A Day of Understanding
Teammates,
It’s important we embrace diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our business.
That’s why we are bringing teammates together for Day of Understanding workshops on Dec. 6 and Dec. 7. It’s part of our commitment to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion program. And it goes beyond just these two days as we continue to focus on building a more inclusive culture inside and outside XXXXXXXX.
We need every teammate’s voice to champion change and make an impact. I hope you will take this opportunity to share your perspectives and experiences, embrace our differences and learn from each other.
This corporate version of the Maoist Struggle Session is voluntary for now.
Remember those “Hello, my name is” sticky name badges? I hereby copyright “Hello, my pronoun is” and trademark its design.
“voluntary”
You don’t think note will be made of who doesn’t attend?
Our colleges have become training grounds for revolutionaries against Constitutional America. God help us.
I’ve been a little concerned about this.
My job requires a company vehicle that’s an upgrade from what other employees at my level get. It’s due to the equipment I’ll carry, not some status thing.
It’s a relatively high profile project.
Our fleet guy is new at the company and seems to be relatively incompetent at his job. Getting this accomplished has been like pulling teeth and I’ve had to be a little more aggressive in making him do his job than I normally am.
He also gives off a very strong gay vibe and I’m a little concerned he’s going to complain about me. My response will be that I don’t care that he’s gay, but I do care that he’s stupid and his intransigence has cost me a couple weeks on a time sensitive project launch.
The guy seems lost and lazy. I joked with my boss that I’ve been with the company ten years and know when I can sluff off. He’s been here 10 weeks and can’t sluff off at all yet.
“Social Justice Warriors have plagued mankind for more than 150 years, but only in the last 30 years has their ideology become dominant in the West. Having invaded one institution of the cultural high ground after another, from corporations and churches to video games and government, there is nowhere that remains entirely free of their intolerant thought and speech policing”
Only work topics are authorized at work, drone. Get back to your assigned duties.
How much of our lives are spent at work? How many personal relationships are forged at work? This is a push by leftists to control thought. They control schools, they control media, and they very much want to control the workspace.
embrace our differences
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Monumental hypocrisy. You either embrace and conform to the leftist agenda or they banish you to the workplace equivalent of Siberia.
No longer employees. Now comrades.
If I may make a few comments...
1. I strongly doubt that they're interested in your perspectives and experiences. In fact, I'd lay odds on appearing in the next layoff if you said what you think.
2. I strongly doubt that they would embrace any differences that they have with you, unless by "embrace" they mean, "choke you until you stop breathing".
3. Whenever "learn" or "share" is used in missives like this, they really mean, "I talk, and you agree with me". No real sharing to be had.
But otherwise, good memo. /s
It’s absolutely a communist tactic. Right out of “The Naked Communist.” They’ve been drip drip implementing their goals.
I hope someone stands up and says, "I am a White Christian Male. I cannot tell you how excluded I have been made to feel. Everyone judges me. Everyone blames me for everything. I feel like a punching bag. I hope that, together, we can make this a diverse workplace where White Christian Males can openly be who they are without being targeted for hatred. Thank you."
True, don’t trust anyone at work because they really all are to get you. Don’t speak to anyone unless it’s a response to a direct question and even then only answer yes or no.
Find another job and sue this company for being so insensitive to the non-freak’s “feelings”.
Take home $50M in a few years and have a nice life. Isn’t this the American way today?
Remember when corporations were run to make a profit? Seems like just yesterday......
“We need every teammate’s voice to champion change and make an impact. “
What the hell does that even mean?
I have a friend, very religious, who received one of these from is employer a few years back. It's an invitation to state your opinion. When he stated his religious opinion in the forum they said up to offer opinions, he was fired. He's currently in the midst of a lawsuit for religious discrimination and he looks like he's going to win.
“That’s why we are bringing teammates together for Day of Understanding workshops...”
Teammates...the new comrades.
This is ominous. It's coming from one of the entities whose audits publicly-traded companies need to pass in order to be publicly traded.
Yes, under communism, the slightest infraction was met with overwhelming punitive force.
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Sometimes.
Sometimes there was capricious enforcement, to keep everyone on edge and uncertain.
*****It’s important we embrace diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our business.******
However, ironically, they’re also implementing exclusion and a Non-diverse workplace environment that demands the worker to comply or be fired.
After working for a major university for 20 years after my Air Force career, I have the following advice.
Document EVERYTHING. EVERY conversation with management needs to be written down. Ideally, get a boss to approve it. Even email it for corrections. Hint: If they do not reply to a sent email; that is sufficient proof of approval.
Example: Email text says “Boss, we talked about blank and blank, blank, and you said to do X, Y and then Z. I am proceeding as directed.”
In any case, don’t go down alone.
I teach primarily adult workers in the IT industry. Oh, the stories about lying managers I could tell you!!!
Again, if the boss gives you an order, or tells you to collect electronic data on someone—DO NOT do so unless it is in writing.
One of the big problems in IT is the privacy versus policy battle. More than one white male administrator has lost his job because—even though there was a verbal understanding to log actions on an individuals computer, if that person was a minority or woman—Well, there goes your job. Again, any said needs to be written down, even if just the date, time, who said what as a memo for record.
And no matter what, do not go above and beyond. Say you find someone is using their computer against company policy... Take it to management and say nothing until they direct you to do something.
I know of instances where the opposite happens; the tech tells management, who doesn’t do or direct any action, and then when the perpetrator winds up taking down the entire network, who do you think gets blamed? AGAIN, write it down in an email and send so management cannot weasel out.
Like I said, even a copy of the conversation sent out as an email is sufficient when the boss doesn’t want to sign or explicitly approve.
Management will say—in private—that they would never penalize someone for something politically correct, but push comes to shove they WILL.
Record their actions, especially if it goes against some ambiguous policy. If you got to go down, take some with you!