#corporateamerica

[afriblaq]

Sounds like he was onto something here! @methodmanofficial predicting the future 30 years ago.

[lahtilbooks]

Walmart’s DEI Rollback: A Major Shift in Corporate Policy

The Changing Landscape of Corporate Diversity

Walmart, a leader in corporate America, has announced significant changes to its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs. Amid increasing pressure from conservative voices, the company is scaling back its initiatives focused on race and gender inclusivity. This decision marks a notable shift in corporate policies that many other companies are now reconsidering.

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Why Is Walmart Scaling Back DEI Programs?

The decision comes after growing criticism from right-wing groups who argue that DEI policies foster division rather than unity. These critics contend that such programs can impose quotas and place too much emphasis on demographic factors over merit. In response, Walmart has indicated that while inclusivity remains a priority, its approach will now focus on creating a sense of belonging without explicit race or gender-based targets.

How Walmart Plans to Adjust Its Strategy

Walmart’s new approach will focus on inclusivity in a broader sense, ensuring that all employees feel supported, heard, and valued. The company has reassessed its employee training and supplier diversity programs, making sure they align with a more universal concept of belonging rather than specific demographic quotas. While these changes may reduce some formal DEI efforts, the company remains committed to promoting fairness and equity in the workplace.

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The Broader Corporate Trend

Walmart is not alone in this shift. Several other major corporations have faced similar backlash over their DEI initiatives. Companies such as Target and Starbucks have also revisited their policies due to mounting political pressure. While DEI advocates argue that these changes could set back progress in workplace diversity, proponents of the rollback see it as a move toward a more meritocratic corporate environment.

Public Reaction and Implications

The response to Walmart’s changes has been divided. Supporters of the rollback see it as a necessary step toward a more cohesive workplace where employees are evaluated based on their skills and qualifications rather than their race or gender. However, critics warn that these adjustments could undermine decades of work toward achieving racial and gender equality in the workplace.

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What Does This Mean for the Future of DEI?

Walmart’s decision to scale back its DEI initiatives represents a major shift in the corporate world, reflecting broader societal debates about the role of businesses in promoting social justice. As this trend continues, it will likely influence how other companies balance the demands of inclusivity with political and social pressures.

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[xoxolifewithdoriann]

Just a little RAW VENTING

Monday...

This used to be one of my fav days of the week, however since I came back to corporate america work force... I HATE THEM..

I find myself back in a place of looking forward to my little 2 day weekend which isn't enough at all to rest, clean, catchup and spend time with family and friends.

And grant it, this is temporary for me, however in this time it's draining ME day by day. As much as I try to refuel and pray, have that time with GOD being here at my 9-5 is not one that does anything for me. Dealing with micromanaging, task that are redundant and boring, and PAY... that's a subject I can't even begin to expound on. Work conditions are piss poor.

However as much as I can't stand this job and having to do this job I am grateful for the supply of income God has given to me. I prayed for this job. Because I didn't like my work environment at my last job, I thought it would be more income, and the fact of benefits and stability in my hours and pay and no weekends.

I look back on the opportunities where I worked as a Spa Manager, I loved that job and company... but pandemic and some sneak things made me leave there. I loved working for the event/wedding planning company but ...

I just want to do what it is that I love, I want to do full time what God created me to do. The things I can do and not even get paid to do.

This is just how I feel, sitting here on this monday with so many thoughts, and versus making this thoughts truth and reality I'd rather talk about them and get them out my head because this is not where I will be forever. I pray it's not where I will be come summer to be very honest.

[saracausey1]

"This is the end of human history - the end of human-dominated history..."

[sublimeobservationarcade]

A Terrible Indictment On American Doctors

The opioid crisis in America is a terrible indictment on American doctors. The fact that OxyContin was widely prescribed  as a safe cure for pain despite being an opioid is testament to the stupidity and gullibility of American doctors. The training and experience of medical practitioners should have indemnified them with a healthy scepticism for claims made by the pharmaceutical companies in this instance. Opioids have been known to be highly addictive for many decades and there have been no exceptions to this over the period.

https://youtu.be/lbyTDn__g44

American Doctors Must Doubt Drug Company Claims

Yes, the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma, manipulated the FDA and falsified data around the safety of their opioid drug. The willingness of doctors, however, to believe in the sanctity of the commercially driven medical science edifice is naïve at best and expediently mercantile at worst. If doctors are so completely in the pocket of Big Pharma it is a very bad day for Americans in need of medical help. MDs need to have the objective strength to stand apart from the sales driven culture of the drug business. Doctors are really required to have doubt and a healthy scepticism in response to drug company claims. The overwhelming evidence of pharmaceutical corporations bribing doctors through lavish dinners, gifts, and holidays must make them bristle with suspicion.

