Tech Layoffs Are Hitting Diversity and Inclusion Jobs Hard
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No one wants to do DEI toolbox meetings every month
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sickening
Why do they make not being a chud so hard?
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Me to god: Why do you keep sending me your cringiest leftoids
God to me: you are my most resilient liberal
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God to you:
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not so fast
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Lmao
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Where’s that pic of twitter staff before and after elon
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H1B? I can tell you're not a foreign programmer
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I prefer all my HBs to be HB10s. Who would want to write a field report about fricking a HB1?
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Glorified codemonkeys deserve it
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It says listings, not employment numbers.
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What risks?
And their mission will never be accomplished lmao according to DEI staff. Why would it be?
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“It would be unfortunate if some vague misconduct accusations were to take place on Twitter. That wouldn’t happen if you hired me for a DEI position.”
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Lol
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"oof, not a good look, chief!" - NYU shitlib
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I mean yeah they'd be out of a job lmao
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trillion dollar company
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causing harm and not a good look plus ick
who wins?
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Her sinecure is in danger
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The risk of paying white people more and them not having to decypher black peoples emails written with sixth grade reading comprehensions.
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isn’t that the truth.
Maybe I’m the sucker if having to do it.
Follower of Christ Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.
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the only time a company can hire based on idpol bullshit and not go under is during the good times you absolute r-slur, what does that tell you?
these idiots need their face shoved in the shit they are causing but that will never happen cause they can continue to grift companies for woke points
of course this is her
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Is that the same McKinsey company that is in trouble for being in bed with the leaf government? https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/business-development-bank-canada-hudon-mckinsey-1.6720914
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That's probably the *least* sketchy thing they've ever been accused of being involved in
The "Controversies" section of their wiki page is longer than the whole rest of the page
One of their guys founded Enron for starters
Current hyperfixation:
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It's where Harvard grads with useless degrees go to launch their careers as lizardpeople/bureaucrats. See: Peter Bussygieg
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Most of their controversies are just their alum doing fraudulent things. McKinsey is just business, with all the psycho things that come with it.
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All three of the McKinsey consultants whom I've either met, dated, or eavedropped upon have been wokies who were totally consumed by IdPol brainworms. If you want a good management consulting company that doesn't just recommend whatever the latest fad is I'd go with Bain instead. You'll still pay a shit ton of money but at least you'll probably get decent value out of it.
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Well when the government hires these consultant groups they pretty much say "here is a bunch of money, give us the numbers we want". Then they can point to those numbers and say "we talked to experts and they said that our law is the correct thing to do".
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Are you trying to tell me that you don't Trust the Experts, chud?!?
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Weird how employees of an elite, high-paying consulting firm are near-unanimously in favor of an ideology that supposedly opposes inequality
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You'll never be McKinsey material if you keep nooticing stuff like this!!! Their expectation is that you'll look pretty (McKinsey consultants are admittedly very good-looking, which they really ought to be at those insane rates), charm the client, and STFU about any uncomfortable truths.
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id go, cause im guessing the title means i can score some drugs maybe even some swirl.
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God I wish a was I could be the one to fire these people.
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If chuds were smart they would infiltrate DEI positions at big companies. The shitlibs are doing what chuds dreamed of doing for 50+ years: letting race and gender decide who to hire/fire.
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So assert that you're MtF, and make zero effort to pass.
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im afraid you are also going to have to claim WtB, but unfortunately society isnt ready to deal with that level of oppression yet.
check back in two years.
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The original WtB, reverse vitiligo is a tragic condition
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Do you not realize how exhausting that would be to do day in and day out?
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Say you've got Chronic Fatigue and need to work from home
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do better.
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But they are. They just never leave the house
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The DEI move would be convincing a bunch of to indicate that they're black on hiring forms
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I would literally c*m as I fired them holy shit
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You got to learn to edge bro
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Lol cat out of the bag
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zoz
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zle
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zozzle
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Someone posted a chuded out rant on slack in my previous job that pissed lots of people off and he concluded it with, "Atleast the diversity and inclusion team will have something to talk about tomorrow".
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Never gets old bros 😂
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HAHAHAHA
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nah strag we're optimizing for sneed
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they are technically correct. speed is totally a mayo drug
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Asians love speed tho guess they really are white-adjacent
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They're really trying to create the white supremacist right wing death squads
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Day in the life of a FAANG DEI consultant
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Did a bit of looking into this, it's a funny idea for a grift company. Half because they're using AI to automate the other DEI departments out of a job, but also because they get to say things like "asking candidates to have a sense of humor discriminates against women."
It's a reasonable idea for job ads, since you're applying broad trends to influence another broad trend (the demos that apply to your company.) But then they also sell a perf review tool where they nootice differences in feedback, label any deviation between groups as a bias, and red-flag it on an individual level. So for example, since black women get more feedback about their personality, their version of Clippy ensures it's off-limits to raise a personality issue with a black foid that reports to you.
Tons of contradictions too as they try to wrangle every discrepancy into a social justice issue. They provide ~20 stats showing Asians are the most highly looked upon employees, then drop this and say people must think Asians are a race of handicapped r-slurs:
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I'd interpret that as either (a) that person needs a more difficult job; or (b) that person is rocking the boat and getting others in trouble for slacking off; or (c) someone's been asking leading questions on the surveys; or (d) that person looks like they're going to burn themselves out.
None of this "it means the respondent thinks they shouldn't be that capable" bullshit that textio is asserting there.
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NO my heckin bloat job
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Last in
First out
Even an r-slur
Could tell you what it's all about
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Last year I had been thinking about leaning into my various minority statuses at work or joining the annoying diversity groups to see if it helped my promotion prospects but now I'm kinda glad I didn't
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Being a gay and good at programming is good looks for the company because it adds to diversity for free. Being a gay alone is not because you’re just deadweight.
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How can this possibly be real? It seems too good to be true.
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Nice post, bro! I posted it to twitter.
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Paywalls are hitting Haggis hard.
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With a wit like that, me responding to you would be the internet equivalent of beating up a small child. So instead I will refrain, enjoy a snickers, and hope to god you kids are not serious about this person. Here's your upvote, you little creep.
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Hopefully a lot less women in the work place
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