re: Any direct interaction with diversity hires? Screw DEI

At my job the only DEI hires I've seen are floor workers and our dispatch manager.

With the floor workers, they took the hiring process away from our operations manager and went with an outside contractor "recruiting and hiring team" to place new employees in the facility.

The overall quality of new floor workers has gone pretty much to shite. Over the past two years they've hired and placed 4 women on the floor, and three of them didn't make it past their first day of labor. The fourth was one hell of a tough Native broad who made it a whole 10 days. We tried telling the contractor that this just isn't a job for women (floor work is extremely high stress and physical) but it's like they just have to keep trying to find a woman to prove us wrong. Aside from that, we went through three years of revolving-door turnover because of "minority" hires. They refuse for some reason to hire Mexicans, but they'll hire any black dude with a pulse and it has caused attrition. We work with some really great black guys and some pretty sorry white guys, so it's definitely not a color thing, but when there are 30 applicants for a position and 29 of them are ignored because they're white, I sure wish the recruiter wouldn't make it a color thing.

The dispatch manager, OTOH, found the right knob to gobble and is pretty openly having an affair with the guy that used to be her boss before he changed from ops to the engineering side. I wouldn't necessarily say she's bad at her job but she's certainly not good at it, and one of the requirements for that job is to run driver routes in a pinch when necessary, and in two years she has never done so because she can't do the physical labor so she delegates and gets away with it. Our HR team won't touch the issue because they're also woke and ate up with the DEI, so they just pretend it's not a problem.

Thankfully my coworker and I answer to the engineering side of the company that acts almost as its own independent entity, and completely avoids the crap that muddies the waters, but I still have to work in the same facility and deal with the same bad hires made by an outsider.