This hit way too close to home for me
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What's become very apparent to me since WuFlu made all our meetings remote forced me to interact with people I usually wouldn't is how feminized the office has become. It's hard to describe, but it's most noticeable when I see people in our site meetings chat feel-good empty platitudes and praise at each other for what seem like very non-noteworthy accomplishments. And what's worse is it's starting to infect people I've known and worked with for years who I know under normal circumstances wouldn't act like this.
Our last company-wide meeting had a title that made it sound like I was going to prom instead of a serious business meeting.
I don't see much of a future here for myself and people like me, to be honest. Probably for the best; better to build up our own institutions instead of support ones run by those who hate us.
I'd take it further and say that in all aspects of society we need to start thinking that way. Don't use public schools: homeschool or get together with a group of neighborhood families. Organize your own outings instead of putting your kids through Scouts. Teach your kids to organize pickup games instead of signing them up to sports leagues. Start your own social clubs with people who share your values and have similar goals. Start your own businesses and patronize those of like-minded individuals.
And then gatekeep it all like crazy.
Until all of your groups are on the evening news as racist/sexist/etc and some diversity hire judge forces you to integrate.
This will just cause your kids to view you as the crazy parents that doesn't let them do anything with their friends and they will hate you.
Yeah, starting up your own company doesn't mean shit. Here in Minneapolis, there's Muslim-owned Middle Eastern restaurant called Holy Land. It's one of the most well-known and has been around for ages. A few months ago, they immediately lost the lease to their uptown location because somebody dug up some anti-black post the owner's daughter made 12 or 13 years ago. This was right when the Fentanyl Floyd shit started going down. The only reason they have their original location is because they owned it outright. Nobody and nothing is safe, really.
I know EXACTLY what you're talking about. It's drives me nuts because it's all so obviously fake, yet you're expected to participate and act like you sincerely "care", otherwise everyone thinks you're an asshole.
Luckily my team is almost entirely male. There are like 2 girls that are in other teams that frequently work with us but that is about it. When those 2 are not in the meeting is a lot of swearing and some colorful and fun language going on. There is something about someone telling you to fucking do this or that and stop wasting time instead of some stupid passive aggressive shit that resonates with me. I love it.
That's the way it used to be, and my department used to have a "handshake agreement" with HR where they'd deliberately avoid our part of the building so they couldn't find something to be offended by. There's still some of that, but some of the more colorful people have gotten promotions that limit their ability to talk like that; and the HR manager we had that "handshake agreement" with is no longer there. So it's moving in the wrong direction.
Sounds like a good time for a strike.
I anticipate I will eventually end up being fired for either refusing to comply with some WuFlu policy or refusing to take "diversity and inclusion" training when they inevitably make it mandatory (currently it is optional).
My counterpart in the mechanical engineering department is similarly unhappy, and I wouldn't be surprised if he retires in the next year. If/when these events happen they will be in bad shape for quite some time, though the company is too big and bureaucratic for them to actually change any policies as a result.
TBH that sounds better
You know what you get when a multi-national corporation tries to make an online meeting "hip" and "fun" while simultaneously not trying to offend anyone? You get something like the Democratic National Convention. I'll take cash flow and revenue charts over that any day of the week.
Well, you said prom first, not the DNC. I never got to experience prom and I don't want to experience the DNC.