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| Boeing finally shuts down its DEI division |
| 2024-11-02 |
[Behind The Black] According to a report from Bloomberg news today, Boeing has now dismantled its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) division, with its head leaving the company.Staff from Boeing’s DEI office will be combined with another human resources team focused on talent and employee experience, according to people familiar with the matter. Sara Liang Bowen, a Boeing vice president who led the now-defunct department, left the company on Thursday. [emphasis mine] The highlighted phrase above tells us all we need to know. The focus under Boeing’s new CEO Kelly Ortberg will be "talent and employee experience," not skin color or gender. Bowen wrote the following in announcing her dismissal: It has been the privilege of my lifetime to lead Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the Boeing company these past 5+ years. Our team strived every day to support the evolving brilliance and creativity of our workforce. The team achieved so much — sometimes imperfectly, never easily — and dreamed of doing much more still. [emphasis mine] As far as I can tell, all that Bowen accomplished was to destroy the reputation of Boeing as a quality manufacturer of aerospace products. Instead, it became a place which hired people based on their race, and didn’t care if they knew the difference between a screwdriver and a forklift. The screen capture to the right comes from the company’s 2024 Boeing Sustainability & Social Impact Report [pdf], which is still online, as is the webpage of Boeing’s DEI division. Both still tout the racist quota goals of this DEI department that forced the company to consider race and gender above talent and experience in its hiring. Hopefully that ugliness will vanish soon as well. Meanwhile, Boeing union employees on the west coast are about to vote on a third contract proposal, having rejected the previous two and going on strike since mid-September. I suspect the decision above to get rid of this poisonous DEI department will sit well with those union employees, and likely help to encourage them to approve the plan. Related: Boeing 11/01/2024 Boeing Union Endorses Latest Offer to End Crippling Strike Boeing 11/01/2024 A holiday air travel reminder Boeing 10/31/2024 The International Space Station should be evacuated IMMEDIATELY Related: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 05/06/2024 Cliff Sims: ‘Really Shocked' to See the ‘DEI Office' and ‘Politicization of the Intelligence Community' in the CIA Building Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 02/16/2024 Disney Slapped With Another Massive Civil Rights Lawsuit Over Racist Discrimination Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 01/27/2024 Inside the Defense Department's Anti-White Schizophrenia |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #7 #1 ...What this tells me is that DEI may have had a lot more to do with the problems at Boeing than anybody was letting on. Mike You have no idea how on the money you are. Everyone just got a quarterly review so we will see how the new outsider CEO swings the ax. At least 17,000 will head out the door starting November 17. |
| Posted by: TZSenator 2024-11-02 16:54 |
| #6 ^ RoundUp herbicide |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-11-02 12:31 |
| #5 Ever try getting rid of a rhizome? Just cutting the growth doesn't do it. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-11-02 10:16 |
| #4 "Our work here is done..." |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2024-11-02 09:42 |
| #3 #2 Yea, but did they fire anyone who got a job through that DEI department? Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-11-02 03:24 Grom, Oh no, perish the thought. Firings that could possibly be construed as having a clear element of bias to them would be completely illegal and immoral. On the other hand, some folks might find their meteoric rise to the top of the rainbow flag...slowed. With a couple of detours too, maybe. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2024-11-02 08:08 |
| #2 Yea, but did they fire anyone who got a job through that DEI department? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-11-02 03:24 |
| #1 ...What this tells me is that DEI may have had a lot more to do with the problems at Boeing than anybody was letting on. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2024-11-02 03:12 |