Have you or someone you know been passed up for a job so that your manager could brag about being a diversity champion?
Anyone remember when Anne Chow made us all have team calls with our managers to confess white privilege, shame and sorrow for being a nation filled with systemic racism?
How did your team call go?
Please share. We need the stories told before T becomes another Boeing.
Lazy people are adept at making excuses. They don't need any help to create more.
Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations - SBLE
The practice of expecting less from members of a disadvantaged group and thus implicitly encouraging those people not to reach their full potential.
Likened to a parent giving in to the whims of a child by allowing them candy rather than a nutritious meal.
dei is racism
When you only promote unqualified id--ts who live in certain cities, does it really matter what color the unqualified id--ts are? Don't let people reframe the problem as DEI instead of terrible management.
Wow! I had never considered that before, makes complete sense that most of the population came after the civil war. Incredible. Stuff like this is why reparations talk is beyond stupid. Let’s make current and future generations pay for others mistakes from hundreds of years ago. D-mb and not possible
And the fraud that occurs when government gives out free money is always insane, just look at the covid fraud. Everyone will be “identifying” as the great great great grandchild of someone hurt by slavery. San Francisco wants to give like $1M to every black resident at the cost of like $350,000 from every white resident. Right, that will happen.
In regard to the comment about slavery below, I just read that only 1.6% of families owned slaves during the slave era, which surprised me. I thought it was much higher than that.
Also, the fact that 95% of the current American population, all colors, all races, descend from people who immigrated AFTER the civil war.
Commentor states their goal and hope is to breed out the white people from society. LOL.
Just remember, a lot of white people literally gave their lives fighting to end slavery in this country. The blood of young men and seeped into the soil of this nation in pursuit for liberation of all people. Yes, we’ve made mistakes and we could do better, but stop letting people lie to you that this is a racist nation built on white privilege. That so decisive and completely untrue.
And let’s not forget that black people enslaved each other and sold each other to the slave traders in the Americas and in the Middle East. This was a black issue before it was ever a white one.
DEI is racist and T is a racist company. DEI=DIE and a company will die promoting based on race instead of merit.
I’m not white or black and it’s extremely obvious to be that DEI is racism.
If you disagree, you’re wrong.
By definition, DEI gives preference to one color over another. How did the left convince this many people that racism is ok?
The color of our skin should be irrrelevant and we should be measured on our performance only.
This is so basic, it’s hard to imagine people need it explained to them. The left has destroyed this country.
Plain and simple white people that are against DEI . Is due to biased white people not liking to being around people of color.
So you were asked to acknowledge your privilege and you were mad? Truth can hurt. Anyone who was born white and does not recognize for years you have received better jobs while be less qualified than people of color who were vying for the same jobs also believe that Donald Trump is the second coming and want to call themselves Christian while skewing the Word to mean what is convenient for them. DEI is not your problem, your problem is being afraid to face the past, acknowledge the severe injustices perpetuated over time, and acknowledge that the specter of meritocracy in any of these jobs is pure fiction. You can't stop being white and benefitting from it any more than a person of color and stop being a person of color that is always judged first by the color of their skin before the merit of their character. As more and more bi-racial children are born humanity's best hope is that there will be no more lilly white people to rule over what they believe is a subordinate class and maybe with more melanin in everyone's skin we can move towards being a more harmonious country.
Cluster!!!!
Was this posted by a "top performer"?
I don’t have any white guilt so nothing to confess here.
DEI is just a new name for affirmative action/racial quotas/racism and s-xism.
Go woke Go broke
“I am a person of color. I have been passed up for over 25 years only to see people I trained. My white brother and sisters promoted. My managers have always been white. So what does this mean for me? Fk your divisive comments.”
Using this logic, if I self-assess that I deserve a promotion, and I don’t get one, it’s because they passed me over because of the color of my skin? What a leap!
We need to stop with this stuff. Let’s get back to what Martin Luther King dreamed of -(and died for) the aspirations for a color blind society.
DEI got off track because it’s pushing equity over equality. Equality of outcomes is a race to the bottom because someone is picking winners and losers based a preferred narrative not merit.. Pick the most qualified person for the job, and race should have NOTHING to do with the decision. If it does, it is in fact illegal and many corporations are in serious danger of class action lawsuits because of this fatal flaw with DEI rooted in Marxist socialism/ communism.
