I finally managed to land a real job with real benefits, and this is my first foray into corporate America. In grad school the nonsense was largely limited to emails I could have a chuckle about and move on with my day. Is the corporate world any worse than this or are the virtue signaling retards just as easy to ignore?
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In IT every corporation, big or small is still heavy on DIE crap. The last time I had to change jobs was because it was affecting my mental health, I was part of those who would test new hires. White males could and did get offers but any woman, no matter how incompetent got a job offer, they could literally know nothing about the required skills and could get hired. At one point someone in management thought we need it more Arabs, because diversity, but we couldn't find them locally so they had to bring some over from Canada and Egypt, it turned out to be a mess all around and one guy was on the global terror watch list and he was not allowed to be involved with clients from several countries.
The job before that one, we had annual training that involved:
They also had a habit of firing the older 40-50 year old white guys when ever they wanted to do job cuts.
Now I'm not working at an IT company but at the IT department of a company. It is better but still had people praising diversity and efforts to increase diversity was part of the last corpo status meeting. No training and no calls for diversity in IT specifically, not that would matter as we're 80% Indians anyway - I hate working with Indians (dots not feathers). No DIE program compares with the ingroup bias of Indians and their complete lack of morals.
Can confirm, have a job where the a new department got made a few years prior and a women got placed as the department lead, few weeks ago they came into the main support room for their department asking 'hey what is this thing?' when the thing was the primary software piece that department was actively working on and having meetings on that they were in every fucking week.
2-3 years as a head with at least bi-weekly meetings and they know fuck-all about the software they're supposedly responsible for.
Last I recall, that department has 1 or 2 white dudes, 5-6 women, most in 'lead' rolls of course with maybe 2 of them actually knowing wtf is going on there, then a bunch of indians/asians for the rest of the department.
It seems the same everywhere. I actually have a funny story from a friend. She got hired at a startup that was to good to be true, high on diversity but gave trips to France as rewards, high salaries and ton of vacations etc.
My friend got in a small team with a dude and another woman, the other woman had almost no skills but tons of experience, her experience was getting the guys to do her job because she was hot. Funny part was that because of the DIE requirements the guy was gay so she was struggling like crazy to do basic stuff. My friend enjoyed her suffering very much. Of course the startup crashed and burned in a few years.
The large bank I’m leaving is basically majority Indian here and in India. Diversity doesn’t matter there - no women are promoted and only the top castes are hired. If the bank kept pushing DEI I’d be asking about that in public forums.
A different branch of my department got an Indian lead, in 1 year the team was almost only Indians with just 1 white guy left that I brought over to my team. That 1 white guy was treated like crap in order to force him to leave but no one cares that Indians do this and worse.
For a lefty, a department that is 100% Indian it's 100% diverse.