Big Pharma Buying American MDs

The manipulation of the business of health by Big Pharma is considerable. Support groups around conditions and illnesses have been infiltrated by drug companies in the form of funding and sponsorship. This was clearly revealed in the inquiries into OxyContin and Purdue Pharma. National and community pain management organisations were bought by Purdue Pharma and the associated Sackler family companies via their money. Members of the FDA involved in the approval process found themselves moving on to well paid jobs at Purdue Pharma. Indeed, state attorneys in the justice system likewise were headhunted by Big Pharma. Oversight agencies do not work in the capitalist system because these inspectors are poached and bribed by the deep pockets of corporate America. Similarly, politicians pass legislation friendly to these corporations and later find themselves on their payroll upon leaving office as consultants. This makes the checks and balances within the system a weak joke in terms of their effectiveness in real terms. Government in America is bought and sold by big business. Money talks and Big Pharma is the loudest voice in the room. Capitalism does not serve democracy well and it does not serve health well either. If you have members of Congress spending their entire time worrying about being re-elected and it costs millions of dollars to do so, then you have a system that does not serve the people. Similarly, a health system, driven by pharmacology and the businesses making these drugs, is in the hands of profit driven masters. Doctors have become mere shadow puppets of their drug lords handing out a pill for every condition and situation. The over-prescribing of medication is endemic throughout America.

Giant pharmaceutical corporations are so economically powerful now that they dwarf governments around the globe. Covid only made these behemoths even more massive. Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Roche and Sanofi all generate revenue in excess of $40 billion per year. The sales departments of these mega corporations have tentacles throughout the medical edifices around the world. Doctors and dispensing chemists are the influencers and retailers for this simply gargantuan industry. Doctors hold a special place within our society. The white lab coat is similarly a symbol of the presumed purity of the healer at the heart of the medical system. In an emotive sense, people do not instinctively associate healing with the money making principle. When someone gets sick they, often, panic and just want a cure. This is exploited by a health system driven by capitalism, where the importance of making money and delivering dividends to shareholders drives the cart. In the current opioid crisis in America there were a number of doctors who ruthlessly exploited, for financial benefit, the addictive qualities of OxyContin. This is a terrible indictment on American doctors in itself, but that many more MDs claimed to be hoodwinked by the FDA and supporting scientific material provided by Purdue Pharma is probably worse. It attests to a dumbing down and lowering of standards within the American medical fraternity. It tells us that the sales driven culture of Big Pharma is supported by American doctors. Medicine in the US is predominantly all about the dollars and less about patent welfare. ©WordsForWeb Read the full article

[readingsrantsrambles]

It all started a number of years ago when our cast and crew flew to Havana over what became the first of our recent hundred year storms. As the East Coast was bracing for a very big hit, we flew from New York via Toronto, LA via Mexico and directory from Paris to shoot the first American feature film in Cuba since 1959. After 19 days of crisscrossing the island without permits or permission, we negotiated customs one last time and boarded our flights back home. We continued to film our lead character, Gil Bigelow on the flight back to New York and then in the cab as he finally headed home. The cameras never stopped rolling. Then I slept for two days straight. Afterwards we regrouped; shot 8 more days in order to properly depict the wonderfully corporate town of Kennelworth, NJ, did months of editing, lots of color correcting, an insane amount of fundraising and a surprisingly delicate sound mix so that we can now finally announce that Art Jones’ newest feature film, ‘Forbidden Cuba’ will be released world wide on March 8th. Many thanks to our tireless cast, hardworking crew and very generous Kickstarter supporters: Art Jones, Raphael Duvernay​, Corentin Vinçon​, Joe Foley, Benjamin Wolf, Andrew Jernigan, John Downing Bonafede, Noah Wehle, Pascal Akesson, Julia Gorbach, David Marantz, Rafael Garcia, Fox Cie, Mila Matveeva, Matt Gordon and Raphael Kourilsky #ForbiddenCuba #GuerillaFilmBrigade #OnePartFilmTwoPartsRevolution #GuerillaFilm #CheAndFidel #FidelAndRaul #FirstAmericanFeatureShotInCubaSince1959 #SecondFront #Havana #Vinales #Cienfuegos #Santiago #Trinidad #OldHavana #Kennelworth #TheGardenState #CorporateAmerica #CantGetArrestedByATrombonePlayer #MissionImprobable #GilBigelow #JerryBUngler #TheFrenchman #TheSilentGuide #TheTedFullerEffect #HeWantedAPromotion #HeGotARevolution Forbidden Cuba - Website http://www.forbiddencuba.com (at Havana, Cuba) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co2SQe7LABe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[kayprism]

