Minorities are quitting jobs in SWATHES, as diversity training actually makes offices WORSE for them 

Spreading woke ideology just makes people more divided.

When they say minorities, do they mean White English people 😂😂

Maybe we should just go back to `the best person for the job` way of employing folk. All of this diversity rubbish has completely ruined the UK and it needs to change.

Forced inclusion always breeds resentment. Everyone doesn't get a prize just for existing.

DEI = Didn't Earn It

My experience with this ideology is that it is incredibly biased. The assumption is always that the white employees have had an easy and wealthy background and everyone who is non-white has been tormented by white people. During my childhood my father became very ill and was hospitalized, with no income as he was self-employed. I was very aware of the reality my parents faced, even if my younger sisters were not. I also knew children whose parents had died, one whose parents had been murdered. The point is, none of us have had a life without challenges, so this constant harping about race and gender is an annoying waste of time, and only injects division where there previously had been none.

In other words, when you tell people they aren't allowed to disagree, they don't just magically start agreeing with you. What a novel idea.

I work for a large corporate company and have seen the damage that this does first hand. Experienced white male staff in their early to mid fifties are leaving in droves because they are sick of being indoctrinated and told they are the problem by virtue signallers in the HR department. As well as causing operational problems, this hollowing out process also means that new starters have nobody to learn from.

Promoting a tick box candidate over a more appropriate candidate just makes companies lose their best staff. DEI = Dead End Initiative

So sick of taking all the Pride classes/ meetings/events at my job! My gay friends are over it too!!! Stop it!!!

40 million spent on diversity managers in the nhs alone !

At last, woke is dying. Quick story. Lovely wifey is a nurse in a large NHS hospital in England. She works in a large theatre department and as English she is an ethnic minority in her department. She has had to do a lot of DEI training. Imagine how much money the NHS could save by ditching woke DEI departments? Most trusts have at least one head of DEI on over £100K a year and some have more... in hospitals where English nurses are in the minority. What a waste of taxes.

It's authoritarianism in the backdoor. If people are afraid to express views against this authoritarian training, we're in Orwellian times. We must fight it.

Antiwhitism

when I joined the company, I came here to do a job and earn a wage... not join a cult!!!

I'm gay. If I ever found out I only got a job because I was gay, I'd be absolutely mortified!!!!!

You gave them an inch and now they want EVERYTHING! "Tolerance" stops now!

Mainly driven by middle aged ‘Karens’ in HR.

Employ the right people for the right job not the wrong people to tick boxes no matter if they are Black or White

I'm retired and closed my business down before I was forced to do this, I was not going to waste my hard earned money

I'm in my mid 50s, when I entered employment, minorities (that includes women) in management positions were admired because they'd clearly got there by being better than those around them. Today, thanks to DEI, minorities in management positions are hated because the assumption is now that they're there because of DEI, not their ability. It 100% divides people. But that appears to be the goal...

Sad you win the war against the nazis and now you have to suffer this training. What an insult to the UK.

ALL our employees MUST have the same views on diversity....lol ( Diversity is good except diversity of thought and opinion...)

I am an unemployed mother I just avoid applying for companies that have all that rubbish in their application forms, I find it both offensive and threatening, why bother applying when I know working there will increase my stress and anxiety which is bad enough already. "inclusive" is just doublespeak.

I took early retirement at 56 rather than endure the Diversity gibberish.

I refused to do the training. It’s all BS. We must stand our ground. If they want to sack me then good, I will get another job 🤮

Yep. The phrase "male stale and pale" gets thrown around a lot, particularly by the younger generations in HR departments. The older generation of senior male management Will support it and don't care as they've made their money and not far from retirement. It's the younger men who will pay the price for the ladder being pulled up.

Who would have thought,being forced to agree with things you don't agree with,wouldn't work

An employer can make their employees attend these ridiculous sessions but they cannot make them believe the nonsense.

