Posted on 07/21/2022 4:06:30 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
True...although I believe they’re starting to go too far. My prior employers web site has pie charts actually stating their 3 year goal of reducing white men to a certain percentage and increasing “women and people of color”. This can only be done by firing people and/or not hiring white men.
They also talk about “inclusivity” and openly having “lunch and learn” sessions on being “an ally of the LGBTQ+ community”, while having flag raising “ceremonies” for Pride Month - without the slightest concern that the majority of their workforce doesn’t agree with these “values”.
So how is this “inclusive” and “non-discriminatory”? My bet is that you’re going to see lawsuits by white men due to blatant and open statements that they can’t be hired due to diversity quotas.
HR doesn't have the same motivation that direct supervisors have. I've seen HR reject great applicants and send forward complete mismatches. I've witnessed first hand where departments would leave positions unfilled because the candidates HR sent over were completely unqualified and weren't worth the effort.
I also saw a company fire almost their entire HR team of two or three dozen. The company had hired an outside consultant to review HR's efforts and the consultant correctly reported back that for the previous two years, the HR team was so bad that even their own staff had been leaving.
Affirmative Action was a battle plan.
Sounds like an Indian bought the franchise; they have a lot of them (and gas stations) in my area, and I don’t see Hispanics working there.
That is a possibility; there is also the MGTOW effect where young white men will have nothing to do with these big companies (if they work at all). The diversity tokens at my job were instrumental in shortening my workday and lightening my overall workload because now I work like an older white woman - and nobody can say anything because those tokens are so blatant in how little they do/how short their days are.
The only concern I have is that if they attrite out then we’ll be expected to work as we did before...
Affirmative action was a means to pretend assimilation was working a century after the Civil War (when it failed so publicly) and a means to simply redistribute wealth in a consumer-driven economy.
I use it as a means to ease up on the gas at my job...
assimilation was working until A.A.
I got in trouble with our HR lady earlier in the year when i told her that her job was a farce, and that she didn’t actually do anything of importance, just obstruction.
Called her out in front of the entire management group so there was no ambiguity as to what I said.
Still here for know, Ill leave when I want to, and that time is getting closer and closer.
HR departments are spin offs of Rush Limbaughs “undeniable truths of life” #24 to be exact.
Starbucks get the top graduates of those departments. HR gets the rest!
HR: Human Religions. And people wonder where oh where could the Messiah be? What's taking so long?
Same pattern holds with law enforcement:
376 highly trained and outfitted "Can't-DO" monkeys in Uvalde, versus one lone 22 YO Elijah at Greenwood Park Mall, who had been taught by his grandfather.
No system-savvy bureaucrats want Can-DO man to arrive on the scene, because he passively reveals who they are: worthless S-o-S. Let Can-DO man get to work, and there goes the business-as-usual dysfunction, with all of its safety, security, hierarchy, and perks. Might have to actually accomplish something useful and productive. The horror.
In a 40-year engineering career the only racists I ever met were black women in HR.
That is their primary 'mission', as it were, but they have also become islands of wokeness driven by the products of liberal arts education departments.
Back during the hubub during Clarence Thomas' hearings, a lady who worked in our department who thought the entire mess was bullshit told us we had explicit permission to sexually harass her. She was a but older than I, but still looked good. We had a great team in the department, and she was good tech. It was good to know that the lunacy wasn't going to affect us for a while. We just said 'Yes Ma'am, and continued with our work.
“Woke culture in the workplace is why many sane people have left employment and refuse to return”
Great comment—this is an example of “below the radar” human behavior that is not understood or acknowledged.
Add to that the aging of the remaining baby boomers, wackadoodle affirmative action hiring policies, and suddenly the corporations have a mysterious “skill shortage”.
I left HR in the early 1990s...last employment in hi tech...previous a Cat dealership (Alaska pipeline time) ...in the 90s HR became an arm of the government and I hated it. When it was working to HELP managers...it was fun and productive.
You are spot on. And beyond pronouns, your assessment also explains how things will work in those places where states / localities passed laws giving special employment protection for “hair styles”.
I am glad I grew up when I did, and started working a long time ago. If I were a young person today, I would learn a trade and not go to college - stay away from large corporations.
“....in the 90s HR became an arm of the government...”
Great observation based on real experience. Thanks.
Lawyers and chicken management.
“If I were a young person today, I would learn a trade and not go to college - stay away from large corporations.”
Our grandson finished 2 yr degree at Comm college ...wanted to go to university, but couldn’t decide a major. We told him we would not help him unless he decided (and we would probably have limited the help if it was some stupid major) He has been productively employed in construction for several years now...thankfully.
Years ago we got a new HR person at my location and she immediately started trying to force her way into running departments and telling managers how to run their departments. She tried my department and made several suggestions, none in person but via other people in my department to be given to me. I finally told the last one she sent to go tell her I’ve run this department for 20 years just fine, when I need her help I’ll ask for it. She got the message and left me alone until she retired.
Once HR takes over your company you are doomed. My public institution had a new president who promoted HR into management and it was a disaster. Lots of retirements, lots of resentment, lots of arrogance toward employees by HR. No employee would interact with HR department unless absolutely necessary.
The new president was a total disaster and replaced after 3-4 years and the new president ignored HR. With that employees begin to completely keep anyone and especially the HR director at arms length, no interactions and many times employees would call systems office HR and go over the directors head. She served another two years essentially ostracized by the employees she allegedly represented. She burned a lot of bridges during her management tenure and spent two years friendless before retiring.
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