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    DC> Whenever I reflect on the change in college culture over the years, and   
    DC> how it's translated into political culture/desired laws and social   
    DC> justice initiatives .. I seem to recall it falling inline with the   
    DC> evolution of HR departments within corporations.  My "Conspiracy   
    DC> theory" I like to throw out at the dinner table whenever a relative   
    DC> won't shut up about politics is "The cause is human resources."  Albeit   
    DC> I'm kidding .. "culture and diversity training" are just fancy words   
    DC> for "Reduce liabity of fines, penalties, and lawsuits."  In America, as   
    DC> I'm sure true anywhere, it's cheaper to settle a false claim of   
    DC> wrongful termination (averaging $10,000 per settlement,) then it is to   
    DC> go to trial.  There are quite a few opportunistic people out there that   
    DC> have created a culture within the workforce that supresses us from   
    DC> being human - from being ourselves - without fear of being fired and or   
    DC> wrongly accused of having offended another.  Human Resources used to   
    DC> simply be recruiting, payroll, and seperate department managers who   
    DC> dealt with employee complaints.  Whatever year most companies began   
    DC> consolidating it into a singular department, is the time since, I have   
    DC> not enjoyed working for corporations.  My  "Conspiracy theory" is that   
    DC> it's also cheaper for corporations to pay off politicians to pursue   
    DC> agendas that reduce liability for said corporations.  Therefore the   
    DC> push for education and law to practice supression of our rights to   
    DC> freedom of speech. Not to mention the confusion corporations create --   
    DC> what you can't say at work without being fired for, you freely can   
    DC> outside of work -- is not nearly as definitive of a line as it once   
    DC> was.  With social media these days, one who is freely expressing their   
    DC> legal rights, can lose their job for what they posted on their off   
    DC> time, or not aquire a job to begin with.  America is so divided left   
    DC> versus right, most corporations, the media, and politicians, leaning   
    DC> left, pampering to a generation of youth who are overly entitled, that   
    DC> if one does lean more right (like I do,) said invidivuals are at a   
    DC> disadvantage in aquiring a job and or within the work force.  I hope a   
    DC> day exists the government realizes this invasive right to privacy, and   
    DC> discrimiation corporations are emposing, and draws fine line relations   
    DC> restricting companies from snooping facebook accounts.   
      
    DC> I'm somewhat off topic, however my point I guess, is that I'm finding a   
    DC> lot of people attempting to start their own businesses as a result of   
    DC> the "culture" that these companies are so "proud of."   
      
    DC> I love the word rubbish ... we don't use that often in the states!  So   
    DC> true, so true ... I remember when HR started creating sexual harrasment   
    DC> videos.  It was always some old white guy making ridiculous passes at a   
    DC> college aged girl.  The actors and examples were ubsurd.  99% of those   
    DC> who sign up to work for an organization do so with the positive intent   
    DC> to be a good employee, to do be ethical, and to strive to do our best   
    DC> daily.  I don't know ANYONE who goes into work every day striving to do   
    DC> a bad job, or use words to intentionally offend someone, etc.. the 1%   
    DC> who do have made working for corporations borderline hostile.  I can't   
    DC> imagine the verbage "rubbish" guides being trained on and written into   
    DC> handbooks in 2020 with the evolution of gender identification, pronoun   
    DC> usage, and sexuality identification.  Not to mention this ridiculous   
    DC> personality profile people are taking and adding theirs to profiles and   
    DC> or resumes.  Exactly how much does a company need to know about my   
    DC> personal life prior to hiring me?   
      
   Companies tend to just take the most precautionary course of action.  Better to   
   just fall in line, than risk bad press.  I work for a "brand", and there is the   
   constant fear of bad press.  All it takes, is some "journalist" taking a tweet   
   or two and constructing a news story out of it.  Even though those stories   
   don't really have any effect, the company doesn't want to deal with it.  They   
   don't want to manage that potential risk.  The modern way is precaution at all   
   cost, not risk managment.   
      
   So yes, they see it better to just blindly accept the immoral and   
   discriminatory "diversity" policy, or just fire the performing employee who   
   said something on Twitter that upset four other people on Twitter.  The irony   
   is, these companies claim they have principles, but in reality, they bend the   
   knee without objection at all and will act unprincipled to avoid what they   
   consider bad press.  Your "Conspiracy Theory" has merit.   
      
   Human Resources is a large part of this culture too.  In part, they want the   
   brand to appeal to others, in part, they want to personally engage in making   
   the world a better place, and then taking advantage of thier power over others   
   to do so.  HR is a rort if you ask me.  They are paid for these complex   
   programs which I believe make little to no difference.  The correlation between   
   strong HR departments and company performance is due to wealth companies   
   affording complex HR programs, not complex HR programs resulting in   
   performance.  The worst thing is, they weigh in on social issues (such as these   
   riots), without ANY political, historical or philosophical understand of what   
   they are commenting in.  Imagine 14 year old school children taking control of   
   companies, this is our world now.   
      
   Saagar Enjeti from The Hill (A YouTube channel I recommend) made a point that   
   I've mused over for a while too.  In companies pushing this type of politics,   
   they can divert attention from their own inequities and their own structural   
   problems.  Why would big companies support their riots, he mused.  In making   
   the social problems about racism, sexism and other boogeymen from the past,   
   people will focus on old ideas, instead of looking at how modern wealth   
   inequality, the GFC, the bailouts etc, have disadvantaged people, and   
   disadvantaged Blacks.  It draws people attention towards "historical racism",   
   allowing people perpetuating modern injustices to get away with it.  Women are   
   far, far more disadvantaged in Australia due to high house prices and   
   stagnating wages than they are some suppose 'pay gap', but these aren't   
   problems the ruling elite want thought about.  To be honest, those in less   
   professional positions, understand this better than the more educated ones.   
      
   I can say that companies which have a strong "culture" are stifling, and the   
   staff retention rate is not that great.  It's all a lie.  They create a   
   narrative to explain away their failure, their poor performance.  You can't   
   even say that a system that doesn't work could be improved, because that is   
   'negative'.  If the company was doing great as a result, massive bonuses, pay   
   rises, job security, then yeah, maybe I could admit there is some merit.  But I   
   have none of that.   
      
   ... Dennis Katsonis   
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