[Spivak]

Nooooooope. This is so wrong it’s funny. Being an at will state does not in any way whatsoever grant you the ability to discriminate against people of protected classes. If someone complains to the labor board or files a lawsuit alleging they were fired because they were black or trans you better have some evidence that this wasn’t the case because they might have evidence that it was and civil suits are decided on who has the strongest case not “beyond reasonable doubt.”

Which is why Evil Inc. makes sure to classify everyone as an under-performer in some capacity so that can be used as the justification for furring and you can squash individual suits or complainants because no one wronged person has enough data to prove the pattern. Then waaaaaay down the line someone will do an analysis and figure it out but it will be an administrative complaint leading to some hand wringing, a change to some policy documents, and some new diversity metrics — much cheaper.