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Meeting invite: Board Room Selfie
Tues, 11a-2p.
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u/Viewtifultrey3 Feb 07 '23
Typical corporate - schedule a 3 hour meeting for something that takes 30 seconds.
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u/Lostscribe007 Feb 07 '23
Could have been an email
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u/apollosnightmare28 Feb 07 '23
Could have literally been an email.
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u/sleepyleperchaun Feb 08 '23
I had a meeting going over a simple email policy update that was sent. Literally a meeting regarding an email and that we understood it. Idk how companies worry about productivity and still have meetings like this.
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u/sgtticklebuns Feb 08 '23
It's because upper management doesn't actually do anything and they need to make shit up to look productive
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u/psychicdestroyer Feb 07 '23
This guy knows how it is
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u/MNCPA Feb 07 '23
Did you discuss this during the daily stand-up?
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u/snuff3r Feb 07 '23
You know, It just occured to me.. the companies I've worked for that promote the daily stand up the heaviest are generally the companies I've disliked working for the most..
Funny shower thought I just had ...
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u/MNCPA Feb 07 '23
I was invited to daily stand-up meetings. The manager was insistent that everyone actually stand-up in person. I stayed seated, because I usually had emails to respond to. Needless to say, I was taken off the daily stand-up roster. Actually, maybe unrelated, this manager later had a stress related stroke and retired early.
Tldr - ask why and get removed from redundant meetings.
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u/snuff3r Feb 07 '23
Oh man, all the ones I've had are with companies that do the "oh, hey! Look here! We bought the most expensive digital boards in the world and attached them to a trolley! That's how cool we are!" thing.
Then they'd roll it over yonder away from desks.. just so they can passive-aggressively call out the staff who aren't making the effort to attend.
Lol.
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u/AxeCow Feb 07 '23
The fifteen minute meeting that always ends up being 45 mins? Nah, we’ll circle back to that in the scrum of scrums
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u/Last-Classroom1557 Feb 07 '23
I called this meeting this morning to inform you all that we won't be having a meeting due to Ken's prostate surgery. Thanks.
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u/Malusch Feb 07 '23
A lot of people have complained about losing to much time to meetings so I've booked this full day workshop to figure out how we can stop wasting time. Yes, this is mandatory, no you can't leave if you have a deadline, you can fix that later.
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u/Castun Feb 07 '23
no you can't leave if you have a deadline, you can fix that later.
"But it's my day to pickup my kids from school at 3:30 and you scheduled this meeting even though I have that time specifically blocked off on my calendar!!!"
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u/Occulto Feb 07 '23
"This was the only time free in everyone's calendar."
"That's because it's lunchtime, Susan."
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u/Apprehensive_Two8504 Feb 07 '23
She's a bit blurry, but farthest back on the left could be asian.
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u/BuzzVibes Feb 07 '23
That's a bit racist. Many Asian people suffer from blurry face through no fault of their own. In fact some even have blurry genitals, I found this out from, er, research.
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u/YetisNotReal Feb 07 '23
BYOPSL
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u/13aph Feb 07 '23
Burger Yes Orange Peel Super Lordship
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u/invol713 Feb 07 '23
As if it could possibly be anything else.
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u/13aph Feb 07 '23
I actually, jokes aside, have no idea that the acronym meant past “Bring Your Own”
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u/ladalyn Feb 07 '23
Bring Your Own Pumpkin Spice Latte, for those wondering
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u/Monnifonnikonni Feb 07 '23
Echo chamber?
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u/Kenny_Squeek_Scolari Feb 07 '23
Echo chamber
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u/anonymous_reddit_guy Feb 07 '23
Echo chamber
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u/phillallmighty Feb 07 '23
Echo chamber
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u/WHITE2570 Feb 07 '23
Echo Chamber
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u/boskho Feb 07 '23
Echo Chamber
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u/Evil_Archangel Feb 07 '23
Echo chamber
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u/Revofvbgjh Feb 07 '23
That is truly something missing in the small pathetic minds of companies like these.
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u/NOTDA1 Feb 07 '23
So who is gonna write an article on Black history month? Is there a De-nice?
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u/QuantumFiddle Feb 07 '23
And of this site. What small mins don't realize is the bougie ruling class like to keep us fighting amongst ourselves to distract us from their crimes against humanity. You think a rich man hates rich women, or a rich black hates a rich white?
