Currently working in tech for a big company. SJW manager keeps insisting I do more to push hard on inclusion and diversity, says I have to show passion for the cause.
It wasn’t enough to have spent some time working on accessibility improvements. I need to go all in and join all kinds of groups and get in touch with other warriors, and be a leader in the fight to make software accessible to everyone.
My job performance is affected by how impactful I am in pushing the inclusion and diversity agenda. But I don’t wanna be an SJW. I wanna do actual, technical work. I feel like this theme keeps coming up all the time and hindering my growth. Mind you, now they don’t tie actual growth to growth. Growth means pandering and becoming a leftist. Fuck that!
If you were me, what would you do?
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ZenoOfElea ago
This is a shitty time to be looking for a new job but I would find something else and tell them exactly why I was leaving.
dummythicc ago
Before I give you my opinion on the matter, what do you mean by "accessibility improvements". In my experience helping code something beneficial for people with legitimate physical disabilities isn't an issue. This wouldn't be something I consider exactly "SJW".
HOWEVER if your boss if one of these fucking "we need to hire more X to improve the culture in code" retards, or hires horrifically unqualified X people and expects you to train them then yeah different ball game.
FacelessScreaming ago
Accessibility can be tied to inclusion and diversity. I am fine with the technical aspects of improving the software to be more accessible. However the manager is not content with me just doing that. I need to do more, something that is beyond me. I can take care to consider the accessibility of things as I go about my daily work. However I cannot do that full time. I am not interested in getting involved in their groups to fight for marginalized groups via virtual signaling and pretending to be accomplishing anything. My specialty is not accessibility expert evangelist and programmer.
dummythicc ago
This seems apples and oranges to me. Adding accessibility != helping "marginalized groups" or some other bullshit.
Just do what other people here say, if you hate the job then quit. If you want to twist the knife however put your current job down on your resume as "currently employed" when you send it out. When the company gets a call from a potential employer they will mostly likely ask your boss why this employee is leaving. If your boss isn't at the top, or better yet not near it and has his own bosses, you may get the opportunity to explain in front of your boss and his boss(es) why its insufferable to work there and with the direction they are going you see the company as a sinking ship and can't afford to go down with it. Trust me when I say if this happens you won't regret doing it.
carnold03 ago
Focus on paying off your outstanding debts and then build up your savings. Get more involved in your alumni association and fraternity. Update your resume. Do some freelance work. Stop bringing friends, kin, or members of your household to company social functions. Then implement @skimm's suggestion and then let reality run amok in the workspace.
Bamballam ago
Sounds like a hostile work environment and your manager is using her position to coerce your political beliefs. Be careful and seek some legal advice how to deal with this.
JunOS ago
Didn't you post this same shit like 4 months ago?
FacelessScreaming ago
Someone asked the same in another comment. Yes, I did post it. And I followed up with approaching things like accessibility, thanks to everyone’s suggestions. I am good with the technical aspects. However to the SJW mentality it is never enough. I am asked to go further and getting involved with accessibility groups and panels. Essentially join the bureaucracy. The future is inclusive and diverse! I am asked to be passionate about it and go around preaching social justice, virtual signaling to the world. I am a technical person, an engineer. Not a showman, not an activist.
Wowbagger ago
Sounds like they're trying to justify fucking you for being unapologetically white. I already suggested the accessibility thing. Personally, if I were you and this shit persists I'd go job shopping.
cdglow ago
Hmm, without being there it's tough to read the room, but accessibility in software isn't necessarily "woke politics". Trying to make software a bit easier for people with bad vision, color blindness, or other physical problems isn't a bad thing. And in fact companies get sued by filthy disgusting Jews for not making their software accessible so it is kind of important for the business.
This might be an area where malicious compliance might be in order. Show extreme passion for accessibility. Fix the tiniest issues, no matter how insignificant. Make time estimates for the fixes double and triple what you really need. When they complain break down and cry and say that how would you like to blind and not able to use this software? If they try and discipline you for this say that you don't think their commitment to this is large enough. If you get fired become a whistleblower and try and sue them for following orders.
