I've been at two sizable (publicly traded, Fortune 300) companies where this has been documented in both Slack and Email. And I just facepalm wondering how management can be so ignorant of the law.
Eh, I've been at a company where the CEO announced at an all hands that he'd have to do the job of a direct report he'd just fired for a while, because the next one had to be a woman and there weren't many available. It took like 8 months to find a replacement for that critical role, at a time when the company desperately needed commercial success.
Worst thing is, the CEO wasn't even a culture warrior. He just seemed to be afraid of board members and/or radicalized employees who were.
The thing to understand is, these people aren't ignorant of the law. It's plebs like us who are ignorant of the law. The people doing this are well aware that their ideological allies have taken over most government institutions, including the ones that supposedly protect people from this, and are not interested in enforcement of the law unless it elevates women and minorities. The law is not what's written, it's what's enforced. These ad guys are a rare exception where the law was enforced as written, but even then, they literally had a written presentation that said the female CEO planned to "obliterate" white men from their team and were fired two days after objecting to it, yet it took so long to get a judgement that their former employer technically no longer exists. Three years for them to get any kind of justice, and other men who were sacked as part of their "diversity" drive ended up settling out of court.
That's the penalty for cases where people admit to what they're doing in writing, and present it to the whole firm. Good luck getting any justice in cases where it's less obvious than that.
Worst thing is, the CEO wasn't even a culture warrior. He just seemed to be afraid of board members and/or radicalized employees who were.
The thing to understand is, these people aren't ignorant of the law. It's plebs like us who are ignorant of the law. The people doing this are well aware that their ideological allies have taken over most government institutions, including the ones that supposedly protect people from this, and are not interested in enforcement of the law unless it elevates women and minorities. The law is not what's written, it's what's enforced. These ad guys are a rare exception where the law was enforced as written, but even then, they literally had a written presentation that said the female CEO planned to "obliterate" white men from their team and were fired two days after objecting to it, yet it took so long to get a judgement that their former employer technically no longer exists. Three years for them to get any kind of justice, and other men who were sacked as part of their "diversity" drive ended up settling out of court.
That's the penalty for cases where people admit to what they're doing in writing, and present it to the whole firm. Good luck getting any justice in cases where it's less obvious than that.