Thank you @gpbmadeit for using your voice to wake folk up!! I don't see any reason to watch #theoscars this year. Awards DO NOT make the artist!! Yet and still it's interesting how #theoscars repeatedly deny Black actresses but still award Black men. (Usually in stereotypical roles) This pattern has not changed even with a more diversified Academy after a Black woman president. And with #kindred canceled its not just film. Yes there has been progress, but the leadership remains unchanged. I was told in 1996 (the same year there was ONE Black nominee @iamdiannehouston for a short film and and a subsequent Oscars boycott) that Hollywood was in #corporateamerica Same sh** nearly 30 years later. I truly understand this truth more now than ever!! #thewomanking and #till were PHENOMENAL films with PHENOMENAL casts and CREW!! But to be in a union and be a voter and make an excuse to not press play???!!! This shutout and many other recent cancellations are blatant #institutionalizedracism #racism filled with continuing #doublestandards in #Hollywood A FEW RECEIPTS: The same institution that gave a rapist (Roman Polanski - She was 13) and actor sued TWICE for sexual harassment (Casey Affleck) the golden statue. Don't @ me. These are just two MORE examples of #whiteprivilege and the evils of #patriarchy magnified!! Don't believe me look up #ucla #hollywooddiversityreport and the low numbers of #bipoc in #wga #dga and EVERY OTHER UNION!!! #sickandtired !!! When will Hollywood reflect EVERYBODY? When will there be #racialequity in storytelling on screen?? This is why I'll probably remain an independent creative and filmmaker. I can keep creative control and cater to my audience on my terms outside the establishment. No more to say right now... !!!!!!!!!! https://www.instagram.com/p/CoY9EerOL_h/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[selwynduke]

Some companies advertise their fall from grace. Bud Light, for example, signaled descent into woke darkness with a “trans” influencer ad campaign. It didn’t end well (though, really, it hasn’t yet ended). Jaguar exhibited symptoms of mad cat disease with a commercial featuring what looked like sexually confused extraterrestrials visiting Earth. But then there are the companies that, keeping their wokeness close to the vest, damage society without attracting attention.

#woke #companies #corporateamerica #BillOReilly

[thestevenwickblog]

The Justice Department’s action against UnitedHealth is part of a broader push by the Biden administration to curb corporate consolidation. Other ongoing antitrust efforts include blocking the merger of grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons and taking action against Ticketmaster and Visa. #healthcare #healthnews #corporateamerica #JusticeDepartment

[lostinyv]

#ILoveMyJob

I believe that the best thing I have ever done is accept the job offer offer from @coppermountaincollegeofficial to work in the @cmcfoundation office 😍 for so very many reasons!

My worst day at school is better than my best day ever was in #CorporateAmerica ! #ILoveMyBoss #BestBossEver #BestJobEver #IGotMyStartAtCMC

Just a gal🙋🏻‍♀️ taking it 1️⃣ day at a time & her #LifeChoices 💯🎯⁉️🤷‍♀️

#ADayInMyLife #IAmCapableOfWildlyMagnificentThings #SkillsNotScores #CMC #CMCF #CopperMountainCollege #CopperMountainCollegeFoundation #CelebrateMyBirthdayWhenIWant #NowImJustWaitingToCelebrateMyBirthdayOnOctober31❗️✅️ #CelebrateTheWayIWant #ItsAlwaysHalloweenInMyHeartAndSoul 🖤🐈‍⬛️ #Halloween 🎃👻 #HalloweenIsALifeStyleNotAHoliday #ItsAlwaysHalloweenAtMyHouse #SingleLife #Tattooed #BodyArt #IAmObviouslyAWorkInProgress 🤔😆 #NowWhereIsMyDietSoda 🥤⁉️📛ℹ️

[usnewsper-business]

Stock Market Swings Amid COVID-19 and Earnings Season: Tesla Soars, Cisco Stumbles #CiscoSystems #corporateAmerica #COVID19pandemic #DowJonesIndustrialAverage #earningsseason #geopoliticaltensions #NASDAQComposite #SP500 #Stockmarket #Tesla #volatility

[sataniccapitalist]

#thewaronyou

[saracausey1]

MSM: workers have the power! Things are so different from the pre-pandemic years!

