Posted on 01/23/2022 4:51:48 AM PST by Kaslin
I worked at one of the Big Four accounting firms until two years ago when I retired early. I could see what was coming when they began to push a new program called D&I – Diversity and Inclusiveness.
For those of you who have not endured this, it is an intriguing blend of CRT laced heavily with an attempt to implement quotas in the workplace. Many companies have hired high priced talent to head up their D&I programs. Mandatory training is the initial thrust of these efforts. You are forced to sit down and talk about your racial and sexual biases, whether you have them or not. In fact, if you don’t have them, that often means you have them but are in utter denial.
Sound familiar?
The concept stems from the notion that if you promote, advance, and have highly diverse teams, you get a better quality product. So, if you have a team working on a project, you need to have a ‘good balance’ of men, women, gays, trans, etc., and people from different cultures. Where a decade ago we were told, “You should just put the best people on the job, regardless of their backgrounds,” now the mantra is, “You need to look at all of their factors, starting with races and sex, and base your decisions for staffing around that.” The myth they sell is that if you do that, you will produce a better product. So even if you know people who can get the job done perfectly, and do it fast, if they are not of the right mix, you can’t include them on your teams. Even on the surface it seems like you are making work take longer and potentially not be as good…but that is contrary to D&I so it is glossed over.
Of course, none of this is proven. A search for peer-reviewed scientific studies to define better quality through diversity doesn’t yield any that validate the premise. There are plenty of anecdotal stories out there, usually plastered on webpages that offer their services for teaching D&I, but the reality is that the results are often quite elusive. D&I is all about feelings rather than facts. Their touted successes are often testimonials of people who feel they really contributed to a team, rather than hard data about improvements of quality.
And if you raise this point during the indoctrination sessions, be prepared to be labeled as biased, or worse. The phrase that came up during one of my discussions around this was that my thinking was, and I quote, “Pale, male, and stale.” As you can see, inclusivity is about everyone else.
Many employees who question this new corporate bandwagon simply opt to keep their mouths shut and privately bide their time for leadership to move onto the next bright shiny object. In the meantime, D&I runs amok, spreading the lies of its great accomplishments.
D&I pushes for more non-white-male people to be promoted as well. In other words, if you are a white male who has excelled, you could be passed up for promotion for someone else simply based on their sexual orientation, race, or some other factor. It is a system of quotas being stealthed into the workplace and implemented under the guise of being ‘inclusive.’ D&I programs, which center themselves on being fair, are anything but. The truly sneaky part is that that the left has managed to pull this off, right under everyone’s collective noses, and no one has called them out on it.
What D&I really is, is the left replicating what they have done in colleges and universities at the corporate level. They are infiltrating companies at the highest levels and forcing these programs down. Dissenters are pounced upon and will find their careers in jeopardy. It is a lot of training, shoving these concepts down people’s throats, under the guise of being for the greater good. I spoke with a corporate recruiter I know who said that students coming out of college want to make sure that these programs are in place…no doubt so that they can continue their indoctrination in the real world.
The sad part is that they really don’t care if the programs are successful, only that they are in place. As a change manager for my last decade of work, I can attest that the worst way to drive a change in corporate culture is training. Yet with D&I, this is often the heart and soul of the program…countless hours worth of forced learning.
Eventually there will be lawsuits that stem from all of this, reverse-discrimination cases will be plentiful in the years to come. The problem is that these programs are entrenched and are extending the indoctrination from college into the real world.
Conservatives need to push back on these programs and call them out for what they are.
When I was in the military/industrial complex diversity and inclusion along with a host of other Lefty trash was in our contracts. The companies loved it because it added to the cost and profit was a percentage of cost.
I can attest to the effects of this. I interviewed for a job. The process went on for three months and fifteen interviews. I was told that I was a finalist and the hiring manager would make a decision within a day. I didn’t hear a thing for a month.
Unbeknownst to them, I had a contact on the inside who was feeding me the inside baseball. It turns out the hiring manager was under pressure to make a more “diverse” hire. In the end, that is exactly what happened. Three months of wasted time.
I always try to shoot down the “diversity is our strength” nonsense by saying that if diversity makes us stronger then more diversity must make us even stronger still, right? And if that’s true, then maximum diversity must make us incredibly strong and effective. To which I say that therefore if we had maximum diversity, in which every individual on Earth spoke and understood exclusively their own unique personal language then we would have maximum “strength” and effectiveness, correct? At that point, I explain (because you have to explain even the obvious to brainwashed leftists) that on the contrary, maximum diversity would doom us all to failure because no one would be able to communicate with anyone else. Therefore, “diversity” CANNOT automatically be a good thing.
The USA stopped being a sovereign republic the day Obama took power. America is now a Balkanized empire, not a country.
The barbarian hordes have been allowed to invade and take over.
All empires eventually collapse with enormous blood shed. That is coming soon.
>>Conservatives need to push back on these programs and call them out for what they are.<<
Not much a person can do when employed at one of these companies. Push back and you’ll find yourself in the soup line. They know it.
Working for one of the largest IT hardware corps, you just roll your eyes, belly ache a bit and just go back to work.
Diversity/inclusiveness training modules periodically. Just sit through them, laugh and move on.
korporate amerika doesn't realize they're creating a hostile work environment with such measures.
Yep, these diversity officers should be called what they are: political commissars enforcing right-think.
One by one our major institutions have fallen to the Marxists in bloodless takeovers. Their plan is working, and I’ve not seen anyone come up with a good way to stop or even slow it.
Its a new world where everything needs to be on the menu, because you can't discount dog sht just because it's dog sht.
Because, it’s what you DO ... if you can’t succeed on your OWN merit
Yes this is taking over in corporate America - ESG (environmental, social, governance) for corporations used to largely be lip service except some governance items but the last 2-2.5 years this has gone into overdrive and DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) is being added. It’s madness but I just smile, go on my business, and do my best to act in a normal manner and help steer the company in the best way possible for success, not liberal word salads. I’m ~3 years from retiring at 43 and one of the reasons I started investing and saving so heavily 10 years ago was I could see the writing on the wall for white males.
We must not look for one person to get us out of this we the people need to rise up and fix this.
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. ... Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as “bad luck.”
- - Heinlein
Conservatives need to push back on these programs and call them out for what they are.
Diversity goals are based on two false premises: 1. That differnt self defined groups, have different uniform views of the world than than the average population , and 2. These diverse views need to be represented in business decisions for better results. Both are false.
Executives bonuses are now often based on reaching diversity goals. Ny son who works as the corporate IT head of a large food company cannot count as minorites east asians and other orientals. He can only count blacks and hispanics, Those IT people do noytexist.
So, who got the job.?? A woman, a "person of color" or a faggot.?
The giant funds force selected weak D&I candidates into boards who are beholden to the funds so they control the companies.
Their agendas have nothing to do with stockholder returns.
So sports teams could reach a higher plateau if they had a good balance “of men, women, gays, trans, etc., and people from different cultures.”
hahaha - I appreciate your post. It is quite logical, “diversity” is subjective and has no end point. If you’re endlessly “inclusive” that has to be at the “exclusion” of somebody. We all know whom that “somebody” is.
Some companies are openly broadcasting whom that “somebody” is, along with pie charts on their goals of “including” these people to be less and less of their workforce.
Check out the pie charts here.
https://www.windriver.com/company/careers/diversity (toward the bottom)
Diversity, Inclusion & Equity
DIE <> SUCCESS.
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