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Vaccine Mandates Are Bad Enough…
…but having to admit your personal guilt at being white so you can keep your job?
Here’s a pull quote (emphasis mine):
According to a senior employee, who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity, managers at AT&T are now assessed annually on diversity issues, with mandatory participation in programs such as discussion groups, book clubs, mentorship programs, and race reeducation exercises. White employees, the source said, are tacitly expected to confess their complicity in ‘white privilege’ and ’systemic racism,’ or they will be penalized in their performance reviews. As part of the overall initiative, employees are asked to sign a loyalty pledge to ‘keep pushing for change,’ with suggested ‘intentions’ such as ‘reading more about systemic racism’ and ‘challenging others’ language that is hateful.’ ‘If you don’t do it,’ the senior employee says, ‘you’re [considered] a racist.’
I can’t wait to ditch my AT&T internet and get Starlink. Thank God I retired when I did . . .
Published in Politics
Stalinist.
I don’t see how rank and file Democrats are OK with this, but they seem to be.
Because they do not see this as for them since they are enlightened. This is what is necessary because of how racist Republican’s are and the systemic racism the GOP have put into the system. The GOP after all is the reason for slavery and Jim Crow and all the isms.
Something to keep in mind when choosing phone plans, also when making investment decisions.
How is this consistent with AT&T management’s fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders?
Well, at least this guy got a little payback.
https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/jury-awards-10-million-to-white-former-novant-health-executive-for-reverse-discrimination-in-firing/
I worked for an AT&T subsidiary starting in 1967. In 1969 I left on military leave, which ended in 1973. As promised, I had a guaranteed position to which I could return. That was really handy because there were few to no jobs around that year.
But while I was gone the company had signed an affirmative action consent agreement. The phone business was not, in the thoroughly built up northeast, a fast track sort of place, so it was understood that you had to maybe wait for promotions but you would eventually get your appropriate terminal ‘rank’. But my boss quietly told me that the company was going to treat the goals as targets to be met, so us white guys should plan to be at the bottom of every ladder so that minorities could be fast tracked.
The irony there was that the agreement said “minorities and women”. Minorities were very scarce with appropriate backgrounds (I worked in Engineering and Economic Planning) so by a huge margin the beneficiaries of our plan were white women from affluent families who had attended a good college and had a reasonably STEM-like background, if not a full engineering degree.
So what’s left of AT&T is just completing the journey they started over 50 years ago.
Here’s the thing (full disclosure, we have an AT&T mobile phone plan right now) – where to take our business instead? As far as I’m aware, no corporate CEO dares stand up and declare a stop to this sort of nonsense, so likely they’re all doing it.
I’d be ecstatic to find I’m wrong on this, because I really would like AT&T to feel it.
They are entirely okay with it. They are thrilled and so are some Republicans.
Many companies refuse to hire from the Ivy League Universities. Hire woke, go broke.
Support Trump, get dumped is true too.