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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I work in... well, for OpSec I'll say security, though it's an adjacent field. But we are required to write up profiles of basically everyone that crosses our paperwork pile.
We get emails and mandatory training about "never assume xirs gender! This is super duper important!" probably once a month. It's honestly excessive. At the same time, our boss says "if you dare put 'unknown' on every "gender" checkbox for the 400 profiles per day that pass your desk because 'you didn't personally ask them what they identified as', even for one day as a prank, you're getting written up."
The profiles and reporting are for legal purposes. The company would skip it if they could: pure cost savings to not do it, if not legally required to report it. Thus, enforcement/getting written up would purely be because of legal ramifications, not internal desires. The DEI materials come from the government too. So in other words, the government is pushing the DEI on us, but the government is going to punish us if we follow it.