DEI is getting pummled

Lately many companies have decided that chasing DEI initiatives are bad for their bottom line. Go woke get broke. Now that sounds all and good, but many companies do not go broke, or if they are losing money on that program, they are hiding it.

For the life of me, I have never understood why almost EVERY major corporation attached themselves to a obviously unconstitutional discrimination policy that hires and promotes people based on their skin color or sexual orientation. Well at least in the US. It seems the first companies that are dropping are more retail oriented. But major finance, telecom, and technology companies are still on board.

Observe this list:

disabilityin.org...

Now the link above is for disability inclusion. Notice that Boeing is not on that list. Seems suspicious no? Do you think that Boeing has stopped treating the disabled unfairly because they realized that DEI policy was destroying their bottom line? I doubt that.

Look at ATT's page on "inclusion":

about.att.com...

And you can go to almost every single major corporation and it is the same thing. How was this sold to them so well? Was there a negative to not signing on to DEI programming? I am a corporate cog in the wheel, and have been for about 28 years now. I keep seeing everything move in slow motion. I see work not getting done. I see individuals that should no longer be employed becoming impossible to get rid of.

It seems that corporations are catching on, however I can almost guarantee if a company in the US is hqd'd on the northeast or west coast, they are going to keep on with it.
The dumb part is that ALL of them will soon be getting a flood of discrimination lawsuits - and with our current SCOTUS, there will be no point in going to the highest court.

Board members put pressure on the CEO.

Who elects board members - shareholders?

Active shareholders are firms like Blackrock.

originally posted by: Daughter2v2
Board members put pressure on the CEO.

Who elects board members - shareholders?

Active shareholders are firms like Blackrock.

It looks like even they are starting to pull the plug. Good, I hope that companies can leave peoples personal lives to their own personal lives. It's embarrassing that for the last decade or so there has been this weird tattle tale HR nonsense going on. People can handle those issues on their own in my opinion. It will be interesting to watch all the law suits that Black Rock faces for this nonsense in the future.

Link:

subscriber.politicopro.com...

BlackRock to offer investors new anti-DEI voting policy BlackRock's decision to expand the policies comes as environmentally and socially minded investing faces continued scrutiny from GOP lawmakers in Washington.

The disabled were never a main focus of DEI.

I work for one of the companies on that list in the link (41 thousand employees in the US, 93 world wide). When they started their DEI program a decade ago they created nation wide working groups to tackle specific issues faced by specific minority groups. There was a group for Women, POC, Hispanics, LGBTQ, the Elderly and a few others ... conspicuously missing from the list was the Disabled.

Being a member of the Disabled community myself and more opinionated then most I started making comments about the glaring omition. How can we be practicing DIE if we are actively leaving off arguably one of the most underrepresented groups of people in the work force. Eventually my comments got the attention of the right/wrong people within the DEI leadership team, and I started getting called to the carpet. Eventually I guilted them into anding the Disabled to their programs.

Fast forward to a few years ago; I was up for a large promotion with in the same company. Due to the high category of the position, the company couldn't just give me the promotion; they had to open it up to all, and I had to apply for it. I doubt anyone else applied as the job was specific to my skills and location.

Going through the motions I had to interview with several executives level people. At the end of the final panel interview one of the executives started wrapping up by explaining to me the next steps of the process. She tells me not to worry if I do not hear back from them in a few weeks; that their DEI policies mandate they keep the candidate search window open for a specific amount of time to allow people time to apply, and I was the first person they interview (likly only person).

So wanting to be helpful I explain to her that I can be categorized as a DEI and tell her about my disability. The interview got awkward after that. She had to explain to me that their focus was only on women and POC; that my disability didn't count.

These corporations only focus on DEI as a means to virtue signal; at the end of the day they couldn't give a rat's backside about aiding underrepresented people in the workforce.

Now that the world has proven that you wont go broke if you are not woke these corporations don't need to try so hard anymore.

a reply to: Dandandat3

So wanting to be helpful I explain to her that I can be categorized as a DEI and tell her about my disability. The interview got awkward after that. She had to explain to me that their focus was only on women and POC; that my disability didn't count.

I have even been called into a meeting with a supervisor where I did not do anything incorrect, but for all I could tell they wanted a white male in the "difficult conversation", so that the POC female would not feel uncomfortable for - in her mind I suppose? - feel uncomfortable that she had done something wrong. Me, being who I am got through about 5 minutes of the conversation and told the manager and the POC female that I was leaving the call because I had not done anything incorrect that they were speaking of.

