I think DEI was good in practice but has been awful in execution.
this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2024
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I hope they intend to eat the board at the earliest possible opportunity
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I thought costco was a worker owned co-op? When did it get motherfucking shareholders?
You might be thinking of WinCo.
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Ok, but biggest owners are Blackrock & Vanguard megavultures (like all the everythings).
The proposal came from a racists NCPPR group, so without significant support & the board just jumped at the free PR opportunity.
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I still don't understand why everyone's so obsessed with Dale Earnhardt, Inc. He's been dead for over 20 years.
Reminds me of Fans Against Gordon.
Hey pieces of shit that proposed this, please don't boycott Costco. ! Pleasssseee!!! It would be such a bummer to have shorter lines and to not see you dragging your shitty kids around the store by the arm with you're cart full of cheese and camo jackets.
What's wrong with a cart full of cheese? I haven't bulk bought cheese in my adult life, but I have bought several bars and several bags of shredded cheese at the same time. I'd do it again, too!
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I wonder how long until this makes it to the toxic YouTube cycle.
let's not hire people from color to avoid lawsuits about racism
Awesome proposal
I see Costco as simply a place to buy groceries but I got to give them credit for not giving into culture war bullshit.
Trump isn't even in office and it's already this bad.
Hiring is one of the places DEI belongs, I only have a problem when it dictates creative endeavors.
Good on Costco. Get fucked shareholders
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DEI sounds like an incredibly easy and cheap policy to follow if you weren't already shitheels to begin with.
The worst things about DEI is that it has become politicized. What was once another boring HR policy about being fair at work, is now weapon for idiots it get all upset about.
How was DEI not politicized from the very beginning? It was literally born out of the civil rights movement.
The thing is, DEI was always going to become political. Evey single conservative is some level of white supremacist.
You cannot hold conservative beliefs and also be a fan of diversity, equity, or inclusion.
The conservative mind sees people as all innately fitting into social hierarchies. And brown people are always at the bottom.
Trying anything that changes that hierarchy is seen as a direct attack on conservativism. Because in a very real way, it is. Which is the fucking point. DEI policies were a subtle attack on white supremacy via capitalism.
The argument was that companies that practiced DEI made more money.
It worked for a time, but the jackasses would rather throw money away than abandon their social hierarchies.
They're kind of mask off about it all now.
White supremacy is DEI for white people.
Those who would enforce social heirarchies belong at the bottom of them.
The shareholders argued that the Supreme Court ruling in the case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard found that Harvard’s use of race when choosing who to admit to the school violated the 14th Amendment.
We are just gonna keep paying a godawful price for allowing this vile stacked court.
For as long as you're alive anyway.
My kids will be suffering from these policies long after I'm gone.
It takes a long time to rebuild systems and protections.
And very little time or effort to destroy them..
Or until someone Luigi's them during a progressive's term. Not that that will ever happen. The progressive term, not the other thing.
We're moving to a future where the elite will live in a fortified city where only the rich and elite can enter, while the plebs live outside the walls and luigi is just a plumber.
So back to castles and seiges
But this time, the bricks are filled with coins!
If that happens, AVALANCHE won't be far behind. Barrett, Tifa, and their friends will infiltrate and terrorize their cities till they stop killing the planet.
Some strifes call for more of a Cloud than a Luigi
In our reality, Luigi seems to be an awful lot like Cloud Strife. He's certainly swinging around a massive ~~sword~~ popular clout.
Edit: FUCK... I just made an argument for Kingdom Hearts to exist.
Going on vacation to a world with toon physics, don't ask why I'm bringing lube and a bicycle pump.
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God, I love Costco
Good for them. There are some serious issues with current DEI policies, but too many places are folding to political pressure and throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
OMG, a capitalist structure that succeeds through ethical practices? The world ends.../s
With Jelinek no longer at the reins, this might be the beginning of the end for Costco's progressiveness. It'll depend on which shitbirds are pushing for the anti-DEI resolution. Jelinek would have told them to go fuck themselves, much as he did throughout his tenure when there were pushes for typical line-goes-up enshittification policies.
How long until after the founder dies until the $1.50 hotdogs go away.
I wouldn't be surprised if they did it before he was buried.
Jelinek wasn't a founder, they're long gone. He was CEO from 2010 or so until last spring when a large part of the growth occurred.
The founder threatened Jelineks life if he ever charged more for the $1.50 hotdogs.
Edit:and by extension any future CEO
Hahaha, good for him.