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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do a little DEI work and work closely with a number of DEI consultants (some much better than others). One reality of DEI work is that when a company or organization chooses to value it and "push it" among their workforce, there will absolutely be people who push back to various degrees, don't participate, or find it problematic/unpleasant/not worth it. And most of the time, if the organization is being consistent and not performative, those people find their way out either on their own or because their value/culture-conflict begins to impact their work and ability to interact well with colleagues negatively.

So, looks like some people here need to find a new job. [/quote]

As long as it’s for checking a box, it’s fine. However, when sup-optimal decisions start getting made based on it, people start walking. I left an agency that got worked up by DEI. Suddenly, you couldn’t interview if you didn’t have candidates from several races, especially black. Same with the interview panel. If you didn’t hire a minority, management and HR wanted to review the options and understand why the minority wasn’t selected. Sometimes, they agreed that the minority was not the best qualified candidate but argued that we should provide them an opportunity and coach them.

Same thing with existing minorities. Suddenly, they started getting promotions for no reason. Some completed degrees at terrible online colleges, but management and HR decided that a degree was a degree and so these people were now qualified for jobs that required a degree. In reality, their responsibilities didn’t change much, but their titles and pay did.

In sum, the agency became a sh*t show of incompetency, but some greatly benefited from it. No thank you. [/quote]

True story: my FIL works in finance and he went on and on at Christmas about how the woman who got promoted ahead of him only got the job because she’s Asian and it’s a DEI thing. The fact that he’s a raging ahole and a whiny baby who no one wants to work for honestly does not occur to him. Genuinely, it’s incredible. I mean I can’t think of anyone I would rather have as a manager less. I’d rather report to that chat bot. But he genuinely believes he was passed over because of DEI-driven hiring. [/quote]

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