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Report: Microsoft has laid off their DEI team, shutting down diversity division
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thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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This was also the case with Affirmative Action and government assistance programs: it was mostly white women who benefited.
So no surprise that was also the case with DEI initiatives. You can't really explain people like Kathleen Kennedy without it, unless you turn to nepotism. Though AFAIK, she wasn't really related to anyone in Hollywood by blood, just friendships (and probably "casting couch" dirt which I'm 100% certain is how Leslye Headland got to make their own Star Wars show).
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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No mention of it in the Xbox OT, but...
https://www.resetera.com/threads/mi...after-team-is-reportedly-laid-off-ign.929130/
Here it is. Of course they're taking the side of the DEI lead xD
ChuckeRearmed
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It's Era. You either DEI or die
Hero of Spielberg
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R/technology having a complete meltdown as expected
GHG
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Judge will shut that thread down in no time.
{insert code here}
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NGL, it might be time to re-join the green team.
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PSlayer
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The economical explanation is speculation!
When interest rates are low for long periods of time, investors have the incentive to stop doing due deligency and just gamble on the stock market like a cassino. Just pick a cheap stock with upside potential(like a silicon valley startup that promises to be the next Paradigm shift) , put your money there and just wait for infinite profits. During this mania phase it was almost impossible to lose money since everything went up. Even animals such as octopus or ants could outperform the market averages by just guessing a stock. The only way you could lose money in such degenerate enviroment is if the company got itself in some kind of controversy such as an environmental disaster,sexual assault alegations,racial discrimination accusations or, in the case of pharmaceutical companies,if the FDA didn't aprove your new drug.
That's when ESG came in. Blackrock and the wall street boys realized that in such environment profitability and sustentability of a company didn't matter because the stock would go up anyway. As long as a company is good with the environment,women and minorities the stock will go up. So Blackrock and the gang created the ESG score which is an index that tracks how much of a good boy you and your company are about those issues. DEI is part of it,it's a department that companies need to have whose job is to ensure compliance to ESG.
Blackrock made money by buying stock in this companies when they were small and selling when the price went parabolic. The ESG score became a """safety""" index for this period of mass speculation.
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Little Chicken
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ShadyAcshuns
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Outstanding.
DeaDPo0L84
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It was always bs but smooth brains needed some way to feel victimized and "special" so it became the driving force for many major companies. But one thing companies like is money and it's been proven time and time again the general public doesn't want to be preached to about DEI and when that started hurting profits they magically stopped caring as much about filling out their workforce with a bunch of gender confused purple haired morons.
PSlayer
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They did after the Fed raised interest rates. When interest rates where zero they pushed for all of this.
Null Persp
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too good to be true
Wastelander92
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They don’t need it because they’ve mastered how to design ugly ass characters.
StreetsofBeige
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DEI does have its perks.
My company never become one of these politically crazy companies, but since we've been back to office for over 2 years in hybrid mode, weve had tons of free ethnic lunches celebrating culture X. I dont think anyone really gives a shit since it's basically a memo talking about stuff then a reminder there's tables of free food. Grab some eats and go back to work.
We get this every couple months. Works great. No major pushes of politics or DEI stuff.
My company never become one of these politically crazy companies, but since we've been back to office for over 2 years in hybrid mode, weve had tons of free ethnic lunches celebrating culture X. I dont think anyone really gives a shit since it's basically a memo talking about stuff then a reminder there's tables of free food. Grab some eats and go back to work.
We get this every couple months. Works great. No major pushes of politics or DEI stuff.
Humdinger
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Do you have a link or article that I could read about that - about Blackrock discontinuing the incentivizing of DEI? I'd like to believe, but I hadn't heard that before, and I'm wondering why it slipped below the radar - because if that's true, it's a big deal.
Puscifer
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It can happen when you read the documents about their plans of subverting the government through replacement of government employees with idealogues. That level of snake shit gives them the power to do it, they'll have opposition sure, but when you have that many people on your side it makes it a lot easier for the heritage project and all who agree with it who are currently in power to enact this plan along with agenda 47 even if the new republican government distances itself from it. That's all I have to say on the matter, not catching a ban for politics.The hilarious part is the most of the things of the project 2025 (that is used like a boogeyman) are not achievable in the first place
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Humdinger
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Thanks. Unfortunately, you have to be subscribed to read the article.
HeisenbergFX4
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Yup have mentioned it here before but seems very fitting in this thread
Was told that especially promotions at Xbox at least handed down from MS HQ that there was point system in place and you were given points based on other factors before ever entering the interview
As it was put "Being a Black Lesbian means you hit the trifecta" already having 3 points before ever walking into the room
Clear
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The world is healing
DEI was "supposed" to make business more profitable, but the actuality is that its proven to be massively cash-negative due to controversy and backlash.
Unfortunately for institutions where the negative impact isn't so obvious on the balance sheets (like government and education) no doubt its going to stick around for some time yet.
Jaybe
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ShadowkillXNA
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Microsoft is reportedly shuttering a major diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) team, according to an internal email sent by the team's leader to a significant number of Microsoft staff last week, in which the lead also accuses the company's executive leadership of "investigated and evidenced discrimination, harassment, and toxicity."
The email, first reported by Business Insider and corroborated by IGN, was sent by the former lead of one of Microsoft's key DEI teams. In it, they state that their "role and team were eliminated due to 'changing business needs' as of July 1st, 2024." IGN has reached out to Microsoft for comment as to the full extent and nature of these layoffs, but has not yet heard back.
The email goes on to assert that DEI programs are in danger not just at Microsoft, but across all businesses:
via IGN
Good. Best news I've read all week.
ReBurn
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I remember when the company I work for killed off their DEI program, but it was in its infancy. They hired someone who started in the role trying to tell us why we had to cave in to the feelings of young millennials and zoomers to make them want to work for the company. Once the lady said white men should wait until the rest of the people in the room had finished speaking the company's CEO fired her and the HR director who hired her for wasting the management team's time and the company's money.
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Ass of Can Whooping
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As a proud sexist this makes me happy
Silver Wattle
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butane bob
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Wow... first thing microsoft's ever done right.
DonkeyPunchJr
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Glad to see terms like “woke” and “DEI” take on such a negative connotation because it’s shameful.
These dipshits will be back again, when they figure out some new buzzword that means “let’s treat people differently and hold people to different standards based on their race, gender, and sexual orientation.”
These dipshits will be back again, when they figure out some new buzzword that means “let’s treat people differently and hold people to different standards based on their race, gender, and sexual orientation.”
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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If they're lucky they can get back to the '90s version of this which managed to also still tell great stories and respect fandoms without demonizing existing fanbases with things like "cis white Christian male" or "misogyny" or "male gaze".
Schmendrick
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And not a shred of empathy for the leeches that now have to get real jobs.
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Doomtrain
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Has any term been so thoroughly bastardized as "fascist"? 99.9% of the people who use it have no idea what it means.
ZehDon
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That article is a year old commentary piece.
The Mad Draklor
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And ESG, too.
I've heard of BRIDGE, but it seems to not have gained much traction.
Lions Gate
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now it's Sony's turn
shut down insomniac then fire cuckman
shut down insomniac then fire cuckman
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Timberwolf25
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Hopefully the next thing to go the way of the Dodo will be the dumbass pronoun insanity!
Hrk69
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Yeah. I googled it a couple of times in the past couple of months and I still don't get it fully
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ResilientBanana
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FINALLY
Melfice7
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I instantly thought the same
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