DEI—-can we all agree

[BrunoMars420]

Can we all agree that DEI is a good thing but Corporations and Governments should not make people take quarterly tests, push it endlessly on their websites homepage to make them seem not racist or something, act like they should get an award because they hired “X” number of these many people, etc…

Wouldn’t a simple blurb in the “who we are” section of the website be enough?

 

[Here_4_a_Day]

Can we all agree that DEI is a good thing but Corporations and Governments should not make people take quarterly tests, push it endlessly on their websites homepage to make them seem not racist or something, act like they should get an award because they hired “X” number of these many people, etc…

Wouldn’t a simple blurb in the “who we are” section of the website be enough?

No, we can't! It's getting people killed every ****ing day, hindering production and destroying morale! Please go fly from/to a busy airport where the control tower is staffed with trannys because they are trannys!!

 

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

The best person for a position should be the one to get the job. I am not the best candidate to be a flight nurse, that doesn't mean someone should have to hire me just to check a box.

 

[Huey Grey]

There would be no DEI if there was no discrimination to begin with. If you didn't want DEI training then you probably shouldn't have been racist and homophobic in the first place.

 

[Here_4_a_Day]

There would be no DEI if there was no discrimination to begin with. If you didn't want DEI training then you probably shouldn't have been racist and homophobic in the first place.

Oh brilliant take! 🤣

 

[alaskanseminole]

There would be no DEI if there was no discrimination to begin with. If you didn't want DEI training then you probably shouldn't have been racist and homophobic in the first place.

Weird take. I don't need "training" to be kind to my fellow man, treating them with dignity and respect. As with all my annual training, I press play on the video, hit mute, then take the test at the end which doesn't take a rocket surgeon to pass.

 

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

There would be no DEI if there was no discrimination to begin with. If you didn't want DEI training then you probably shouldn't have been racist and homophobic in the first place.

Are you familiar with the old adage "a cure in search of a problem?"



Hell, go read the "do you know a racist" thread, even the examples given are all old people. It's not a thing for anyone functioning in a 2025 society.

 

[Huey Grey]

Weird take. I don't need "training" to be kind to my fellow man, treating them with dignity and respect. As with all my annual training, I press play on the video, hit mute, then take the test at the end which doesn't take a rocket surgeon to pass.

You may not, but many do. Many need training that homo and women are stupid jokes in the workplace are a bad idea.

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

There would be no DEI if there was no discrimination to begin with. If you didn't want DEI training then you probably shouldn't have been racist and homophobic in the first place.

Painting with a bit of a broad brush, Hugh.

 

[soonerinlOUisiana]

Can we all agree that DEI is a good thing but Corporations and Governments should not make people take quarterly tests, push it endlessly on their websites homepage to make them seem not racist or something, act like they should get an award because they hired “X” number of these many people, etc…

Wouldn’t a simple blurb in the “who we are” section of the website be enough?

Disagree that DEI is a good thing. On another board I frequent, a guy in HR for Phillips 66 was bragging about how they’d met their LGBTQMAP hiring goals. Asked him what one guy sticking his dick in another guy’s butthole had to do with retrieving fossil fuels from the earth, refining them into usable products, and bringing them to the market. Never got a straight answer (pun intended).

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

Weird take. I don't need "training" to be kind to my fellow man, treating them with dignity and respect. As with all my annual training, I press play on the video, hit mute, then take the test at the end which doesn't take a rocket surgeon to pass.

Yeah, that training just causes resentment towards the cause-counter productive….

 

[alaskanseminole]

You may not, but many do. Many need training that homo and women are stupid jokes in the workplace are a bad idea.

And I'd venture to say, those folks won't benefit from any training. They are who they are. "Training" will simply teach them to keep their mouths shut.

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

You may not, but many do. Many need training that homo and women are stupid jokes in the workplace are a bad idea.

In my little world there absolutely are a few like that, but a very small percentage.

 

[alaskanseminole]

Disagree that DEI is a good thing. On another board I frequent, a guy in HR for Phillips 66 was bragging about how they’d met their LGBTQMAP hiring goals. Asked him what one guy sticking his dick in another guy’s butthole had to do with retrieving fossil fuels from the earth, refining them into usable products, and bringing them to the market. Never got a straight answer (pun intended).

Case in point @Huey Grey ☝️

How does spending $$ on training fix this? People are who they are.

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

Disagree that DEI is a good thing. On another board I frequent, a guy in HR for Phillips 66 was bragging about how they’d met their LGBTQMAP hiring goals. Asked him what one guy sticking his dick in another guy’s butthole had to do with retrieving fossil fuels from the earth, refining them into usable products, and bringing them to the market. Never got a straight answer (pun intended).

You, Doofus, are one of the reasons we have DEI training. Nice job….

