Come on, Loyal-think a little bit. It isn't just because she is a woman that I said she was a DEI hire. I said it because she is demonstrating an extreme level of incompetence in how she is handling this situation. With all of your comments here about the WSU administrators that were lifetime employees and were terrible at their jobs, promoted beyond their level of competence, I am very surprised that you would try to use her 25 years of service to justify her position as director in this situation. My reason for calling her a DEI hire comes from two things. One, it is being reported that she was SS for Jill Biden when Joe was VP, and Jill was the one driving her appointment as SS Director. The second thing that is very indicative of her being DEI is how the SS now focusing so much on hiring women rather than hiring the best people for the job.
Asking for a factual source saying she personally directed not having someone on that roof is just stupid. I am focusing on her performance after the shooting, not for all the breakdowns that allowed the shooting to happen. I have already stated I am waiting for more information to come out before I will assign blame for actions and decisions prior to the shooting.
Given the directors actions after the shooting, yes she is a dumb f'ing C. She has been horrible, and has shown nothing to indicate that her appointment to that position is justified. Just like Mayorkas and Buttigeig, both non-female appointees that have been terrible at their job.
I have worked with/for plenty of females in management and upper management at Boeing, and I will share a story about one that I would clearly call a DEI promotion. I was working on an $8 million project that was a Time and Material contract. Several months into work, and after asking for several weeks for a cost analysis from the contractor, they finally presented us with an update that a $1 million overrun of available budget. Ugh. So we discussed the situation with affected parties and decided to stop work and do a deep dive into work completed, work left to do, where the costs so far were spent, and a detailed forecast of the estimated cost to complete the work. All that work took us 3-4 weeks, and we then scheduled with the site manager a 7:00 meeting (her request) to review the results and get direction on how to proceed given the options we presented to her. So there was about 8-10 of us waiting for her that morning. Waiting, waiting, waiting! About 8:40 we called on the conference room speaker phone to find out WTF. She say she was running late, just a couple miles away. So okay, you figure 5 minutes and she would be there. Nope. It was 20 more minutes before she arrived at the meeting, one hour late, and with a latte in her hand. So we knew that she had to go to the coffee stand at the building next door to get it, after already being waaaay late and keeping a room full of folks waiting, wasting our time. Now THAT shows you what kind of performance you get from a DEI hire, one that had quite the reputation for banging an upper level manager at the previous site where she worked.
And so, no, not all women shouls be at home, barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. If that is the life they want, that is fine. If they want to be out in the workforce at any job they want, that is also great. Just be competent and qualified for the position that you are in. And the same applies to nepotism, and both that and DEI needs to apply to both sexes. Ooops, my bad-I mean all 57 sexes. LOL
