Wokeness in Tech - (Rainbow-washed logo) Targeting bleeding-edge architectures to facilitate viral niches and strategize best-of-breed networks #BlackLivesMatter

[Least Concern]

Monday marks an important, solemn day; the day that we memorial-ize the non-straights at the start of Pride Month. Hopefully all the graphic artists in Silicon Valley got the rainbow-washed logo Twitter avatars finished up before the long weekend. Will IBM go for the traditional seven-color rainbow, or will they add the brown and black stripes for extra-desperate WokePoints? Which trendy bloated JavaScript framework will be the first to declare support for trans rights? Oh my gosh, I'm so excited.

 

[Enig]

Monday marks an important, solemn day; the day that we memorial-ize the non-straights at the start of Pride Month. Hopefully all the graphic artists in Silicon Valley got the rainbow-washed logo Twitter avatars finished up before the long weekend. Will IBM go for the traditional seven-color rainbow, or will they add the brown and black stripes for extra-desperate WokePoints? Which trendy bloated JavaScript framework will be the first to declare support for trans rights? Oh my gosh, I'm so excited.

Can't wait for Apple to bring the rainbow logo back only to piss half the planet off by removing it at the start of July.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Can't wait for Apple to bring the rainbow logo back only to piss half the planet off by removing it at the start of July.

I can't wait for all those tech companies to change their logos everywhere except for websites in wonderful, tolerant places like... Saudi Arabia... Russia... China...

I don't know which comedian said it, but isn't it funny that they're all about LGBT rights in the West now that it's completely safe to do it?

 

[Bongocat]

I think I'm just going to stay off the normie internet for the entire month

 

[Tom Myers]

Every day of this month the company slack channel had a post about Asian Americans.

There wasn't a post about the troops.

I managed to get the drop on it, even before the CEO, of course these leftards weren't going to honor the very people who keep our country what is.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Yes. No spring chicken but I'm not declining or anything.


It's very doubtful that the companies I'm applying for have HR departments. These are specialized/boutique software firms and any kind of HR department they have is almost surely going to be outsourced. I'm not just tossing out applications, which is why it's been limited to 3 per week. I'm writing polished cover letters targeting their specific product and what I've done related to that + why I am qualified to work on it. No bullshit. I'm confident that I'm qualified for these positions because I've been in these positions.


Do you mean progressive stack ranking?


I'm applying to small(ish) companies. They work with you pretty closely to get into a good fitting role. They just try to hire really qualified people and help mold them into a good fit for the company... at least that was the case. I have a feeling a lot's changed in the past year.

Go through recruiters. They aren't paid until you're placed.

Perhaps, but who wants to get publicly branded Infinity Hitler for the rest of their life even if they win the case?
James Damore might (might) have scored a nice settlement from Google, but he's not working anymore and I doubt the settlement was enough that he's set for life.

1000% correct. No one will back you up. It'll be you vs the entire woke world (you know, people who think they academic testing is racist and want 50+ years of reparations at 200+ billion dollars a year in direct payments plus free housing, land and "education" for a certain population....)

That's what you'll be fighting.

 

[Next Task]

Nothing, so long as you were very careful never explicitly to say that, just like nothing keeps you from chucking a resume from Evergreen straight into the trash.

There are, guaranteed, many, many companies that have discriminatory hiring practices. Nowadays it's more likely to be dangerhairs infecting companies with wokeness, but there's always been 'unspoken rules'. The trick has always been to make sure they remain unspoken, or at the absolute minimum never written down anywhere.

It's easy as fuck for HR to apply their own biases if they want to, and is one of the most common vectors for an SJW infection. It's only idiots that codify illegal discrimination in their hiring practices. Of course, many of these assholes are idiots, and/or get complacent about being 'on the right side of history', so make explicit what should be only in their heads, but I'm certain there's no end of discrimination in hiring. Proving it is another matter, though.

 

[Whatevermancer]

 

[Corn Flakes]

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This isn't a tech forum, this is a gossip site.

I eagerly await our Great Leader announcing his transition and changing his username to Hole in order to mark it.

 

[Least Concern]

Will IBM go for the traditional seven-color rainbow, or will they add the brown and black stripes for extra-desperate WokePoints?

A wild card! No black or brown stripes, but they've added a pink stripe? I did not see this one coming. Well played, IBM. Now sell me an ink ribbon for my Selectric.

 

[Least Concern]

Google removes its head of diversity after a 2007 blog post surfaced in which he claimed Jews have an 'insatiable appetite for war' (a)

The blog post, now deleted but archived here, is actually quite nuanced and, save for that poorly-worded line in the last paragraph, quite compassionate in its consideration of Jewish people, IMO. Clearly Washington Free Beacon and other rightoids are making a mountain of a molehill here. But live by the sword…

Notably, he wasn't fired but merely demoted/reassigned.

