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| Originally Posted by Unregistered 27%???? I bet that number is closer to 10%, at least that was the case in my group. I have a hard time believing that 1 in 4 ERAC employees are minorities, but they are probably using "creative" ways of defining a minority (my great-grandmother on my mom's side was...) |
He's probably not lying on these numbers. Enterprise is a big retail company and with the exception of Failing Enterprise, they really care about their corporate image (hence the forced United Way contributions). If the word were to get out that Enteprise had minority numbers significantly different than the population at large, they'd risk getting severely hammered in the press. Jesse Jackson and Oprah would just slay them. So they run very scared, monitor the percentages and keep leaning on the recruiters to do whatever it takes. You can't run a big business these days without doing this.
Having seen the list of their top 100 officers, though, I think they've got some more work to do in the upper ranks.
It's 2005, he's got to use whatever force it takes to make this right, and then keep talking the happy talk that's been approved by H.R. and the legal department.
He knows what happened to Denny's and he's willing to spend millions of dollars ever year to avoid it. These numbers are powered by fear.