Wickedcoolname
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f*** that nonsense. Work somewhere else.
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All the companies with great benefits are woke AF.f*** that nonsense. Work somewhere else.
My employer, local in Western MA and an industry leader is well into its push for divirsity and inclusion.
They pay woke speakers to lecture us about race and privilege. They push articles, videos and info graphics explaining the horrors of micro aggressions. They push everyone to include their preferred pronouns in their email signature so that everyone can feel more welcome.
Problem is, I don’t feel very welcome. They encourage us to have “brave conversations”, but when the only conversations considered brave are ones which align with the political opinion made public by the leadership in the company, than what exactly about that is brave? Is my belief that the conclusions drawn are false something that would be championed within the company as a brave thing to say, or would I much more likely be exiled or even potentially fired depending on the intensity of my disagreement.
Unfortunately, we find ourselves in an at will employment state and I just bought my first house and hope to begin a family soon. I cant afford to lose what is a great job on paper. That being said, only so much can be avoided. When pressed in person on the issues, it is against my constitution to speak in agreement with that which I so thoroughly disagree and disapprove of.
How is everyone else in similar situations handling the encroachment of woke culture and the threat that comes with it if you should dare speak out against the orthodoxy?
Groupme seems to be the 'goto' app nowadays.Similar situation. I just shut the hell up and bury my head. Find a few allies internally & then mock the rest of your coworkers via text with one another since all my work emails are monitored by our chief compliance officer.
Nice.I work in one of the most woke professions: academic medicine. Yet I’m surprised how all of you say to keep your head down. My policy is to allow the leftists to work themselves up into a frenzy then ask a very stupid question. This way I can waste their time and enjoy hearing the teeth gnash while my work goes uninterrupted. It is also delightful hearing patients dish out the 1776 lecture to pronoun-confused Marxists.
its fine to troll coworkers so long as it’s not in writing or any form of “debate”. Those are guaranteed shit sandwich.
That's strange. 25 yeas in the military and I have dozens and dozens of people I call friends and even spend time with now. But your right.....civilian job.....I have one guy that I'd say I'd keep in touch with after one of leaves.If you work for a company for 10+ years you are lucky if there is one person you worked with who became the kind of friend you still keep in touch with years after you or he/she/it depart the company.
If you've been reading the news since... well, Michael Brown, never mind George Floyd, you'd hardly call it "non-violent" - an overthrow it is, of course.Really what this is, is destroying our families, our rights and our country, using the current leftist political climate of fear and intimidation to push an un American, un Godly agenda. It's a non violent overthrow of our country.
You are correct in the big picture. I was only referring to the work place but real violence is coming next to those who don't submit to their agenda.If you've been reading the news since... well, Michael Brown, never mind George Floyd, you'd hardly call it "non-violent" - an overthrow it is, of course.
Problem is, that doesn't actually help.I’m sure there are a good many corps who saw the 2020 BLM riots and said “better to pay them off / go woke than to get burned down or cancelled”. Basic /reward calculation.
Like paying off mafia in a protection racket. “Don’t burn us down yo, we woke! BLM!”
Love it..I enjoy being called a racist with my morning coffee...none of that men in women’s bathroom horseshit has popped up but I wonder what they’d do if you did?This wins the Internet today!
LOL. Missed this one before.Have fun with it. Demand to HR to be called "they" and use the women's bathroom. Take mornings off for menstrual cramps.
I wonder if this also has to do with what, I believe it was @jhblaze1 (sorry if it wasn't you), described in a thread; how a lot of fund are starting to look at a metric that basically says how woke a company is.I’m sure there are a good many corps who saw the 2020 BLM riots and said “better to pay them off / go woke than to get burned down or cancelled”. Basic /reward calculation.
Like paying off mafia in a protection racket. “Don’t burn us down yo, we woke! BLM!”
Please, allow me to translate:I find it surprising with all the tough talk about "go time" and such on this board, the majority of people here are afraid to even talk about sensible conservative values and viewpoints at work.
My NJ company creates meaningless positions for Diversity new hires that have no skills or experience. ...
Late February, the SrVP of Strategic Initiatives (another diverse person with no perceivable role or responsibility) sent out a memo saying the 2021 Standardized Engineering Documentation SOP had been revised and issued (it was rev3, although rev0-2 were never issued), which included standardized templates for protocols, report, etc.
All 2021 documents were required to be up-revved to the new templates, with a list of dozens of 1Q21 documents in the Agile system requiring revision.
Men in Women's Bathroom Horseshit?I enjoy being called a racist with my morning coffee...none of that men in women’s bathroom horseshit has popped up but I wonder what they’d do if you did?
Have I got the magazine for that emerging market segment.Until this pronouns stuff, a comment like "They are in the lab" referred to multiple people. Now, it can be multiple people or a single non-cis gendered person. They deserve their own unique pronoun. "Ms." was invented in the 70s (or thereabouts); time to invent some new designations.
Back on topic:“Grit gained a great deal of attention thanks to Dr. Duckworth’s provocative claims that it “beats the pants off I.Q., SAT scores,”
Alas, as our company lags a few years, we’re chock-full of Diverse, power-posing, gritty people...
Not to mention productivity.Would you be motivated to do a good job if you knew that a person of color who was recently hired would get the promotion because the merit based system was gone? The backstabbing will be epic and morale is going to sink into the Marianas Trench.