This long list of activities feels very exclusive to POC and not everyone. Why can’t there be events where we don’t have to feel like if you’re black you’re included, if you’re not, you’re not included.
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Women seem to have benefited greatly from all this pushing of DEI. Including terribly incompetent ones.
No thanks.
My local community has been shot at multiple times this year, don’t even get me started on my greater North American community, or my international brothers & sisters.
Straight facts. I’m unwelcome. I know it. And Nike having no record of who I am is exactly how things need to be. Probably saved my 🍑 from this last batch of payoffs given all the hate in the air.
White men and other people that don't feel included, why do you start a group and propose it be sponsored by the company? Focus on solutions and not complaints. This country has an ugly history of discriminating against black folks both socially and legally (education, voting rights, land and home ownership) so of course it makes sense that black folks are a focus but they shouldn't be the only focus if others feel left out.
At its heart DEI is divisive and exclusionary and has been exploited by people arming themselves with false virtue. It actively harms the company.
i don't know why folks are picking on the janitors
they certainly did not cause the decline of nike, heck they can barely afford dental
they were probably let go first though since they are "replaceables"
"Should Nike pay janitors equivalent to the ELT? Maybe we give interns the power to fire Sr Directors? Allow the naive and inexperienced to shut down experienced employees with decades of experience?"
Hmm, it sounds like may be living in imagination land with your absurd
comparisons. What is the salary/benefit ratio between upper management and regular employees at Nike? Please post this info. Sr Directors rarely get fired even if they are failures while those experienced employees with decades of experience are the first to be let go and replaced with their cheaper Indian counterpart. How many of those janitors are contractors which Nike can dispense with at the drop of a hat.
Let me guess, you are a paid propagandist in some way. Maybe instead of posting misleading fiction, you can spend your time cleaning up the disaster we call Portland
and improve someone else's life besides your own.
Our DEI team is a PR/marketing team, not a real DEI team that drives positive change. This is the problem and explains why Nike doesn’t do DEI well.
DEI has managed to accomplish the complete opposite and has created nothing but discrimination and division. Fortunately the fad is dying down now as the world recognizes it’s mostly just virtue signaling nonsense that isn’t tied to any tangible performance gains
@1cdm+1sNBxhTh Seriously good grief! What a stupid yet frightening comment! George Orwell alive and well apparently…
So what exactly would it mean to equalize diversity of wealth. power, and tenure ?
Should Nike pay janitors equivalent to the ELT? Maybe we give interns the power to fire Sr Directors? Allow the naive and inexperienced to shut down experienced employees with decades of experience?
Read what you wrote again slowly. Take all the time you need.
"My heart truly breaks for the oppressed and discriminated white people of America."
hmm, i am not sure why you did not stay in your own country and avoid any of those
whites in america
could it be that your country was an abysmal failure
that could explain why the US appears to be in some sort of death spiral now
"Putting race aside for a moment, DEI should also consider personality."
maybe we should equalize diversity of wealth, power, and tenure
we are going to have to start from the top though
instead of the poor and middle class folk
Didn’t Earn It strikes back!
Weird that people working at Nike feel marginalized but don’t seem to have any issues cashing their paycheck. All the while with blinders on thinking they deserve their D, SD, or VP title. Bless their hearts.
Pax just needs a good kosher meal in their life.
I miss Nike before the Networks when diversity had a different meaning.
It meant we were all different in our own unique way and that’s what made a team special.
Now these networks of people have become a clique that only promote or work within their clique’s. We’ve never been so divided.
I’m just happy liberal white guilt and corporate posturing got me an extra day off every year.
What’s a “cishet”?
@1ex. As a white man I appreciate your sentiment. Also as a person who grew up being se-----y as--ulted and went through multiple divorces of each parents, dealing with su----e in the family, and being a dropout (who now works for the swoosh), I am so glad my life was simple and easy and had no problems at all because of the color of my skin. Skin color doesn’t define how good you have life.
Nike should just fire the latest DEI hires (specifically those that were hired for DEI initiatives, not POC) All of these groups preexisted without them in the first place. These groups should also be dismantled. These groups feel like discrimination in the workplace with how the executives treat them. Let’s create groups around activities and our shared experiences and build from there. It shouldn’t matter what race you are or your religion. We all got the job that most can only dream of - isn’t that inclusive enough?
DEI is the most corrupt, money siphoning org at Nike, and this is coming from someone in a network, just not Nike’s preferred network.
$140M donated in 4 years could have saved a lot of jobs. AndI’m sure all that money made it to where it was needed.
Look at all the articles about past Nike DEI leaders stealing money. Yet, here we are, shelling out how much for certain network holidays that were used to steal money in the past without any checks and balances, and my network is scrapping pennies.
Would love to see the spend across each of our diversity networks in the next impact report. The lack of DEl resulting from DEI is sickening .
