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One side-effect of DEI is that I take HR even less seriously than ever. Any HR-hosted event is most likely a hard pass for me. Even if it's something I am sligh

by brvsft 3y ago

One side-effect of DEI is that I take HR even less seriously than ever. Any HR-hosted event is most likely a hard pass for me. Even if it's something I am slightly interested in (say, company event to celebrate Diwali because we do have Indian employees, and despite not being Indian, I have some tangential interest in it partly because I respect and like many of my coworkers and partly just out of curiosity), if it's hosted by HR, I am not going to bother. We had an All Hands once where they actually spent 20+ minutes talking about the Genderbread Cookie, which I found especially egregious. Not that I have a problem with the Genderbread Cookie, but an All Hands is the most expensive meeting a company can host. Why are we learning about sex and gender identity vocabulary in that meeting? Of course, this all matters a lot less than hiring and promotion processes. I don't work at a larger company, so I don't think I've seen the worst of it. Smaller businesses still have to take what they can get, and if that means the pipeline is mostly Asian men and white men, that's who gets hired.

refulgentis 3y ago
It's sort of weird, I (used to) work at a very large company and saw pretty much none of this, at all, over last 3 years. Even people ranting anonymously in Blind would admit we had ~nothing extreme like this. Nothing even close. Yet we were famous for it. For them, the issue was feeling they couldn't share their politic opinions without derision because their coworkers were uniformly liberal. If you tweeted this and tweeted about DEI a lot I'd say you were making it up completely. You aren't. That's very very very strange. I've never even heard of the Genderbread Cookie. I've been wondering if maybe mid-small corporation try-hards were ending up doing some distorted funhouse mirror version of "let's try to interview more minorities and champion them more publicly?" and ended up doing crazy stuff.
- unwise-exe 3y ago
  > never even heard of the Genderbread Cookie. https://www.samkillermann.com/work/ https://www.samkillermann.com/work/ You can find it on that ^^ list, along with other projects by the same person.

by brvsft 3y ago

refulgentis 3y ago

It's sort of weird, I (used to) work at a very large company and saw pretty much none of this, at all, over last 3 years. Even people ranting anonymously in Blind would admit we had ~nothing extreme like this. Nothing even close. Yet we were famous for it. For them, the issue was feeling they couldn't share their politic opinions without derision because their coworkers were uniformly liberal. If you tweeted this and tweeted about DEI a lot I'd say you were making it up completely. You aren't. That's very very very strange. I've never even heard of the Genderbread Cookie. I've been wondering if maybe mid-small corporation try-hards were ending up doing some distorted funhouse mirror version of "let's try to interview more minorities and champion them more publicly?" and ended up doing crazy stuff.

unwise-exe 3y ago
> never even heard of the Genderbread Cookie. https://www.samkillermann.com/work/ https://www.samkillermann.com/work/ You can find it on that ^^ list, along with other projects by the same person.