Anyone else notice it’s no longer ever mentioned?
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So many of the now SrDirs and VPs were force fit into their roles because of DEI goals.
It’s still there and was obvious with the selections of who got the pink slip. People that should have been fired years ago for never coming to work, spending the majority of their time in networks and adding little value to the business were chosen to stay over good hardworking employees to remain with the company.
Make a 10 year graph that plots investments in things that have nothing to do with making shoes against revenue. It forms a perfect X. No MBA needed to solve this.
It will be impossible to remove DEI hires. Damage is done.
TheLayoff.com
Thread regarding Nike Inc. layoffs
Nike = Brand for the "Downwardly Mobile"
Balaji S. nails it when pointing out that an organization adopts DEI and #MeToo when everyone in proximity to it is already too decadent and downwardly mobile to correct course. It's not, "Go Woke, Go Broke", it's "Go Broke, then Go Woke."
Blue State legacy media adopted DEI when they realized tech bros had already vanquished them in a desperate attempt to retain some semblance of power. Then they encouraged people like Sen. Gillibrand to sell the idea the "future" was intersectional and feminist, targeting otherwise functional companies in order to demonstrate their collapsing power.
Now all NKE is left with are the mediocrity-fueled survivors who figured out how to play the bureaucracy game while the company tries to figure out how to become dynamic with nothing but low-testosterone talent and a bunch of post-menopausal Ultra Karens left to work with.
The irony, of course, is that NKE's entire target demographics are also downwardly mobile, because everyone upwardly mobile was permanently turned off by the woke marketing from the past 5+ years.
NKE is basically no longer a going concern. Sell.
Yup. Still seeing plenty of diversity and inclusion, as most people aren’t a—h’s. But the forced equity at the cost of meritocracy is headed out. Still boils my blood to think about the SD (now gone) who straight up told me my highly qualified friend shouldn’t even bother applying for a role because “we have enough white males, I wouldn’t even consider them”. Nike succeeds when it’s a business, not a platform for social engineering.
@OP No. Unfortunately the mandatory biannual indoctrination is alive and well.