I’m in the US and my company had an online diversity training. One of the sections was about microsgressions. It would have these little cartoon scenarios where a microagression would take place and it would explain why it’s a microagression. Of course, in every scenario the person committing the microagression was white (shocker) with a very stereotypical white name. but my mouth dropped open during the one where the white person in question was depicted as a white woman named “Becky” where Becky says something ignorant to a Black coworker. Not sure if you know this but in the US Becky is a well known slang term that very popular among young Black people to describe a basic ignorant white girl. The companies who put these training together are run by “POC” - not only do I think that whoever created it knows what that word means, but I think using that name was done very intentionally and antagonistically know full well that any white person who catches on wouldn’t feel comfortable in saying something. The complete irony of doing a training on racial microagressions while simultaneously using pejorative terms to describe the white people in the skits is a great representation of this entire movement.

I recently retired and took my pension at 55. I could not stand the stressful feeling of watching what i said, watching people get on and others left out, bullying. Offices are toxic environments

From 1990-2010 colour didn't matter then it did so how did we get here?

"Climate training"??? Why the Hell would companies be putting their employees through climate training? I actually did an Earth Science degree (Geology) and I didn't take any modules in Climatology because I was focused on the Earth's lithosphere rather than the atmosphere so I cannot see any possible reason why education in such a specialised topic would need to be provided to the average person who is not concerned with Earth Science at all?

I work in IT. The vast majority of the workforce at the company I work for are blokes. I couldn't give a stuff what my colleagues look like or what sex they are. All I care about is that they are good at what they do and can be relied on.

I refuse to work under this nonsense anymore.

There's a DEI training package being rolled out to UK Businesses by McKinsey & Company citing Positive Discrimination in the work place and tenuously trying to link such training to the UK Equality Act and Anti-Discrimination Legislation. However, positive discrimination is unlawful in the UK. Positive action is acceptable for equally qualified candidates if it can be proven it was deemed warranted due to lack of representation. Even then Businesses are advised by the government to seek legal advice before pursuing such action. I had to point this out to my employer. DEI ideology coming through the back door through US business consultants. Unfortunately a lot of HR departments who roll out training in the UK aren't aware of this fact and are promoting unlawful practices as acceptable when its an anathema to UK meritocracy.

In my health training, I was corrected by the trainer. She said, "You can't say pregnant women, you have to say pregnant person". ..........I was shocked, I couldn't hold back.

I hate rainbow flags. They really are annoying to look at. It's not about what they stand for. I just don't like rainbow flags.

I'm now retired it must be awful in the workplace nowadays you would be walking on eggshells hoping you don't accidentally upset someone or other. Many of these companies do it all diversity, LGBT, Black History Month, Pride but its all for show in reality they couldn't care less about their employees.

People are called foreigners because they are foreign ... how can you expect them to be compatible

This happened years ago, where the in joke was that if you were an islamic, black, disabled lesbian then anyone else going for the job can leave...not much has changed sadly, a fire station wanting 2 fire fighters of ethnic minority recently with no one showing up in a heavily asian / pakistani area... The best person for the job with experience and quals should be the person hired ..

The good old days when people worked hard to get the qualifications for their chosen careers

How many women quit to avoid the men in the bathroom?

The hospital I worked at from 1988 to 2010 put us through “diversity training” because I worked night shift, and we were notorious for having inappropriate humor. (We had to have that, because otherwise, you’d go INSANE working at night!) The training was complete crap, and it didn’t “take”. (We were just as bad afterwards as before)

In the last 30 years or so, how many good people have been overlooked due to an organisation wanting a quota of minorities, some of which are worthy but fabulous, now years later look at the state of this country. Name a minority now, is it a kitten, elephant or a hard working UK citizen trying their best?

I spoke up against the statistics used in a primary school to introduce the use of erroneous pronouns. The management went through all sorts of pantomimes and spurious claims until I just retired. Jumped before pushed. This is real folks.

A blind meritocracy is all we need.

It's a workplace psychopaths paradise.

Special treatment also known as diversity

minoeities must do these courses to integrate with us, they are not of this country, foisted on us after the war, so why are we to learn about them in our own country

So making something nobody worried about because they just got on with the job , into a major issue made things worse ? who woulda thunk it !

