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Posted on 11/03/2024 3:19:05 AM PST by karpov
Boeing reportedly dismantled its global diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) department as part of an overhaul of its operations ordered by the company’s new top executive — becoming the latest major company to ditch the controversial initiative.
The aerospace giant — which was slammed by tech mogul Elon Musk for prioritizing DEI over safety and quality controls after a near-catastrophic blowout during an Alaska Airlines flight — said staff from its DEI office would be absorbed into another human resources team focused on talent and employee experience, according to Bloomberg News.
Sara Liang Bowen, a company vice president who was put in charge of the now-defunct DEI unit, left the company on Thursday.
“The team achieved so much — sometimes imperfectly, never easily — and dreamed of doing much more still,” Bowen wrote in a farewell post on LinkedIn.
“It has been the privilege of my lifetime to lead Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the Boeing company these past 5+ years. Our team strived every day to support the evolving brilliance and creativity of our workforce.”
A conservative influencer who has launched viral campaigns that forced other high-profile companies — including John Deere, Harley Davidson and Jack Daniels — to scrap their DEI policies took credit for Boeing’s overhaul.
Robby Starbuck said he reached out to Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg and board chair Steve Mollenkopf by email last month to let them know he would wage an online campaign against their DEI policies.
“Our campaigns are so effective that we’re getting some of the biggest corporations on earth to change their policies without me even posting a video first just from the fear they have of being the next company we expose,” Starbuck wrote on X on Thursday.
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Hundreds of African engineers fear for their jobs.
So they kept the problems and changed the job titles.
Likely will keep the department, too, and just change the name.
tacit admission to some of their recent problems causes???
“DEI office would be absorbed into another human resources team focused on talent and employee experience”
Putting those leftists into the human resources department will keep the problem going. The whole lot should be put right out the door. No matter where they are at these activists will be activists.
corporations forced into thier mental health issues of the occupying regime or else
A lot of companies are downplaying DEI stuff, not getting rid of it, given repub election odds. Moment dems are back, DEI will be back.
Makes you wonder if some low life in the DEI cartel targets (literally) Robby S. like they have Trump and Elon.
“ Better late than never.”
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You don’t CURE CANCER by MOVING IT ELSEWHERE in the body or by CALLING IT A DIFFERENT NAME.
Boeing’s “cancer” is simply undergoing ASSISTED METASTASIS.
Doesn't look that way.
One small step in the right direction but Boeing has such a long way to go. Next they need to fire all their DEI hires and replace them with real engineers.....people who they pushed out over the last decade would be best suited. Only then can they start fixing their shoddy planes and spaceships. It will take several years of that to start to really repair their reputation.
They’ll all be flocking to government jobs - federal, state, and local.
At least in a company, you might get lucky and get a sensible guy on top to override absurd decisions.
Gov will embrace it.
So while it’s good to get this crap out of business, it’s not like things will start to improve - there is still room for it to get a lot worse.
If personnel are absorbed elsewhere in HR then the problem will remain.... They need to fire the people with that mindset or you just move it.
“Robby Starbuck said he reached out to Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg and board chair Steve Mollenkopf by email last month to let them know he would wage an online campaign against their DEI policies.”
Finally, an ACTIVIST for our side! The left has armies of these that constantly threaten and terrorize corporations and agencies to get their way. It’s about time our side did the same and more.
Kudos to Robby Starbuck!
“said staff from its DEI office would be absorbed into another human resources team”
Sounds like they’re just moving the termites around.
I saw that over on ZeroHedge.
Loved that post.
Is this akin to moving the headstones but still leaving the bodies behind? Even without an official “department”, I would bet DEI is still embedded in the company and all others doing away with such “departments”.
True, damage is done, but if serious they have a lot of work to do. A lot rides in the outcome of this election. If heels up wins they will be forced back to the destructive DEI policies
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