 

[Nole Lou]

95% of the training at the employee level about like microagressions and white fragility and white supremacist concepts like punctuality is utter bullshit, does nothing to improve the work environment for anyone, and has been proven ineffective years on.

Efforts at the management level to make sure you are hiring from a diverse pool of applicants and trying not to get siloed into just hiring from a handful of schools or through networking with employees who are already working there is a good thing. Companies should have policies to make sure QUALIFIED candidates from certain communities aren't falling through the cracks.

 

[Scruddy]

No. DEI is much more infectious and far reaching than what you're describing in general. No hiring bench marks, No counter productive "trainings", etc

 

[Here_4_a_Day]

You may not, but many do. Many need training that homo and women are stupid jokes in the workplace are a bad idea.

Did you hear the one about the tranny who thought it was a homo?

 

[Titanhawk2]

Can we all agree that DEI is a good thing but Corporations and Governments should not make people take quarterly tests, push it endlessly on their websites homepage to make them seem not racist or something, act like they should get an award because they hired “X” number of these many people, etc…

Wouldn’t a simple blurb in the “who we are” section of the website be enough?

No

If you're not excluding, why do you have to mess with including?

 

[BrunoMars420]

Yeah, that training just causes resentment towards the cause-counter productive….

Ba ba bingo! That and the constant company propaganda on it is sickening.

 

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

Did you hear the one about the tranny who thought it was a homo?

......He was going to leave after one day......

 

[Here_4_a_Day]

......He was going to leave after one day......

No, that's not the punchline at all!

 

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

No, that's not the punchline at all!

Put it on a tee and I'm going to hit it.

 

[Chishawk1425]

The ❄️ Brigade is here. Like flies on a cow pie.

 

[Here_4_a_Day]

Put it on a tee and I'm going to hit it.

No, its a tranny...there's nothing left to put on a tee.

 

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

No, its a tranny...there's nothing left to put on a tee.

Be better.

 

[poophawk]

Yeah, that training just causes resentment towards the cause-counter productive….

snowflakes

 

[Huey Grey]

The ❄️ Brigade is here. Like flies on a cow pie.

Looks like it. If DEI training triggers someone, then they probably need it.

 

[Here_4_a_Day]

Disagree that DEI is a good thing. On another board I frequent, a guy in HR for Phillips 66 was bragging about how they’d met their LGBTQMAP hiring goals. Asked him what one guy sticking his dick in another guy’s butthole had to do with retrieving fossil fuels from the earth, refining them into usable products, and bringing them to the market. Never got a straight answer (pun intended).

Isn't one dark, tar filled hole like another? Maybe "those folks" are just better at knowing where to drill and how deep to sink the shaft!!

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

snowflakes

Call it what you want, I hear way more joking about the training than I do insensitive comments about minorities, etc.

 

[Huey Grey]

Ba ba bingo! That and the constant company propaganda on it is sickening.

Don't tell homo jokes is propaganda? That's stupidity at a ridiculous level.

 

[torbee]

The sad thing is it wouldn't be necessary at all if so many people weren't asshats.

Like most other "movements" the true believers send the pendulum too far one way and the reactionaries send it back too far the other and everyone acts like a dickhead in the interim until it settles somewhere in the middle.

 

[Here_4_a_Day]

Looks like it. If DEI training triggers someone, then they probably need it.

Yup...lots of DEI triggered folks in Cali today!

 

[Huey Grey]

Call it what you want, I hear way more joking about the training than I do insensitive comments about minorities, etc.

Which means the training is probably doing its job.

 

[Jerome Silberman]

IMO, it's value is entirely dependent on the situation and location. At massive institutions that will by nature have a more diverse workforce keeping up on DEI training can lead to better staffing situations and give clearer expectations of workplace decorum and communication.

In a moderate sized manufacturing plant in a more rural area, the juice probably won't be worth the squeeze.

Lost in a lot of these conversations is how these types of trainings and efforts tend to be semi-voluntary and directed at management level employees. Because of that I don't see it as any different than the number of other management training books/series/seminars that are consistently being offered.

 

[Here_4_a_Day]

The sad thing is it wouldn't be necessary at all if so many people weren't asshats.

Like most other "movements" the true believers send the pendulum too far one way and the reactionaries send it back too far the other and everyone acts like a dickhead in the interim until it settles somewhere in the middle.

Speaking of asshats and bowel movements.......

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

Can we all agree that the only reason we have this is because fascists are all butthurt they might have to work with someone else besides other fascists?

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

Which means the training is probably doing its job.

Maybe. Or the training has become the substitute subject for insensitivity. Which isn’t a bad thing I guess…

 

[Here_4_a_Day]

DEI at its finest >

 

[HawkMachine]

If DEI means someone is going to get a job over a more qualified applicant, then no I don't agree with it.

That would be like forcing teams to draft more white dudes in the NFL.

Stupid.