Night
I ran a covert experiment. Hiring for a vacant position and let the recruiting team handle the selection process. Sure enough…. A diversity, equity and inclusion hire.
Diversity is a priority in the company. And diverse isn't so diverse anymore. As a matter of fact, the time has come for the words diversity, equity and inclusion to include Anglo representation.
Nine people currently report to me. I'm the only Anglo.
My immediate peer group consists of seven people. I'm the only Anglo.
At the regional level it's 50/50. At the director level there is no Anglo person.
If we broaden the scope and look at the supervisor level, out of 50 people there are 3 anglos.
We have all these community resource groups for gay people, Asian people, black people, Hawaiian people, disabled people etc. There's no group for anglos. Why is that?
Most of the people in SLC have been outsourced to machine or India. Why is that?
Our company is led by an Anglo woman. Every member of the senior level is white except for one who is in charge of DEI. That's in her title.
At every upper leadership event our ceo remarks of how proud she is to see all the diversity, aka brown people, in the room. And always follows with remarking about how historically that wouldn't be the case. A feather in her cap. Is her husband white? Does she have white guilt? Is she trying to right historical wrong doings? Did the job really go to the most qualified candidate?
I don't know. I don't care. And it's not my problem.
Maybe we should call ourselves night. But spell it with a k. A fly by knight operation.
I'm not particularly proud of this post but it weighs on my mind.
Diversity is a priority in the company. And diverse isn't so diverse anymore. As a matter of fact, the time has come for the words diversity, equity and inclusion to include Anglo representation.
Nine people currently report to me. I'm the only Anglo.
My immediate peer group consists of seven people. I'm the only Anglo.
At the regional level it's 50/50. At the director level there is no Anglo person.
If we broaden the scope and look at the supervisor level, out of 50 people there are 3 anglos.
We have all these community resource groups for gay people, Asian people, black people, Hawaiian people, disabled people etc. There's no group for anglos. Why is that?
Most of the people in SLC have been outsourced to machine or India. Why is that?
Our company is led by an Anglo woman. Every member of the senior level is white except for one who is in charge of DEI. That's in her title.
At every upper leadership event our ceo remarks of how proud she is to see all the diversity, aka brown people, in the room. And always follows with remarking about how historically that wouldn't be the case. A feather in her cap. Is her husband white? Does she have white guilt? Is she trying to right historical wrong doings? Did the job really go to the most qualified candidate?
I don't know. I don't care. And it's not my problem.
Maybe we should call ourselves night. But spell it with a k. A fly by knight operation.
I'm not particularly proud of this post but it weighs on my mind.
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