Comment by saalweachter
2 days ago
Hell, he could have been told that he wasn't promoted because of his sex/race/whatever by his direct superior who supported Adams' promotion but was overruled by his higher ups/the committee.
"Older white guy boss tells younger white guy Adams that he doesn't have a future because the company is only promoting <slurs> and <slurs>." is something I would totally believe happened. Source: if you're a white guy, other white guys tell you all sorts of things you'd think they'd keep to themselves.
Or, as how it usually happens, the guy who told him "You aren't getting promoted because you are white" was just wrong himself
I don't know why people always seem to forget that essential default. People say things that aren't true all the time.
Oh yeah, I meant that to be implicit in what I was saying.
I have zero problem believing that his boss or whoever told him that, or that said person was just talking out their ass.
People's words and explanations have greater significance when the observed reality supports it.
I am sure it wasn't only the words that convinced Scott Adams, but the observed reality of who is being promoted and who is not.
>I am sure it wasn't only the words that convinced Scott Adams, but the observed reality of who is being promoted and who is not.
Humans regularly misinterpret reality. It's why as a species we couldn't figure out jack shit until we started removing ourselves as arbiter of truth.
We are terrible at evaluating information and making conclusions.
My dad is pissed at a company for passing him over because "They only hire gay people in management" and not because.... he doesn't have an MBA and the people they hired do. Or that he doesn't know how to do anything more than low level management in general. Or that he is bad at big picture planning.
Nope, definitely the gays and this woke DEI.
My brother spent most of his life livid at "affirmative action" and seemingly blaming it for his limitations. Rather than blaming the fact that he did drugs instead of leveraging his intelligence to do well in school, dropped out of community college for no reason, and has never even applied to a real institution of higher learning or attempted to educate himself.
Some people just suck at recognizing their faults and make up boogeymen to blame.