Amazon EDI training compelling staff to use preferred pronouns “at work and in your personal life”

EDI is the same as DEI, ain't it? Thought so. Same shit, different smell.

DEI is just 'Didn't Earn It', but it's too close to 'DIE'.

There's an article in Unherd about another of Bezo's pet projects, the Washington Post, currently hemorrhaging money

https://unherd.com/newsroom/diversity-checks-are-tearing-the-washington-post-apart/

I think it's worth a read for one of the comments

I'm not one of those tedious people who keep harping on about the working conditions in Amazon warehouses, but I do have to wonder how minimum wage warehouse workers – whose every move is subject to a hard analysis on the effect it has on Amazon’s bottom line – would feel about the idea that Jeff Bezos seems to have willingly funded a news organisation that’s has been haemorrhaging millions of dollars for several years, all because its employees would rather worry about identity politics than actually giving its customers what they want.

I wonder what the delivery drivers, up against the clock, and the people jogging around the warehouses, sorry, fulfilment centres to meet their targets think about the money spaffed on these utter wastes of time. Not enough eye rolls in the world.

My name is Sir Alfred, but you may refer to me informally as Sir Alfred (at all times).

I was assigned at birth as a knight of the realm for my services to the cooked chicken preparation industry, and my planet of origin is Last Wednesday.

I would reply 'Hi. My name is _ and my pronoun is 'whatever'

How do we even know that it identifies as the Moon, and not as Mercury or Omicron-Persei 9, without even bothering to ask it?

Arrogant bigots, the lot of us.

I've been boycotting Amazon every since DS worked for them and they treated him like shit, so I'll boycott them even more now. They only promoting this EDI crap so they can pretend to be 'kind' while continuing to exploit and degrade their employees.

Hi, my mame is Chersfrozenface, you can call me Cher if you like, I was assigned Libra at birth and my favourite gemstone is opal.

Quite. We can put people on the moon but are still struggling to work out which humans are male and which are female, apparently 🤔

It never ceases to amaze me how bigoted the people are who insist that we make everybody we meet aware of our pronouns, but not our species.

If I meet somebody who merely looks like a human man, how on earth am I meant to know whether that individual is actually human at all, and not a llama, gerbil or albatross, if they only tell me their pronouns but apparently want to deliberately leave me confused and at risk of causing embarrassment to everybody involved by using the incorrect labels and descriptors for everything else about them?

Also, why do they not routinely confirm their age as part of their 'meeting somebody for the first time' bio? Don't they care that everybody will cringe when, having been deprived of this essential personal info, I accidentally refer to them as a bonnie little new bundle of joy and comment on their beautiful delicate, soft, smooth skin when, completely unknown to me, they're actually 96 years old?

It's the same ladder of crazy; it's just a case of how far each person on it has chosen to climb.

If only this is what all EDI people do.

Please everyone join the FSU. It's really cheap and they are doing amazing work!

When you cancel Prime, you can take a survey that asks you why. Free text box.

Nailed it

Yes, this. If the big bearded delivery bloke is given such a tight schedule that he doesn't even have time to knock on my door to tell me that my parcel has arrived, I can't see how he'll magically gain enough time to knock, wait for me to answer and then inform me that he isn't a she/her or a they/them - just so I know how to refer to him on the many occasions when I regularly discuss him with my friends and colleagues.

Not that I could care less what sex the person who brings my order is, anyway.

This is me in that scenario:

Me: nice to meet you
Person: hi, I'm Sue she/her
Me: hi Suesheher, unusual name! where do you work?
Person: no, my name is Sue, my pronouns are she/her
Me: oh ok, but why are you telling me your pronouns?

Etc etc

“Hello, my name is Viques, my pronouns are she and her because I am an English speaking adult human female and my right to be gender critical is supported by UK law. Welcome to Amazon, I am sure we will have a fruitful working partnership.”

Is that the sort of introduction they mean?

Yes especially Indoctrination

Yep. Mine usually knock and run anyway so I only ever get to see the back of their head as they jump back in the van

This

Seeing as the only Amazon people I interact with are the delivery drivers who are pushed for time as it is, I can't see this working. Ditto the people in the depots working all hours.

Maybe they are hoping to increase productivity by reducing conversations?

Start introducing yourself with your pronouns. Whenever you’re introduced to somebody new, it’s easy to state your pronouns alongside your name. This helps others understand how to refer to you in the future, and encourages them to also share their pronouns
Do this at work and in your personal life to help establish pronoun sharing as a standard practice with your team, your business org, and your community.

Seriously if I meet someone for the first time and they say ‘hi I’m Sue and my pronouns are she/her’ I would think ‘fuck off and never attempt to engage me in conversation again’

Honestly this bollocks absolutely boils my piss

That really is shocking. Forcing your employees to lie is not going to end well.

Was their legal team involved in checking their definitions, I wonder?

Amazon can fuck off

Lets hope someone takes this to court