BlackSheepBrouhaha ago
Pay attention to the James Damore case. You will be fired, make sure you document everything progressive.
NarrativeControl ago
OP, everyone here will tell you to quit and honestly they're right. But if you wanna keep your job you gotta think out of the box.
"Diversity and inclusion" most often means "anyone that's not straight white and male." Just look into 'diversifying' into something you don't mind so much about.
It's difficult to know without getting more details (and providing more details will probably get you doxxed) but you might try diversifying into Oriental people. Bring more Asians into the company or whatever the fuck they're asking you for. I wouldn't mind working with some Filipinos or Thais just two mention some ethnicities. Not the best but very far from the worst.
If that's not enough or if there are no ethnicities that you kinda like then I'm afraid you're down to hard choices. If you tolerate fags, then maybe you have to do something with them. If you tolerate Indians (Gradually I started to hate them...) then maybe teach them something boring you have to do but don't want to.
Can you say in general terms what they're asking you to do? Like, do you have to go to the streets and be a militant? Do you need to hire fags and/or ethnic dead ends?
At any rate, you have to get a new job once this virus craze ends. You're gonna ending up with cancer if you don't.
Drain0 ago
Leak the source code, make it accessible to everyone.
ichlibejuice ago
Offer employment to people who have tested positive for coronahoax as they are heavily discriminated against and have all of them cough on your bosses face.
mf1776 ago
Find a new manager if you want to stay there. Otherwise find a new job.
You can't reason with SJWs. If they were logical, they wouldn't be SJWs.
dt1 ago
"Make software accessible to everyone" = Leak all of your source code online.
RustyEquipment ago
I just found a new job. Well. They found me. But I left as soon as possible
I work as lab systems developer/consultant and know what you mean!
hermes3xx ago
Find work in a non-liberal state.
FacelessScreaming ago
I was looking to move but halted due to the current circumstances.
RevDrStrangelove ago
Change careers. I quit the tech industry in disgust back when the 486 DX 2/66 was "a strictly business only machine because no one needed a machine this powerful at home". Obviously this was well before the current PC/SJW bullshit but even back then the prevalence of the 'Milton Waddams' type made the industry unbearable for me. I suggest you hit the reset button and find a different career where your attitude and aptitude intersect. Good luck.
Jujubean ago
Deversity that motherfucker to the ground. Hire as many niggers as you can to do programming. Insist that performance reviews are racist and encourage the niggers to fuck off all the time.
FacelessScreaming ago
The manager keeps bringing up how another coworker is fighting for a certain group of people, saying that person is so passionate about the cause. In all seriousness do you think anyone can be that kind of person? Here’s some motherfucking diversity... people who are not into that BS. I have to use my diverse “introversion” against them, right? Ok!!!
BeauDacious ago
Pick a group to fight for that they aren't likely to object to that is meaningful, like disabled vets. They cant bitch about that, and it isn't all SJW shit. It is a group that could actually use help.
MaFishTacosDaBombBro ago
It sounds like they're changing your job description. You agreed to do work for computer programming, yet they added "diversity tasks" to your role.
glassuser ago
he's probably in an at-will employment state.
FacelessScreaming ago
Yeah, it was a shock to learn the whole company mandated every single employee pursue inclusion and diversity as one of the main tenets of performance. It doesn’t help the manager goes hardcore into that in the fight to become the most woke team in the company, instead of just brushing it aside and focusing on real work.
Heilodinn ago
Quit. Plenty of work for skilled people.
FacelessScreaming ago
Yeah, I’ve heard this option many times. Problem is the industry is permeated with SJWism, so in a way you are telling me, quit the industry.
Commie_Meta ago
Just stop working for companies concerned with Progressivism. There are loads of rational companies. Small companies that simply don't have the money for affirmative action, defense contractors, etc.
Deceneu ago
True.
But be prepared that those companies, if very competitive, will be bought by the Progressives at some point in the future.
FacelessScreaming ago
Why are these “rational” companies using the software made by the “progressives”? Did the progressives take over something that originally was sane?
