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That's the point, "woke" gives garden variety nepotism a nice shiny ESG approved cover.

by stuckinhell 4y ago

kadoban 4y ago
If we get rid of everything that some asshole can use as cover, there's not going to be a lot left.
- stuckinhell 4y ago
  "Woke" is very different that other types of cover. "Woke" gets celebrated and praised, and people have to pretend that hire wasn't hired due to nepotism. As a manager whose been thru this rodeo, let me tell you what happens. 1. We have to have a mini celebration for "woke but really nepotistic" hire at big corporation. 2. We can never mention that persons skill or the "real" reason they got hired. 3. It gives the "elites" far more power to harass people via HR if they don't like the nepotism 4. The non-nepotism hires can become bitter and resentful, even more so when they have to pickup extra work for no department praise or celebrations if the "woke" hire is bad. I also have to give cover for the "woke" hire. 5. My team starts to collapse, and I have to negotiate all sorts of shit to keep my talented hires. It's just an absolute nightmare when managing a high performance results required teams.
- colpabar 4y ago
  I agree with everything stuckinhell said as she seems to have some first hand experience with this, but I'd like to add that frankly it's just disgusting to use things like civil rights as a corporate HR move. People marched and risked a lot of real things to achieve the rights that we all have today. Now "wokeness" (which used to be cool btw) has been co-opted by corporations and we all have to pretend that a company hiring an unqualified woman who happens to be related to someone on the C-suite is progress just because she's a woman. It makes me sick, and I don't understand how anyone can defend this bullshit.
Sir_Liigmaz 4y ago
I work in bank fraud and I have seen several articles celebrating 'girl bosses' who are just trust fund kids. Or a gay CEO that embezzled $30 million. Like yay progress, I guess..?

That's the point, "woke" gives garden variety nepotism a nice shiny ESG approved cover.

kadoban 4y ago

If we get rid of everything that some asshole can use as cover, there's not going to be a lot left.

stuckinhell 4y ago
"Woke" is very different that other types of cover. "Woke" gets celebrated and praised, and people have to pretend that hire wasn't hired due to nepotism. As a manager whose been thru this rodeo, let me tell you what happens. 1. We have to have a mini celebration for "woke but really nepotistic" hire at big corporation. 2. We can never mention that persons skill or the "real" reason they got hired. 3. It gives the "elites" far more power to harass people via HR if they don't like the nepotism 4. The non-nepotism hires can become bitter and resentful, even more so when they have to pickup extra work for no department praise or celebrations if the "woke" hire is bad. I also have to give cover for the "woke" hire. 5. My team starts to collapse, and I have to negotiate all sorts of shit to keep my talented hires. It's just an absolute nightmare when managing a high performance results required teams.
colpabar 4y ago
I agree with everything stuckinhell said as she seems to have some first hand experience with this, but I'd like to add that frankly it's just disgusting to use things like civil rights as a corporate HR move. People marched and risked a lot of real things to achieve the rights that we all have today. Now "wokeness" (which used to be cool btw) has been co-opted by corporations and we all have to pretend that a company hiring an unqualified woman who happens to be related to someone on the C-suite is progress just because she's a woman. It makes me sick, and I don't understand how anyone can defend this bullshit.

Sir_Liigmaz 4y ago

I work in bank fraud and I have seen several articles celebrating 'girl bosses' who are just trust fund kids. Or a gay CEO that embezzled $30 million. Like yay progress, I guess..?