Putting race aside for a moment, DEI should also consider personality. As an introvert at Nike, I don't feel included or valued since the loud voices usually get all the attention
My heart truly breaks for the oppressed and discriminated white people of America. It’s hard out there, especially if you’re a white person earning a salary at a Fortune 100 company like Nike. The oppression is just too much for anyone to bear.
DEI is just an elegant way to discrimate against whites
0 other non-white countries practice it
and all the white countries that practice it are in serious decline
there are some nasty reasons why it is being practiced from the top
Wait. Is this why Nike never does Jewish events? Because the people running that department hate me? Thank god they weren’t writing the layoff lists.
Great. Time to hide my religious beliefs at work
See! There it is.
Judging everything about me by my race and skin color. Everyone should read my comment again. Nothing I said warranted that response.
For whatever reason the militant DEI crowd has a huge overlap with antisemitic beliefs.
Someone here said it best. DEI is not diverse and it’s not welcoming
@odo Stop supporting a genocidal, foreign apartheid state that continues to mu---r women and children and maybe you would feel more welcome, not just in Portland, but around the world. DEI isn’t the problem. Your behavior is.
Forget Nike. As an American born Jew I don’t feel welcome in Portland. DEI groups are actively campaigning to shut down my communities wherever they can find them. Claiming we’re “Zionists” and cr-p. Calm down Karen it’s a group of 20 people that sit down every Friday to eat bread and complain.
And then the worst of them shoot my synagogue once the sun goes down. And laugh while their friends point fingers at evil rural right wingers come morning.
DEI is run by hateful people
DEI is great equalizer for all the non-white folks in society, including the ones that claim they come from moderate to lower households.
As a Native American I don't feel like there are any groups for me to fit into. Some of my Indian friends would say they don't fit into the Asia groups at all. Some of my Mexican friends say they don't fit in with any of the groups either. Its not just white people that feel left out of the company, but many other groups too. Instead of groups based on race, why can't we just have groups that celebrate the maxims specifically, sports, or other activities that everyone can join in on?
@qld Don't most of the associated POC at Nike have lucrative careers and options? seems like they're doing just fine for themselves. Doesn't the company prefer hiring those that are POC or Women, or specifically not white?
@qld Ironic you say that when DEI was to make "marginalized" people feel better about themselves.
@hpz I'm talking about Nike corporate DEI policy, not the world? IDK about you but most of the folks you say are marginalized here at Nike are driving Porsche, Ferrari, Maserati, Mercedes, BMW and are getting awards all the time, running major departments or sub brands, etc. Some white folks had it hard growing up and didn't have perfect lives growing up on a golf course. "lowest difficulty setting" is a perfect example of why DEI isn't inclusive for EVERYONE. Nike has 3 main groups - Asia, Black, and Women. (4 if you include Veterans, but they include everyone - no race requirements necessary). I'm not Asian, Black, or a Woman, so I don't feel like I can belong in any group or feel comfortable in any group either. Feels like those groups are on the lowest difficulty setting when you look at it like that.
White people always acting like the victim. Just sit down and let POC have their moment for once Brad. Jeez
@OP aka @fgt the difference is the everyday experience and trouble and rejection and dismissal others get that most white men don't get and don't even notice. The overall white male experiece is not the baseline for everyone else.
I'm not saying your personal experience isn't challenging or hard, or that there aren't non-white males that have it even easier than you do. Not everyone is the jock football captain king of the prom. And every individual is different.
But when looked at as sets with large (sample sizes) numbers of individuals, the averages show that white cishet male is a very easy difficulty setting in the game of life.
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/
It's not about you as an individual, and it's not a judgement against you as an individual. But as challenging as your experience is, others have it worse because of their race/color/diability/etc.
That's exactly the case here. Why can't we just include everyone without calling out groups individually? All should be welcome and all should feel comfortable and included.
The problem and great irony of DEI at a place like Nike is that it specifically calls out and emphasizes differences in people’s physical characteristics, whereas prior to DEI no one really cared about those differences.
It’s an example of good intentions not always leading to good outcomes.
OP here. Didn’t call out Juneteenth (of course that is quite specific to one group though all races have been enslaved at some point in our history). I specifically mentioned DEI doesn’t feel inclusive for all groups regardless of race/color/disability/etc. at all. We’re a diverse group, but that doesn’t mean we should only be inclusive for 2-3 groups (loosely referenced) vs everyone. Will get hate for this sentence but as a white male I don’t feel like there are any groups that I can join where i feel like I’m there only to support someone else. Why should I have to feel like I don’t matter in a company sponsored group? It just feels racist to have company sponsored groups that are based on race or gender in their name.
We’re approaching June 19th which is a Black centered holiday, there’s going to be tons of events leading up to and including it that cater specifically to that community. Frankly, if Nike’s events don’t exclude other races I’ll consider it a win. Juneteenth can be very segregated depending on your local community’s thoughts on integration.
I know Nike has a strong Asian community with events too. But you’re correct, beyond that DEI isn’t very diverse.