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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, it’s uncomfortable, a distraction, and unpleasant. Which is exactly how your non-white/gay/whatever colleagues may well feel about the crap that they deal with every day in the workplace. [/quote]

But truly, what?? People are treated as people at my workplace. They don't deal with any crap that's different from the rest of us.[/quote]

Are you a member of a marginalized group, OP?  I think the goal is to ensure that no one has to deal with (to take a few random examples from my workplace experiences over the years) referring to building a robust UI as making it "grandma proof" or casual transphobia or the use of slurs to refer to Saudi Arabians.

That being said, my limited experience with DEI sessions is that they don't actually help with this goal?  I don't have a lot of personal experience (my workplace doesn't do them) but as someone who's a member of an invisible minority (queer), I don't actually want to talk to my work colleagues about my sexuality and to be asked to do so would make me deeply uncomfortable.[/quote]

[b]No one asks for that. That's now how it works.[/b]
As for OP, ok; got it! You don't want to do that work; that is fine. Apparently your job has decided they want you to do that work, so you can choose to stay or not. I mean, there's a lot of work at my job (unrelated to DEI) that I don't want to do. In fact, there's enough that I don't want to do that I require payment to even show up. That's why they call it a job. [/quote]

To clarify, no one asks that you disclose your sexuality to your colleagues against your will. It's not a coming out session, FFS.[/quote]

I’ve been in meetings like this for work where coworkers introduce themselves by name, pronouns, sexuality, and which tribal people their house was stolen from. Then it gets to me and I’m like “hi, I’m Larla from accounting.” Awkward. Also the privilege game where you’re supposed to line up and take a step for each privilege you have. Like ok, yes my parents are married, no I’ve never gone to be d hungry, but do I really need to answer about if I own a house or have received an inheritance in front of my coworkers? I understand and support the intent, but these sessions can get really invasive and I don’t know most of these people like that. [/quote]
Seriously? Honestly, I think these meetings are good for some of you folks because you don’t seem to know how to navigate life, so it’s good practice. You don’t have to follow everyone else’s greeting. “Larla from accounting” is fine. It’s also fine for other people to say more or different things. If they say take one step forward if you inherited your house you …. Don’t have to take one step forward. It’s not a court of law and you are not under oath. Don’t disclose anything you don’t want to. It would be nice if you could reflect on what a great advantage you had if, indeed, you inherited a house and be mindful of the lives of others who didn’t.[/quote]

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