Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

@fv "AT&T wants the FCC to believe they've changed their stripes. No harm, no foul. Let's just start with a clean slate and leave the unearned spoils of discrimination in place and pretend people weren't harmed in the process. A lot of other criminals would love a deal like that."

ATT is a spineless virtue signaling windsock. Customers, employees and the US government should all beware. Deception runs deep.

@n5 "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. He-l, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

LBJ

@n1 - probably cause it was cr@ppy.

DEI workers work harder, complain less.

Will they retroactively restore the opportunities taken from the most qualified to meet DEI goals? The damage is done, and the incompetent are in place.

@g4
Very true. I've never met anyone who was passed over because of anything remotely related to DEI. The fastest way to shut them down is to ask if they even applied.

@gj - deflection is a common tactic when you’re on the wrong side of things.

@gj - typos happen. Focus on the important things my friend, focus!!

@g8 " I mean really read "

Good advice since it appears you've targeted both a poster who is clearly anti-DEI and another who is defending DEI initiatives.

@g4 and @f7 - hey guys, serious question for you two (or maybe you’re the same poster):

How do you think your ignorance was formed? Have you even considered or pondered the origin of it? It certainly has my attention. And is it connected to hate / lack of empathy or are they mutually exclusive?

Is it by choice / free will or do you think it’s innate either by DNA / Natural Order or the way God made you (if you’re a believer or not)?

For what it’s worth, I believe your virus of ignorance is a curable one and you don’t even need a little jab jab in your arm. Just start with opening up your mind a bit and read. I mean really read the history of how things were and still are today. I believe things are getting better, albeit with setbacks, so it needs your help.

Take your time and think about this. It should take a while as this is both a simple and complex question.

"leave the unearned spoils of discrimination in place and pretend people weren't harmed"

Who was harmed? A small number of people get an opportunity that was not open to you and you are bitter about it?

@f7 you are incorrect on so many levels - I guess you decided against reading and educating yourself a bit.

Wondering how you typed your reply? Did you have to take your hood off?

DEI is so embeded in this comany it will be inposible to abolish it. Most of the DEI hires are now in leadership rolls ETC ETC ETC and they will fight tooth and nail to do absaloutly nothing but collect a paycheck.

Another spin on the truth by AT&T. Will they undo the damage? Nope. AT&T doesn't even need a shadow DEI program. Every position feasible has been filled with a DEI awardee who will negatively influence the employee base for the next 20 years, if not longer. AT&T wants the FCC to believe they've changed their stripes. No harm, no foul. Let's just start with a clean slate and leave the unearned spoils of discrimination in place and pretend people weren't harmed in the process. A lot of other criminals would love a deal like that.

And racism buried in the right's hearts is making a comeback.

Well that explains why AT&T is hiring 380 in February at my center. Ugh

Except what they're saying doesn't align with what they're doing. In our group, the only promotions/progressions in the last 18 months have gone to people who tick a box. Being white and over 40 automatically disqualifies you.

So...... Does this mean no more Al Sharpton presentations to explain how "his" folk are being held back somehow? Yeah....

@ed None

@e0 Quit your crying and try to do something productive today.

@dy You're kidding right? The Indians I worked with were always saying yes but always doing it wrong.

@e6

New Age Institutional Racism BAD!

Good Old Institutional Racism GOOD!

people of color in leadership positions will lose their jobs because of this. look up our past history always happens.

@dy You clearly don’t work with many Indians and Asians. If it isn’t written in a manual in front of them, they don’t do it. There is no thinking outside of the box.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I dont have a chance to say this much...but good job AT&T.

Good job getting rid of this DEI trash. Root out this unnecessary institutional racism, forced division and identity-driven ragebait. Enough has been enough. We can do much better than this DEI nonsense that's been shoehorned into large companies by bad actors who prey on hate and division.

Let's get back to MLK's vision.

@bx he really is and he is the biggest DEI case. An under educated, mentally ill, OLD man. And was only elected over PURE hate.

@ad ummmm what practices?? DEI is Women of AT&T, League, FACES, Veterans, 50 Forward, Hacemos, etc…. DEI is Age, Gender, DISABILITY.. it’s MORE than what your under educated pea brain can comprehend

Bigot - In - Chief strikes again!!

He’s making this a very sad country but we’ll claim it back (and no, I’m not going to leave).

@b4 DEI is Not just skin color d-mb azzzz it’s age, gender, religion.

@ay Imagine believing the people wanting to hire based on skill and not skin color are the bigots.

Of course. They want government contracts.

The bigots won, for now.

Since they have admitted doing these practices, any discrimination class action lawsuits open yet?