I can run a pivot table on the same spreadsheet and BOOM!!
What amazes me is how so many feel they must immediately fall to their knees and repent, as if it were the inquisition when any allegations are made.
Repent, accept your punishment from the PC Gods and their inquisitors on earth, pay them a tribute for doing their justice, or else face the secular courts and be burned at the stake.
Somethings never change, do they?
The people are still sheep.
You still have inquisitions.
It’s all of course just a “shake down” of sorts.
Do you think most of these people making these accusations actually care about the business, its employees, it’s product, or the customer?
Do you think they care about the coworkers they more often then not wrongfully accuse of “something” (whatever the buzz word of the day is)?
These amount to nothing more than disruptions and distractions by folks that are antagonistic and self serving. However, in this case those causing the actual problem feel empowered to voice their grievance and the leadership feels compelled to give them a disproportionate level of credibility and attention because we have created a victim culture with certain special groups that everyone knows needs to be dealt with very delicately.
Few managers in America have the courage (professionally or morally) to tell someone invoking a special status group to go screw themselves when they sense BS. Most will fall over themselves and repent even if nothing wrong was done and will pay tribute. You have folks in America that literally made their living that way and built their entire political career on it, i.e. the late Jesse Jackson. He was so brazen that he confronted businesses with deep pockets outright, basically telling them to pay up or else face allegations and protests, work disruptions, etc. So many paid. Who’s actually the bully and the victim here?
However, in many cases this is purely self inflicted. Weak leadership that simply goes with the “fads of the times” vs. actually thinking about what’s best for the business, employees and customer.
Even professionals with MBA’s, decades of experience, corporations worth billions go down this road. They lack the understanding that when they take that knee, they are losing their customers that want them to stand during the anthem, regardless of what the news says is so important at the moment. Tomorrow the news and pop culture will have a new theme, but BA will remain dead just like the NFL lost a lot of viewers.