mekkaokereke, 2 months ago

🤔 Why are people taking Scott Adams seriously? He says DEI stands for "Didn't Earn It." But let's look at his own words from his own book. He's boasting about his mediocrity, and how he didn't earn anything, and about how he was terrible at his job.

Every Black employee at his company earned it much more than he did. And these are his own words! And look at the text from his own performance review! 🤡

A bank teller that loses money and is incompetent, genuinely expecting to be promoted.

My supervisor liked me, but my sloppiness at keeping track of peo- ple's transactions-which in those days involved writing down num- bers with a pen and paper-made me unfit for the job. My supervisor warned me that unless I improved quickly, she would be forced to let me go. I knew I wasn't likely to get better at handling details. I was a failure at my first job. I figured I had two ways to leave my job. I could get fired or-and here's the optimist emerging-I could get promoted. I wrote a letter to the senior vice president for the branch system, who was probably seven or eight layers of management above me, and described all of my naive suggestions for improving the bank. My ideas had one thing in common: They were impractical for reasons a twenty-one-year-old wouldn't yet appreciate. I closed my letter by asking for a rare and coveted spot in the management training program, a fast track to up- per management. It was a long shot for a guy who had on his perma- nent work record some version of "too incompetent to write numbers