re: How many of your coworkers are WOKE?

I think I would excel at being a Woke troll. That could be fun- basically a license to use your comedy acting skills, be completely insufferable, and get rewarded for it. I’d wear a soy milk camelback and demand to be called Penelope but pronounced Penny lope because I identify as an inner city black womyn.

Before I retired, it was easier counting the ones who were not. Out of several hundred, I was pretty sure of 4 of us.

Some disguised their wokeness well but you could tel by their interests.

Birds of a feather...

0 at our Northshore Office

2 at our NOLA office

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None. I work in construction with my HANDS. Kneel for the cross and stand for the flag is what we do. Take the dirt road to work and out of work with a tall boy in hand.

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Try that in a small town.

None

About 350 out of 1000.
People who claim to be moderate but use pronouns.
Company has affinity clubs for those with mental disorders while the rest of us do the real work that keeps the company afloat.

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That is one of the definitions of woke folks.

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What are the other definitions?

I haven't worked since 2010. Before I left, my print advertising company had gone thru "Communications" training where, on day one, we were told sarcasm was bullying.

This week long communications training was something all of our Dallas and Houston based mangers had gone thru in Atlanta, and came back raving about it. Them sucking up to the owner like they were about the training, and fact that the owner had paid for those trips let us all know it was important to her. We did our training in a Dallas hotel conference center. The company had evolved into a place where appearances were as important as reality, if not more import. IMHO that kind of thinking is what got us where we are now.

Our HR department had already instituted policies about things we shouldn't discuss in the office. In an office where in the past we talked about anything and everything thru the years, we had to start thinking about not offending someone.

They had hired a transsexual around 2008 or 2009. Having that in the office caused everyone to have to curtail joking about what would now be called LGBTQ? topics. When a sales rep on our team left, the tranny put in a request to transfer to our team. When my boss asked me about the possibility of her sitting right behind me, I told him I was afraid I might say something that had nothing to do with her, that might offend her, and I'd lose my job. Everyone else was worried about the same thing.

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We had lots of gay guys and girls working in the office since I started there in 1984. Just like with Black, Hispanic, foreign coworkers, really anyone who maybe seemed a little different, we all joked around with each other. Being from Louisiana was like being a foreigner in that office when I started working there. Some of the guys in the office called me Roscoe, like the guy from the Duke of Hazard.

I think the appearances being more important than reality all started with a HR person they hired. Before anyone in the company had gone to the Communications training, we had gone thru a bunch of HR training that dealt with things like quid pro quo harassment. At the time, I kind of thought it was more for managers than us sales reps, but in the training they had made up scenarios where it could come into play with us. That was when I fist thought it felt like they were more worried about how things looked than how they really were.

Most of my coworkers are in the bay area so most of them.

The company has over 5000 employees and is eat up with DEI.

How many are woke and how many are just going through the motions is unknown.