At General Dynamics, my next to final employer, even innocuous comments on any PC subject could and would be reported to HR. We were informed that we could be written up and “sentenced to diversity training.” (Yep, the HR manager used the word “sentenced.)
At a division that was split off ITT, my final employer, there was a written anti-Christian policy. No one was allowed to speak about Christianity. This included private conversations that might be overheard. Several employees brought in religious items and placed them on their desks or hung them on their walls in protest. I suspect, from conversations I overheard among the top management, that these people were not going to receive raises or promotions as a result.
This political correctness was dictated in military contracts that required “diversity” training. I believe that GD and the ITT spinoff used the same diversity training company. The materials reminded me of Nazi era propaganda posters and the end result was to ban all non-business conversations. At the ITT spinoff (called Excelis) this ban took the form of a contract between the employee and the company where the employee agreed that certain private/overheard conversations were cause for immediate discipline or dismissal.
I work with several formerly Exelis/ITT guys. Now I know why they look at me oddly when I wear my Veggie-Tales tie.
I have advised several of my students that they may not want to include their strong leadership involvement in Christian college groups on their resumes. While they have developed practical leadership that most other college grads don’t have, they don’t want to hurt themselves by alerting any prejudiced HR people. I advise them to talk about their involvement as being in a campus “service” club, and stress how they helped in the leadership development of other students’ lives.
It is amazing that the government can force this PC on companies.