Posted on 04/27/2021 7:09:57 PM PDT by IncPen
This is a full-throated denunciation of the woke culture by its owners/founders.
They’re being attacked across social media by the usual suspects, but also finding support.
They’re putting their business interests first.
Let this be the start of a tsunami.
I’d work for these people in a red hot heartbeat.
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Yep.
They’re taking a beating, but this is how it starts.
Wow! That’s great.
No idea what they do but I’m impressed.
Especially the 360 nonsense. Those are just stupid.
I do my job and don’t really care about how others unrelated to me do theirs.
My company has a little bit of the nonsense extras. In 35 years I’ve never used any of them
Wow, that is an AMAZING and POSITIVE letter to employees. It sounds like a great company with excellent leadership and a good place to work.
Sounds like they know things are going to get REALLY BAD under Biden, so they don’t their people discussing just that - fine to hate Trump, but Biden/Harris is off limits for hatred.
I was a first-level manager at one. One year, HR decided to have ALL managers in the Division stack-rank ALL first-line employees in the Division.
I told my VP “this is silly — I don’t know those people, don’t know what they do, and don’t know how they perform.” He replied you know more about them than you think you do. Give it a try.” I was amazed at how close all the managers’ stack-ranked reviews of all employees in the Division came out.
We used that stack-rank as serious input to getting rid of the bottom 10% to 15% of performers every year. That stack-rank process was actually far more effective than I expected.
A couple of companies did 360s and I thought those were a complete waste of time.
Well-stated.
bfl
I am shocked. In such a good way. I can’t imagine how happy some of the ‘worker bees’ are....not to have to navigate the ever changing, ever more ridiculous WOKE guidelines, Maoist struggle sessions, memos of the new rules on Word Speak. God Damn! That is great.
That is an interesting take on it. I don’t see it that way at all. They are removing all the Leftist crap they have ‘given’ to the employees. I guess we shall see. I pray I am right on this one and it starts tech workers to wake up.
Sounds like a sensible company to work for.
It’s interesting that the Communist-style BS that’s been foisted on our whole culture refers to itself as “woke-ism”; when I read something like this, I get the very refreshing sensation that parts of our culture and society are “waking up” from a really, really bad nightmare.
Hope this goes mega-viral.
And I ain’t takin’ no stinkin’ vaccine, neither.
We need more standing up to stupidity and denouncing woke PC bulls#it for what it is.
About time to see some companies making change! Cheers to them!
Like a spell being lifted. It would be interesting to know what exactly caused the change of heart. Did somebody in their upper tier read a Jordan Peterson book or something?
A refreshing perspective in these “woke” times with a throwback to when “the business of business is business” rather than trying to be everything to everybody. I’d go to work there with only one qualm in the paragraph about committees being a thing of the past.
It makes reference to “DEI work” (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) returning to HR. I’d prefer to see a full-on denunciation of DEI as a legitimate function with more of an endorsement of the themes in the rest of the letter where work is done organically because it has relevance to the company function. DEI will occur organically because the company gets the best people to deliver the best work to the customer and it does not matter one whit how those people look to outsiders.
My bet is that they’ve lost too many good people who refused to comply with that crap.
Companies are finding out the hard way that replacing motivated, talented, trained, productive personnel with snowflakes doesn’t end well.
I’ve worked remotely for the last few years. I literally don’t even know the names of several in my department. I couldn’t possibly rank them.
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