Geoff’s AI and Healthtech garbage along with DEI has gotten out of control. Does anyone at Medtronic know how to operate anything or make any operating decisions with half a brain? Fu-k this company
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@1d4 another indoctrinated person that doesnt understand that DEI is based on racism. I’ve seen it myself while participating in the interview process.
@h2 such a racist post. You should be ashamed of yourself. Clearly you were not raised correctly
Without minorities - you are nothing. Get off your high horse.
Exactly this. The fact that some folks here are so focus on DEI and not the true cause, this company is sc--wed.
@tj That was a long one full of anecdotal examples. There are always exceptions. What I have witnessed is Cat B undermines Cat A. Everyone in the preferred groups has benefited from this racism. The Cat A in the preferred group don't get the appropriate recognition for accomplishments due to this benefit.
That read made me think of mlk quote which has never been true.
"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."
but sadly we are closer to the ts quote as you yourself confirmed and I have experienced too:
"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today."
As for MDT, I am not a long term employee, but I only worked with a few good people. At first I attributed this to not attracting the best and brightest, being in the wrong group and the culture of bad attitudes but after a time I realized even with those effects the main culprits are favoritism towards DEI candidates for promotion, hiring, lack of actionable performance management and your "Gorden Gecko" push of low cost out sourcing at all costs. Nothing I have experienced aligns with the hype pushed down from above and out to the rest of the world.
I saw a previous comment that resonates with me.
The competent are surround by grifting virtual signaling sycophants.
@np Agreed, sometimes you are gifted these grifting racist anchors through no fault of your own.
@n7 Ah yes, the misdirection tactic. Lets pretend the emperor is wearing clothes. It is the managers fault they can't turn lead into gold. You are gifted an 85 IQ for 100 IQ job through checkbox favoritism. Please! On top of that, lets not forget the sense of entitlement these poor souls have been indoctrinated into given passes and the highest adulation for even the simplest forms of accomplishment. Your manager is not your mom. Is it the manager's job to say your drawing is artistry when it is just a bunch of scribbles? Lets watch the house burn down cause Sally learned how to make fire! The competent are surround by grifting virtual signaling sycophants.
@jd Yep. What I'm saying is regular process, not opinion.
Know that anyone working on those situations also knew it was bullsh-t and unfair on you to have to put up with mediocre performers for fear of them suing the company, or negative publicity. Many times we know that the person is absolutely incompetent, but either has been told they're a victim, or are just entitled and are maliciously trying to leverage the race card.
The best solution is to strongly consider who you hire and if it is worth what it will cost for you when they inevitably call you a racist when they hear something they don't like.
Professionally, it will either cost you your job or your reputation, or a lot of time and stress if they turn out to be incompetent.
Everything I am saying actually only applies to one specific minority group. You all know who that is.
@ja I literally worked in Legal. "Maybe, just maybe" I have the insider view of how it actually works and have had to pay worthless trash people out and watch talented people be RIFed just as easily?
If you had half a brain, you'd realize that what was written comes from someone familiar with multiple processes.
You should have been a better manager then. Good managers won't have to cut anyone if they manage better.
@ja That is the problem with knee capping white males. You see a WM succeed maybe it is nepotism or the like but you assume it is merit based most often knee capped. You see a checkbox move up even if you are pleasantly surprised they are not incompetent you know they were given passes. The passes are just easier to justify.
@h2 I have personally performance managed both and agree. I have been allowed cut lose a marginal white male almost effortlessly while I have checkbox negative contributors go through the whole performance manage process, having overwhelming justification only to be told "You can't they are protected class!". People think "YOU" are an incompetent keeping these useless anchors around.
Lol... DEI is 100% a problem, just not in the way you all imagine it is. It isn't just about hiring... in fact hiring is the least of the issues.
(1) Try to RIF a minority or alphabet person. RIFs require that the employee resource group leader globally is engaged, whereby they beg you to invent a position to keep the minority and assess if it's WACIST or not. White people lose their jobs first if at all possible. The minorities even get a litle asterisk next to their name in the RIF discussions to indicate their special status. Waste of time and completely overrides merit.
(2) Try to performance manage a minority (especially) or alphabet person (less of an issue here). Legal will immediately be involved and you will have to jump through so many more hoops. You'll probably have to pay them out as well, because they'll start to cry racist because they're unreliable and sh*t at their jobs. Then you get to deal with the issue of being called a racist if you performance managed them. You're better off just not hiring minorities besides Latin people. Save yourself.
(3) The ERGs have no global budgets, so there are tons of them globally. Tons of people wasting time and money having events at Disneyland (check if you don't believe), taking international trips to spend 2 days talking about where they like to put their privates, and adding zero value. Let's not forget the useless fkn photofest of rainbow flags and funny glasses and cake days people put on Linkedin. What a slap in the face to people that actually have to work.
Overall, the org is slower and more incompetent because of time wasted on DEI sh-t and appeasing professional victims.
The exception is Latin people, who work their butts off.
He’s blaming it on DEI because of far right memes he saw on Facebook
if you don't need to go into the office, you will be replace by AI.
not sure why workers don't understand that yet. One dude with AI windows open can do the work of 4 remote workers.
Easy to blame dei and remote workers
Both are not the issue
Many teams work across several time zones - remote working is productive and holds value
Why go to the office if you can be productive from home. Makes zero sense. Not everyone is a extrovert and finds an office environment productive. In fact being around in the office with colleagues that are constantly gossiping is unproductive.
Dei are not in the main leadership position making the company decisions. The board is all white. Quit with the racism okay? It's not cool.
Call is grandpa all you want but the generation of incompetence coming into this organization won’t survive without us when neither of you know how to build or create anything but bulkshit on social media using Claude, Gemini and even worse ChatGPT
DEI was so COVID=19, everyone loved WFH. Welcome to 2026, RTO is here and those hired workers HATE the idea of actually having to work in the office where all can see their worth is ZERO.