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u/Conscious-One4521 Feb 07 '23
Million dollar question: Would you want to work at this "diverse" environment, given that this is their definition of "diversity"? If you say no you're sexist
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u/just_fish_ass Feb 07 '23
The funny thing is this is straight-up a complete lack of diversity. Diversity is about inclusion, not exclusion. When we exclude, we fight the very thing we're supposedly fighting for.
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u/BoredomHeights Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 08 '23
My friend literally, to his face, got told he was "the only non-diverse person on the team" the other day. Obviously he knew what they meant and I have no idea if his team is actually diverse (meaning like a good mix of genders/backgrounds/races/whatever) or like we see in the OP picture, but it was still just funny to hear. "You're the only one not different!"
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u/hambluegar_sammwich Feb 08 '23
No no no all media must feature only blacks and Asians, preferably non-binary and/or in a same sex relationship. Only then will we have conquered discrimination.
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u/syzamix Feb 07 '23
Any one with two brain cells can see this is group is not diverse.
They might be promoting diversity and empowerment (like any all-black or all-women or any other all-minority group) but the group is not diverse.
I think people would do well to know what the different words mean.
Diversity initiatives is not the same as diverse team.
Diversity initiatives often focus on certain groups - not everybody. Because the assumption is that everybody is not at the same playing field
So if their goal was to give roles to groups that tend to get left out, great win! If their goal was to have a diverse team - this is no different than all white old male group.
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u/RavenBrannigan Feb 07 '23
“Diversity is important as long as it means more jobs for people like me” - these people probably
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u/The_Void_Reaver Feb 07 '23
Look, the most important voice when it comes to standing up for minorities and against injustice is the 28 year-old middle class white woman who’s still having their rent partially supported by their parents.
It’s way easier to focus on empowering women because they can champion equality without having to look at their biases or think about how their very narrow view of inclusion is active oppression for everyone not directly aligned with their specific goals.
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u/Burner-is-burned Feb 07 '23
Here come the downvotes but I don't care.
As a minority I don't give a shit about diversity in the workplace. I want the most qualified and competent coworkers. That's it.
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u/OkFinance5784 Feb 08 '23
Except for Gladys...she gets a pass...she is old as dirt and can't do shit, but she hands out hard candies and reminds me of my dead mee-maw.
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u/Farandr Feb 07 '23
"Equality is when I continuously take time off for my 3 kids, I have to take a maternity leave for my fourth, yet I expect to be promoted over the guy who does all the work around here"
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u/jayydubbya Feb 07 '23
This is the true cause of the gender pay gap not sexism. It’s a maternity gap and is not an easy issue to fix. I am a single 33 year old guy with no kids. I’m available to work OT which is time and a half which is more money right there and then come review time I usually get outstanding reviews for all the extra work which means higher bonuses and opportunities for advancement.
It’s not at all the simplified “the patriarchy hates women!” argument feminists try to make.
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u/mythrilcrafter Feb 07 '23
Can I just throw in the fact that a lot of men don't want to be absent fathers and do want to take maternity leave for the first periods of their children's lives too?
If the company gives you a benefit in your contract, you take it; in six months no one at the company is going to care that you missed the birth of your first born just to be in a workshop meeting that could have been an email or an online training video/quiz.
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u/jayydubbya Feb 07 '23
100% giving men equal paternity leave would be healthier for the child’s development to bond with their child as well as reduce stress on the mother. It’d be a win for everyone.
I’m not arguing against maternity leave at all just saying it isn’t an easy issue to address in a production driven capitalist society.
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u/mythrilcrafter Feb 07 '23
To be perfectly honest, if the last 3 years has taught me anything, it's that while corporations do value production, they want production and the status quo at the same time.
Productivity the last 50 years is up nearly 300%, companies will just throw some wage/salary stagnation in there.
People who are in roles more suited for Work From Home are more productive in WFH? Nah, the corpo's paid rent on the building and would rather have people engaging in water cooler chat than being productive.
People are more efficient and effective in 4-10 work weeks than 5-8? No, middle managers need butts in chairs, other wise they become unnecessary.
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u/Repulsive-Baker281 Feb 07 '23
Straight up white girls. Editor-in-chief was like: Dear sorority sisters, I have job openings for anyone who wants one!
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u/JohnLockeNJ Feb 07 '23
“As part of our new diversity initiative, we hired Becky from Phi Sig Sig! We’ve never had a Phi Sig Sig, so Becky we’ll need you to share your perspectives with us.”