Freedom of association should mean you get to choose who you employ, who you serve and who you associate with. People should not be forced together by dictat.

No wonder people are going off sick & staying on benefits as they don't want to be forced to undetake fake DEI training at workplaces!😊

True story. We had an employee, fresh from university. Ideologically driven. Who could not tolerate any different opinions to theirs. Took offence at another employee eating a meat sandwich. As they believed everyone should be vegan. Threw a chair. Had hissy fits. And left within a couple of week. And used the word, 'toxic' to describe the work environment when resigning. Nobody did anything wrong. They wanted the work place to bend to their will. It didn't. They left.

In the US, the foundational legislation eliminating workplace discrimination is the Civil Rights Act of 1964. DEI is a gross violation of this law,. Other than the SCOTUS 2023 decision in Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard, not even the Republicans are aggressively doing anything about corporate discrimination.

Diversity has ended up hurting those it wanted to help

It does isolate minorities in a business, as the non minority people will not talk to minority’s about anything other than short conversations that are work specific, it is just not safe to have casual conversations with a minority person in case something you say is perceived to be offensive

When all of this was hitting mainstream, I worked in a major tech company office (a couple guesses and you'd have it) and it was like working in a clown show circus. Every other day your email was spammed with about some "day" celebrating some specific racial or gender group (but never white/european/men); people were roaming around with crazy hair, clothing, and behavior which would get you fired from a McDonald's; you had people with missing limbs and weird other things that got them special fast track privileges; and of course the walls were decorated with a rainbow canon to the point of absurdity. Unless you had been born as one of the favored groups, you either needed to loudly swear loyalty to whatever the daily activist cause was, or else keep your head down and try not to attract attention to yourself. It creates an awful work environment.

Wonder, sadly, if sanity will ever return to this daft World.

I love how diversity trainers read my mind for me and tell me how to communicate to my Wife who is a lady of colour. And get me to discount all my life long none racist views and, effectively become a blank white slate for them to engineer.

Alot were encouraged into jobs beyond their ability due to race. Alot are leaving before they get sacked.

It's a huge scam.

My company replaced the "There's no I in team" poster with " There's and I in inclusiveness" Forget about team work it's all about Me! Me! Me!

Oh no! Just Eat delivery service is going to collapse!

One of the main victims of this are autistic spectrum people who are not good at concealing their true feelings. (I'm a bit that way). It's time to outlaw DEI monitoring initiatives from the workplace altogether, promotion should be purely on ability and performance, regardless of creed, colour etc.

HR Departments should be removed from companies altogether

Forced brainwashing

where is diversity of thought

Exactly, divide and conquer. Don't fall for it!!

The trouble started when payroll and personnel was rebranded as Human Resources. Nobody trusts or believes they just make noises that get wages.

There is the belief that immigrants want to allow more immigrants when the opposite is the case. Many if not a majority voted for Brexit. They understand better than most the dangers of open borders. The risk to their safety and the risk to maintaining their jobs. Immigrants who have been through a long process earning their citizenship are then offended when it is given away cheaply or for free.

People don’t seem to realise that if you can be judged as a minority you are presumed to have benefited from DEI. You never get credit for genuine achievement.

Said it from the start! It was virtue signalling by using someone based on colour, gender or sexual orientation. To appear perfect to everyone else.

I've always been one of those weird types, where I judge people on the content of their character, not their skin colour. Always give the job to the one most suited to do a good job of it.

didn't earn it

I felt the same thing in the '80s sitting through sexual harassment training. I went from part of the workforce to a woman who could ruin someone's career after a 50-minute lecture. This was early DEI.

Imagine if there was no immigration! How successful this country would be! Meritocracy ruling who gets the job!

Fear of being falsely accused means you keep your distance.

Everyone’s miserable because everyone is afraid to shake the damn Apple cart. No jokes, no mingling, no life.

