Everything is trying to be woke. I attend a tech convention every year for the past 7-8 years. All developers and I can tell you it is a diverse crowd. But, this year they sent me an invitation and the event is actually called Diversity and Inclusiveness. I don't know why they would think that is a good title for an event but it just sickened me as the tech industry is already quite diverse and unfortunately inclusive.
I’ve seen a couple of those in the last few years.
They used to have talks like “my boss was against my production deployment strategy because he didn’t think it would work”, or “I met early pushback in my design for a REST API and here’s how I overcame it”, and I’d nod my head in agreement and shout “hey, me too!”
And then the next sentence would be “and that’s when I realized because I’m a woman / black / gay / half poodle mix, that nobody was taking me seriously and I had to fight so hard for my ideas” and then I’m done listening.
Well to be honest when I first started in tech there were way more Whites then the companies realized they could rope the foreign students into working for free or next to nothing. All of a sudden it was companies entirely made up of people from India with the obligatory Caucassian bosses and managers. But, after a few years they had a little rebellion and they switched the entire labour force to Chinese. I felt bad for these Chinese workers as they had no social skills and couldn't even communicate (amongst themselves). Real drones. I decided to get out at that point since working in an environment where everyone shits on you for being a White male but have to work with a sea of foreigners that can't even dress themselves. Funny thing is through all the changes it always remained the same White management and club that made the real money... which I did. Diversity and inclusiveness is switching the labour group once they are no longer needed.
Everything is trying to be woke. I attend a tech convention every year for the past 7-8 years. All developers and I can tell you it is a diverse crowd. But, this year they sent me an invitation and the event is actually called Diversity and Inclusiveness. I don't know why they would think that is a good title for an event but it just sickened me as the tech industry is already quite diverse and unfortunately inclusive.
I’ve seen a couple of those in the last few years.
They used to have talks like “my boss was against my production deployment strategy because he didn’t think it would work”, or “I met early pushback in my design for a REST API and here’s how I overcame it”, and I’d nod my head in agreement and shout “hey, me too!”
And then the next sentence would be “and that’s when I realized because I’m a woman / black / gay / half poodle mix, that nobody was taking me seriously and I had to fight so hard for my ideas” and then I’m done listening.
Well to be honest when I first started in tech there were way more Whites then the companies realized they could rope the foreign students into working for free or next to nothing. All of a sudden it was companies entirely made up of people from India with the obligatory Caucassian bosses and managers. But, after a few years they had a little rebellion and they switched the entire labour force to Chinese. I felt bad for these Chinese workers as they had no social skills and couldn't even communicate (amongst themselves). Real drones. I decided to get out at that point since working in an environment where everyone shits on you for being a White male but have to work with a sea of foreigners that can't even dress themselves. Funny thing is through all the changes it always remained the same White management and club that made the real money... which I did. Diversity and inclusiveness is switching the labour group once they are no longer needed.