After I retired from the military, I spent around twelve years as a contractor....working hand-in-hand for the same military organization I retired from. I worked for Company-X.
Things were fine with Company-X, for about six months, then the new contract had to be worked up. By the end, our company took a lesser contract. It was a 'win', but on yearly salary/benefits....we all took a 3-percet 'cut'. At that point, I lost respect for the contractor situation.
Five years would pass, and we'd re-compete once again....this time, Company-Y won. Company-Y was fuc*ed-up to the maximum and they anticipated that all of people (currently in Company-X) would slip over.
Well....no, once they laid out the pay-scale/benefits....maybe 10-percent of the people stayed.
Me? I ended up staying, and taking a 15-percent pay-cut. The single-plus-up? Well....they gave me seven days of sick-leave each year. The sick-leave disappeared twelve months later.
So in my vault area....there were just two of us from the old team....with 12 empty positions.
Company-Y had forty resumes. They passed them to my military boss (a GS). He came to me and said....pick.
I sat there mostly amazed. He didn't want to waste an afternoon doing this.
So I sat there with the one remaining Company-X employee....a female, and we discussed the 're-build'.
Typically, the old company was pro-guy...meaning if they had four positions open, they hired one single female. That was the HR-tech side of things.
I eventually went and did something 'crazy'....I racked up the resumes (forty of them), and found 15 of them were female. Of the 12 positions....I filled two guys and ten women.
I figured my GS boss would catch this and say something. No....he didn't.
About six weeks later......they began to arrive, and the rest of the vault came to notice....an overwhelming female presence.
Yeah, I rigged it....but no one from HR or the hiring authority grasped my prioritization.
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