Weren’t We Supposed to ‘Learn to Code?’ [IBM's DEI policy]

Chronicles ^ | February 2024 | Edward Welsch

[Angelino97]

I remember when IBM was a top tier company in the 1980s. Then IBM foolishly let Bill Gates keep the rights to DOS. Later, IBM sold off its excellent Thinkpad line to the Chinese. I'm surprised IBM is still around.

[ComputerGuy]

I never met a black programmer while I was employed. And IBM didn’t sell DOS to Gates.

[bgill]

This was once called discrimination.

[Leaning Right]

Biden’s “learn to code” remark was directed at coal miners, who are mainly white guys. It sure looks like they won’t be coding at IBM.

[Retain Mike]

I wonder if it is possible for them or anyone to define how diversity makes an organization better than merit?

[Angelino97]

And IBM didn’t sell DOS to Gates.

I didn't say IBM did.

Read what I wrote. Carefully, this time.

[ClearCase_guy]

I think that a lot of older people (Baby Boomers) do not grasp that this stuff is a reality for many young people. At big corporations, you do NOT get ahead by working hard. There is no career ladder. It’s not a meritocracy. Work has become a pointless and unengaging activity that results in a paycheck and nothing else. The future belongs to people in “special categories” and if you are a normal person, there is no hope for you.

[V_TWIN]

“how diversity makes an organization better than merit?”

Trust me it doesn’t.

I worked for the DoD for 31 years and quota hiring and promoting was part of the business model.

All it does is degrade the mission effectiveness and force effective employees to have work harder and do more work to offset the incompetence.

Not to mention it takes animosity and resentment by quality employees into the stratosphere.

One of the main reasons I retired as soon as possible.

[Angelino97]

If I were young today, I wouldn’t enter college. I’d learn a skilled and necessary trade that can’t be outsourced. Plumber and electrician are two that I would seriously consider. Maybe get licensed in both.

[allendale]

Ironically the worldwide demand for coal has skyrocketed. Coal miners are very busy mining American coal which is being exported in record amounts.

[Leaning Right]

A company’s merit used to be determined by the quality of its products, and by the profits made on those products.

Now it’s determined by its ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ score.

In a way, it reminds me of how Stalin determined the success of a Soviet steel mill. It was all about tonnage. So many mills just produced huge steel items (like giant nails) that no one needed. But they met their tonnage goals, and so kept Stalin happy.

Today we’re not talking about giant nails. But we are dealing with Stalinists.

[ClearCase_guy]

Yup. I think the game has completely flipped — smart, ambitious young people go into the trades. College is for the lazy, unmotivated kids who can’t do math and don’t understand how hard it is to pay off loans.

[sauropod]

yep.

[Salman]

"Learn to code" was always "Let them eat cake", originally directed at unemployed coal miners in West Virginia. Even back them, they'd have had to relocate and compete with H1B immigrants who never made as much as coal miners.

It was a deliberate F.U. to people who already stopped voting Democrat and never was serious (if clueless) advice.

[montag813]

Sad to say but the only answer is for whites and Asians to leave corporate America and start their own companies that only hire whites and Asians.

[desertfreedom765]

But it doesn’t contribute to global warming if its burned outside the US./s

[pas]

But they tended to wear black face.

[NewHampshireDuo]

The formerly conservative company that I worked for has gone totally DEI/ESG. However, when you look at the patents and published literature, all of the people are white male or Asian male.

[Carl Vehse]

“how diversity makes an organization better than merit?”
Trust me it doesn’t.

But that diversity lie is part of the traitorous propaganda being rammed down the throats of employees in corporate D.I.E. training programs.

[Angelino97]

start their own companies that only hire whites and Asians.

I'm not sure if it's legal for a company to only hire whites.

At the very least, you couldn't accept any government contracts. Or perhaps even contracts from private firms that do work for the government.

You couldn't get any government loans. You might not even be able to qualify for bank loans. Banks are so woke these days, they might have anti-discrimination/DEI fine print in their business loan agreements.

Someday a business might not be able to get insurance unless it has anti-discrimination/DEI policies.

A company that only hires whites pretty much has to be under the radar. It can't grow too large, have too many employees, or have anyone notice it.