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u/rockstar504 Feb 07 '23
Where I'm at, manufacturing, managers are hired based on "they served in the military too"
Skill and abilities completely irrelevant
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u/GoogleBoogie Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23
Hiring only women is just as bad as hiring only men. Hire based on ability to do the job, gender or race should never have anything to do with that.
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u/CanderousOreo Feb 07 '23
Ugh, yes. My husband works at a place where the owner only promotes women to management positions. My husband was an executive at the last location, but only shift lead at this place because, like I said the owner only promotes women. There is one male director she hired, but only because he's a close family friend. And even this close family friend is absolutely pissed at the way she's running the place. What's worse is she still makes my husband do management work, without the title or pay. And he sucks it up because there aren't any better jobs available in our area. However one of the women managers told him that maintenance wasn't important enough to have a position (he already did all the maintenance on top of his other jobs, and requested that a maintenance position be made or at least extra pay for doing all of it.) So he stopped doing maintenance because it's not important enough to pay him to do. Well, stuff in the kitchen has started breaking and catching fire now. The owner kept giving my husband dirty looks last meeting, but it's legitimately not even in his job description. She just expects him to do it with no extra time scheduled for it or pay on top of his normal stuff -- the last location paid for him to get a maintenance certification, and paid him extra for it, and scheduled him time specifically to do maintenance.
Sorry, I'm frustrated, I shouldn't just rant on a random comment about this.
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u/problematikUAV Feb 07 '23
This is Reddit that’s exactly what you should do
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u/cbass55379 Feb 07 '23
Sexism not racism lol
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u/exyccc Feb 07 '23
That's racist
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u/Shylo8 Feb 07 '23
"That's Homophobic"
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u/obviouslyCPTobvious Feb 07 '23
prejudiced might be a better word than racist here
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u/SoMBulzye Feb 07 '23
Please please don’t make the same mistake I did, I had the same thing and carried on because it coulda been worse, then it got worse, but I could handle it, then it got worse, and is still getting worse.
Surely you can open a discrimination lawsuit, or go to hr, or speak to her manager. It’s literally discrimination and he shouldn’t have to deal with it because of the way he was born.
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u/CanderousOreo Feb 07 '23
Well this summer my husband finally gets his degree after 9 years of part time school, and as soon as he has that piece of paper we're leaving this hell hole anyway. And a large handful of staff have actually flat out said that when he leaves, they're quitting, because he's the only good thing about the store. So I'll be very satisfied seeing her evening shift fall apart after the employee she's been taking for granted leaves.
We may report her to corporate anyways.
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u/CitizenPain00 Feb 07 '23
Entitled Boomer white women who also use progressive thought and feminism to continue to improve their seat at the table
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u/Nanaki_TV Feb 07 '23
Entitled Boomer
Let me assure you that it is not just the Boomers. I've met plenty of Millennials like me that are straight up Karens. Worse yet, they are polite know it alls and have a smugness about them like they are actually helping you out! Boomer-Karens are in a hissy because you aren't helping them. Millennial-Karens are in a hissy because you're not helping them and you need to know why you're wrong and how you're going to address the "Problematic" behavior.
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u/RawrRRitchie Feb 07 '23
literally kicked out of a gynecologists office when I tried to bring my daughter in
Rip to all the single dad's out there, or gay dad's with daughters
I get a doctor's office is supposed to be a safe place but preventing a parent from being in the waiting room is utterly ridiculous, it's not like you were shadowing the doctor while they're looking at your daughters crotch
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u/SammyC25268 Feb 07 '23
observation: i've rarely seen an Asian or Hispanic women throwing a fit in public like white women.
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u/Etherius Feb 07 '23
I always think the idea that “the world would be a better place if women ran it” is incredibly stupid since people just generally suck at treating each other fairly and women are also part of the “people” set
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Besides we all know the world be better if I ran it. Because none of you exist when I'm not looking at you anyway.
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u/Nuber13 Feb 07 '23
They tried this with a friend, they wanted to hire more black people and the company office is in Eastern Europe. After a while they realized that there aren't many black people in Eastern Europe and even less with the required skills. They had to increase the salary of my friend just to get him back.
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u/spadelover Feb 07 '23
Your husband should make sure there's a paper trail of this kind of behaviour. Save the incriminating emails and whatnot in case he ever needs to prove discrimination / violations of labour law.
