True. At least we won't have to waste time on meetings or slides or content that literally have nothing to do with the underlying business cases.
Maybe one day we can even walk and speak normally, without eggshells.
DEI (&B)
- Thread starter anonymous
- Start date
-
- Tags
- None
Maybe one day we can even walk and speak normally, without eggshells.
Excerpt from today’s WSJ:
The American people made clear they’re tired of DEI’s divisive ideology. The order repeals Executive Order 13985, which Joe Biden signed on his first day in office to promote “equity across the federal government.” By “equity” he meant equal outcomes, not equal opportunity.
Mr. Trump’s order rightly notes that DEI can lead to “illegal discrimination or preferences.” It’s appropriate the President signed the order just after Martin Luther King Jr. Day. King called America to its better self—by making good on its founding promise that people would be judged on their character and merit.
(read: NOT, their skin tone or what’s in their pants).
Got it now?
The American people made clear they’re tired of DEI’s divisive ideology. The order repeals Executive Order 13985, which Joe Biden signed on his first day in office to promote “equity across the federal government.” By “equity” he meant equal outcomes, not equal opportunity.
Mr. Trump’s order rightly notes that DEI can lead to “illegal discrimination or preferences.” It’s appropriate the President signed the order just after Martin Luther King Jr. Day. King called America to its better self—by making good on its founding promise that people would be judged on their character and merit.
(read: NOT, their skin tone or what’s in their pants).
Got it now?
Or maybe (when DEI is gone) my career’s success and even that of the company will flourish.
Maybe it has more to do with white Woman getting advanced degrees in larger numbers than any other social group.
Maybe it’s because white woman are entering the labor force at larger number numbers than any other demographic.
At the end of the day, if you needed brain surgery, you’re going to get care at the best hospital possible. I guarantee you, your criteria in choosing a hospital will NOT be based on DEI policies.
No, you’re untalented and mediocre.
So, let’s get to the big question: Is it more difficult for white guys to get hired than other groups?
The evidence suggests it’s not. Scholars have spent decades using matched resumé studies to examine whether women or men, or Black or white people, get an easier ride from potential employers. In the old days, researchers did this by mail, sending out identical resumés with only the names changed and tracking who got a call back. Today, thanks to the internet, they can send out thousands of comparable resumés, with the only difference being the name at the top — Conor and Emily, for example, versus Jamal and Lakisha.
I reviewed dozens of these types of studies, especially looking at those published in the last five years. They all told the same story.
A trio of papers for the National Bureau of Economic Research, published between 2020 and 2024, found it’s easier to get hired if you’re white. After submitting tens of thousands of resumés to a subset of Fortune 500 companies, Berkeley economist Patrick M. Kline and his coauthors found that most don’t discriminate in hiring, but a slice of companies strongly prefer white candidates.
Gender discrimination was rarer, with a handful of employers in the construction trades preferring men and a handful in retail preferring women.
By submitting so many resumés, “we were able to average out the idiosyncracies associated with any one particular hiring manager,” Kline explained. He said no companies showed a clear preference for Black candidates — and in fact, he’s never seen a resumé study where the candidate with a stereotypically Black name was preferred.
These findings are in line with other recent studies that looked only at race, like a 2023 paper by Rutgers sociologist Quan D. Mai. After submitting 12,000 comparable resumés to marketing, sales and administrative openings across 50 U.S. metro areas, Mai found some variation across different localities. But across the board, white people were most likely to get called back and Black people the least. Asian and Latino applicants ranked in the middle.
Holy Toledo who effing cares about your purported macro evidence.
To be clear, I’ve got zero skin in the game.
Look around at your friends and neighbors. If you’re 50, make, and white - you’re absolutely screwed. You’re likely not getting promoted and you’re definitely not getting hired.
This is just common knowledge.
As they say, your ‘scholars’ eg teachers are doing what they’re doing because they can’t do anything else.
Broadly speaking, when was the last time you saw a white guy post on LinkedIn that he just got a leadership role in HR?
Not in 5+ years.
Not in 5+ years.
HR? Tell the white guy to go after a real position. You, loser.
team,
only a handful of people had heart attacks from using xenadrine in doses that far exceeded the recommended use, how many people have developed cancer or other serious life conditions from using this company's drugs exactly as labeled?
team, we need to push for xenadrine to be brought back to market.
thank you for your dedication, team.
sincerely
dream team member
Team, teammates, and team members,
To be clear, we want the xenadrine with ephedra brought back to market.
Team, ephedra is not any worse than what novo is selling. Thanks, team.
Kindly,
Teammate
To be clear, we want the xenadrine with ephedra brought back to market.
Team, ephedra is not any worse than what novo is selling. Thanks, team.
Kindly,
Teammate
Ephedra team members,
Team, please read this,
Boozer, C., Daly, P., Homel, P. et al. Herbal ephedra/caffeine for weight loss: a 6-month randomized safety and efficacy trial. Int J Obes 26, 593–604 (2002). Herbal ephedra/caffeine for weight loss: a 6-month randomized safety and efficacy trial - International Journal of Obesity
Teammates, these results sound better than novo's results, don't they? Team, how can we get this supplement back on the market to help people?! Thanks for everything teams.
Kindest,
Teammate
Team, please read this,
Boozer, C., Daly, P., Homel, P. et al. Herbal ephedra/caffeine for weight loss: a 6-month randomized safety and efficacy trial. Int J Obes 26, 593–604 (2002). Herbal ephedra/caffeine for weight loss: a 6-month randomized safety and efficacy trial - International Journal of Obesity
Teammates, these results sound better than novo's results, don't they? Team, how can we get this supplement back on the market to help people?! Thanks for everything teams.
Kindest,
Teammate
Team members,
I am concerned about ephedra. When used as directed, ephedra appears to be safe and effective for short-term (and possibly long-term) weightloss. If this product becomes available OTC, what will that mean for our drug that puts an overload burden on the pancreas? Team, we need to keep money flowing to the Danes. Please, reject ephedra.
Thanks, team,
Sincerely,
Teammate
The delusion is hilarious. You’re an unaccomplished nobody. Stop kidding yourself.
This is a team. You can't make fun of team members.
Target rolls back DEI initiatives, the latest big company to retreat
PUBLISHED FRI, JAN 24 20251:06 PM EST
Melissa Repko@IN/MELISSA-REPKO@MELISSA_REPKO
- Target is rolling back its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, joining major companies like Walmart, Meta and McDonald’s.
- In a memo sent to its employees, Target it will end its three-year DEI goals, stop reports to external groups like the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index and end a program focused on carrying more products from Black- or minority-owned businesses.
- In prior years, Target had said the murder of George Floyd in the company’s hometown of Minneapolis motivated it to strengthen its DEI programs.
When used as directed, ephedra can be a safe way for Hollywood celebrities (under the supervision of a Healthcare professional) to achieve short-term weight loss (assuming manufacturers are creating safe pharmaceuticals free of adulteration and MISBRANDING).Target rolls back DEI initiatives, the latest big company to retreat
PUBLISHED FRI, JAN 24 20251:06 PM EST
Melissa Repko@IN/MELISSA-REPKO@MELISSA_REPKO
- Target is rolling back its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, joining major companies like Walmart, Meta and McDonald’s.
- In a memo sent to its employees, Target it will end its three-year DEI goals, stop reports to external groups like the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index and end a program focused on carrying more products from Black- or minority-owned businesses.
- In prior years, Target had said the murder of George Floyd in the company’s hometown of Minneapolis motivated it to strengthen its DEI programs.