The list for April 24, 1997
The Top 15 Signs Your Company’s
Diversity Program Isn’t Working
Diversity Program Isn’t Working
- Diversity = White guys with red necks.
- 3 months after your written request, your cellblock guards are still 100% male.
- To meet state-mandated diversity ratios, company offers a raise to anyone willing to be gay one week a month.
- Crazy Serbs in Marketing just can’t get along with wacky Bosnians in Accounting.
- Featured film on movie night: "Amos ‘n’ Andy Meet Charlie Chan"
- Sudden unexplained increase in the number of "Dukes of Hazzard" cars in the parking lot.
- Human Resources places an ad that reads, "Wanted: A Black, a Jew, an Oriental, and two broads."
- Co-workers refer to you as "The Diversity Babe."
- You’re named 1997 Company of the Year by "Aryan Brotherhood Today" Magazine.
- Only black face seen lately was when CEO did Al Jolson impression at the annual shareholders meeting.
- You work at "Confederate Flags Is Us."
- Looking back, organizing that "spin the dreidel" game at the Kwanzaa party was probably a bad idea.
- Multi-Cultural Luncheon features "White Trash Casserole Starch Surprise."
- Company has Celtic season tickets, even though the office is in downtown Boise.
And the Number 1 Sign Your Company’s Diversity Program Isn’t Working…
- Your law firm’s name? Schott, Zoeller, Fuhrman and Helms.
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CREDITS
Selected from 120 submissions from 44 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:
- Too many contributors to list! — 1
- Don Horton, Sacramento, CA — 2
- Marianne Tatom, Austin, TX — 3
- Jesse Garon, San Francisco, CA — 4
- David Hyatt, New York, NY — 5
- Steve Hurd, San Ramon, CA — 6
- Jeff Downey, Raleigh, NC — 6
- Ed Smith, Chattanooga, TN — 7
- Matt Loiselle, Detroit, MI — 8
- Kim Moser, New York, NY — 9
- Sterling Smith, Houston, TX — 10
- Glenn Marcus, Washington, DC — 11
- Lev L. Spiro, Los Angeles, CA — 12
- Bill Muse, Seattle, WA — 13
- Jeffrey House, Detroit, MI — 13
- Matt Diamond, Holland, PA — 14
- Sam Evans, Charleston, SC — 15 (Hall of Famer)
- David G. Scott, Kansas City, MO — Topic
- Chris White, New York, NY — List owner/editor
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