The whole thing was so ridiculous. She had done something wrong. And it did cost the company a decent amount of money. Also, other than a talking to, I am reasonably sure that other than being spoke to, she suffered ZERO consequences. Regardless, I left that company within 60 days.

a reply to: berbofthegreen

The "Corporations" may be walking back DEI efforts.......some of them at least, but the damage is already done as far as the general public is concerned.

As to the general public, the overall impression most people have is that as regards government and key "Corporate" positions, like Air Line pilots and health care "line" workers, is that they won't be getting/seeing the best of the best but rather more likely, the DEI hire. That impression has even further eroded US public confidence in Government services and other important "private" services. Hospitals are death traps. US airlines, especially those featuring Boeing aircraft are rubbish, and the Government? You can forget about it. A good example of DEI in action with Government is the performance of Trumps Secret Service team during the assassination attempt. I recently went through a Border Patrol checkpoint. Both "officers" were too short to see into my truck.....and it's a small truck. They couldn't have been more than 5 feet tall. Of course, the problem with Public School teachers is all too well known and has only gotten worse.

The loss of confidence is both appealing and probably irreversible.

Doesn't all of this fall under a corporate social credit score

One glaring obvious LOL about these Corps with DEI is some got it so wrong they lost millions of dollars. The Blackrock (and all the others) Committees are furious, but they did what they had to do for The Parti and NWO Alliances 🤩

The whole thing is just another public brainwashing propaganda operation 😁

DEI never really helped people hurt by past discrimination.

I worked at a large fortune 500, they hired hundreds of tech workers on H1B visas. These same people were used to bolster the minority hiring statistics. Tons of rich, connected, young white kids suddenly became DEI hires by claiming they were LGBQT.

I encourage everyone to go to Judge Merchans daughter's website, Authentic Campaigns. The company brags about being a diverse workforce.
But if you click through, you will see statistics of their workforce. The percentage of black and Latino employees is much lower than the racial make-up of Chicago. What brings up the final statistic is including Asians in their minority total. They hire a bunch of LGBQT people. The have ABSOLUTELY no employees over 55 - and they brag about being diverse.

authentic.org...

originally posted by: Daughter2v2
DEI never really helped people hurt by past discrimination.

I worked at a large fortune 500, they hired hundreds of tech workers on H1B visas. These same people were used to bolster the minority hiring statistics. Tons of rich, connected, young white kids suddenly became DEI hires by claiming they were LGBQT.

You mean people were "caused" to become liars and cheaters? That throws the whole intent into a tailspin of wild and inaccurate statistics!

DEI has done the following

Given Entitlement in the workplace to specific people
Caused good employees to quit
Left companies with under qualified employees based on race not eduction/experience

DEI did not change people. It allowed people to have power in positions they should not have had..

originally posted by: putnam6
Doesn't all of this fall under a corporate social credit score

Yeah that was all last decade's "conspiracy theory."

We are approaching the conspiracy singularity. Things labeled "conspiracy theories" by the Left keep becoming recognized as true faster and faster, sometimes in a matter of days now.

Soon conspiracy theories will be widely accepted as true before anyone has even heard of them, and the universe will collapse in a tangle of #ery.

originally posted by: Daughter2v2
I encourage everyone to go to Judge Merchans daughter's website, Authentic Campaigns. The company brags about being a diverse workforce.
But if you click through, you will see statistics of their workforce. The percentage of black and Latino employees is much lower than the racial make-up of Chicago. What brings up the final statistic is including Asians in their minority total. They hire a bunch of LGBQT people. The have ABSOLUTELY no employees over 55 - and they brag about being diverse.

authentic.org...

Wasn't it Liz Warren (otherwise known as Liewatha) that was exposed for not giving her female staffers equal pay to male staffers after she was crusading about the "wage gap?"

90% of these high-level leftists don't really believe in the nonsense they preach about. They just know a lot of useful idiots do believe it, so if you live in a district or state with a sufficient number of these idiots, you can easily get elected.

Here's a story about some of the DEI/GOV complex money funnel treasury loot schemes 😎


HHS Spent Hundreds of Millions of Dollars on DEI Initiatives Under Biden, Watchdog Finds 😄

The Department of Health and Human Services has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds carrying out President Biden’s DEI initiatives, according to a new nonprofit government watchdog report released Tuesday.

Biden issued an executive order in June 2021 calling for federal agencies to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in recruits and when considering promotions. DEI quickly became a dominant theme within the federal government over the next four years.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) currently employs 294 DEI employees, costing the agency $38.7 million in taxpayer funds each year, according to a report from OpenTheBooks. In Fiscal Year 2023, 247 of those workers made over $100,000, while four took home double that sum.

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An additional 207 HHS employees oversee Biden’s “health equity” efforts in the Offices of Minority Health at a cost of $29.4 million for salaries alone each year.