Trump orders all federal DEI employees placed on paid leave

Couldnt have been their pleasant and charming personality (I can only assume you are replying to one of the board's most annoying posters I've blocked)

 

Still swinging and missing I see. I think it's hilarious that even when presented with facts that show otherwise, you won't adjust your position. Ignorance is bliss I guess...

 

I don’t know about annoying, but if they show this poor grasp on reality, lack of self reflection, and lack of ownership at work, it’s not their race or gender that’s keeping them from moving up.

 

I don’t think you understand what proof or facts mean.

 

Really? So if an officer of a company tells you that they are only hiring a minority for a position and then they go and hire said minority for said position and don't interview any white males, it's not DEI. It's just me and others crying over not getting a job. Too funny.

 

For me it's the Blackrock in DEI, which is why it was always going to fail. Once it became a corporate HR rollout, it was doomed. Also, it's maybe an extra hire in HR. There is no need for entire DEI departments or Diversity Officer career paths. It's the perfect example of the corporate world taking something that's genuine and in good in spirit and transmuting it into a soulless rod to use on their employee's backs. Blackrock doesn't care about DEI issues. JPMC doesn't care either. It's just an angle to play.

 

They live in their own reality. How else do you explain "Let's invade Greenland!!!"

 

Can you give us an example of a company making an announcement like this?

 

Or female and white. Jason Whitlock was basically was fired from FOX for saying "The biggest benefactors of DEI are rich white women." Dead on the money!!! And I knew that was his last appearance on FOX. Saying the quiet part out loud.

 

Here is a Bloomberg article on the topic:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-black-lives-matter-equal-opportunity-corporate-diversity/

 

This doesn't prove anything other than corporations bow to public pressure/attitudes. This happened the year after BLM. Shocker!!! Has the trend continued or, as I suspect, subsided since then? We don't know because, as the article/powerpoint says, that's the last year we have data for.

This may be evidence, a slice of evidence at that, but it's hardly proof of anything.

 

I think what he was saying in not so many words is that a person's direct experience of an account is a fabrication. He's probably a lawyer so he classifies it as hearsay and needs a notarized letter from the company saying that they were going to hire the minority.

 

You've never seen a company mention their DEI activities?

 

LOL. Ok. I can do this all day.

https://www.investmentnews.com/prac...companies-setting-racial-hiring-quotas/196662

https://sustainabilitymag.com/top10/top-10-diverse-leadership-teams

https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/companies-that-prioritize-dei/

Also, if companies weren't doing this, I don't think their legal departments would be telling them to dial back their DEI initiatives.

https://www.investmentnews.com/indu...rograms-dial-back-amid-litigation-fear/250273

 

Plenty talk about their DEI initiatives in vague terms, but the question was announcing explicitly that they were hiring more minorities in quantifiable terms. I dont think corporations are doing anything that would appear to the casual observer like a quota, because that hasn't passed legal muster since the 70s. Like every company says they are an "equal opportunity employer" and they are still going to do that. You cant appear to be discouraging applicants whatever you do, that's how you get sued.

 

You seriously don't think they count employees by race?

 

Absolutely not. If they are circulating memos that they need at least 10 black employees or can only have 20 white men, that can be construed as a quota. That's legal jeopardy.

 

Not with those kind of specifics, no. Usually some boilerplate platitude like "we're committed to a more inclusive workplace, blah, blah, blah" but nothing specific about hiring more minorities." Plus, again, half of those "minorities" are white women, many with middle to wealthy backgrounds, private school educations, etc. So, you know, take that for what it's worth.

 

Have you ever worked in a large company?

 

Absolutely white women have benefitted greatly from AA type policies.

The obvious plan is to not look like a bunch of straight, white men.