Hazdaz

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[–] Hazdaz 66 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Reading some of these replies in here are cringe as fuck. Not because I don't agree with the overall sentiment, but rather in the fact that you guys don't know what language to use. In essence, you don't know your audience. Speak in the language that your audience can relate to.

When she says that her pay is dependent on the company performance, the reply isn't to talk about worker this and worker that. The correct reply to that is to point out that GM stock has been essentially flat for the last 4 years. Her job as CEO is to increase value for stockholders. Stockholders haven't seen a 40% increase in 4 years. So if shareholders haven't seen a 40% increase in that time, then how is she justifying her pay increase.

And ultimately, her pay isn't determined by her. It's determined by the board of directors. And there lies the problem with all these out of control CEO salaries.... it doesn't cost anything for a director to increase some CEO's pay. It's not taken out of their pocket. It doesn't affect them directly in any way, so to them it's like monopoly money. You get a raise, and you get a raise and you get a raise. Every CEO gets a raise because the director that approves one CEO's pay might be the CEO of another company who's director is the other CEO who just got a raise. You scratch my back, and you scratch mine.

[–] Hazdaz 1 points 1 year ago

white people are on the whole under qualified to understand

This is complete false. If these type of positions even try to pretend to be anything other than a token gesture by the marketing department have some kind of training and certification and possibly even a degree behind them that quantifies whatever they are trying to teach. That means exams and reports and presentations. That means reading textbooks and doing research. So someone saying that the color of one's skin makes them innately better at taking a DEI-related exam and being a better DEI worker is about as racist as you can get.

If someone said that the color of one's skin would dictate if they could solve a partial differential equation, or the sex organs they have between their legs determined whether they could design a 5 story building, then they'd be called sexists or racist. Claiming that a white person automagically can't be disadvantaged and/or can't be as good in a DEI curriculum or work position is incredibly racist.

[–] Hazdaz 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not surprised and that's what sets people off. This exactly why Affirmative Action is such BS.

[–] Hazdaz 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Then said that race, gender, and whatever else don’t factor in to hiring decisions (as it should be).

Then problem solved!

The hiring process should be race-blind, so anything a DEI department does runs counter to being unbiased. If they a promoting one group over others, then that right there is racists or sexist, etc. Hire people on merit. Period.

[–] Hazdaz 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"... filled mostly by white people"

Yeah. And? What kind of racist bullshit is this?

[–] Hazdaz 14 points 1 year ago

"Umm... excuse me. WTF are you doing? I haven't been fed in an eternity. Must have been at least a whole hour since my bowl had food. Go get me nom-noms."

[–] Hazdaz -5 points 1 year ago

You are 100% correct, so it is especially funny seeing that almost 1/4 of the people downvoted you for no good reason. Holy fuck this site has a huge percentage of utterly clueless Lemmings.

[–] Hazdaz 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seems soooo much more complex than simply using regular noise canceling technology which we've had for ages now. In my previous company it was amazing how well it worked. You could be maybe 5 feet away from someone you could hear them perfectly fine, but move 10 feet away and everything was just muted down. One day we had some electrical problems and the system was down, and that's when you really could notice how well the system worked because you could hear people all the way from the other side of the building when before when the system was running those noises were totally gone.

[–] Hazdaz 9 points 1 year ago

Whether real or a toy, you need a specific environment to get a good picture with them. It just doesn't make a ton of sense to me to get a projector when TVs are so dirt cheap these days.

[–] Hazdaz -4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, except it does in states that run properly which is why my state has some of the highest paid teachers in the entire country. Maybe leave whatever shithole state you live in if you can't control what your legislators vote on. Or you know, get off your lazy ass and vote come next election cycle.

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