Picking Up The Slack?

 

On Tuesday night, four Slack employees went to the stage to accept an award for “Fastest-Rising Startup of the Year.” Nothing unusual here as Slack is a growing company in the industry of Group Messaging. The interesting thing was the people accepting the award. Four black women took to the stage to represent the company. “Fantastic!” I hear you cry. Yes yes, well done Slack for being so diverse in 2016. It’s only a little questionable why these women accepted the award. Here are a few things to think about.

Posted on September the 9th 2015, Slack showed their diversity report:

This is the report for race. The important thing to note here are the percentages of African-American employees. It’s funny to think that those four women from the Engineering side of slack were there to represent the company when they only belonged to 7% in 2015. You might be wondering if Slack had posted anything like this more recently. You will be happy to hear that they have.

As you can see above, the percentage for “Black or African American” has gone up by 1.9% in 5 months. So again, why did Slack send up four people from this category to accept their award? Maybe I’m being cynical, but to me it looks like misrepresentation for good press. Why send up four people (100% of their representatives for receiving the award at this event) who belong to a group that only consists of 8.9% of their total company? Pandering to the crowd? Using politics to their advantage? It certainly seems so to me.

What’s even more interesting with this thought in mind is their report for women.

This is from the 2015 report. As you can see, 39% of all employees are women. That’s an impressive chunk, right? 51% of Non-Engineering jobs are done by women and 45% of Managers are women. Slack themselves claim that this means 41% of their entire work force are managed by women in 2015. Again, maybe it’s my cynical mind but it seems like they’re playing politics here more than they should be. It’s hard to believe that with 39% of the total employees being women, 45% of are managers, yet only 18% work in engineering.

This image is from the 2016 report. This clearly shows that the percentage of women has gone down in the past five months. Still pretty good on the surface right? However, thinking more deeply about these results, as well as the race diversity chart, we must remember that all of this has happened in the past five months.

In all honesty, I can see that this is an obvious move to pandering to the current popular politics. It’s just funny. It’s funny because they clearly can’t make the women too interested in the technical side of things as just 18% of the women in 2015 were in the engineering field. So what do you do with people that can’t do anything technical? Give them an office. Put them ‘in charge’ of things that they know nothing about. Now i’m not saying ALL of those women know nothing about the technical side, but you can’t tell me that 45% of those women that are managers, all know what it’s like to be a technician or designer etc.

I can imagine it now, “Dave, we have to hire more women, it’s the new thing nowadays.” ‘Well Tony we really need more engineers, how about we train them and…’ “No, hardly any women applicants want to have anything to do with the tech side.” ‘Shit… quick, put them in HR and make them middle managers of something and give them a pointless title! We need Diversity!’

Get rid of the unnecessary overhead, and you become a lot less diverse. So Slack, you’re not fooling anyone. Your womens percentage has gone down because you’re focusing on more racial hires this year and you’re placing less focus on technical expertise in order to check off your diversity boxes, hence why your tech and engineering segments have fallen more dramatically than the female percentage.

If anyone thinks that this isn’t pandering then they’re morons. I just feel for all the qualified people that went to college and spent years studying their passion, that got turned away because they weren’t the ‘type of person they’re looking for’ as their racial quota wasn’t filled.

Picking up the slack? No. Tying the noose? Yes.

Smoke Singals

Unfortunately for everyone, Jesse Singal has become the newest victim of the SJW cannibalisation. Tuesday night was an interesting one for Singal as he received backlash for his article titled “A Fight Over Transgender Kids Got A Leading Sex Researcher Fired” and it details the story of Dr Kenneth Zucker getting fired for doing his job. You might think, “why would this cause such trouble for Singal? He was only writing what he thought was correct!” and many would, and have had the same thoughts. These same thoughts have been had by all the people that have already come under attack by SJW’s over the years. These thoughts were had by people like Tim Hunt, that had his words taken out of context and was blatantly lied about by a certain moronic figure in the SJW court.

How does all this relate to Jesse? Well he has had to taste his own, disgusting medicine. I’m not going to push too much hate on him, I have talked to him briefly over Twitter and he was pleasant enough, but isn’t it fantastic how Irony works? Here is a guy that is calling out the same ‘anti-harassment’ people he once stood against. If we take a look at the most telling tweet of the evening

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/697293680319819776

We can see here that he is crying out the same things that hundreds, if not thousands, have been saying for the past few years. After plaguing GamerGate with this same sort of tactic (yes it is a tactic, I will get to that) it is beautifully ironic that Singal has been attacked by the same group he sides with.

As you can see, he is claiming that this person is lying, which of course is obvious, and is completely shocked at this sudden revelation. What we have been experiencing for a long time, Jesse is experiencing it for the first time. Like a virgin without any lube, he is not enjoying himself at all. Here are some of the other tweets sent his way by unsympathetic members of the community:

What’s more interesting than this single event however, is the cannibalisation of their own ‘allies’. We have seen it happen to people that go against the Narrative, but we have not seen someone this ‘high profile’ get attacked and especially not someone who is meant to be in the SJW pool. It truly shows you how one wrong move and you’re not only out of the club, but hit over the head, dragged into an alleyway, beaten into submission and left for the elements to feed off of.

Just like in the comments section of The Huffington Post’s article “Here’s Why HuffPost Gay Voices Just Changed Its Name To HuffPost Queer Voices”, dubbed the ‘Gay Civil War’ by many, we are seeing a group of people who were once allies, attack one another to prove a point. The question is, where will all this end up? How will it end? I myself cannot say but I can give some helpful advice to Jesse if he ever reads this. Don’t apologise! That’s the first step towards failure. The next thing would be to just ride with it. Don’t comment on anything, don’t try to defend yourself, just stop, smile and laugh.

It’s what everyone else has been doing these past few years.