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[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The U.S. equivalent is the HRC’S Corporate Equality Index, which is essentially the same thing. The woke credential industry is huge right now. And in my industry Mansfield Rule Certification is all the rage now. I had to do some legit work researching some of this stuff for a client to answer what the standards were for determining compliance for certification purposes and even I was shocked at how patently substance-less it is and how standards are getting even more diluted. It’s literally just a bunch of buzzwords and marketing that gives firms/companies the opportunity to parrot that language and put it on their website, and allows them to pretend they’re being groundbreaking and impressive. And I couldn’t even openly shit on it in conveying to the client that there are essentially no standards or metrics.

Even worse it creates employment for charlatans. Diversity departments are a huge racket right now. They’re the ones managing these credentials and are in the best position to tell how BS they are, but their employment depends on their existence. It’s a sick system.

[–]reluctant_commenter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Wow, that's really crazy. It sounds like there is a lot of money involved in this, then? It does sound like a whole racket. That's messed up that you were put in that position and couldn't even tell the client! That would drive me up the wall, lol.

They’re the ones managing these credentials and are in the best position to tell how BS they are, but their employment depends on their existence.

That strikes me as being a risk also in general (a risk, or a feature?) of supposed professions that have a ton of jargon.

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes to be fair, it’s client demand that creates this and the client’s desire for this is the reason I couldn’t openly talk to the partner and be like “You know this is B.S., right?” Plus he’s an Asian man who seems personally invested in the diversity industry.
Also, diversity departments are overwhelmingly made up of women, and especially women who are something other than white. So the optics of eliminating that in this political climate are bad. Though it would be a better sign of progress to naturally have more individuals of those backgrounds across the general employee population. But you can see how it becomes kind of a built-in career and self-perpetuates.