Christians & Gays in the Workplace

[Sam]

I worked for General Electric in the Evendale area of SW Ohio from February 14, 1966 until I retired March 1, 1998.

Over the years we had lots of "affirmative action" programs imposed on us by the government. We had quotas of African Americans we had to meet in our different areas. I know personally of one job that was open and the person hiring told me "I get one star if I hire an African American and two stars if I hire an African American woman." At one time we had 20,000 people working there and when I left that number was down to 8,500. When we would go through reduction in forces or layoffs we were told that one of the considerations as to who was laid off and who stayed was based on maintaining the proper employee racial mix. Not long ago I had lunch with a man who was still working at GE and he told me he had been in a meeting earlier that day where he was told that GE had to put more effort into hiring GLBT's.