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    AT&T commits to ending DEI programs


    AT&T commits to ending DEI programs

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/business/dei-at-and-t-mobile-fcc?cid=ios_app

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    4. NebulousNitrate on

      A lot of this shit was just “feel good” policies anyway. Just extra bureaucracy without real tangible improvements.

    5. meteorprime on

      I never understood why they started in the first place I want the company that makes my Internet function correctly to just higher the best workers.

      I don’t give a shit if there’s a diverse group of people working on the servers.

      I just want the goddamn servers functioning.

      Why would I ever want a company that provides a service for me to let me know that they had a better candidate, but they made sure not to hire them.

      The fuck?

    7. SorryWerewolf4735 on

      they must be about to purchase another company and need government approval. calls?

    11. Necrophilicgorilla on

      Agh. Now fuck you at&t too.

      I’m getting tired of canceling subscriptions and giving away my fucking money to these people.
      What an upside down world.

      Well, they’re next on the chopping block.

      Said farewell to:
      Targét
      Hulu
      Disney
      ESPN
      Spotify
      Pandora
      And probably some other jerks that I forgot about.

    12. Unrefined5508 on

      Believe it or not, this will increase rates. If they kept the DEI program, still increased rates. Even reading this article, more increased rates.

    13. GlobalIncident7623 on

      Does this mean they’ll quit hiring inept white dudes who are wholly unqualified for corporate positions? Because that’s the real DEI.

    17. iEugene72 on

      Republicans in power? Businesses scream, “God we really really love discrimination! Seriously we cannot get enough of it! LOVE IT!”

      Democrats in power? Businesses scream, “LGBTQ+ stuff ALL over the place! Ads of happy mixed race couples in great detail in every department!”

      CAPITALISM is the fucking problem. This is so fucking obvious.

    20. DanielPhermous on

      “When he ran the program the first time, he was surprised when the more diverse team of problem solvers out-performed the team of ‘very able’… The second program yielded the same result. The “able and more diverse” team of problem solvers out- performed the ‘very able’ problem solvers again.” – [Source]
      (https://odeo.hq.nasa.gov/documents/DiverseProblemSolvers_TAGGED.pdf)

      “The findings were startlingly consistent: for companies ranking in the top quartile of executive-board diversity, ROEs were 53 percent higher, on average, than they were for those in the bottom quartile.” – [Source](https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/is-there-a-payoff-from-top-team-diversity)

      “People who are different from one another in race, gender and other dimensions bring unique information and experiences to bear on the task at hand. A male and a female engineer might have perspectives as different from one another as an engineer and a physicist—and that is a good thing. Research on large, innovative organizations has shown repeatedly that this is the case.” – [Source](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-diversity-makes-us-smarter/)

      “Groups with out-group newcomers (i.e., diverse groups) reported less confidence in their performance and perceived their interactions as less effective, yet they performed better than groups with in-group newcomers” – [Source](https://www.pnas.org/content/111/52/18524.abstract)

      “New research from Tufts University indicates that diverse groups perform better than homogenous groups when it comes to decision making” – [Source](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060410162259.htm)

    21. gman757 on

      Guess I’m dropping AT&T and going Mint since all the big companies aren’t doing DEI anymore

    25. ImprovementMain7109 on

      I get why people are tired of clumsy, checkbox DEI stuff that turns into bureaucracy and resentment. But ripping the label off doesn’t mean you suddenly have a meritocracy, it just pushes the same preferences into less transparent channels. In big corporates this usually ends up as PR optimization, not actual fairness or better hiring.

    26. jordanosa on

      Like can’t these giant corporations just phase this shit out quietly? It’s not like they truly embraced it and made a difference in the first place

    27. Expert_Scarcity4139 on

      Then I will be committing to ending my AT&T phone after all these years🤷🏼‍♀️

    31. Ziztur on

      Sigh.

      I’m an amputee and I use hearing devices, so I need accommodations in every job I’ve ever had.

      I’m self employed, even though I have a doctoral degree in occupational therapy, because employers see me as a “liability”.

      I kinda thought DEI was a way for companies to NOT see me as a liability but to see me based on my work history, skillset, education, etc cetera.

      Whenever I see this push to end DEI, it’s basically companies saying yeah… you are a “liability”.

    33. anonymous_kyle_guy on

      Miserable pricks with their shit ass cell service and exorbitant prices…fuck the lot of ‘em.

    37. Moobygriller on

      Lol, this changes absolutely nothing other than tickling the balls of the orange rapist

    38. dale_downs on

      Diversity is humanity’s greatest strength. No joke. It literally is. It’s saved us as a species so many fucking times. I fucking hate republicans. They will be the end of us all.

    40. BigBobbyCrowbar on

      Wouldn’t just be easier for you American bozos to skip directly to some kind of modern day caste system?

      Dead easy when there are only two castes. 1) the ultra wealthy. 2) the poor ( aka untouchables)

    42. TeeDee144 on

      I work for a large tech company and we just had our mid year review. All mentions about how we are contributing to DEI has been removed.

    44. lasercannonbooty on

      John Stanley is a piece of shit cancer to society and to the company. At least Randall Stephenson was a proponent for DEI and actually helped the company grow to new heights.