My father is now retired and still meets regularly with his former colleagues from various employers.
I've known some of them since I was little and practically grew up with a few of their children. I am still in close contact with some of them and they are definitely my childhood friends.
But are his former coworkers his friends? I don't know, but I know that I want the same for me and my kids.
there is a recent 5-part documentary about berlin, its unique history since the fall of the wall, especially the nightlife, culture, investments and projects, housing etc
this is a perfectly reasonable decision when hiring for a startup, why waste hours, that you don't have, on interviews testing the candidate when you can lookup their past work
This is what happens when the established parties refuse to do anything about it and don't even address the issue seriously, instead immediately labeling people who see the problem as "Nazis." The obvious conclusion from this is that these people are inevitably supporting parties that see this is an issue.
this decision is not motivated by merit, it's entirely motivated by race.
and they have no intentions of using a merit based approach for applicants because that would result in an even more white and asian dominant student pool.
without the legacy pool they now have more wiggle room to juice their "merit-based" approach so that they can admit more blacks without getting busted for illegal affirmative action.
while this should be obvious to anyone who has seen the camps, we still get articles that claim "the obvious answer to homelessness" is just more housing. Of course we need more housing but how do cheaper rents convince addicts to change their lifestyle?
it's the conventional argument that's being brought up all the time while claiming "everyone's ignoring it".
doing some novel reporting on homelessness without leaving their homes:
I've known some of them since I was little and practically grew up with a few of their children. I am still in close contact with some of them and they are definitely my childhood friends.
But are his former coworkers his friends? I don't know, but I know that I want the same for me and my kids.