So they are not asking for your opinion, you just have to select the answer of 'I would be very offended from whatever behaviour is described and would report it immediately'. Of course I am totally against discrimination, sexual harassment etc, but the examples are not even about that: - if a coworker is pregnant is wrong to give a bit more help: well, in the real world men and women always helped out pregnant women because pregnancy is hard (as anyone who ever was around pregnant women can tell) - in another one you have to select the answer that 'you cannot tell someone's gender just by looking at them'..... I mean come on... Who are those people writing these things? Of course in the real world everyone can tell, except in extremely rare cases. -in another one you have to select that in an example in which women compliments your muscles you should also report it as sexually inappropriate... Really? I feel this an insult to people who were actually sexually harassed. Probably this is partly a cultural thing as I am not american, but it doesnt help making me and my colleagues feel included, quite the contrary...
This has become a joke. Too many of the wrong people have been hired and now it has become a woke shitfest. Anything other than „help and respect eachother“ should not be in the guidelines! And answer two is obviously „she mirin“
Who are the wrong people?
Woke crowd who is not used to work under pressure
I support diversity but hiring diverse candidates just to tick a few boxes is not helpful
Much more important is that hiring these droves of useless employees to make diversity training content is less than helpful, it literally just kills of actually productive employee time and sways no-one’s opinion on anything. I would much rather have a diverse hire to tick box than a hr diversity promoter, and I would guess that has far greater impact
it's not "extremely rare" that you can't tell someone's gender by looking at them, especially in a company with no dress code like Google, lol. we don't live in an era where all the men have beards and/or crew cuts and wear suits, and all the women wear lipstick and high heels
Are you joking or you mean that seriously? So for you is like in those movies where the woman puts men clothes or a fake beard and then nobody realizes is a woman? You need lipsticks or beards to know that?
I think Oracle’s point is that nowadays men can come to the office wearing a skirt and lipstick and calling themselves “they/their”, so we cannot assume that it’s she or he or trans or whatever. Where in the past, everyone was required to wear a dress code, if your gender on paper is a man - suit, a woman - skirt, high heels and a lipstick. Now this trend in big tech has shifted.
As a black woman, yes these companies should tone it down. Not because I don't agree with the training, fundamentally I think it can be useful, but because I'm on blind and see yall don't care at all.
Why would I care tho? I am not being a dick to you because your are black but because you suck at your job. Not that i know if you suck or not.
I do care that black women and any women have the same opportunities as men, and same for people from different backgrounds and countries. I think the best way is with programs to give education opportunities for people who otherwise are disadvantaged. I do donate to that for people in my country. Just because I disagreed with some things doesnt mean I dont care.
easy fix. mind your business
I always thought the point of calling out these very specific things in DEI training is to be able to make your policies protecting those classes more actionable. For example: if you have a policy protecting mis-gendering a person but never include anything about it in the training , I think an offender could make the claim that they were not informed. By making everyone watch these very specific scenarios, I think the company does their CYA and also moves in a direction that helps enforce the policies protecting marginalized classes
yep
Bingo. DEI initiatives are about protecting the company, not advancing diversity
This came from woke handbooks.
All these DEI efforts makes a lot of minorities feel excluded.
Absolutely no. Why'd I think today's mouthful "dei" efforts would work? Google's early day genuine dei efforts was great. Alan Eustace gave a talk many many years ago. That video is inspiring. I wish today's Google leaders thought like that.
Colon Google, could you elaborate on why minorities feel excluded by the dei effort? Genuinely curious
They're meant to be somewhat obvious so obtuse people who can't pick up on social queues can connect with the material. However some of your comments here lead me to believe you should take the training again. You need to broaden your mind a bit to why these examples are inappropriate and even if it's 1% or less chance of occuring, it's still important.
Lol no! We are here where we are because the strong survived and pushed forward and not because we cared about every single exception!
Indeed OP didn't seem to get the point even after watching the video. It should be dumbed down even more to the level of Google engineers I guess. Being polite doesn't make you weak. The training explains for being polite at work is different from your notion of being polite. People have different moral norms but there should be a single one at a workplace. Otherwise problems would come up.
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DEI training is cringe everywhere. HR has taken something that should be obvious - respecting your coworkers - and turned it into woke foolishness.
It seems to me that jumping from what he wrote (respecting coworkers should be obvious) to atacking him personally with no base, makes you the one who is lacking respect
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