Thread regarding Staples Inc. layoffs

JD, thanks for confirming the surveys ARE NOT anonymous

"Whites", "LatinX", "White Females", "Other Ethic Groups"

How might you know the gender and race of the survey participants if they were "anonymous"? Clearly they are not.

It is highly offensive to be viewed as a monolithic group because of the color of my skin and gender. I am not a box to check off, I have polar opposite values and viewpoints of those with a different political leaning despite a shared skin color. Using skin color and gender to drive areas of focus on survey results is absurd.

"LatinX" is not a race, community nor culture. It is an offensive and insensitive "woke" term. Latino is the proper language, use it.

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You're just ignorant to survey methodology....there's a difference between "anonymous" and "confidential." They've always said that these surveys are "confidential" and not "anonymous" -- that means that Staples provides a file to the vendor (Culture Amp, I think it was) that has everyone's email and the demographics they want to track, like department, location, ethnicity, etc. The vendor then sends out the surveys, collects responses, and adds the demographic info to each response. But they de-identify the responses before giving them back to Staples. That means that Staples only sees a Response ID with the demographic info attached to the response, no names or emails or employee IDs or way to connect a Response ID to a specific person. Of course they could figure out who you are if you're the only person on your team in a specific area, but the de-identified responses mean that the survey data is confidential. They never claimed anonymity, only confidentiality.

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What’s the proper definition for “woke” ? Just curious

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Post ID: @wzih+1b1ysZwq

I can't stand people that have problems with everything.

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Post ID: @3gpw+1b1ysZwq

In Spanish, when referring to both sexes, the masculine form is always used. So Latinx should actually be Latino. But since we are in the US where English is the official language, we should just use the gender neutral La--n. Or why not just American?

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Latinx is a gender-neutral neologism, sometimes used to refer to people of La--n American cultural or ethnic identity in the United States. The ⟨-x⟩ suffix replaces the ⟨-o/-a⟩ ending of Latino and Latina that are typical of grammatical gender in Spanish.

Woke?

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Post ID: @3zko+1b1ysZwq

Identity politics is toxic.

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