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Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts

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Re: Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts

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I'm continually blown away that the modern titans of industry readily bow down to a glorified reality show egomaniac. Allying to price-fix is one thing, but surely they can ally to resist culture war nonsense from making its way into their employee handbooks?

> a glorified reality show egomaniac He is also.... the president of the United States?

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Re: Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts

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While there’s a lot of this era that’s deeply unfortunate, this kind of question on my yearly review would be incredibly vexing to me:

> What impact did your actions have in contributing to a more diverse and inclusive Microsoft?

What does this even mean? How do I show I did this? If I don’t interpret the meaning of this question correctly, do I fail the test and end up some HR watchlist? If I don’t succeed at whatever this is going for, will I not promote?

Re: Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts

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I'm continually blown away that the modern titans of industry readily bow down to a glorified reality show egomaniac. Allying to price-fix is one thing, but surely they can ally to resist culture war nonsense from making its way into their employee handbooks?

Everything is negotiable. Why would you resist joining the culture war, if your participation can be profitable.

If you are obliged by the investors too

Re: Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts

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I'm continually blown away that the modern titans of industry readily bow down to a glorified reality show egomaniac. Allying to price-fix is one thing, but surely they can ally to resist culture war nonsense from making its way into their employee handbooks?

Nobody in the tech industry cares about DEI (most people I've met are downright hostile to the idea). All those companies in 2020 who hired DEI consultants and made big announcements about DEI and changed master to main were just buying cheap good will

Re: Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> a glorified reality show egomaniac He is also.... the president of the United States?

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The OP was questioning why these companies are doing what this man is asking them to. I feel the reason is because this man is the president.

The fact is relevant to the statement, which is why I wrote it.

Re: Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything is negotiable. Why would you resist joining the culture war, if your participation can be profitable.

If you are obliged by the investors too

Not really. This is one of the things Google got right; organize your company so founders have a controlling interest and it doesn't matter fundamentally what the investors think, they can't steer the company.

At best, they are trading baseball cards with your corporate logo on them.

Re: Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts

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I'm continually blown away that the modern titans of industry readily bow down to a glorified reality show egomaniac. Allying to price-fix is one thing, but surely they can ally to resist culture war nonsense from making its way into their employee handbooks?

The only reason implemented these measures in the first place was because of pressure from the other side of the political spectrum. It's hardly surprising that pressure from the opposite direction will make them walk it back.

Re: Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts

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I'm continually blown away that the modern titans of industry readily bow down to a glorified reality show egomaniac. Allying to price-fix is one thing, but surely they can ally to resist culture war nonsense from making its way into their employee handbooks?

>surely they can ally to resist culture war nonsense from making its way into their employee handbooks?

I think that's the point, using "pressure from the administration" as an excuse to nix culture war entanglements they got themselves into over the previous ~10 years. I think the "modern titans of industry" have wanted to dip out of this stuff for some time and felt stuck. Now they can do so while having plausible deniability (it was da govamint made us do it!)

Re: Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts

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post #7

I'm continually blown away that the modern titans of industry readily bow down to a glorified reality show egomaniac. Allying to price-fix is one thing, but surely they can ally to resist culture war nonsense from making its way into their employee handbooks?

> a glorified reality show egomaniac He is also.... the president of the United States?

I'm continually blown away that the modern titans of industry readily bow down to the president of the United States.

While I don't think "corporations should be in charge", I also don't think a President should be dictating corporate culture or policy short of going through the proper channels of using Congress to write legislation that keeps corporations in check and doesn't allow their power and influence to grow too large.

But... uh... yeah that isn't happening either. Instead, those in power are helping each other out, at the expense of common citizens of the U.S. (and likely at the expense of people outside the U.S. too.)

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