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The retreat from meritoracy continues.
I more and more look upon Idiocracy as a cautionary tale.
In a meeting just last week, I was trying to - quite diplomatically - say that the "corrective action" for several recent incidents was... to perhaps provide some sessions talking to the 'team' providing "guidance on how to think things through, rather than just hit buttons".
The senior manager (who actually is quite smart) - obviously read between the lines - and replied "we can't just have sessions trying to tell people to 'Be Smarter' - any sessions need to have concrete information/goals".
I was sitting there thinking - "But 'Be Smarter' - is exactly what is needed... but yeah, understood, how the fuck does one teach that?"
Still felt like defeatism - he was pretty much admitting that most of the team wasn't up to their core role - and I'm supposed to go away to write up a decision-tree "if it looks like A, do X; if it looks like B, do Y, ..." Enabling overpaid reactive AI. -
@Tim perhaps she's already having the desired effect:
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Big expensive consultancy making shit up to sell to clients looking for the next big management fad?
Nah, that'd never happen..
In a series of very influential studies, McKinsey (2015; 2018; 2020; 2023) reports finding statistically significant positive relations between the industry-adjusted earnings before interest and taxes margins of global McKinsey-chosen sets of large public firms and the racial/ethnic diversity of their executives.
Combined with the erroneous reverse-causality nature of McKinsey’s tests, our inability to quasi-replicate their results suggests that despite the imprimatur given to McKinsey’s studies, they should not be relied on to support the view that US publicly traded firms can expect to deliver improved financial performance if they increase the racial/ethnic diversity of their executives.
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Never really held an opinion on McKinsey until they recently came in and helped with a restructure of our firm.
Every recommendation they suggested has made the firm significantly worse. I now have 3x the reporting I used to and have people with literally no clue about what we do / why / how having influence over the way we are run. It is infinitely a worse place to work and the none of the dead wood were made redundant, some were actually promoted. During the consultation phase we had a forum where we submitted questions. I asked them what their thoughts were on a firm which has had the same C-suite for 7 years, including one year where 50% of annual revenue was lost on a single trade. The question was deemed to be inappropriate so not answered.
To give another example, we had a long meeting where I had to explain why our US expansion was blocked in great detail, how it would affect us & if our business remained viable.
The main person I had to explain this to was the person who blocked it.
My conclusion is that McKinsey are paid a fortune to tell the people who are paying the fortune exactly what they want to hear. A complete fucking joke.
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@MajorRage said in DEI:
My conclusion is that
McKinseyBIG management consultants are paid a fortune to tell the people who are paying the fortune exactly what they want to hear. A complete fucking joke.Fixed htat for ya fella
Many of the niche consultancies do a really good job but the big firms grew to become a self-perpetuating scam (I worked for one for 6 years) pumping out the same carbon-copy, identikit and generally unworkable solutions to their clients.
That said, I can't complain - got a lot of clients and tons of work from sorting out their gold-plated garbage.
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@MajorRage said in DEI:
Never really held an opinion on McKinsey until they recently came in and helped with a restructure of our firm.
Every recommendation they suggested has made the firm significantly worse. I now have 3x the reporting I used to and have people with literally no clue about what we do / why / how having influence over the way we are run. It is infinitely a worse place to work and the none of the dead wood were made redundant, some were actually promoted. During the consultation phase we had a forum where we submitted questions. I asked them what their thoughts were on a firm which has had the same C-suite for 7 years, including one year where 50% of annual revenue was lost on a single trade. The question was deemed to be inappropriate so not answered.
To give another example, we had a long meeting where I had to explain why our US expansion was blocked in great detail, how it would affect us & if our business remained viable.
The main person I had to explain this to was the person who blocked it.
My conclusion is that McKinsey are paid a fortune to tell the people who are paying the fortune exactly what they want to hear. A complete fucking joke.
The true definition of a consultant and therefore performing impeccably.
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@MiketheSnow said in DEI:
The true definition of a consultant and therefore performing impeccably.
You're welcome.
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All that extra reporting, I’d be interested to know if this was supposed to simply improve MI? After recently being taken over by a national our day to day systems have changed dramatically meaning that something that used to take two inputs now takes a dozen or more. All to improve MI. Naturally they paid fuck all attention on the quality of the input, so we have the inevitable GIGO outcome. Now admin are having to do multiple data cleanses all designed by the people who fucked up in the first place.
Edit: apologies for an off topic rant.
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Speaking of MI......our village hall has applied for a grant to refurb the (single) disabled toilet. We were asked to answer this question in the application:
"It is a requirement of the Foundation that any grants be used to build and grow diversity and inclusion in rural communities. To what extent will any grant (if awarded) directly benefit the local minority and LGBTQ+ community? How and how often will this be measured by your organisation?"
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@Victor-Meldrew said in DEI:
Speaking of MI......our village hall has applied for a grant to refurb the (single) disabled toilet. We were asked to answer this question in the application:
"It is a requirement of the Foundation that any grants be used to build and grow diversity and inclusion in rural communities. To what extent will any grant (if awarded) directly benefit the local minority and LGBTQ+ community? How and how often will this be measured by your organisation?"
Did you answer “we would be happy to let the fags use the improved spastic toilet whenever they want, and we will film them on CCTV for reporting purposes”?
I’m available for consulting gigs btw - I’m heaps cheaper than McKinsey too
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Only pays £33k a year, but hey....
"The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000" examines, for the first time, the ways in which postwar gay erotica and porn magazines helped forge a pan-European gay male constituency build on processes of identification, solidarity and subcultural distinction that we proposed to call "homoeuropeanism": a specifically homosexual and sexualised form of European identification that developed in the context of postwar geopolitics. It will tell a unique new history of "Europe," one capable of decentring its hegemonic narratives by means of identifying and mappings its subcultural homosexual enunciations in postwar gay erotica and porn magazines, and its dissemination via the latter's transitional networks of production, circulation, and consumption.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in DEI:
Only pays £33k a year, but hey....
the incalculable benefit to society from the research...
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@Victor-Meldrew said in DEI:
Speaking of MI......our village hall has applied for a grant to refurb the (single) disabled toilet. We were asked to answer this question in the application:
"It is a requirement of the Foundation that any grants be used to build and grow diversity and inclusion in rural communities. To what extent will any grant (if awarded) directly benefit the local minority and LGBTQ+ community? How and how often will this be measured by your organisation?"
That really is mind boggling and just highlights how crazy things have gotten in some areas. I assume that's a stupid generic question that they ask everyone, but disabled people are by far the most disadvantaged people in society, and it's not even close. To actually pose a question like that in relation to upgrading a disabled toilet... Christ.
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Maybe mission creep. Probably started off with a good idea and standard wording around inclusion (rural communities can be lonely and fragmented places), diversity originally meant different age groups, occupations etc and people just added stuff on and changed meanings as the fad took hold.
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Obviously haven’t learned a thing
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Federal officials have leveled a discrimination lawsuit at the Sheetz convenience store chain alleging the company’s use of criminal background checks as a screening mechanism for employees falls afoul of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Although Joe Biden’s Department of Justice says it does not believe the company intended to discriminate, the fact that minority applicants are more likely to have criminal records places Sheetz outside of the law.
Disparate Impact - it's bad folks.