that much brighter.
Someone has failed to understand that absence of invalid discrimination and prejudice is actuall very good for the company/organisation/enterprise. It is extremely common for people who don't understand that to claim that those who do are attempting to impose invalid discrimination in favour of anyone whom they are trying to protect against invalid discrimination. That's been very visible in the debate here. I think both of you have been guilty of that, but I can't be sure because your failure to use the quote tags makes it almost impossible to work out who said what, and frankly I can't be bothered to try to decipher who said what when you are too lazy to use the features provided to enable you to make it clear.
Tom