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Originally Posted by Craig
Assuming your friend has his story straight (which seems very unlikely), this employer was badly in need of legal advice. The premise that any american company would even consider an employment policy based on stated sexual preference is very hard to believe (they certainly wouldn't have used a term like "SELF-ADMITTED homosexuals" in the last 30 years).
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Well, he did describe upper management as I quoted before, as "a bunch of half-baked morons that sooner or later will drive the company into bankruptcy". He was at least spot on in the bankruptcy prediction.
And as he also noted, this was the last in a rather lengthy line of questionable business and personnel decisions at that firm that bordered on sheer stupidity. He himself agreed with your call, that the promotion policy as they proposed it would be a legal firestorm if they even dreamed of enacting it - he decided to give up his VP position and take early retirement, and get out of there before the crap hit the fan.
From my friend's description, this firm would be a prime example of one of the corollarys to Murphy's Law - "Everyone is promoted to their own level of incompetence". Even at my last job, working in a Freightliner truck plant, I lost count of how many nonsensical projects were undertaken that everyone involved knew was an absolute crock, because some manager or VP had this bright idea for a pet project they thought was going to earn them major brownie points with the big boys back in Portland or over in Stuttgart, and no one was willing to risk losing their job by telling the emperor he had no clothes.