They don't care. I told my boss I wasn't on board with the social justice and implicit bias stuff, and he had me speak with his boss to see if the company could do anything. I didn't even say anything power-level revealing: I just described basic values that literally anyone who was born in the 80s would have been taught in school with regards to race relations: "equality of opportunity" and "colorblind society" tier stuff.
The response was (I'm paraphrasing but not by much) "OK well now people are starting to see that line of thinking as outdated and flawed"
They don't care. Your line of thinking is obsolete and to be discarded. Standing up to it would be like an atheist at church standing up against the priest while he's giving a sermon. At best they'll put up with you; at worst they'll just throw you out.
The fact that you offered any resistance whatsoever was as big of a power level reveal as throwing a sieg heil to these people. As soon as you think you know the answers, they become even more hysterical and change the questions.
This year we head new training with stuff like microaggression and protected class, this was on top of the LGBT and other crap. You could post feedback anonymously after the course but now I noticed that the feedback page no longer said anonymously, it may be just an error and it is still anonymous but I did not take the chance, considering the industry habit of having white males first to be fired when downsizing and COVID induced recession on the horizon I need to keep a low profile.
I wanted to point out in the feedback the same thing, you are basically asking us to treat people different based on race and gender and the end result is that no one will interact with others except when you had to and no personal connections will be formed and no desire to help others if you did not absolutely had to.
It was actually in the course that if a black person speaks you should think before interrupting or it could be a microaggression
We had that last year for the first time, and someone complained about something I said during the training. My response when my boss finished telling me I couldn't say what I said was "OK well I'm just never going to talk to this person ever again, and that will solve my problem."
This is the solution - just don’t engage these people. Working from home is a major plus here bc there is little to zero casual conversation where the crazies can look for their demons.
If you do your job well and avoid the nut jobs, you’ll advance into leader positions and be spared all of this nonsense.
I’ve been in business over 20 years and HR training is always just show up and check the box. I’ve been in leader roles for the past 10 years - stop engaging the people you know are problems and focus on your core objectives. This will guarantee you’re out of the transactional work bucket with all the other crabs. But you have to be smart and know what battles are worth your time.
Both sides of the coin are causing problems at work bc both sides are convinced they’re right. At the end of the day, they’re problem employees who cannot get along or focus and they will remain at the bottom bc they’re unable to perform at a high level due to their own stupid thoughts and hang ups regarding other people’s behavior.
If you choose to get in the mud with the nut jobs and sling it with them, that will be your job forever. It’s your choice.
Oh I've been working from home for far longer than this past year; it's the only thing that's kept me out of trouble this long.
That said it's the business that has decided to focus on "diversity" and "social justice" over its core objectives. They are the ones who have decided to break the truce, not I. From a moral standpoint, an employee responding to that isn't the one "causing trouble" any more than a pacifist employee responding to their employer deciding one day they're going to produce weapons is. Though from a tactical/survival standpoint it may not be wise to do so.
Anyways there are other ways to fight back then just slinging mud at the pigs.
They don't care. I told my boss I wasn't on board with the social justice and implicit bias stuff, and he had me speak with his boss to see if the company could do anything. I didn't even say anything power-level revealing: I just described basic values that literally anyone who was born in the 80s would have been taught in school with regards to race relations: "equality of opportunity" and "colorblind society" tier stuff.
The response was (I'm paraphrasing but not by much) "OK well now people are starting to see that line of thinking as outdated and flawed"
They don't care. Your line of thinking is obsolete and to be discarded. Standing up to it would be like an atheist at church standing up against the priest while he's giving a sermon. At best they'll put up with you; at worst they'll just throw you out.
The fact that you offered any resistance whatsoever was as big of a power level reveal as throwing a sieg heil to these people. As soon as you think you know the answers, they become even more hysterical and change the questions.
Yes I don't recommend people do that unless they are prepared to be fired. Which I was.
This year we head new training with stuff like microaggression and protected class, this was on top of the LGBT and other crap. You could post feedback anonymously after the course but now I noticed that the feedback page no longer said anonymously, it may be just an error and it is still anonymous but I did not take the chance, considering the industry habit of having white males first to be fired when downsizing and COVID induced recession on the horizon I need to keep a low profile.
I wanted to point out in the feedback the same thing, you are basically asking us to treat people different based on race and gender and the end result is that no one will interact with others except when you had to and no personal connections will be formed and no desire to help others if you did not absolutely had to.
It was actually in the course that if a black person speaks you should think before interrupting or it could be a microaggression
We had that last year for the first time, and someone complained about something I said during the training. My response when my boss finished telling me I couldn't say what I said was "OK well I'm just never going to talk to this person ever again, and that will solve my problem."
This is the solution - just don’t engage these people. Working from home is a major plus here bc there is little to zero casual conversation where the crazies can look for their demons.
If you do your job well and avoid the nut jobs, you’ll advance into leader positions and be spared all of this nonsense.
I’ve been in business over 20 years and HR training is always just show up and check the box. I’ve been in leader roles for the past 10 years - stop engaging the people you know are problems and focus on your core objectives. This will guarantee you’re out of the transactional work bucket with all the other crabs. But you have to be smart and know what battles are worth your time.
Both sides of the coin are causing problems at work bc both sides are convinced they’re right. At the end of the day, they’re problem employees who cannot get along or focus and they will remain at the bottom bc they’re unable to perform at a high level due to their own stupid thoughts and hang ups regarding other people’s behavior.
If you choose to get in the mud with the nut jobs and sling it with them, that will be your job forever. It’s your choice.
Oh I've been working from home for far longer than this past year; it's the only thing that's kept me out of trouble this long.
That said it's the business that has decided to focus on "diversity" and "social justice" over its core objectives. They are the ones who have decided to break the truce, not I. From a moral standpoint, an employee responding to that isn't the one "causing trouble" any more than a pacifist employee responding to their employer deciding one day they're going to produce weapons is. Though from a tactical/survival standpoint it may not be wise to do so.
Anyways there are other ways to fight back then just slinging mud at the pigs.
Exactly. The progressives rule. Either abide by their rules or get out. They will not tolerate malcontents.