I was in a 2 hour leadership seminar recently that was moving along fairly well, with good participation, when the moderator put up DEI slides for the last half hour. She was very excited to discuss it, but was met by silence and couldn’t understand why. The only two questions asked were for the definitions of diversity and inclusion. No…
I was in a 2 hour leadership seminar recently that was moving along fairly well, with good participation, when the moderator put up DEI slides for the last half hour. She was very excited to discuss it, but was met by silence and couldn’t understand why. The only two questions asked were for the definitions of diversity and inclusion. No one - black, white, Indian, men, women, wanted to engage with any of it. We are a well run, mid size company in a profitable space that as far as I can tell, hires for ability, not quotas. Everyone could see that it was disruption for the sake of disruption, plus everyone’s scared to death to say anything to challenge it.
I bet your experience plays out all over the place. Everyone I know that works in a corporate setting that liked their career a few years ago is longing to leave for this VERY reason. All the mandatory online courses are pretty hated as well. What a #+*ing waste of time.
This is my experience as well. I also know two people who retired early recently and they both mentioned that the DEI culture was a major factor in their decision to retire early.
I was in a 2 hour leadership seminar recently that was moving along fairly well, with good participation, when the moderator put up DEI slides for the last half hour. She was very excited to discuss it, but was met by silence and couldn’t understand why. The only two questions asked were for the definitions of diversity and inclusion. No one - black, white, Indian, men, women, wanted to engage with any of it. We are a well run, mid size company in a profitable space that as far as I can tell, hires for ability, not quotas. Everyone could see that it was disruption for the sake of disruption, plus everyone’s scared to death to say anything to challenge it.
I bet your experience plays out all over the place. Everyone I know that works in a corporate setting that liked their career a few years ago is longing to leave for this VERY reason. All the mandatory online courses are pretty hated as well. What a #+*ing waste of time.
This is my experience as well. I also know two people who retired early recently and they both mentioned that the DEI culture was a major factor in their decision to retire early.
Have you seen this?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fired-from-my-nursing-job-for-refusing-to-say-im-racist-kentucky-michigan-implicit-bias-training-healthcare-fairness-11664551932