DEI

 Diversity, equity and inclusion is absolutely exhausting. Every time I turn around it’s time to recognize someone for something else. One month it’s recognizing someone because they’re black, the next month it’s because they’re women, next it’s Arab American recognition month. Recognizing people not because of their merit and contribution but because of an attribute they have no control over - something genetic.  

In May it is LGBTQ awareness month so we can celebrate people for their sexuality and relationship choices and perversions.  At breakfast today there was some 300 pound fat man with a beard and braided hair acting like a prissy woman carrying a purse wearing 1970s trailer trash earrings.  Get out of here and go see a therapist.  When he arrived to his groups table everyone fawned over him and he melted into his chair when the conversation resumed. No one talked to him and he didn’t talk unless it was about him.  He/she/it/they/them/za/zim/zam/flim/flam/shutthefuckup.

Over the last 5 years it has become obvious to me that the participation trophy generation has entered the workforce.  They wanted to be recognized for attributes that don’t have anything to do with their contributions or performance to the workplace.  They want to be celebrated for who they are - not what they accomplish.  Isn’t that a friends and family thing?  It is for me.  Perhaps my leadership hasn’t evolved with the times?

And this practice of putting preferred pronouns in email signatures?  This is woke nonsense virtue signaling that is utterly idiotic.  But it matters to someone.  My question is how many people play along with it just because it’s trendy?  Probably started by an egghead from Harvard.

I’m Gen X.  By default we don’t care about all these trivialities.  We’re mean.  We’re hard.  We’re callous.  How did we raise a bunch of delicate little flowers?  We have failed.