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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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?