Heilodinn ago
You have a choice to make. Stand up for your beliefs or don’t. If you stand up, just say no. See what happens. If you cave, prepare to die inside. Bad choices, sure. But it’s your choice to make.
aWe5it5 ago
No can be a very strong word when said with conviction and without any desire to explain yourself.
wgtt911 ago
Move on...so they can hire a poc
FacelessScreaming ago
Are you saying I should get out of the industry and become unemployed?
user9713 ago
Do some freelance on the side with the goal of eventually doing it full time. That's what a lot of people are doing nowadays.
Heilodinn ago
Get a new job, not everyone is the same. Or start some your own business. Or change industries. Or get on your knees and suck it up. You choose. Those are your options.
FacelessScreaming ago
Okay, I have been doing a side business but so far it is far from profitable. If I were to quit and pursue it, I’d have no income. And during these times people would be even less likely to pay for my services. So for now I have to be an employee.
Heilodinn ago
Till now, it’s been a side business. That’s not as the same as hustling t make it your full time gig. But, stay employed. Ask specifically, if your involvement in the the SJW activities are a condition of employment. If yes, don’t do it. Make them fire you. If no, then bid your time. Make a plan, get out of debt, be free. Or don’t. Your choice. But stop making any fucking assumptions about what will happen, and stop fantasizing about how you have no choice. All you really have is the ability to make a choice. Check out some Jordan Peterson videos about saws and PC shit. Most of “ I have no choice” tends to be in your head. But it’s your call. Stand or kneel.
Wolfspider ago
You are asking the same question you did like three months ago. I thought you were lining up some new work.
FacelessScreaming ago
I did! I followed your suggestions and worked on accessibility, among other things. But it’s never enough.
Tallest_Skil ago
Then you’ll do it or you’ll be fired AND be blacklisted from all other companies in that industry. You literally don’t have any other options. Well, no other options that you’ll actually do, that is. So they don’t even bear mentioning.
FacelessScreaming ago
Hey, didn’t you know? You have to use “blocklisted”, not “blacklisted”. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Tallest_Skil ago
I don’t understand the reference.
FacelessScreaming ago
I’m playing with you using the things they teach us. You are offending people using the word “blacklist”. You have to change it to blocklist or denylist.
zozimus ago
And don't forget "allowlist" instead of whitelist. And they say they don't care about the historical roots having nothing to do with race, that it still hurts people's feelings and should be changed.
Although they love to talk about how whatever-ism is rooted in [insert vague historical example thats no longer relevant]
Tallest_Skil ago
Aha, makes sense now.
Morbo ago
Tell them you're wanting to quit because you don't feel like you're being included enough. Use their agenda against them. Have another job lined up first of course.
Diggernicks ago
Get a new job
Faggot
Maddmartigan ago
Tough spot brother. Hang in there while looking for a new job. Hold your head up high.
FacelessScreaming ago
I have been praised in previous experience, so much so I advanced pretty quick. But ever since hitting the SJW arena, it has been upsetting at times. Thank you!
clamhurt_legbeard ago
What's your job title?
FacelessScreaming ago
Individual contributor writing software code
skmm ago
Is this an actual job or are you doing a complicated larp making fun of open source contributors?
FacelessScreaming ago
Larp? Live action role-playing game? I work full time writing software. I’m a very good developer. I have no doubt about it. What I lack is “SJW passion”, according to my manager.
skmm ago
The job title doesn't sound real and it's hard to believe there are no positions in the entire industry where you don't need "SJW passion" as a job requirement.
FacelessScreaming ago
I described what I do. I don’t need to tell you the specific job title. Writing software code. Not a manager.
Sure I could downgrade and get a massive cut to go work for some random company, which by chance might not be as SJW. Why is it that I have to let my merit be stepped over and be severely underpaid just for the sake of not pushing hard on the inclusion and diversity agenda?
skmm ago
If that's part of the job description then you actually lack merit for that position and you should get a job you are willing to do instead of trying to score that lead developer position at grindr while disapproving of faggotry.
