Asking employee resource groups to do your only diversity work for free. https://twitter.com/venikunche/status/1327362120074354689
Asking community organizations to give you talent and fix your company culture by establishing a “partnership”. (Which ends up paying lower wages to outside orgs to fix your HR and strategy debt).
Asking community orgs to create a volunteer opportunity to “expose your employees” to more people of color.
Brown bag lunches of speakers who can talk about the need for diversity and inclusion.
Oooh @venikunche, I should really not get started. Lol.
Telling your recruiting team that diversity is a priority meanwhile never changing their incentive structures or communicating the priority to Eng or other subject matter expertises.
Announcing your commitment to diversity and inclusion before creating a single goal or aspiration or strategic reasoning behind it.
Announcing a ramp up of hiring for diverse communities while never having done the workforce math, making every middle manager antagonistic because they are afraid of being hired.
Bringing Black, Latinx, and/or Native folks at the last minute in product delivery to ensure you didn’t do anything offensive - but giving them no decision making rights.
Touting women of color “influencers” on your team for press while they are socially pariah-ed at the office.
Inviting programs into your company to support your efforts and greeting those program participants with desks that are dirty with socks/bikes/office trash around them.
Inviting programs into your company to get the company experience and training them on an unnecessarily trivia based interview processes in order for them to gain permanent entry.
Inviting programs into your company to get the company experience while grown men hit on college students while they do that.
Going to conferences.
Having the design team create a Twitter support card.
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