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You can post as many examples as you want, there's still no way I'd participate in an activity like this.

by defen 7y ago

cjcole 7y ago
That might be wise. There seem to be an infinitude of ways this could go off the rails very badly.
shadowgovt 7y ago
What if you were labeled as a bigot for refusing to participate in mandatory diversity training? You can certainly make that choice for yourself, but the system will not reward your behavior with promotion to a position of power where you get to call the shots on whether trainings like this are held.
- JohnFen 7y ago
  > What if you were labeled as a bigot for refusing to participate in mandatory diversity training? Easy. I'd quit.
  - shadowgovt 7y ago
    Exactly. And the system therefore selects for people who would accept that training, and those people end up deciding what trainings are acceptable.
    - paganel 7y ago
      > and those people end up deciding what trainings are acceptable In an ideal world companies like these would be arbitraged away, so to speak, as the people who decided to quit when presented with this stupidity are presumably smarter/more intelligent compared to the ones that decided to stay and play the whole charade, so the companies hiring those smarter people would in the long run be more efficient i.e. more profitable compared to the original companies which went down the "stupid diversity training" way. Again, this is what would happen in an ideal world. The problem with companies like Google is that they're de-facto monopolies so there's no way for the market to arbitrage them away in the foreseeable future.
- ringzero 7y ago
  > What if you were labeled as a bigot for refusing to participate in mandatory diversity training? "The gay guy who wouldn't go into the room we labelled as 'for homos' is such a bigot for not Going Along" This diversity exercise was so poorly conceived it was used as a plot for a mainstream sitcom. Evidently, NBC thought that - even for mainstream television - the exercise is enough of a farce that most of their viewers would see it as such, and find humor in it. If a company is so spineless and devoid of morals as to gate promotions against such a poorly-thought exercise, maybe it's not the most worthwhile promotion to have on a resume to begin with.
- itronitron 7y ago
  This particular training seems like a management aptitude filter for Google.

You can post as many examples as you want, there's still no way I'd participate in an activity like this.

by defen 7y ago

You can post as many examples as you want, there's still no way I'd participate in an activity like this.

cjcole 7y ago

That might be wise. There seem to be an infinitude of ways this could go off the rails very badly.

shadowgovt 7y ago

What if you were labeled as a bigot for refusing to participate in mandatory diversity training? You can certainly make that choice for yourself, but the system will not reward your behavior with promotion to a position of power where you get to call the shots on whether trainings like this are held.

JohnFen 7y ago
> What if you were labeled as a bigot for refusing to participate in mandatory diversity training? Easy. I'd quit.
- shadowgovt 7y ago
  Exactly. And the system therefore selects for people who would accept that training, and those people end up deciding what trainings are acceptable.
  - paganel 7y ago
    > and those people end up deciding what trainings are acceptable In an ideal world companies like these would be arbitraged away, so to speak, as the people who decided to quit when presented with this stupidity are presumably smarter/more intelligent compared to the ones that decided to stay and play the whole charade, so the companies hiring those smarter people would in the long run be more efficient i.e. more profitable compared to the original companies which went down the "stupid diversity training" way. Again, this is what would happen in an ideal world. The problem with companies like Google is that they're de-facto monopolies so there's no way for the market to arbitrage them away in the foreseeable future.
ringzero 7y ago
> What if you were labeled as a bigot for refusing to participate in mandatory diversity training? "The gay guy who wouldn't go into the room we labelled as 'for homos' is such a bigot for not Going Along" This diversity exercise was so poorly conceived it was used as a plot for a mainstream sitcom. Evidently, NBC thought that - even for mainstream television - the exercise is enough of a farce that most of their viewers would see it as such, and find humor in it. If a company is so spineless and devoid of morals as to gate promotions against such a poorly-thought exercise, maybe it's not the most worthwhile promotion to have on a resume to begin with.
itronitron 7y ago
This particular training seems like a management aptitude filter for Google.