Or are we too far gone to save the company?
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DEI also fails those it claims to help. I have a friend who took a DEI position (another company) that has now been eliminated. She was previously a technical up and comer. Now she is 3 years behind in her career after wasting that time with BS. All because she checked the boxes for them.
DEI is the worst management decision ever made! When a company promotes and hires based on DEI and Not qualifications your company is definitely weaker. The number of great qualified employees that left Chevron because of this type of management is definitely bad for the company. A great Company for many years that was Never racist when it came to hiring and promoting has been weakened by this new DEI philosophy. Get back to hiring and promoting based on qualifications. All races and gender have equal opportunity.
I've seen a picture of a whiteboard HR left in a conference room a few years back - hiring target was < 8 white males... so it's not just fear mongering.
Do you think Meta did what they did just because they all of a sudden saw the light. They are playing the game and will go right back to their DEI madness and censorship when it benefits THEM!
so fb: did you actually spend the 30 mins to document? or were you too lazy and went with the flow?
You know what really wins me over and helps me throw my full support behind DEI? Yelling at me through the internet, blathering on in a paranoid manner about fox news and denying there was misuse of DEI policies.
IT DIDN'T HAPPEN, OK??!!! We did not have mandated diverse slates where we forced the names of the small pool of “diverse” candidates to be added to more than just the 3 slates others were allowed. THAT DEFINITELY DID NOT HAPPEN! And you don’t read good, and you need to be a better person!
@fa, It sure seems like YOU are the only one triggered by fox news and need to be smarter. How about you take your own advice and also mind your own F-n business about other people's news sources that have nothing to do with layoffs?
Are the PDC inclusion advisors or whatever they were called still around? I’m no longer a PDR but the selection process with them was a nightmare. Dragged everything out and effectively boiled down to “pick a minority and move quickly or pick a white male and spend 30 minutes documenting and justifying why he was selected.”
This whole discussion about DEI is d-mb and the arguments against it are just Fox news/MAGA talking points. Chevron has a D&I group and that group messages and shares information re bias, Employee Networks, etc. There is NO magic “DEI” wand that is putting minority and women candidates in roles they are unqualified for. It’s just not happening. So please just stop and do your job better, collaborate with your colleagues (all of them), innovate, lead, find some damn efficiencies, get over yourself, read a book (gasp - yes an actual book) and STOP TAKING SHORTCUTS BY WATCHING FOX NEWS. Be SMARTER.
They had my support for some of the diversity and inclusion elements. They lost my support with equity. You can’t just will equal outcomes into existence.
we had it in a handful of instances, but was not prevalent as other companies. Otherwise the upper echelons of this organization and the board would've already been females from non US BU's.
Let's all keep being racist. That'll keep our country together. Yeah!
First join Meta and Amazon in profit making and market cap, then talk about your pet projects.
DEI was there for a reason. We’re going to relearn a hard lesson
Regardless of your position on the topic, the reason so many companies are backing off from the rapid pace of DEI policy adoption is the Supreme Court ruling. Discrimination is discrimination, regardless of who did it and when. No company wants to violate this new interpretation and have legal battles on their hands.
I'm so encouraged that the most upvoted comments here regarding DEI are above the fray and bigoted rhetoric. Reinforces how decent the people in this company are and why the degradation of it's culture is so disheartening.
White folks are the minority in big tech
Because a white male has never been promoted or hired just because he was a friend or frat boy of the white male manager, regardless of performance.
Studies have demonstrated that formal DEI programs harm company performance by sowing discord and reducing motivation. I have worked for outstanding highly qualified female and African leaders at Chevron who hated DEI, as it called into question their merit. I have also seen highly unqualified DEI hires and promotions cause countless $millions in losses and serious injuries. Efforts to prevent bias in hiring and promotions is a much better focus. Chevron will drop DEI when it is politically expedient, perhaps when the move to Houston is complete.
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How many Qualified DEI folks have been looked over, to hire an unqualified white male - because they reflected the hiring manager’s bias? I guarantee this is a 2 way street.
I can't upvote @aw's post enough
I agree we shouldn’t be selecting incompetent people for roles they’re not qualified for. The thing is that’s most leadership/high level roles. You just happened to get more annoyed when they’re a theoretical DEI hire. But look around, there are just as many white/male lightweights as anywhere else.
From what I am hearing, these are the following current pillars that are going to be demolished:
- most (but not all) of DEI nonsense positions, especially in HR
- the whole WeLead shenanigans (bye bye Align and Inspire, thanks Lord)
- Business Units (Enter asset class divisions)
- WFH, we are gonna be back to the office by end of 2006.
Good luck everybody.
@aj need to get off the couch. People are losing everything. Educate your mind and triangulate
@aj is simply regurgitating Fox talking points and has zero facts or first hand information regarding the management of fires in Los Angeles.
I hope so.
DEI misused and “w3ap0n1z3d” IS a problem. I personally know of MULTIPLE instances from 2020 where white males were laid off in favor of an unqualified candidate who checked some DEI boxes. Nobody will admit this, but it it happened, people in position of authority know it, and it is about damned time that we stop this nonsense. Look at what is happening in Los Angeles now with the fires. A lot of the mess Californians are facing has to do with the selection of utterly incompetent personnel for very important positions. God help us if our company faces a crisis of this magnitude.
DEI isn’t the problem. Leadership is.