It doesn't matter in the end. If your number's up, you're gone, and the only reason is the bottom line. Don't ki-l yourself trying to prove your worth. You'll just regret the wasted effort later. Nobody's indispensable to leadership, especially when there's no growth strategy anyway.
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@eb actually yes, my family owned slaves irish indentured servants
@e4
and you think the other races are smurfs
you may be rowing with only 1 oar
stop speaking english and move away from the white countries
Who would have thought that DEI would trigger the death spiral of Nike…
@e5... pretty sure it isn't your relatives, I hope, at best, ancestors! Also the issue with DEI and the people who ask for historic justice, isn't the morals or socio-economic justice behind it (which most people could at least rally behind, given the generational impact), BUT it is that an overwhelming majority of this kind also (ironically) believes in complete subservience. Which means anyone working their prefrontal cortex becomes the troublemaker, and is distanced away. The simps are dear and befriended, promoted! Very rarely would you find any DEI hire in leadership position ready to have even their own team poke holes in their game, strategy and overall direction even if it leads to the right one. If we win, we all win, if we lose, we all do. But that doesn't seem to sit right in their head. I guess it's 16th century all over again, the fight for survival, and growth (in place of abject greed). Just a 180 in narrative, the same results... unjust!
@dp White people should absolutely pay for their past atrocities. You should experience being less than the majority for once in history to understand what it’s like.
Since 2020 VP compensation was incentivized to filter out white men for more women and racial minorities. There was a five year window to increase representation rapidly, with VP pay linked to accomplishing these goals, so during that time if you were perceived as a white man, it was near impossible to get hired or promoted. The only way this could be considered morally fair is to believe the current generation should pay for the mistakes of past generations. But is that a game everyone wants to play? The criticism of corporate DEI is that it isn’t actually focused on moral fairness but on signaling values to appeal to consumers. It turns out, though, the consumer wallet only cares about whether a company makes good products. And lately, Nike hasn’t exactly been delivering on that, perhaps because its hiring, promotion, and leadership team strategy hasn’t paid off. The irony in all of this is that it was implemented by JD, a white man.
DEI promotes by race, leaving higher qualified candidates to the side. High performers can get overlooked in place of hiring someone who won’t challenge the hiring manager. Nike’s practice is DEI race hiring, Nike’s HR training says it’s not. The irony.
you are just a cost
being an actual good performer is the best shortcut to the RIF list at Nike