Posted on 11/20/2018 6:12:38 AM PST by C19fan
More like corporate leaders have been told that failure to embrace “diversity” will be punished, probably including restrictions to access to capital markets, plus stock divestiture by a number of pension funds and endowment funds, plus hostile hearings by Democrat-controlled Congressional committees.
The "Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions" movement against Israel was only a trial run.
Boss is fully aware.
It looks to be worked out with no issues.
I fill them out and tell them what I think they want to hear. I'm too close to retirement to want to rock the boat right now.
Yes, under communism, the slightest infraction was met with overwhelming punitive force.
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Sometimes.
Sometimes there was capricious enforcement, to keep everyone on edge and uncertain.
I will use their preferred pronoun if they tattoo it on their forehead.
*****It’s important we embrace diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our business.******
However, ironically, they’re also implementing exclusion and a Non-diverse workplace environment that demands the worker to comply or be fired.
The recent hot job market (thanks to Trumpanomics) has made some of them actually work for the first time in years.
My pronouns are: Judge, Jury, Executioner.
After working for a major university for 20 years after my Air Force career, I have the following advice.
Document EVERYTHING. EVERY conversation with management needs to be written down. Ideally, get a boss to approve it. Even email it for corrections. Hint: If they do not reply to a sent email; that is sufficient proof of approval.
Example: Email text says “Boss, we talked about blank and blank, blank, and you said to do X, Y and then Z. I am proceeding as directed.”
In any case, don’t go down alone.
I teach primarily adult workers in the IT industry. Oh, the stories about lying managers I could tell you!!!
Again, if the boss gives you an order, or tells you to collect electronic data on someone—DO NOT do so unless it is in writing.
One of the big problems in IT is the privacy versus policy battle. More than one white male administrator has lost his job because—even though there was a verbal understanding to log actions on an individuals computer, if that person was a minority or woman—Well, there goes your job. Again, any said needs to be written down, even if just the date, time, who said what as a memo for record.
And no matter what, do not go above and beyond. Say you find someone is using their computer against company policy... Take it to management and say nothing until they direct you to do something.
I know of instances where the opposite happens; the tech tells management, who doesn’t do or direct any action, and then when the perpetrator winds up taking down the entire network, who do you think gets blamed? AGAIN, write it down in an email and send so management cannot weasel out.
Like I said, even a copy of the conversation sent out as an email is sufficient when the boss doesn’t want to sign or explicitly approve.
Management will say—in private—that they would never penalize someone for something politically correct, but push comes to shove they WILL.
Record their actions, especially if it goes against some ambiguous policy. If you got to go down, take some with you!
That would be a brilliant statement.
What I’m reading is that you quite literally feel “unsafe.” Perhaps you should report this to HR. Obviously they care about such things.
Capricious enforcement.
A colleague of mine was at one time responsible for the electric power distribution in Bucharest when Ceaucescu was in power. The Genius of the Carpathians was known to play heavy head trips on people to test loyalty, or maybe that’s how he got his jollies. And one day it was Stelian’s turn. Stelian went from Romania to the US with nothing, started as a draftsman, and reestablished his engineering career here.
Actually, I was posting to Cyclotic at comment #5
“I tossed it in the trash. A couple of weeks later, HR came to me and asked why they’d not received my anonymous survey, yet.
Think about it.”
Same thing happened to me and several others at a company I used to work at. We still ignored them because we had work to do and couldn’t be bothered but the idea was the same. At least the HR was a dumping ground for lazy drones and they went on their way with no real impact
HR=Tovarisch Zampolit.
It’s lawsuit insurance. These programs have not been shown to have a positive overall impact on the minorities/outcast, but the company is able to show they have a program.
My institution sends out these “anonymous” surveys all the time that ask you everything but your name. One year they sent emails with the “anonymous” survey title and we later found out each email had embedded in the link who it was sent to, so when you opened the link and did your “anonymous” surveys they knew who you were.
Currently IF—IF I complete any survey I answer neutrally on everything because of the lack of anonymity. Right now we have a female administration member who will fire you outright if you cross her on anything. She takes every criticism personally and the president goes along with whatever she wants.
It used to be a nice place to work, not anymore. You go to work, you do your job, you don’t fraternize with your neighboring departments because you don’t know who will get their panties in a wad over something you might or might not have said.
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