"Sublimate until it eats me up from the inside out and then you can replace me with a tractable drone. Win-win for you."

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Originally posted by DennisM:
If you want to put down something that won't make you feel like showering with bleach after you write it, try something like: I will continue to foster a positive working environment where every employee feels free to bring their unique perspectives, concerns, and contributions to the table.

That is some masterful next-level bullshit corporate speak right there...

Modern Day Savage stops to copy/paste this gem.

I know who I will be contacting when the need for corporate woke-speak comes up.

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Originally posted by Scoutmaster:
One of the first questions, "how do you promote diversity in the classroom". My answer, "from my Army days, we recognize all the different colors, backgrounds, cultures, we acknowledge these. But we focus the fact that we are all in the same green uniform here for the same purpose. So I acknowledge all the diverse backgrounds, we are all here to learn accounting. (ie, I focus on what makes us the same, not what makes us different.

I'm going to save a variation of this idea as well for when the inevitable need arises.

"My plan and goal is to not let anyone's misguided sense of privilege, expectation of favored status, or belief in victimhood interfere with my ability to do my job, no matter how 'intersected' they might be."

Our inclusion and diversity goal continues to be actively fostering a work environment that rewards initiative and competence while encouraging acceptance and teamwork.

I think I'll incorporate some of these suggestions in the oral part of my review. The boss comments on my comments in written form and then we meet to discuss the whole thing. Hopefully it doesn't even come up then. Thanks all.

Bull Durham, 1988

Crash: You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."

Nuke: [writing] "Got to play..." Pretty boring.

Crash: Of course it's boring, that's the point. Write it down.

Things like this were part and parcel of my federal career. I lived with Affirmative Action from my first day to my last. During the Obama years it was made clear to me that people like me were not needed or wanted. Every time I hear the phrase “white privilege” and “patriarchal society,” I roll my eyes. If we were sitting around a table, I could tell some stories...

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Originally posted by Keystoner:

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What is your inclusion and diversity goal or action for this year?

I'm really irritated with this question. Am I being too sensitive? I feel like I'm being put on the defensive.

This is the best I can come up with: My goal is to call out anything opposed to that when I actually see it.

My answer would be to "treat EVERYONE as an equal,and in a fair manor"


This is something I personally do with everyone I meet ever day till they prove me otherwise.

We got a new CEO a couple years ago now, a younger guy. Overall he's been pretty good, but after the George Floyd incident he went over the top. Now we have a new Senior VP for "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility". Hell, we never even had a department/division/whatever like that before, and now within a couple of months it's become the new corporate emphasis. Everything, absolutely everything the company does, now includes a "How does this idea advance DEIA?" overtone.

The VP is, of course, a black woman. And she absolutely LIVES for this shit. Now that she has power she's determined to impose it on everybody and grind any malcontents into dust beneath her boots. Everybody is being required to take 8 hours of "training" every quarter. There's a list of articles that we're "encouraged" to read (on our own time of course), with titles like "Why not being racist isn't enough".

I've got 19 years in with the company as of 2 weeks ago. I honestly don't know if I can hold my nose long enough to make it to 20. Of course I can't say a damn thing about it, or I'd instantly become a target for HR. Oregon is not a right-to-work state and if I so much as said "I have a little problem with this whole DEIA thing..." I'd be fired before I took another breath. Don't get me wrong, I am NOT a racist. I don't give a shit what color or religion you are or who you sleep with or any of that crap. But I am sick and tired of having the whole "systemic racism" thing shoved down my throat when I have never in my life acted in a way that would be considered racist. But you know what? They're doing their best to turn me into one.

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They're doing their best to turn me into one.

It's almost like it's their objective... Almost.

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Originally posted by stoic-one:

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They're doing their best to turn me into one.

It's almost like it's their objective... Almost.

No, it is absolutely their objective to make everyone racist.

Is quoting Gunnery Sgt Hartman about how he views inclusion and diversity inappropriate?

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Originally posted by architect:
"My plan and goal is to not let anyone's misguided sense of privilege, expectation of favored status, or belief in victimhood interfere with my ability to do my job, no matter how 'intersected' they might be."

In the annual "social justice - equality - diversity" training at the college, one room had a large poster on the wall, "we take claims of victimization at face value, no proof is needed".

They were serious. One quarter they sent out a campus wide police alert, emailed to all faculty/staff, someone claimed they heard an anti-LGBT word spoken in one of the parking garages.

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Originally posted by Keystoner:

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What is your inclusion and diversity goal or action for this year?

I'm really irritated with this question. Am I being too sensitive? I feel like I'm being put on the defensive.
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Do you HAVE to answer it?

I wouldn't give the official "woke" response and I wouldn't blast them either.

If you do have to answer just say you treat everyone the SAME, period.

Good luck.

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Originally posted by Expert308:
We got a new CEO a couple years ago now, a younger guy. Overall he's been pretty good, but after the George Floyd incident he went over the top. Now we have a new Senior VP for "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility". Hell, we never even had a department/division/whatever like that before, and now within a couple of months it's become the new corporate emphasis. Everything, absolutely everything the company does, now includes a "How does this idea advance DEIA?" overtone.

The VP is, of course, a black woman. And she absolutely LIVES for this shit. Now that she has power she's determined to impose it on everybody and grind any malcontents into dust beneath her boots. Everybody is being required to take 8 hours of "training" every quarter. There's a list of articles that we're "encouraged" to read (on our own time of course), with titles like "Why not being racist isn't enough".

We're not to far away from where you're at.

Every one of our bi-monthly Town Hall meetings so far, have included some 'insight' from the VP of Inclusion and Diversity along with her minions who, like many in HR, have zero understanding or, connection with what we do or, produce. Its amazing the number of people who've shifted over from whatever department they started in, to get onboard with the I&D Dept or, the various committees they've asked people to join, give 'talks' and show how the company is progressing

At some point, our annual reviews, like Keystoner is dealing with, what actions are we doing to support the I&D goals and company values. A simple vague answer would be one thing; if they're requiring actionable goals/objectives would be something else. I usually lift some language that's been used prior and work that into a statement. Its all about using keywords and phrasing.

Implement any ideas that management deems appropriate.

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Originally posted by joel9507:
"I plan to successfully take every opportunity to fail to overlook chances to begin contemplation of the inception of the planning phase of the conceptual study of these ideas, as necessary."

Taggart: "God darnit, Mr. Lamarr, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore".

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Originally posted by joel9507:
"I plan to successfully take every opportunity to fail to overlook chances to begin contemplation of the inception of the planning phase of the conceptual study of these ideas, as necessary."

Wait, you missed out the words 'overarching', 'hierarchical', 'prosthetic', and 'eliminatory provision'.

Just say your goal is to keep your white privilege in check this year.