If I were a person of color, I’d be deeply disturbed about where this is heading. If society believes that people of color are being hired only because of their skin color and not because of their qualifications, isn’t that insulting? We’ve seen standards getting lowered just to make this happen, and it’s going to create horrible stereotypes and stigmas for people of color. It makes me sad.
Also, it’s not decisive to name DEI for what it is: racism in sheep’s clothing.
Anne Chow did very little her last 2-3 years..she forgot her job was about customers, employees and shareholders....there are very Few good ATT leaders at VP level and above that knew how to run their business profitably...Anne was more interested in the woke movement, writing books, and getting on stage with celebrities....she was not performing her duties.
Clear message over the years has been sent that DEI box checkers get many passes along the way to Director, AVP, and VP positions. Due to the incompetent being promoted the work flows to those that can get it done and those people inevitably leave due to the practice and the results.
I am a person of color. I have been passed up for over 25 years only to see people I trained. My white brother and sisters promoted. My managers have always been white. So what does this mean for me? Fk your divisive comments.
As a 50 something year old white dude with nearly 30 years, it became clear to me some time ago that even a L3 position wasn’t going to be possible for me, despite being a a well respected and qualified candidate, with an advanced degree and diverse work experience.
At this point, I’m thankful to not be in one of those positions. I cannot imagine a job where I have to constantly spin and defend, all the time. Where as a “leader”, a great deal of my time is spent making sure my team is “living their designation”, monitoring badge swipes.
You can have it. Good luck to you.
So the person making more money than everyone else were told to apologize for their privilege? The stupidity of this company never ceases to amaze me. I’m truly amazed that this company is still in business.
DEI is racism.
You have the assumptive side of this that gets a lot of people frustrated but almost impossible to prove inappropriate behaviors.
Then you have actual statistics the company puts out solidifying what many were thinking.
I saved these couple stats from 2023 announcements, sent companywide from the exec level, talking about how well AT&T did on the diversity focus in 2022. I don’t recall seeing anything this year of this detail related to 2023, but maybe someone thought they shared too much last time on numbers that potentially show a bias as related to applicant population sets. What is ‘historically underrepresented’? Race, Age, S-x?
Hiring
• More than 75% of open positions were filled by talent from historically underrepresented communities compared with 2021.
Promotions
• 69% of internal promotions were filled by talent from historically underrepresented communities
Yes and yes. I have been told from the people doing the hiring and seen it with my own eyes. Usually it’s happening at the VP level where they decline certain people for others that check boxes. Absolutely this is happening. Discrimination is what this is and this is what systemic racism really looks like. No it’s not ok.
We had people screaming at each other on our mandatory Chow call within minutes. It got so heated that people hung up in disgust.
Not to worry, you won’t be a majority for long, the revised numbers of illegals crossing the border for last year, (2023) have been revised from 1 million to over 3 million and that’s probably low. The country is going to be like this company, from 1st to 3rd or worse.
Everyone is for controlled legal immigration but this mass invasion is overwhelming our communities, the State and National resources. DEI and layoffs will be the least of our worries in the near future. Our kids and grandkids are going to pay the price. Time for Mr. Stumbles with his open borders and his high inflation to move on, time for a permanent layoff.
That meeting was uncalled for. Most of my life at T, I had a woman manager but had to say I was privileged. Did whatever I could to not yell farce. Oh yeah, don’t forget father stink making us get the jab.
Your work performance doesn't exist in a vacuum. You are always competing with your peers for raises and progressions. Even if you're doing more or better work than ever before, your peers might out compete you.
@ibe+1rUKrCX9 Just to cross the T's and dot the i's, do you know for sure that it wasn't a case of you being pushed ahead of a minority and then the VP recognizing the error?
The problem with a lot of this DEI fog is that it's difficult to separate who doesn't deserve to promoted, and who didn't deserve to be considered for promotion in the first place. I'm not saying that you're a bad employee or that you don't deserve a promotion. I'm just questioning if there was someone else who deserved it first or more and who was overlooked in favour of you.
We never had a call like that. But I am almost positive my progression last year was stopped because of the DEI program. Everything was all approved and went all the way up to our VP where it suddenly stopped. But then we later heard how many minorities had been progressed.
And to be clear, I don't blame the people that did receive the progression. I blame the VP that blocked it.