Or don't. You probably know what's best.
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u/CanderousOreo Feb 07 '23
That's a good idea, we're thinking of reporting her to corporate, but he's wary to do anything inflammatory until this summer when he gets his degree and can leave this town.
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u/mydaycake Feb 07 '23
Unfortunately sometimes you always get the same type of candidate.
I, once, have to hire for a position and I didn’t read names on purpose. I asked HR to just give me the resumes, you could still make up the gender in some but not all. I ended up hiring a minority of the same gender than the rest of my employees because that was the best candidate. The pool was diverse but I needed a good employee.
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u/GoogleBoogie Feb 07 '23
For editors at the Huffington post though? They have more applicants than just white women.
And then to make a smug tweet about the fact that there are no men just puts a sour taste in my mouth.
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u/Bradddtheimpaler Feb 07 '23
It shows about as sophisticated an understanding of feminism I would expect from HuffPo.
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u/Forsaken_Upstairs96 Feb 07 '23
That’s not unfortunate that is reality. It will all change eventually as humanity changes but it’s nothing to complain about in the scenario you outline.
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u/biz_reporter Feb 07 '23
As a former journalist, I see this as an endemic problem with journalism in general. Just yesterday I saw a promotion for a discussion targeted to middle aged journalists about work-life balance, and the entire panel was female. It wasn't sold as a women's event, but the makeup of the panel implied it.
The media industry by default pays less. As a result, it tends to push men out of the industry. Most of the men who remain are bachelors or have a wife who is the main bread winner. As the main earner in my household, I couldn't stay in the industry. I took my talents elsewhere. I know plenty of men in the same circumstance.
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u/Labulous Feb 07 '23
Its happening in other Industries.
I work in a predominantly female field and we have had to attend classes on supporting female leadership, have commonly heard things about manager meetings called the "girl squad", and other nonsense.
Like who are you talking to? Me and ted are the only dudes in the hospital.
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u/6138 Feb 07 '23
It's the same thing in publishing. It's now mostly female, however they still have preferential support for female writers, female writing workshops, top 10 books by female writers, etc, even though they are in the majority.
Surely, if the goal is to support minorities, they should be encouraging male writers now, not female ones?
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u/Inevitable-Horse1674 Feb 07 '23
It's especially confusing to be happy about having a high number of women in one job while simultaneously being unhappy about jobs that don't have many women in them - I mean, the number of women vs. men in the world is roughly constant.. if there are more women in one job, then there must be fewer women in some other job, there's no way you can possibly have an above average number of women in one field without also having a below average number of women somewhere else.. so being happy about seeing a job being dominated by women is literally the same thing as being happy about seeing a job being dominated by men - it's impossible to have one without the other (assuming people aren't entirely unemployed anyway).
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u/d3adpupp3t Feb 07 '23
Am I the only one who had to look more closely at the woman in a red dress? 😬 That's not what I saw at all.
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u/VirusZer0 Feb 07 '23
Red dress? Are you trying to start a new what color is that dress war?
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u/d3adpupp3t Feb 07 '23
You may be in the same boat as me. The emoji is a woman in a red dress.
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u/VirusZer0 Feb 07 '23
Ah emoji! I thought you meant the lady at the bottom left.
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u/d3adpupp3t Feb 07 '23
Oh, no, they're obviously in a blue dress. The emoji looked like blood. Lol
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u/VirusZer0 Feb 07 '23
Blue? I thought it was purple.
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u/d3adpupp3t Feb 07 '23
What's purple but a muddy blue?
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u/ElvisDumbledore Feb 07 '23
Were you listening to me or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?
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u/d3adpupp3t Feb 07 '23
I was...
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u/BeepBeepWhistle Feb 07 '23
Look again
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u/Mostly_Ponies Feb 07 '23
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u/koleye Feb 07 '23
I literally just rewatched The Matrix and now I need to do it again. Thanks, assholes.
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u/JohnLockeNJ Feb 07 '23
The emojis? Yeah, at low rez it kinda looks like spewing blood.
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u/objectively_sp34king Feb 07 '23
Absolutely no diversity.
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u/TerriestTabernacle Feb 07 '23
Anything other than a straight white male counts as diversity.
