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US firms that kept DEI policies despite ‘go woke, go broke’ threats thrived
(www.theguardian.com)
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Company A: "We're done with this DEI shit. Fire everyone browner than a paper bag and promote only the most nepotistic failkids during White Boy Summer"
Company B: "We're going to continue hiring and promoting on merit and... oh wow, we've got a bumper crop of talented, motivated LGBTQ and POC suddenly lining up outside the door."
Wonder what happens next
Company A starts what we’ve discovered is essentially an inbreeding program, with extra steps. Generations of it will fail and live off large corporate bailouts, which it will later use to try eating smaller companies to appear successful from the outside to the less educated public.
The Habsburgs prove you can keep grinding on for a while even when you're inbreed to shit. But the notion that you need to inbreed in order to get ahead in business is borderline superstitious. Rather, large and entrenched businesses have the luxury of doing this inbred bullshit so long as their social networks can support a steady business income from monopolized industry and captured markets.
And as a trans person I'll also say my Costco membership isn't going anywhere. That'd also because I have a big dog and she can't afford est anywhere else.
Even though they're cheap you shouldn't feed dogs hotdogs /s
Coincidentally, I had to give a past dog pain meds after an ACL surgery, and the pills were notoriously bitter and awful. Hiding them in hotdogs worked for a little while until she tasted a pill once. We also did cheese and chicken, which again worked until she tasted a pill then didn't trust us anymore. It was a long couple weeks.
Our cat was the same way. Pill pockets worked until they tasted it once. Then we'd have to switch flavors or brands.
... Did people taste them? How do we know the dog meds tasted bad?
Often times dog meds are just people meds. I just looked it up and in my case we were giving her Tramadol. Once upon a time we were giving our dogs Zyrtec for allergies, but the dose was like 6x the human equivalent. We found an alternative that maybe was new at the time that was much cheaper and was a single pill dose.
Didn't make a difference as per the article