FacelessScreaming ago
😂 I see your point. I was not aware it was going to be hyper-SJW. It wasn’t in the job description. But I have learned my lesson and now will be careful to look for the signs!
Yeah, okay, since all big tech is SJW, so I should downgrade, get a pay cut, and work for someone who isn’t SJW. Hmm. Hoping there would be free thinkers in tech that provided opportunities so I could help them grow and fight these censorship-loving technocrats.
skmm ago
It's considered bad practice but I have done well in interviews being honest about why I am leaving my previous jobs where the reasons actually sounded insane like your reason does.
I even told people directly in interviews that I've walked off of jobs before and would do it again under similar circumstances and still got hired.
clamhurt_legbeard ago
So, you describe the BS you added to the coding.
If that's not enough, complain that she needs to facilitate your ability to make the code accessible to under-privileged by going to the people giving the software design goals.
Or something.
green_man ago
Tell the bitch microsoft is underrepresented in the SDS market and for data justice the company needs to diversify their storage and include S2D.
FacelessScreaming ago
Safety Data Sheets? Storage Spaces Direct?
green_man ago
Storage Spaces Direct. I'm not actually recommending it, I'm just using SJW bullshit speak to push for an inferior product.
skmm ago
"Network" with the local schools for troubled youth. Insist your boss bring in the most unruly inner city kids you can find as interns.
Refuse to take resposibility for their actions or restrain them in any way. Accuse people who complain about having things stolen by them of being racially biased.
andrew_jackson ago
Yup. OP is making this too hard on themselves. You need to turn this into an opportunity to subvert the corrupt institution that you work at, preferably at a profit.
Accuse your boss of not doing enough to support the rights of Serbian War Refugees?
MrPim ago
Find a new job. Full stop.
Rellik88 ago
This, however you could go full troll. Play the part, steal any evidence or anti white bias. Dont forget to share it. Also you can push for more dragonkin in the work force, or even furry day every friday. Push for more inclusion with Pedophiles. How about 5% of the work force should be retards, I mean special. Bring your fetish to work day. Mandatory cock sucking classes for all males. Make the whites in your company go a week with leg irons on to know the struggle of African Americans. Fire anyone who owns gun. Lie decfor tests to check for being a Trump fan. Bowl of hormones in the break room. No phallus shaped food items at work. Manditory changed to Femitory. Make every employee memorize all genders, and resite at a moments notice. Cocks cages have to be worn by all male workers to prevent rape. White people can never be in a supervisor role over blacks. Men can never be a Supervisor to women. Forced paycheck deduction to Planned Parenthood or the DNC. Submit an oath to Joe Biden. Etc etc etc
Heilodinn ago
Playing along with it at any level poisons your soul. They WANT you to pretend. Because if you pretend to be someone else long enough, you’ll wake up and realize you stopped actually pretending a long time ago.
beefartist ago
Fuck thank you! Voat is full of people that think being spiteful and disingenuous is fun...it is soul crushing
Deceneu ago
It is, but that was fun to read :)
FacelessScreaming ago
I’m trying to hold on to this job, as the industry at large is now dominated by the SJW mentality.
daskapitalist ago
Move away from the coasts. Flyover country wants competence not feels.
Seventh_Jim ago
Bro, you're either changing industry, starting a non-cucked competitor/consult shop, or selling your soul.
Ever heard of Vox Day? I'd get a copy of SJW's Always Lie and Corporate Cancer yesterday. You've already been selected for destruction.
Fuck, I'll ship you my copy of SJWAL if you need. Start getting involved with alt-tech. Realize we are at war.
FacelessScreaming ago
Thank you for the recommendations! I will have a look.
I like alt-tech, but there is not a lot of opportunities. I would love to help but I can’t do unpaid work.
Seventh_Jim ago
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/08/vox-day/sjw-attack-survival-guide/
That is the most immediately useful info. It sucks you're getting hit with this, but it'll probably be for the better if you sack up and fight. They can only kick you out of hell.