re: Dumbest thing your employer does?

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Equity, diversity, inclusion

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This ^^^

I don't know where to start, but its a State agency which is moving to the private or a hybrid sector.

Not soon enough though.

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Hiring and promoting people based on their race and gender. Spoiler alert: White males need not apply.

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This has to kill productivity. And not necessarily because all minorities are bad employees, many are great. But when you refuse to consider 60% of the population you’re gonna get a lot of bad employees out of the remaining 40% because a certain percentage of all demographics are useless people. Basically doing this reduces your labor pool and will lead to lower efficiency and productivity. It would have the same effect if you refused to hire anything but white men. This nations large economy requires everyone to keep it moving and you don’t have the numbers if you intentionally exclude certain demographics from consideration.

My office is included in an area whose designated tornado shelter is the company gym. Two walls in the gym are entirely covered with mirror wall panels.

With the very real prospect of glass shards and dumbells whizzing around at 150+ mph, imagine a worse place to be if a tornado rolls through.

Work for a University. You don’t get drug tested until after an accident. Afraid that most Professors or Administration wouldn’t pass. Diversity and inclusion is a joke. Allow to many to work from home. Nothing happens that day.

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Exactly, we don't ever know if it's a false alarm or not.


I've thought about sending the fire Marshall a little letter about it.

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You probably should. The first thing the fire marshal will ask is what if one of the designated exits IS the fire?

Egress is critical and having alternate exit strategies is key to managing an unknown emergency. Also key is the speed of the evacuation. First responders are usually within 2 minutes of a call, so the first question they have when reaching the site is "who is in the building"? Having a proper head count within 2 minutes is a strategy that allows first responders to fight a fire rather than search for unaccounted personnel in the building. Bottleneck an egress plan and the risk to the business increases because first responders are hand-tied with rescues.

Closest exit, always. Make the rest of your plan fit around that.

They posted a black square on their Facebook page two years ago after George Floyd

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Hires newer, less experienced employees at a higher rate than seasoned employees that have been here for 3 years.

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Check how that sits with you when you change the (3) to (15).
Not having annual performance reviews, or maintaining a wage scale based upon market value and/or inflation will lead to a multitude of problems. 100%
And some business owners totally blind to it.

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With the very real prospect of glass shards and dumbells whizzing around at 150+ mph, imagine a worse place to be if a tornado rolls through.

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Easier to deal with death benefits than long-term disability maybe

Sending out a letter to all employees stating how proud they are of the lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, and queers.