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What 'Equity' looks like for the rank and file Exclusive: Tom Harvey on what led to 47 million Americans to quit their jobs last year
wnd.com ^ | 3/4/2022 | Tom Harvey

Posted on 03/06/2022 5:30:20 AM PST by rktman

"Equity" is defined as being fair and impartial. "Rank and file" are the ordinary members of an organization or business as opposed to its senior leaders.

The number of U.S. workers reached a high of 165 million in early 2020, at the start of the COVID pandemic. If you tally the number of CEOs, add the estimated people who report directly to those CEOs, plus the directors of the organizations these senior leaders manage one, can estimate that the top brass represent less than 3% of the total workforce. So how have the other 97%, the rank and file, the folks who drive trucks, wait on tables, make things, sell things, fix things and basically make the economy hum, fared?

DEI is a term used to describe policies that encourage representation and participation of diverse groups. This includes different genders, races, ethnicities, religions, cultures and sexual orientations.

More and more financial institutions, such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Blackrock, now include DEI "leadership demographics" in their decisions to invest, make loans or provide advice. They analyze CEOs, direct reports to CEOs and board members to see if the appropriate groups are adequately represented. Goldman Sachs loudly proclaimed they will "never take another company public if its leadership wasn't sufficiently diverse."

While some DEI measurements include all employees, companies that claim to embrace DEI must reflect a leadership suitably diverse and inclusive or risk being labeled "unacceptable" to a growing number of investment and financing sources.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: covid; discrimination; diversity; equity; reverseracism; shamdemic; unequality
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Looks like being able to do the task assigned continues to be way down the list of why folks should keep their job. Need to change the acronym to DIE!
1 posted on 03/06/2022 5:30:20 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

Funny how no one cares about DEI on NBA or NFL teams...


2 posted on 03/06/2022 5:36:59 AM PST by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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I want equity regarding NBA players' rosters. I'm 6 feet tall.I can't run...I can't jump...and I can't shoot. I've spent about 50 hours on a basketball court in my entire life. But I'm a member of the nation's biggest racial group...whites,So I demand that NBA players' rosters consist of 70% whites and I demand to be one of those whites on a roster.

Equity is important!

3 posted on 03/06/2022 5:37:22 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: rktman

My experience is that the guys at the top don’t want to assign tasks, anyway. It makes them too responsible.

It has really been only the willingness of those in the middle and on the bottom to “do the right thing” that has been carrying this along for a long time. This “equity” crap knocks that right out of them.


4 posted on 03/06/2022 5:42:36 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Gay State Conservative

EXACTLY. What we will not tolerate in our ENTERTAINMENT we insist on in our Government and Defense.

This is madness, and it is killing our country.


5 posted on 03/06/2022 5:43:17 AM PST by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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To: SharpenedEdge

This is madness, and it is killing our country.


That’s a feature, not a bug.


6 posted on 03/06/2022 5:45:57 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

I agree 45 years in the work force and rarely did I ever encounter a department head who gave direct orders. It was always CYA with upper mgmt, and plasable denial. I was fortunate enough to have a captain who did take the stance everything was his responsibly and the buck stopped with him. Woe be unto the man who made a the terrible mistake that he had to report to the fleet. Woe, woe, woe.


7 posted on 03/06/2022 5:55:57 AM PST by Ikeon (Im not going to quit just because you yell louder.)
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To: 2banana

NBA and NFL ranks are filled with thoroughbreds the likes of which have no equals


8 posted on 03/06/2022 5:58:58 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: rktman

fair and impartial AKA color and ethnicity


9 posted on 03/06/2022 6:03:13 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: 2banana

“NFL”

Don’t tell anyone but the two black head coaches in the NFL (Tomlin and Lovie Smith) mean the NFL has 6.3% black head coaches. The black male population in the U.S., 21 million divided by 335 million (maybe more) equals 6.268%. Yet ESPN whines day and night about racism in NFL hiring practices.

The total black population in the U.S is 14%, but what black female is head coaching material? The new Miami coach identifies as half black so are there really 7.4% black head coaches in the NFL? He’s the whitest looking half black guy I’ve ever seen, though. Blacks represent 30% of NFL assistants.


10 posted on 03/06/2022 6:06:47 AM PST by MDLION (J"Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:)
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DEI should be DIE for corporations and businesses. it is one more thing for the top brass to waste time on, besides counting the value of their stock options and having meetings asking their underlings to report out daily on a myriad of things.......in case someone asks. Strategy, don’t have time.

There is no group of people have such poor vision.


11 posted on 03/06/2022 6:24:56 AM PST by SteelPSUGOP
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“There is no group of people have such poor vision.”

And about as thin-skinned as they come.


12 posted on 03/06/2022 6:34:36 AM PST by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

How about demanding that a person who has a major stutter be named a NBC/ABC/CBS anchor for evening news......

How about a person with Tourette’s Syndrome be given the job of White House Press Secretary???

How about demanding that persons who have dwarf physical build be told they are now playing Football in the NFL?

How about demanding that blind persons be allowed to be UPS drivers???——That actually was a court case, and the judge threw the guy & the case out of court.

Demand that colorblind persons be the Head of wardrobe departments at major studios???

Their idea of “EQUITY” completely is nuts-—and it deliberately pushes MERIT aside.


13 posted on 03/06/2022 7:42:06 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: MDLION

Your numbers are off. If you’re removing black females from the pool as “ineligible”, you need to remove white/other females as well. Sure black males may be 6.3% coaches and population, but they’re also probably close to that 14% of just the male population also.

White males aren’t 70%, they’re 35%. Your math (applied equally across grievance groups) means half the teams won’t have a coach!


14 posted on 03/06/2022 7:53:06 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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"The number of U.S. workers reached a high of 165 million in early 2020, at the start of the COVID pandemic by the end of the greatest presidency ever!

Fixed it.

15 posted on 03/06/2022 7:53:22 AM PST by moovova
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To: Svartalfiar; MDLION

Forgot to add, the half-black guy should count as full black, not half. When have you ever seen a mulatto identify with his white half? You’d think that’d be all they do, to get their white privilege, but nope, always associate with their black side only.


16 posted on 03/06/2022 7:56:48 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: rktman
And yet WND falls right into the trap of using the inaccurate terms of the left.

This includes different genders [sexes], races, ethnicities, religions, cultures and sexual orientations [preferences].

17 posted on 03/06/2022 8:21:05 AM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: 2banana

Funny how no one cares about DEI on NBA or NFL teams...


That is because you are confused as to the meaning of ‘diverse’. NBA/NFL teams are extremely ‘diverse’, while NHL teams are not very ‘diverse’ at all. A selective-admissions school that has 60% Asian/25% white/10% black/5% Hispanic enrollment is shamefully ‘undiverse’.

‘Diverse’ in their world means how many ‘favored’ minorities are included.


18 posted on 03/06/2022 8:23:46 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: rktman

“Equity” is defined as being fair and impartial -— says who?

fair and impartial, mean fair and impartial...


19 posted on 03/06/2022 8:27:16 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode

LOL! Not these daze.


20 posted on 03/06/2022 9:15:24 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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