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u/DefreShalloodner Feb 07 '23
It always amuses me when I hear someone being described as a "diverse person"
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u/StarksPond Feb 07 '23
A compliment that's right up there with "you're a lateral thinker".
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u/buttermelonMilkjam Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23
to be fair, male nurses are MUCH NEEDED & still a diversity
and, funnily enough, one reason male nurses are dope are bc they (on average) can lift heavier patients and tend to be perfect when older male patients wish to preserve a bit of modesty.
EDIT: dont let me type from my phone.
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u/MrSomnix Feb 07 '23
Diversity just means having a variety of backgrounds, cultures, life experience and, let's be real, skin color.
There are people who will look at a photo like this and praise the workplace for their diverse staff even though it literally is not.
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u/im_a_teapot_dude Feb 07 '23
It’s such a 1984-esque abuse of language.
“We want to increase diversity” sounds a lot better than “we want to discriminate against straight white men”, but bigotry by another name is just as foul.
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u/BureaucraticStymie Feb 07 '23
It’s important, especially in jobs like writing. The absence of men and lack of varying age and background is disturbing
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u/Sivick314 Feb 07 '23
a room full of white women... i don't think they know what the word "diversity" means.
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u/Cocaimeth_addikt Feb 07 '23
Looks like no Asians too
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u/Pronflex Feb 07 '23
There's one all the way in the back. The one incredibly leaned forward
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u/GameDestiny2 Feb 07 '23
Hmm… imma give that a maybe due to blurry picture
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u/Rumplesforeskin Feb 07 '23
It is, this picture used to much clearer 7 years ago
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u/MutyaPearl Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23
There seems to two Asians. First, the lady at the very back on the left row could be Asisn... and the lady who is 3rd to the last, on the left row.
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u/ipooaftercoffee Feb 07 '23
Lmao my first thought was “and this is why every Huffington Post article I’ve ever read was trash..”
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u/CletusVanDamnit Feb 07 '23
There is no chance at all that only women applied for editing positions, and there's also no chance that there wasn't at least one man more qualified than one of these women.
Racist and sexist. Good job, HuffPo!
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u/ManBearPigAlive007 Feb 07 '23
Or men.
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u/wysjm Feb 07 '23
Yeah but you see it's a good thing because [enter a good reason here]
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u/ParcivalTheBrave Feb 07 '23
... because we'd have to pay them more
Disclaimer: just jokes y'all
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u/KillNyetheSilenceGuy Feb 07 '23
Having your entire staff be comprised of thirty-something white women is also not diversity.
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u/GameDestiny2 Feb 07 '23
Oh god it’s happening, the racial tensions and gender tensions have started fighting each other
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u/akosgi Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23
Lol the victimhood Olympics had been in full swing over the past few decades, friend. The goods go to who REEEEs the loudest.
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u/reddit86only Feb 07 '23
I never knew this and haven't read them for a while due to their content being awful and bland. I now cannot stop laughing... but I should not. This is sad and extremely sexist. When will we begin judging people based on the quality of their character and the value of their work over their gender, sex, religion and ethnicity??? That is truly something missing in the small pathetic minds of companies like these.
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u/Soonerpalmetto88 Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23
Or men. Racist AND sexist. And ageist too!
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u/Thadigan Feb 07 '23
It’s funny because they are trying to be progressive and were actually TRYING to show how discriminatory against men they are, but also ended up showing how racially discriminatory they are.
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u/6138 Feb 07 '23
Exactly, everyone was applauding them when they were openly and blatantly discriminating against men, but then acted appalled when they discriminated against black people too.
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u/DECtape Feb 07 '23
-All of them have macbooks even though they work with text
-Incredibly expensive multi screen video conferencing system they're only using half of
Yeah that looks like a huff post editors meeting.
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u/AverageBennyEnjoyer Feb 07 '23
As one person said 'White women in different hairstyles is not diversity'
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u/opelan Feb 07 '23
Age discrimination. ;-)
They don't like people with wrinkles and grey hair.
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u/Numerous-Meringue-16 Feb 07 '23
Isn’t it funny how all the people preaching diversity and inclusion seem to exclude one particular group
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u/MageArcher Feb 07 '23
This is more excluding everyone but one particular group.
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u/Narrow_Competition41 Feb 07 '23
HP is one of the worst partisan outlets there is...why people read their shlop, is beyond me.
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u/Nocturne_Ronin Feb 07 '23
Race shouldn't qualify you for a job, your work quality should.
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