Also the MSM: ha ha, not really.

[sublimeobservationarcade]

A Terrible Indictment On American Doctors

The opioid crisis in America is a terrible indictment on American doctors. The fact that OxyContin was widely prescribed  as a safe cure for pain despite being an opioid is testament to the stupidity and gullibility of American doctors. The training and experience of medical practitioners should have indemnified them with a healthy scepticism for claims made by the pharmaceutical companies in this instance. Opioids have been known to be highly addictive for many decades and there have been no exceptions to this over the period.

American Doctors Must Doubt Drug Company Claims

Yes, the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma, manipulated the FDA and falsified data around the safety of their opioid drug. The willingness of doctors, however, to believe in the sanctity of the commercially driven medical science edifice is naïve at best and expediently mercantile at worst. If doctors are so completely in the pocket of Big Pharma it is a very bad day for Americans in need of medical help. MDs need to have the objective strength to stand apart from the sales driven culture of the drug business. Doctors are really required to have doubt and a healthy scepticism in response to drug company claims. The overwhelming evidence of pharmaceutical corporations bribing doctors through lavish dinners, gifts, and holidays must make them bristle with suspicion.

Big Pharma Buying American MDs

The manipulation of the business of health by Big Pharma is considerable. Support groups around conditions and illnesses have been infiltrated by drug companies in the form of funding and sponsorship. This was clearly revealed in the inquiries into OxyContin and Purdue Pharma. National and community pain management organisations were bought by Purdue Pharma and the associated Sacker family companies via their money. Members of the FDA involved in the approval process found themselves moving on to well paid jobs at Purdue Pharma. Indeed, state attorneys in the justice system likewise were headhunted by Big Pharma. Oversight agencies do not work in the capitalist system because these inspectors are poached and bribed by the deep pockets of corporate America. Similarly, politicians pass legislation friendly to these corporations and later find themselves on their payroll upon leaving office as consultants. This makes the checks and balances within the system a weak joke in terms of their effectiveness in real terms. Government in America is bought and sold by big business. Money talks and Big Pharma is the loudest voice in the room. Capitalism does not serve democracy well and it does not serve health well either. If you have members of Congress spending their entire time worrying about being re-elected and it costs millions of dollars to do so, then you have a system that does not serve the people. Similarly, a health system, driven by pharmacology and the businesses making these drugs, is in the hands of profit driven masters. Doctors have become mere shadow puppets of their drug lords handing out a pill for every condition and situation. The over-prescribing of medication is endemic throughout America.

Giant pharmaceutical corporations are so economically powerful now that they dwarf governments around the globe. Covid only made these behemoths even more massive. Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Roche and Sanofi all generate revenue in excess of $40 billion per year. The sales departments of these mega corporations have tentacles throughout the medical edifices around the world. Doctors and dispensing chemists are the influencers and retailers for this simply gargantuan industry. Doctors hold a special place within our society. The white lab coat is similarly a symbol of the presumed purity of the healer at the heart of the medical system. In an emotive sense, people do not instinctively associate healing with the money making principle. When someone gets sick they, often, panic and just want a cure. This is exploited by a health system driven by capitalism, where the importance of making money and delivering dividends to shareholders drives the cart. In the current opioid crisis in America there were a number of doctors who ruthlessly exploited, for financial benefit, the addictive qualities of OxyContin. This is a terrible indictment on American doctors in itself, but that many more MDs claimed to be hoodwinked by the FDA and supporting scientific material provided by Purdue Pharma is probably worse. It attests to a dumbing down and lowering of standards within the American medical fraternity. It tells us that the sales driven culture of Big Pharma is supported by American doctors. Medicine in the US is predominantly all about the dollars and less about patent welfare. ©WordsForWeb Read the full article