In its statement, the company promises to distance itself from the poisonous DEI parasite that has attached itself to the John Deere brand.

We will no longer participate or support external social or cultural awareness parades, festivals, or events.

Business Resouce Groups will exclusively be focused on professional development, networking, mentoring, and supporting talent recruitment efforts.

Auditing all company-mandated training materials and policies to ensure the absence of socially motivated messages, while being in compliance with federal, state, and local laws.

Reaffirming with the business that the existence of diversity quotas and pronoun identification have never been and are not company policy.

We fundamentally believe a diverse workforce enables us to best meet our custonmers' needs and because of that we will continue to track and advance the diversity of our organization. //

It also doesn't define what it means by "track and advance the diversity of our organization." That could be as benign as complying with mandated reporting requirements, or it could mean that employees will continue to be advanced based on something other than merit. //

Froge
18 hours ago edited
I never quite got how DEI is "needed" to attract the right work force. Because my company does DEI, I get the feeling they hate me because I am not the right race or gender for them. I get the feeling that I will not get promoted, or be much less likely to be promoted because of my gender/race.

It makes me dislike my company and is definitely not making me want to spend the rest of my life working there - no loyalty any more - why would I, the company hates me.

All this just for the "3%" or so of people that might be attracted to this, who probably have mental conditions and won't function well in engineering in the first place.