Well, my ex-employer just paid the DOJ $17 million for continuing its DEI policies it has had for decades.

[sinkingfeeling]

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ibm-pays-17-million-resolve-allegations-discrimination-through-illegal-dei-practices

I abhor this regime. I'm an IBM retiree and would have liked IBM to have given retirees a cost-of-living increase instead (hasn't been one in last 20 plus years).

[Johonny]

1. You get a feeling we the tax payers

Will end up repaying all these fines with interest in the future.

[OutNow]

2. This is pathetic.

I worked for IBM for over over 30 years. I was hired in 1982. I was known as a "professional hire": i.e. unlike many IBMers of that era who started with IBM right out of college and expected to retire there, I had worked for 4 other IT companies. The companies I had worked were quite similar; women worked in data entry (keypunch) and admin. Computer operators and programmers were male. Women might be a manager of data entry but over 90% of management was male. IBM was different. In my experience women and men were treated equally. I had good and bad managers of both genders. My peers were about 60% male, but Senior Technical Staff Members (STSM) included both male and female superstars. I liked IBM's HR policy and didn't care if it was called affirmative action or DEI or whatever. Now, thanks to Trump's fascist policy IBM has ended it's decade's long policies and paid the $17 million ransom required to do business in this country. This is pathetic.

[MLAA]

3. Heartbreaking. I am a woman who worked at IBM for 34 years first in engineering and then sales. I never once

felt any kind of discrimination or misogyny. I started in 1982.

[Fil1957]

4. So did this go to court, or is IBM settling?

[Redleg]

5. "Illegal DEI practices"

This is fucking laughable.