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I really hope he chuckled to himself over Meritime because that's excellent. That's good work right there.
What does it means?
The word maritime means of or near or on or dealing with the ocean. So he made a pun by replacing it with Merit, which is about how worthy or how good at stuff someone is, or if someone deserves something.
It's a pretty good pun!
worth adding that when an employer hires on "merit" it often disproportionately chooses white men, i.e. why its related to DEI