 

[Merrick]

Is anyone here looking for a job in tech right now? Are you having trouble getting responses back from American companies? I didn't want to make a whole-ass thread about this, but this is really starting to worry me and I want to know if it's a wider thing. I've been applying for jobs (about 3 a week) for the past 2 months or so. These are positions I know that I am qualified for and I have the history to prove that. I've gotten one or two responses back and the rest are just dead silence. No rejection letter. I just never heard back.

This was not like this at all when I was applying 6 years ago. I had zero experience and of course I got rejections back, but at least I got something back. Despite the rejections I did get a job within a month or so.

I can't help but think it has something to do with the critical race theory stuff that's now embedded in tech companies everywhere. Everybody includes that "equal opportunity" disclaimer but their HR (edit: public relations retard) will be on twitter shouting "we prioritize BIPOC" applications or some shit. These are smaller/mid sized software companies.

I've noticed that, in trying to apply to graduate school, they tend to pick out the foreign students first. There were over 80 applicants to my graduate program of choice last year, and only 14 were chosen - I think 10 out of those 14 were Asian or African foreigners.

Perhaps it's the same for their hiring practices - someone I know who is white has been applying to jobs based in America like crazy, and no hits. He thinks he's too white for them.

 

[Least Concern]

I'm hungry. Let's find a place for lunch on Yelp.

Um, okay. What does that button do?

Well, it rainbow-washes the map markers, of course.

Technically, it filters by companies which have set the "Open to All" attribute on their Yelp profile. What exactly does that mean? This blog article (a) spells it out:

The Open to All attribute allows your business to distinguish itself as a safe and welcoming place to everyone—regardless of ethnicity, race, sex, national origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

So in other words, it allows you to make the bold pledge to not violate federal and state discrimination laws. Very brave.

Of course, if you haven't checked this box on your Yelp profile, or if you don't manage a Yelp profile at all for your business, that means you hate gays and don't want them to patronize your business, clearly.

(Despite the text in the screenshot, I don't see a way to actually filter businesses by those owned by LGBTQ; sorry, those wishing to commit hate crimes. Also, this is not a self-dox since I don't actually live in Milwaukee but just searched there to make these screenshots… or did I?)

 

[Merrick]

Technically, it filters by companies which have set the "Open to All" attribute on their Yelp profile. What exactly does that mean? This blog article (a) spells it out:



So in other words, it allows you to make the bold pledge to not violate federal and state discrimination laws. Very brave.

Of course, if you haven't checked this box on your Yelp profile, or if you don't manage a Yelp profile at all for your business, that means you hate gays and don't want them to patronize your business, clearly.

When will Nazi flags be available for filtering purposes on Yelp? I presume they'd use them to help out ANTIFA/BLM and let them know the best businesses to loot with impunity.

 

[Corn Flakes]

When will Nazi flags be available for filtering purposes on Yelp? I presume they'd use them to help out ANTIFA/BLM and let them know the best businesses to loot with impunity.

From what I've seen since last year, they can just loot any business with impunity. No need for flags.

 

[AnOminous]

When will Nazi flags be available for filtering purposes on Yelp? I presume they'd use them to help out ANTIFA/BLM and let them know the best businesses to loot with impunity.

They already know that the best ones to loot and burn down are the ones with BLM signs and slogans on them.

 

[Flabba Wabba Jabba]

I can't wait for all those tech companies to change their logos everywhere except for websites in wonderful, tolerant places like... Saudi Arabia... Russia... China...

I don't know which comedian said it, but isn't it funny that they're all about LGBT rights in the West now that it's completely safe to do it?

I mean it's pretty evident that they're 'political outlook' is really only from what would draw them the best marketing practices. It's not even about what will generate them more money, it's just what makes them seem like they're ahead of the curve and being more appealing than another company.

 

[820㎌Cap]

it's just what makes them seem like they're ahead of the curve and being more appealing than another company.

But can that really be it... when virtually every major company is doing the same?

 

[Bongocat]

People need to stop pretending it's "virtue signaling" at this point.

You don't "virtue signal" by nearly breaking the law, firing your biggest money makers and picking fights with state governments. They genuinely believe this shit at every level.

 

[Blamo]

People need to stop pretending it's "virtue signaling" at this point.

You don't "virtue signal" by nearly breaking the law, firing your biggest money makers and picking fights with state governments. They genuinely believe this shit at every level.

The people making the decisions are in a different culture and have different values. They even speak a different language, their word usage shows that. People should realize that. The world will make a lot more sense after that. Most of the time culture is like water for fish, it basically defines everything the fish sees, feels and thinks yet it can't notice the water. Considering social groups rarely have to interact on a human level, everybody is just lost in their own filter bubble anyways.

A kind of "wokeness" was always there in the universities, managerial and HR circles. It is basically a high status view to hold for the striving classes. People who dislike it are automatically lower than you. By continuing this logic you will simply arrive at the fact that nobody there can or dare to question anything because they too are invested in the values at this point and others will simply purity spiral them from existence if they do anything that's outside the acceptable.