Consequences of DEI

[sumdumguy]

Hiring unqualified employees may not have disastrous affects when the employee is filling coffee cups but I have read about horror stories when unqualified pharmacists are filling prescriptions. Not only are prescriptions being filled with wrong drugs but critical information for patient use is incorrect on labels. Information is being misspelled and patients bring the bottle to the doctor’s office to be confirmed. I am not saying that these reported mistakes are all due to foreign workers but in this country pharmaceutical training is extremely stringent and if the college is allowing shoddy work, they need to know that there are consequences.

I had a foreign doctor lecture my relative recently about a chance that she contacted a foreign skin disease when she has never been near the African continent. DEI pilots and air controllers? If safety protocols are being shoved aside and we are seeing the results of unqualified hires, it’s serious. It is hard to find a bank in my city that has staff that you can understand.

Not only is the language barrier inconvenient, some occupations can not afford to lower standards of service delivery for safety’s sake. MHO

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I'm not sure who's original words these are. It doesn't match the usual good grammar and spelling of the poster, so I assume this is a cut and paste from another source?

Writing an essay containing multiple grammar and spelling errors is probably not the most effective way to criticize someone else's language skills.

As for pharmacists, most that I know are sole proprietor entrepreneurs with their own business or franchise. I don't see how that is connected to DEI hiring. Perhaps the governing body could do a better job of ensuring English language proficiency. I know that certainly was a problem with University professors.

[blackpowder]

Mosaic theory coming home to roost.

[SmallTimeOperator]

Big problem in nursing with all the filipinos that they brought in. There is language barriers with some of the nurses and mistakes are being made giving out meds or following directions sometimes. My wife works in an ICU and we have had this conversation before. Would be better to just train more nurses from Sask/Alberta than to import them here. Add more nursing spots at our Universities and lower the GPA needed for admission. It is 87% at University of Lethbridge, and you are waitlisted if not at that level. Why not drop it to 80% or 75% for admission and double the number of spots?

And add to the fact that these Filipinos like to send lots of their money back home to the Philippines, and now we have an economic problem, where money is being sucked out of our economy forever, never to be seen again, never to be spent in our communities and local businesses again. No wonder our economy is underperforming so badly compared to other G7 countries.

And they have our system figured out. They come here and after a year or so, pregnant, having babies, collecting our maternity leave benefits. Using up all their sick days on the weekends.

And so the nursing shortage continues. To be honest, all this immigration needs to stop. Send them all back. Deport 3 million people from Canada. Health care crisis solved. Housing shortage fixed. Schools no longer over populated. I dream of the days, and tell my kids, that as little as 5 years ago, everyone at the Tim’s drive thru spoke perfect english, not immigrantlish.

[farmaholic]

Maybe generational Canadians of child bearing years should have had more babies! Having children has been replaced with having dogs! Two married people chasing careers. Needing to have starter homes, cars, toys and a lifestyle most people hoped to retire with.

I cringe and have to bite my tongue when I hear young people complain about immigrants.

There's alot of contributing factors, divorce rates and economics just to name a couple. I even think computers are to blame, who needs a social life when the teens can stay in their parents home and have a digital social life, and don't get me started on the gaming thing(just another addiction)!

[chuckChuck]

Big problem in nursing with all the filipinos that they brought in. There is language barriers with some of the nurses and mistakes are being made giving out meds or following directions sometimes. My wife works in an ICU and we have had this conversation before. Would be better to just train more nurses from Sask/Alberta than to import them here. Add more nursing spots at our Universities and lower the GPA needed for admission. It is 87% at University of Lethbridge, and you are waitlisted if not at that level. Why not drop it to 80% or 75% for admission and double the number of spots?

And add to the fact that these Filipinos like to send lots of their money back home to the Philippines, and now we have an economic problem, where money is being sucked out of our economy forever, never to be seen again, never to be spent in our communities and local businesses again. No wonder our economy is underperforming so badly compared to other G7 countries.

And they have our system figured out. They come here and after a year or so, pregnant, having babies, collecting our maternity leave benefits. Using up all their sick days on the weekends.

And so the nursing shortage continues. To be honest, all this immigration needs to stop. Send them all back. Deport 3 million people from Canada. Health care crisis solved. Housing shortage fixed. Schools no longer over populated. I dream of the days, and tell my kids, that as little as 5 years ago, everyone at the Tim’s drive thru spoke perfect english, not immigrantlish.

Yup spoken like a true Republican bigot and small time thinker who has no clue!

Should we send back all the temporary and seasonal farm workers too?

Nothing like making the labour shortage far worse!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

lower the GPA needed for admission. It is 87% at University of Lethbridge, and you are waitlisted if not at that level. Why not drop it to 80% or 75% for admission

Haven't you just described the essence of DEI hiring?

Personally I would prefer a blind meritocracy model, rather than lower the standards so everyone can be hired, regardless of competency.

[sumdumguy]

In some occupations safety is not critical and people’s lives are not in danger and don’t get me wrong, there are many DEI’s that turn out to be well-suited for their new job but I think we all agree that there are occupations where learning on the job could result in catastrophic errors. That is why we have standards and protocols. Operating room doctors need the proper equipment handed to them in the right direction. They can’t be teaching English and giving lessons when they have a heart or a gut opened and exposed. Literate, educated, qualified hires are the only hires that will do a good job. Sorry if I touch a woke nerve CC and Agstar but facts are facts.

[blackpowder]

Airline pilots need to be proficient in English to fly internationally.
Mandated by reality. Hmmmmm

[SmallTimeOperator]

Haven't you just described the essence of DEI hiring?

Personally I would prefer a blind meritocracy model, rather than lower the standards so everyone can be hired, regardless of competency.

Nope. The essence of DEI is you could get in with a 50% as long as you are black, asian, native, wearing a turban or burka, etc. Grades don’t matter, which is scary. Only ethnic background matters.