People who were forced to take a DEI class

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ? Voltaire

DEI is an absurdity

Which in itself is BS because that shows that the corporate world bows down to what use to be their road to forge ahead

You don't ask questions, and you sure as Christmas don't share your opinions - they're not welcome.

Put your head down, get through it, and go back to your job.

I hate these people so much.

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What was the result of the class?

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I learned that Dale Earnhardt is the GOAT.

Like most trainings I'm forced to take, I put the training video on, muted it, and went on with my work. When the video was over there was some ridiculous test I had to take that I only needed to score a 70 on to pass which was easy.

Ours was quite good. I work in STEM (I'll leave it at that), so we naturally have an issue attracting females and POC. The focus of the training was not to shame the current staff or force anyone to hire underqualified people for the sale of diversity, but to look for ways to get these groups interested in STEM from a young age, so that the next generation of leaders doesnt have to worry about DEI at all.

We don't do mandatory DEI training, but we had a "grass roots" DEI movement here. Humorously, me and one other based dude were invited to the meetings. Both of us have always been careful to not tip our hand to political leaning, thoughts on wokeism, etc. which no doubt had a part in us getting invited to the "DEI & Culture" meetings in the first place.

Most of the group were your typical moonbats. He and I mostly just listened for the first few weeks, even agreed to some of the BS being thrown about: misogyny in the workplace, not enough minorities in leadership positions, etc.

We spoke up when the group wanted to define what DEI meant to our company..

Diversity: Being a foreign-based company, we are probably the most diverse company in Oklahoma. Small majority white but lots of Asians, blacks & hispanics. It happens organically. And thankfully, we don't do diversity hires here.

Equity: We, like most companies, have equity baked into our policies and local laws. This is where the arguments began as we pointed out that 'equity' means equal opportunity, not equal outcomes. Some screeching and howling did occur during this discussion.

Inclusion: This is literally the only choice-based 'DEI' pillar. And we have a framework which allows employees to privately bring to HR complaints of exclusion; HR is then obliged to investigate.

The whole thing was so dumb because again, we are organically diverse and it doesn't matter what color your skin is or male/female, if you're good at what you do, you will get ahead. Once HR learned what was going on in these weekly meetings, they shut it down because it wasn't HR-sponsored in the first place.

Yep . . . you're not really given a choice.

had one of these several years ago that was live in a conference room; me, my direct VP, and the CFO sat there making fun of nearly everything they said. That obviously wouldn't fly now.