Not weird

Yikes

Instead, we are busy counting heads. Reporting something vague for someone vague, enough to keep a real discussion about labor rights at bay. We refuse to examine the realities of covid on an increasingly-disabled workforce. We will not look at fires and floods as a fact of managing humans.

In this discipline we should be discussing job losses, the introduction of AI into our every day work, the climate crisis and its impacts on our ability to make a living, the pressure to reduce labor costs to zero (see group 1 above).

I’ve been reluctant to kvetch because, after 30 years of working in this arena, I know what bitter and jaded sounds like. I don’t want to be either. But I *am* angry and done keeping it in. The question in my head remains: So what?

So I find myself coming across long posts on other platforms, people who have billed themselves as practitioners with no discernible track record, offering empty platitudes. Worse than being empty, often they are just plain inaccurate

Please know there are some *excellent* practitioners out there, but they are far outnumbered.

Ok but just bc I miss you, profe

Given their inability or unwillingness to make systemic change, they became the darlings of DEI. Perfect window-dressing, wrapped in loads of unhelpful data to provide an illusion of change

The second group was the woefully unprepared, unserious pick-me’s of corporate life who decided that they magically understood the work and billed themselves as DEI practitioners

One group was investors (pick your favorite villain) who decided that the work of anti-racism, accessibility, and meaningfully employing people from marginalized communities was “not business.”

This is the way

The profile of him a little while back in the NYT was disturbing, to put it mildly. To put it spicily, it was a fucking nightmare

🤯

I enjoy being the correct age to appreciate this joke