“Mandatory” training on Racial Bias and Micro Aggression was introduced at my workplace (a university) and we were told we had to undertake it as a matter of some urgency. The outside speakers obviously had their own agenda which they could merrily preach at us but when I expressed an alternative view on one point I was accused of having “white fragility” and asked to stay after everyone else left. I was told that my speaking up was inappropriate, may have made others feel uncomfortable. I told them that their whole session made me feel uncomfortable. I fully expected to be reported - and I obviously was because my line manager later has a word later when she expressed her disappointment in me. I don’t know if it would have affected my career or not as I retired shortly after.

I work in a factory in Somerset and there is only 6 English people out of 25 staff on the factory floor

Considering that minorities are often more religious and thus sexually more conservative and would not agree to "celebrating" sexual minorities, that would explain their criticism of these struggle sessions.

DEI and EDI are just an extended version of HR (human resources) - typically women's jobs, by the way. No wonder it's a big fat mess.

I had to go through a month long disciplinary procedure for being "racist". The manager made the complaint on behalf of another member of staff who apologised to me and said they didn't want any of this to happen. After the month, the case was dropped with no penalty being applied, but they made sure to drag it out as long as possible. The HR woman had resting bitch face when I went to pick up the outcome, so they obviously were not happy that they had to drop it. I had been in the job for over 20 years and nobody had had a problem with me in all that time before this incident.

Is it also because they can't handle the strain or hard work and operating intelligently?

The worst possible training. It's 100% pure BS. I will NEVER attend another one.

As a HR person myself this dude is a breath of fresh air!

Training/indoctrination?

Self-censorship was *always* the point. You do recall the cultural revolution, correct?

So its working as intended...

There is no weather emergency, I learned that from meritocracy.

Black Olives Matter 😂

In Australia the Australian government has asked their employee what their sexual orientation is which is actually against the Australian Privacy Principles. Staff were also asked if they believed there were more than 2 genders. Under the law the government cannot ask their employees anything that is not directly related to their job but in this instance, under DEI, they broke that law to gather information that will be given to ACON, which is Australia's version of Stonewall. The Australian government is so embedded in DEI, specifically gender identity, the government will overtly break its own law to profile staff. They said the survey, which contained these questions, that it would be anonymous but they asked sufficient questions about the staff member completing the questionaire which you could reasonably expect that most staff could be identified. This is abhorrent that our own government knew they were breaking the law and then when confronted by it said well it is a DEI survey, which means nothing, there is no exemption in the Australian Privacy Principles so they blatantly broke the law. And so has most corporations signed up with ACON who have given the same survey to staff as the APP's apply to government and industry that has a turnover of more than 3 million. We have a government and industry that are breaking laws to profile people.

That should be rule number one.. you can only imigrate here if you have a job and privately paid accommodation prepared.. no job, no private rent, no visa 👌 on top of that! 10years tax before any claim can be made.. if you become disabled or any other issues before that 10 years tax has been paid.. you get deported back to where your journey began in order to get treatment 👊

If I ever got a job and they told me I had to have this type of training... there'd be a puff of smoke where I was standing. PEACE OUT!! 😅😅😅

People, please don't worry about it much, it will get far worse...

To force,or demand equity of outcome is to practice racism, genderism, etc.

I worked in HR for 42 years. When I was a young HR professional I met a man who owned an engineering firm. When he learned my occupation, he counseled patience in dealing with employees who after all are people and people are imperfect. He said that he could follow his best employee around for 8 hours and find 8 reasons to fire him. So when I hear that an employee who openly opposes DEI was fired for “justified reasons” unrelated to his opposition to DEI, I don’t believe it.

I worked for a major national charity which was very keen to have minority groups represented in their trustee boards, management and employees. I live in London and I'd say it's fairly easy to recruit from a huge selection of minorities. My colleagues in rural areas found it excessively difficult to recruit from such a wide range of minorities since the numbers available are quite small. What one could do is recruit people of different age groups, income groups, profession and class etc, and of course men and women.

Presumably you want a best for the job pilot on your plane or the best surgeon when you have an operation? Or do you just want one which is the right colour or sex?