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Why the diversity-industrial complex bubble burst
Nypost ^ | 08/03/2023 | Adam B Coleman

Posted on 08/04/2023 3:20:41 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

In my sub-40 years of existence, I’ve witnessed multiple market bubbles and collapses that in hindsight were predictable, but the warning signs of inevitable failure were obviously ignored.

People disregard the few naysayers because their desire to be a part of an in-vogue fad outweighs any common sense.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bubble; complex; diversity; industrial
We just got a DEI board at work. I voiced my disgust in a work survey.
1 posted on 08/04/2023 3:20:41 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It didn’t burst. It is carried on in stealth. You have to be really, really good to get a job and/or a promotion if you are a white guy.


2 posted on 08/04/2023 3:26:19 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: alternatives?

>> You have to be really, really good to get a job and/or a promotion if you are a white guy.

So strive to be really, really good and put the DEI fools to shame.


3 posted on 08/04/2023 3:31:44 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Jesus is LORD and Savior! And Donald Trump is President of the United States of America.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

>> In my sub-40 years of existence

I had to read that twice, for meaning.

So, in other words, Adam Coleman is just a baby. :-)

(Kidding... Adam and his generation and the one following are bearing the brunt of the woke, DEI culture. He and his generation(s) are always in my prayers.)


4 posted on 08/04/2023 3:34:46 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Jesus is LORD and Savior! And Donald Trump is President of the United States of America.)
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To: Nervous Tick

then when you do get the job/promotion you will be doing the work of 5 people who sit around and do nothing except make your life miserable with meetings and ‘training’.


5 posted on 08/04/2023 3:49:49 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: alternatives?

The expect to use white people to cover for the DEI client’s inadequacies.


6 posted on 08/04/2023 3:53:06 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: alternatives?
You have to be really, really good to get a job and/or a promotion if you are a white guy.

Where I work, there are 40+ people on the team I work in. Of those people there are 5 white men, one of whom is openly gay.

7 posted on 08/04/2023 3:55:21 PM PDT by Avalon Memories (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. -- P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

From the article:

“Although we see corporations as entities, we forget they’re essentially run by people just as persuadable as the rest of us.

“And with the media’s racial-division propaganda machine in full effect, the people within these companies wondered if the social-justice natural disaster would soon flood into their boardrooms.”

Uhhhh...not so sure these were “just people”, ignorant, fearful, amenable.

There must have been in those boardroomms and C-suites a critical mass of hardcore socialists, racist non-whites, self-hating whites, and principle-free intellectual whores.


8 posted on 08/04/2023 3:57:38 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: imabadboy99

True, that.

What’s your alternative?


9 posted on 08/04/2023 4:00:30 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Jesus is LORD and Savior! And Donald Trump is President of the United States of America.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I worked at a place that had a fairly diverse workforce.
Whites, Vietnamese, Iranians, blacks, Chinese, pretty much you name it. I was in a highly specialized engineering organization in Boeing.
We were all highly qualified engineers.
However one in particular a Chinese woman with a PhD decided to do her own thing. They sought to terminate her as it was so demoralizing to the entire unit( we routinely did 50hr plus work weeks). Boeing Legal told us to give her a desk and a computer in an isolated area and leave it be. It was cheaper than a discrimination lawsuit.
Do you think that had no influence on future hiring?
BTW we had no requirement for quotas, just hire the best,
regardless of race or nationality.


10 posted on 08/04/2023 4:14:53 PM PDT by rellic
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“a Chinese woman with a PhD decided to do her own thing.”

What does that mean?


11 posted on 08/04/2023 4:28:42 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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Given the tenor of the post, she was a slacker while the rest of the team worked 50+ hours a week. Corporate was afraid of a discrimination lawsuit from her if they fired her.
So corporate told the team to give her a desk by herself and ignore her.


12 posted on 08/04/2023 4:47:53 PM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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To: LouAvul

I can see that but the description was vague and leaves open a number of more colorful possibilities. Plus, why do numerous other engineers get demoralized because a single one is slacking off? Just inform management she’s not carrying her weight and carry on.


13 posted on 08/04/2023 5:13:59 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: Nervous Tick

“So strive to be really, really good and put the DEI fools to shame.”

No. All the white males need to do average work if they are getting average pay. You don’t support a corrupt system by working harder. That is what they want. You burn it down.


14 posted on 08/04/2023 5:37:41 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: alternatives?

“You have to be really, really good to get a job and/or a promotion if you are a white guy.”

Sleeping with the female boss wouldn’t hurt either.

:-)


15 posted on 08/04/2023 5:42:23 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Avalon Memories

“there are 40+ people on the team I work in. Of those people there are 5 white men,”

The 5 are probably in the top 8 to 10 in performance. They won’t get half of the promotions. Maybe one will get one. The white guys need to slow it down. Think of John Galt.


16 posted on 08/04/2023 5:43:34 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: cgbg

If one of the 4 do that, the other 3 should really gum up the works.


17 posted on 08/04/2023 5:47:01 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: ChicagoConservative27
... there’s come a realization that this formerly coveted overhaul of an approach to management is nothing more than an employment opportunity for ideological and mediocre college graduates with undesirable degrees, a career avenue for wanderlust executive types and a ploy to siphon money from corporate budgets while producing nothing ...

DEI - ugly stuff...

18 posted on 08/04/2023 6:08:34 PM PDT by GOPJ (What are the odds both Biden WH idogs would only bite Secret Service Agents? NOT ONE CHANCE IN HELL)
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To: steve86

Give her a job assignment within her skill set, request her cooperation, and she refused to do it, repeatedly.


19 posted on 08/04/2023 8:22:15 PM PDT by rellic
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