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That one time my work appointed a white heterosexual man to be DEI lead - and he took the post, thinking it was "only ever about women", aiming to focus more on people like ...
himself.
Yes, that really happened! We had to give him a crash course in intersectionality.
🤣 WHAT THE H…
A female department head attempted to fire all the male staff and promote all the female staff in the lab with the aim of promoting her department as being a more diverse and female-led workplace. This led to one of the male staff filing a formal complaint with EO.
Further complicating the situation were allegations that the head of EO also harbored a bias against white males and allowed that bias to hinder this and other Title IX investigations. She believed that white males were not members of a protected class and, therefore, could not be subject to discrimination. This led EO to throw out cases that should have been investigated. As for this case, you can imagine how things quickly spiraled out of control. The University was lucky not to have been sued.
That is wild! There really are some nasty people out there unfortunately.
LGBTQIA+ support for people/places that don’t recognize their right to exist…
In Muslim majority countries, I presume?
The exec at our company who was “leading” our DEI initiatives told me to my face that he had no interest in inclusion efforts for people with disabilities or people facing ageism. I later learned that multiple people had reported him to HR for ageist, sexist, and fatphobic remarks. He is no longer at the company.
Having leadership that doesn’t ACTUALLY support DEI like forcing RTO
1. Chief Diversity Officer created a Diversity award recognizing work or support of DEI values in company. Gave them to her EVP and to the CEO.
2. Employee relations communicated to a junior manager that displaying pride flags was unacceptable to company standards for customer facing spaces (fine), and proceeded to compare the experience of a customer seeing one to the junior manager seeing a nazi flag. NGL I laughed out loud when I was told about it. Ludicrous. But, also, very big learning opportunity for HR and company.
The Robert Dyas Christmas advert from 2015
https://youtu.be/_YS2dSa-Ud0?feature=shared
Requiring diverse attorneys to attend events that are nonbillable and not making sure there is a staffing person to make sure they get assignments to stay busy as well ie. Bill enough to succeed
A diversity project team composed only of white women.