My employer is exactly like this, and it really grates on me.
In my field of work, a lot of large organizations are merged. I have worked for this organization for decades, pretty much the only one I have ever worked at in my field, and it has been grand.
They didn’t get involved in this woke BS, and I always had the impression they were a sober, conservative company, focused on our mission. I can’t say how much I have appreciated working there, and they have treated me like gold.
We merged a few years back with another organization of roughly equals or larger size, and their leadership has taken the upper roles of management overall, so they largely control the internal “corporate” messaging.
I knew they were a decidedly Liberal organization before we merged, but since we have merged, I have discovered to my dismay, they are Leftist.
Just like the person who wrote the article, the global messaging is highly political and anti-conservative. Our leadership has sent out global emails during the Trump years, never mentioning him by name, but the anti-Trump, anti-conservative tone is evident. We just recently got two global emails about “Pride”, and that just burned me to no end.
No emails about Memorial Day, but we got two separate global emails about how important and wonderful this asinine new “Juneteenth” holiday is. It made me want to spit.
I have taken to marking these corporate emails as spam and now avoid reading all corporate emails because it makes me angry.
If I ran a large organization of any size, I would never introduce politics into the workforce. But they have, and it makes me boil. I would never do that to people. I have come to dislike the organization I work for. I focus on the mission, and that makes up for everything else because the mission is my reason for working there, but I feel a good deal of animosity towards the organizational leadership.
I am of retirement age, so I will see how it goes.
I work for a university. Welcome to the last 23 years.
No emails about Memorial Day, but we got two separate global emails about how important and wonderful this asinine new “Juneteenth” holiday is.
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Juneteenth; a holiday so important no one ever mentioned it until last year.