Between the emails from the top execs in the C-suite to the litany of conference calls and Zoom meetings to address "systemic racism" and "societal inequities" and other "calls to action", it has become ridiculous.
I have simply avoided the company-wide self-flagellation sessions, but I had to attend a zoom meeting called by a higher-up with my immediate team of about 15 people.
I felt for the manager who had to call the meeting and hit all of the talking points, but I had to really bite my tongue on a few things that were simply statistically false.
The standard tropes about the "honest dialogue" we need to have (which is is really just an echo chamber) were on full display. Anyone who does not simply agree with the perpetually aggrieved is "wished into the cornfield".
It was all about 'systemic racism' and how white males need to realize that we are "privileged", with no mention of black on black crime, or 70% of black kids with no father figure.
Despite this being sold as a "discussion" forum; any attempt to bring data, statistics, logic or reason in the discussion would have been career suicide. Corporations are spineless, but in today's environment, this has sunk to a new level.
I just need to hang in for a few more years if possible, and it is easier to bite the bullet while working from home, but I can't imagine what kind of over the top virtue signaling will be on display and required once we return to the office.
No matter how many token hires are made to meet the quota mentioned in the article; it will never be enough in the eyes of the mob.
They need reminding that blacks make up only 14% of the population.
I was in commercial banking for 42 years. You couldn’t get me back in to it at gunpoint. You have my unalloyed sympathy.