IT bigwigs new wife gets job every reorg. Funny how that happens. Oh and don’t make her mad or you are out!!!! I don’t see how our HR is so worthless
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This could make Selena Gomez cry.
Good! I’ve been leaking the DEI BS to Robby Starbuck.
Oh no, now there will be a new online E&C module on not doing DEI ‘Wi---e Brown Style’ we will all be required to complete.
A few years ago when the Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby stuff came out, I thought it was crazy that so many men in power were taking advantage of women.. I've come realize this was happening all around me in Shell - women who were highly unqualified were flying through the ranks only to find out later they were sleeping with their married bosses. Heck, some bosses openly live with their girlfriends and suddenly, 'magically' these girls are more qualified for the elusive JG2 jobs than anyone else who'se worked 2x or even 3X the number of years. It appears to me that DEI is an excuse for Shell upper managers to promote their girlfriends and/or sidechicks over actual qualified people.
I made this comment in another post but the post itself got deleted. Several years ago I was a leader in an ERG. At the time, all the ERGs were being pulled under HR. The HR person in charge of it all (who now resides in D&I group) informed us that the next wave of ERG presidents and VPs needed to be minorities or women. At the time, we were not targeting s-xual orientation. The intent was to use ERG leadership to springboard those people into actual promotions. The justification was that it was part of our license to operate. Apparently, Shell was subject to audit by federal government that we were making efforts to close the gap between existing employee demographic and some industry benchmark that wasn’t entirely clear to me.
Shell is absolutely a federal contractor.
shell isn’t a federal contractor
our most senior leadership spoke highly of DEI just last week
DEI policies aren’t leaving shell anytime soon. even if they went out of style, consider that shell is always 5 years behind minimum on trends
Anyone else enjoy Trump’s address to the losers at Davos on DEI (and many other topics) as much as I did?
DEI is about to disappear.
(The Presidential Executive Order) requires simple and unmistakable affirmation that (Federal) contractors will not engage in illegal discrimination, including illegal DEI.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-protects-civil-rights-and-merit-based-opportunity-by-ending-illegal-dei/
DEI’s pronouns are was / were.
pop quiz
if work is outsourced to another country or people are brought in
is that considered DEI or CRT
if not then nothing has changed
More effort goes into Managers/Team leads presenting DEI topics than actually understanding what their employees actually do.
Where’s the person that self-identified as an emu in Shell’s CRT program? Seemed like an interesting individual but unfortunately got censored here.
Is it over? Really? Hard to tell whether DEI is past tense when we're cutting jobs. And we're always cutting jobs. Need to takke a look at individual performance goals. (HEY DOJ! LOOK HERE!) We will never revert to a meritocracy until the outrageous hiring, compensation and promotion moves are unwound. Well, we're already firing people, so let's make some good cuts this time.
"Over" except for the coming storm of litigation. There will be a settling up. And of course the a--hole who made it they/their/them brand is/am/are still in a senior executive. He/his/him is a true believer and has made he/his/him very profitable career out of it.
DEI era is over
it was a really weird phenomena only possible with zero interest rates and tight social media control
merit makes money, time to go back or get left behind. but, Shell loves getting left behind so….
I hope they're running scared. That's what a law degree with a boar's head on it gets you.
DEI was top-down and institutional. There was no real diversity calling out flagrantly "problematic" behavior.
Very meta.