Posted on 01/01/2022 11:57:49 AM PST by ModernDayCato
Happy New Year. We live in a world gone mad. The largest companies are now pretty much run by leftists.
I’ve been a technologist for several decades, and I work as a consultant to one of the largest companies in the USA.
My dog and I wanted a sandwich for lunch today, New Year’s Day. We ordered it on Uber Eats from a deli across town. Uber took my order and my money. When I got there the deli was closed. Uber eventually refunded my money, but their app should have never taken the order in the first place.
Uber as a company IS their app. They crow about the diversity of their programming staff, and can manage to set the app up so it charges less to black own businesses, which is racist and anti-white.
So here’s where we come to the basic liberal ideal for hiring…we all just fulfill a quota of race, gender, religion, and other bullshit attributes that Libs use to separate us and divide us. Our actual talent doesn’t matter.
Their “diversity and inclusion” manager can brag that there are x Indians, y African Americans, z Women and an octopus doing the programming, but how about someone crowing that the application actually works?
Uber spent more time changing their terms of service so users couldn’t sue them or join together in a class action, rather than just creating a company who provides a level of service where they won’t.
Competence doesn’t matter. Customer Service is an afterthought, outsourced to people in other countries who can barely speak the language. If you can get through.
As long as there’s diversity and the liberal causes of the day are covered, that’s the measure of success.
At my company there’s an extensive internal intranet. I read with interest the plans to “re-imagine” (yawn) the technology platform for everyone. They’re talking about betting on cloud technology from two of the large tech companies.
Personally I think that’s a stupid idea, but it’s so many levels above my pay grade it’s nosebleed territory. So they hired a guy to head it up. I’m going over his credentials. They talked about his starting a Black Executive Club at the last place he worked. That’s terrific, but is he qualified for the job that will significantly change this company? Shrug.
I kept reading. The next story was about the entire executive team meeting offsite to discuss - Climate Change. If I were a shareholder (couldn’t GIVE me the shares), I would wonder who decided this was a business issue, and how much of my money was spent on this boondoggle. The cost and the results don’t matter because it’s all about virtue signaling - with shareholder dollars.
And lastly, a story about the new supplier diversity officer. No, I don’t need to know your prices or reliability. Are you black, or a woman, or any other minority? You’re hired.
That’s the essence of leftism. We’re all the same incompetent buffoons. WHAT we are is far more important than what we do.
What amazes me is that we grownups allow this circus to continue, and we actually support these companies with our dollars and our time.
Your dog told you that he wanted a sandwich? You sure it’s the world gone mad?
That’s not entirely true. He asked for a HAM sandwich. That’s not what I ordered.
Is that the Peikoff book? I’ve read that.
Probably worth a re-read.
I couldn't agree more...
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