Any managers feel that DEI will save them? The company supports it and promotes it. You better be calling HR and claiming descrim if you want to stay. It is the quality thing to do.
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"I have seen people of all colors get surplussed over 25 years. And 100% of the time, they were at the bottom of the barrel and were known candidates due to performance. Please."
I agree people of all colors get surplussed, but the issue is it's disproportionate to minority groups who got picked on more often due to their white male supervisor's bias and were treated as outsiders. Those who know how to play the game got to stay over others who don't or won't play along.
I don't know how you can be so confident to call 100% of the people who got surplus were at the bottom of the barrel and were known candidates due to performance. You know all of them and all the works they were doing comparing to their peers? For a fact, many good workers were let go due to their zip code during the collaboration zone push which started a few years ago, and it continued until the Covid hit. This time around there will be more casualties. You call them all at the bottom of the barrel and were known candidates due to performance?
HOPE, most definitely I hope I get laid off because I'm sick and tired of watching this company circling the drain, getting worse each year and seeing senior management sc--w over its employees to the max! So, yes, I am hoping I get laid off!
DEI shouldn’t save you from anything. Your reputation and track record in your organization should be the only thing that saves someone. A lot of you on here embarrassing yourselves thinking you matter more because of your skin color.
I have seen people of all colors get surplussed over 25 years. And 100% of the time, they were at the bottom of the barrel and were known candidates due to performance. Please.
" Anyway, it was refreshing in that they richly deserved to be surplussed, and they were. "
I posted this, and I stand by it. Yes, this person was African American. But that wasn't the point, the point was that this person was simply not working or doing their job, at all. And this went on for several years. Other team members (including some POC though I don't know why that should matter) continually contacted by external stakeholders, asking "where is xxxx, been trying to get a hold of them for weeks...." and on and on. I honestly don't even know how they got a hold of this person to tell them they were being laid off.
So yes, they deserved it.
"you may be a double minority, but apparently you were on double secret probation."
You apparently have been on blatant infinite probation and is desperate to keep it for the rest of your life. People like you will serve your time soon. It's long over due.
In my experience working for this company, the ones that grumble and complain the most about DEI content are the ones who really need it the most. Imagine being so repulsed and indignant by the thought of having to be respectful and inclusive of those that are different than you.
You know who you are.
Sigh... another delicate, fragile, timid, frightened little maga snowflake has to blame the big, bad, DEI boogeyman for their shortcomings.
Give it a rest, Adolph. Nobody cares that you are so intimidated by the big bad DEI people that you have to whinge on an anonymous board to try and prop up your teenypeeny white-racist ego.
"Anyway, it was refreshing in that they richly deserved to be surplussed, and they were. "
It will be truly refreshing when the axe falls on the white males who did very little but got to stay due to their zip code and similarity to their buddy supervisors.
The only exception I know was a white male surplused by his female supervisor. Only when the company truly embrace diversity to put the minority in power position will the company be savaged.
It didn't save one person on my team in the last big surplus.
That said, this one person was so frequently MIA, I am not sure if anyone knew for sure that they were even on our team. I honestly think they may have been one of those that attempted to work multiple jobs, taking full advantage of work from home.
Anyway, it was refreshing in that they richly deserved to be surplussed, and they were.
Currently the only “minority” group who should complain are women.
Every other minority group is over represented in relation to their % of population.
From my observations, when it comes time to surplus, the minority groups were usually hit the hardest During the last round of layoff, both of the two people let go on my team were minority. The majority of supervisors are still white male and it's only human nature for them protect their own kind.
Metro areas are the hubs. Rural and suburban offices closing. DEI saved you.
you may be a double minority, but apparently you were on double secret probation.
Don't believe the supervisors will follow DEI. Two minority including myself in a team of 10 were cut in March. I was a double minority with solid performance, strong IT skills and certification. All the good old boy guys in Dallas were safe. When discrimination was reported, HR always sided with the status quo.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Listen here Son, AT&T is in serious, serious debt. We have no time for any of that. None of that will save us from Randy and Stankey.
I have for 25 years worked with people that didn't look exactly like their birth S-x in the bathroom. Guess what? I take a leak in the urinal and the other dropped a deuce in the stall and we both came over and washed our hands side by side, even used the same towel dispenser. I went back in the CO and my coworker got back to work. Not a problem, but I'm just a Union Dreg.
They changed DE&I. It’s now officially DE&B. The B stands for Belonging, as in,”You belong in the office.”
I doubt stinky actually believes in DEI. It’s him posturing and virtue signaling to the world how inclusive he can be. When it comes down to it, it won’t save your job. He’s all talk no walk.
Oh right, HR is your friend
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