The Empire is eating its tail!
This is a vent:
At work, I train people online and create tutorials or learning pathways.
A certain giant customer of ours, a big bank, needs someone to fly out to San Fran no less, get put up in a nice hotel, and be part of a video that covers best practices on how to use an online tool.
I have trained at least 3,000 of their people, and have bent over backwards and jumped through firey hoops for them. I have been their go-to-guy when it mattered and have accommodated the most pretzelicious of requests!
So, in a perfect world, the culmination and evolution of our relationship should blossom into a great opportunity for me to meet the team,and be part of their learning/business tapestry.
duh duh dun!
But my contact, nothing less than covertly, has snooped around my back to find someone to come down who has "diversity."
Diversity to my contact at the BIG Bank means anyone who is not a cracker, especially if that cracker is male.
By the way, thanks Wall Street for demonizing all white males, I even hate you!
Once my mgr communicated this to me, I was immediately livid, especially after all the stellar feedback I've recieved from the bank and my key contact there who happens to be part of the preferred diversity bracket.
My mgr played me the voicemail that went something like this:
'We need someone who is, well, uh, diverse, preferably a female, and if she could be Latino or Asian that would be great.'
I doubt anyone is reading this, but if you are and you're diverse, you may say, SHAZAM fool! How does it feel, my people have dealt with this for ages, and on one hand, I can bow to that, that's a fair reaction.
But, where that logic fails miserably, is that it's the very mentality, I will call it the slave-master mentality, that is being perpetuated by this request. We are different and we should be classified by physical appearances like cattle.
Screw the idea that the job should go to the best person for the job, let's force-fit the opportunity into a pre-conceived construct of division devised and cold-bloodedly applied by the great yoke of the Empire.
Let's fight fire with gasoline!
Yay America, fuck yeah!
At work, I train people online and create tutorials or learning pathways.
A certain giant customer of ours, a big bank, needs someone to fly out to San Fran no less, get put up in a nice hotel, and be part of a video that covers best practices on how to use an online tool.
I have trained at least 3,000 of their people, and have bent over backwards and jumped through firey hoops for them. I have been their go-to-guy when it mattered and have accommodated the most pretzelicious of requests!
So, in a perfect world, the culmination and evolution of our relationship should blossom into a great opportunity for me to meet the team,and be part of their learning/business tapestry.
duh duh dun!
But my contact, nothing less than covertly, has snooped around my back to find someone to come down who has "diversity."
Diversity to my contact at the BIG Bank means anyone who is not a cracker, especially if that cracker is male.
By the way, thanks Wall Street for demonizing all white males, I even hate you!
Once my mgr communicated this to me, I was immediately livid, especially after all the stellar feedback I've recieved from the bank and my key contact there who happens to be part of the preferred diversity bracket.
My mgr played me the voicemail that went something like this:
'We need someone who is, well, uh, diverse, preferably a female, and if she could be Latino or Asian that would be great.'
I doubt anyone is reading this, but if you are and you're diverse, you may say, SHAZAM fool! How does it feel, my people have dealt with this for ages, and on one hand, I can bow to that, that's a fair reaction.
But, where that logic fails miserably, is that it's the very mentality, I will call it the slave-master mentality, that is being perpetuated by this request. We are different and we should be classified by physical appearances like cattle.
Screw the idea that the job should go to the best person for the job, let's force-fit the opportunity into a pre-conceived construct of division devised and cold-bloodedly applied by the great yoke of the Empire.
Let's fight fire with gasoline!
Yay America, fuck yeah!