Amazon recently “scrubbed” webpages titled “Equity for Black people” and “LGBTQ+ rights” from its “Our Positions” section on its website. Will Cisco follow suit with abandoning marxist polices of Discrimination Exclusion and Indoctrination and move to a merit based system of hiring and promotion or ride these policies to the bottom as we are seeing play out in Los Angeles?
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Will Cisco follow suit
Yes, Cisco has a long tradition of following suit with Mc Donalds. Ehm, or it doesn't???
Not trying to be racist at all here, but using DEI logic, aren’t white engineers an actual minority in Cisco? In my experience Indian engineers outnumber everyone and Asian probably are below white engineers in number. Looking at it globally, 90 (maybe 99 actually) percent of engineers in Cisco India are, shockingly, Indian. Is that a problem too? Regardless, if I am trying to hire someone and I have a list of candidates that cover all combinations of white, black, Indian, asian, female and male then I’m hiring the most capable. If DEI policies force me to not do that and to use race/s-x then that policy is forcing me to be racist, s-xist or some
combination of those. BUT, the problem with this scenario is that as a hiring manager you may not get the luxury of choosing among those diverse candidates because HR recruiters have already filtered out good choices based on race/s-x. In fact, someone once posted in a public Webex space that they were going to have intern reqs specifically for this purpose that could only be filled by minority DEI candidates. This is pure discrimination that people fought and died to stop in 1960s America.
Yes, because all white people are the most qualified and strictly hired based on merit.
Cisco is much like Los Angeles
A place which looks great from far away
Historical Prestige and a once legendary culture
However just like Los Angeles profile politics have taken center stage rather than merit
Just like Los Angeles not having the reservoirs full, Cisco refuses to 'fill' it's technology deficit and instead focuses on DEI
There is one difference LA is tragically undergoing a catastrophe, Cisco's wild fire is yet to come and it will be bigger
...“from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,” which dates back to before Karl Marx.
It dates back at least to the New Testament. That God was for it. People who believe and understand that's giving up the limit of 1/X as X approaches infinity (a human lifetime of riches versus eternity of riches) believe they're giving up essentially nothing. I never met an actual believer.
You might want to look at our new leaders rooted in the teachings of the likes of Alan Greenspan who say that companies should be able to acquire resources based not need, not ability to pay, and that the government should bring in as much foreign talent as possible to destroy wage costs as it's easier to make the middle class poor than it is to bring the poor up to the middle class. As a retired atheist investor this would be great for me if the economy wasn't 70% consumer spending, but Greenspan and company can't see the economy as a system which is why they were still insisting the 2007 collapse wasn't possible AFTER IT ALREADY HAPPENED.
For the worst of both worlds, the guy who said he would eliminate not only the deficit but the debt in his first term wants the debt ceiling removed so spending can occur unbounded while eliminating taxes. Show me a model for a stable and productive system with exhausted resources and infinite debt because that's what the voters believe they're getting.
I don't think they will get rid of it... My theory is that the ELT team has been using the DEI smokescreen to try to distract from the fact that they are among the "privileged class". Hoping that you will not notice If they were really committed to diversity, they should step down and give their position to an under-represented person, even though they could easily with the amount of money they have drained the company in the form of stock options.
Cisco will now create DEI EVP role reporting to CR directly.
I was literally told by my manager that I didn't get a promotion because of my race. They hired someone with no experience from SA instead. Seems like this is more common than you would think. Sad.
DEI and Equity are rooted in Marxism and align with communism’s slogan, “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,” which dates back to before Karl Marx. Equity, in this context, demands that we confiscate and redistribute, all while employing discrimination to achieve its ends.
Equity grabs credit fraudulently. Equity invoked as part of DEI is every bit as racist and prejudicial as diversity and inclusion and is just as we-ponized for collectivist reward and punishment.
Equity has many variants, but essentially, equity aims for equality of outcomes, ruling in favor of groups based on overlapping, or “intersectional” oppressions – in diametric opposition to our treasured principle of equality, which aims for equality of rights for individuals.
DEI distracted employees while the Directors & VPs pocketed stock awards.
Some people made a lot of money from DEI distractions... can't wait to see what the next management consulting distraction strategy is
DEI is a cancer eating what's left of Cisco from the inside out.
During the holidays Fran released a DEI report.
I was recently told by my boss that while I am at the top of the list for a promotion based on merit, I am behind someone else due to identity politics.
The Shaky Purse Dog Revolt continues...
Like everything Cisco does… it’ll be 18 months behind every other company. So it might take awhile. 😆
IT hired two DEI VPs. Both dangerous. One went off on extended leave to become a politician.
This is only change after the board fires CR.
Cisco's pattern of employment, clearing out old and replacing with recent grads, won't allow them to roll that back. These coddled children and their constant need for attention and affirmation, would revolt and do even less.