I just have this feeling that.... A company can have their marketing team post about inclusivity without taking time away from development teams working on core products. Is that so crazy to think?
Someone messed up here, but it feels like "too much time spent on DEI" is just an odd response to me.
Did Crowdstike's competition also cause massive glitches after making Instagram posts in support of Pride?
There are only so many hours in the day for the suits to manage a company, and if too much time is fretting about diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) it takes their eyes off of the critical functions that they are responsible for. Agree with it or not but it's a valid point.
Those critical functions being lunch, footy tipping, their bonuses and going whoring on important boozy conferences in 5 star resorts!
You’re overestimating the amount of social interaction typical in a tech company, they just want to go home early to play League Of Legends, that’s their level of degeneracy. They’re not in Real Estate.
Addendum to Crowdstrike - Amazon says one of the things I ordered might take an extra day because of Crowdstrike.
To be fair, I'm not sure why a cybersecurity company should have anyone focused on DEI topics to begin with.
Focus on your business and hire the best people for the job, since millions of people are depending on you. Most good IT companies already do this and don't need to make vapid social media posts about it.
If the cybersecurity company has federal and/or local governments as its customers, these government representatives may ask how you are doing with DEI. How many of your employees belong to certain protected groups. What effort have you made to hire more if your numbers don't look satisfactory. A prospective government customer may use the information in the bidding/procurement process. In the past before DEI, there was a similar thing called Affirmative Action.
If the cybersecurity company has federal and/or local governments as its customers, these government representatives may ask how you are doing with DEI. How many of your employees belong to certain protected groups. What effort have you made to hire more if your numbers don't look satisfactory. A prospective government customer may use the information in the bidding/procurement process. In the past before DEI, there was a similar thing called Affirmative Action.
Sounds like a good way to undermine merit-based hiring and promotions.
Some interesting/amusing photos:
The reporting on this issue is really winding me up. The culprit is Crowdstrike and them alone. It impacts computers with a Microsoft operating system that happen to have Cloudstrike installed. But from the reporting the public at large would think it was a problem caused by Microsoft. Details matter journalists!
That's not to say Microsoft are perfect, they definitely are not, but in this instance it really is nothing to do with them. And yet, in my chosen news app this morning, the story is still referred to as "the Microsoft IT outage".
Funny as I went fishing on Saturday with the IT guy from work. (Looks after a bunch of gov and non gov agencies) Had no service for the day…
On arrival back to civilisation I could have sworn he’s phone was about to catch fire the amount of messages he received.
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Lol, if you actually think hiring and promotions are based on merit.
Hey! I got into that prestigious university on merit. Sure my grandfather and father both went there. Yes that did put my application on top of the pile but that's perfectly legal. Yes my family donated money for the new library but that was done completely out of school spirit. Yes my family belongs to the same country club as the CEO of my employer. That in no way means I'm not qualified for my high level job at this cybersecurity company. Yes it was my job to authorize the update release but I was out Friday. I attended an event at my alma mater with my son who graduates from high school this year. I too like to express my school spirit. Yes I did just fire the most senior person in the department but she kept annoying me with all this talk of double checking and testing. It wasn't a loss as she didn't even go to a prestigious university. This is all her fault.
that sounds about right!
As someone who does government procurement this is false. There are demographics that are check boxes on a form that including small businesses among other demographic groups- but we are never told to give any preference to one group or another. That data is simply data.
Contracts are awarded to bidders who meet the criteria specified in the order for the products or services required on the basis of delivery time and price.
