Antifa uber alles.
Associate resource groups for every kind of demographic other than heterosexual white male
Article is dead on. People at all levels and experience are judging a company by its flexibility. To some extent, the flexibility is good and helps. On another, it’s like herding cats to get people together to discuss something.
My world was in a Tier I auto manufacturing stamping plant which is totally different from the tech world that this article was coming from........
The author is totally clueless about the industries that depend on skilled and unskilled manual laborers that really make this country prosper.......
I am SO glad I got out of HR WHEN it was still good (hi tech, early 90s)
Let’s just sat that employment opportunities for older folks have never been better.
soy boys and girls that think it’s halloween every day ...
I would like to think these type of idiots would be fired on the spot, but HR says we need to respect their feelings. Seeing more and more of this.
NEVER hire an SJW. Check their socials and if there’s a hint of it, give them a firm no. Tell them there’s plenty of room on the streets of San Francisco.
HR was always a pretty questionable place, especially given the quality of the employees there.
Any such “activism” at my place of employment would result in the “activists” being unemployed.
You act like a leftist punk at work....you’re Persona non-grata.
Nobody cares what you think about politics in the office.
“Work and life are becoming more blended” has several causes. One is the expectation that you’re on call all the time in many professional roles. Your boss didn’t care what you did after work nearly as much until they had to listen to your personal reasons for not being on call from 6-8 PM. I once had to argue that it was unreasonable to demand that I work 2-6 AM on Mother’s Day supporting a software migration. My boss’ response, what do you care, you don’t talk to your mother? My reply: my kids are celebrating with ME, and they’re seeing the other one. I ended up working 4-8 AM in support and deciding I’d be working somewhere else.
Another is companies saying “bring your whole self to work!” in an attempt to increase morale, encourage group loyalty ... and then trying to mediate problems because people are arguing over religion, politics and other things we used to say NOT to bring to work. They solve this using the social justice hierarchy. The Muslim can talk about how great their faith is at a company luncheon and invite people to their mosque, but mention the positive aspects of Christianity, and you’re shut down if not outright reprimanded.
Companies are also increasingly injecting politics into the workplace. Human Resources often gives ethics training that can be summarized as “liberal = good, social justice = justice/fair, so you can’t question social justice or you’re in violation of company ethics policy”.
I have seen “trust and respect” seminars telling people not to make assumptions, but don’t do anything that might offend stereotypical groups. So don’t assume Asians are good at math and let’s put black lesbian engineers front and center in the seminar on purpose, but we can bash whites and men in general because they’re all oppressors. So you can’t put the white guy on the cover of the company newsletter unless he won a major award, is homosexual, or a disabled vet.
Things got worse under the Obama administration using the Out and Equal Index and other far-left political groups’ checklists as determining factors in who to give contracts to. Now the company was intentionally attracting LGBT employees and saying we had to accommodate them, shut up bigots if you don’t agree with the dude in a pink pantsuit sharing the bathroom or changing room. When I reported his sexual harassment of me, I was written up for abuse of the sexual abuse hotline ... it was “a dispute between two women”. I called him “it” or his name. I was reprimanded for that. I went to farther bathrooms in the building to protect my privacy, he’d follow me, trap me in stalls and scream at me as a bigot. A 6’ plus man waiting for me in the bathroom, physically intimidating me, in addition to interrupting meals to tell me about a bleeding neo-vagina being similar to someone having a period and tracking MY period.
And again, I was the one repeatedly reprimanded and punished for saying this was unacceptable behavior. I was told by my boss and his boss to just shut up, go along, can’t you go out for drinks with him? I said it was inappropriate to go out with other men because I’m married, with children. Then got another reprimand for saying he’s a man. I replied he fathered a son. “But that was before.”
With Obgerfell, the company had parties to celebrate the ruling. And I was abused for not attending what were parties to celebrate a political decision. No one was ordering anybody to go to Christmas parties.
I left soon after. I now work with much saner people. I took a pay cut to do it. I also stayed out of ALL defense positions, though I was offered them, because those cultures were too damn toxic. Trump’s win did not reverse six years of social justice infection and the years of social engineering in the workplace. Not when all four of the big companies were mandating diversity statements as part of your performance review and bragging about higher attrition rates of whites and men as a great opportunity for POC. Note - I’m not a white man.
Sitting through political correctness lectures were a torture in and of themselves. That’s what connected me to Doctor Jordan Peterson.
Compulsory Political Education: A Real World Case Study at the U of Toronto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-7YGGCE9es