The company I work for put up a big post on LinkedIn about how they support Pride and wish all their colleagues, family and friends well during the month.
Well, as one of the two out queer people in the entire business (about 200 people), I’d love to know what they mean by ‘support’ because they haven’t contributed to any LGBTQ+ charities or anything.
Just posting because everyone else is posting.
I’d say a month is long enough
Take down the decorations, homosexual Christmas is over.
The reason most of the big companies do the whole pride thing is down to finances. BlackRock, an investment firm with $10T of assets under management, the biggest one in the world, conditions funding based on a companies ESG (Environment, Social, and Corporate Governance) rating. Companies that are seen as being socially progressive (something BlackRock executives push hard on) have higher ESG ratings, and as such are likely to receive more funding.
A month is already too long
It’s “Pride month”. Not “Pride month and a bit”. Why wouldnt they take it down?
Thought it was “end scene”!
A few years ago, where I work, they hired a ton of people on a contract. After the contract was up, the only person who didn’t get offered a permanent role was the openly gay dude.
Now it’s all rainbow virtue signalling bullshit.
This is just looking for things to whinge about.
Companies or corporations don’t care about your sexual choice or gender. If the stoning LGTB people in the street was legal they’d be handing out rocks with their logo on it.
Jaysus we could give them the whole year and it still wouldn’t be enough
Probably will get downvoted to hell for this but society/media hasn’t given companies much of a choice now but to publicly display support for pride month. It’s like the poppy in England. If a public-facing organisation doesn’t make an outward support of pride month then someone will pick up on it and criticise them.
It did seem opportunistic a few years ago for companies to get in on it but now it’s expected. And you don’t want to fall on the wrong side of all this stuff.
Right lads. Get this stuff in the bin and get the Halloween shite out
They took down the Ukrainian flags for Pride flags when June rolled around, so are they going to put them back or is there a new cause for them to whore out?
Why would companies continue with it all year round? It’s marketing campaign based around a calendar event, similar to any other marketing campaign for a short term event or holiday. Pride ends when it ends. This argument has always seemed a bit silly to me.
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The company I work for put up a big post on LinkedIn about how they support Pride and wish all their colleagues, family and friends well during the month.
Well, as one of the two out queer people in the entire business (about 200 people), I’d love to know what they mean by ‘support’ because they haven’t contributed to any LGBTQ+ charities or anything.
Just posting because everyone else is posting.
I’d say a month is long enough
Take down the decorations, homosexual Christmas is over.
The reason most of the big companies do the whole pride thing is down to finances. BlackRock, an investment firm with $10T of assets under management, the biggest one in the world, conditions funding based on a companies ESG (Environment, Social, and Corporate Governance) rating. Companies that are seen as being socially progressive (something BlackRock executives push hard on) have higher ESG ratings, and as such are likely to receive more funding.
A month is already too long
It’s “Pride month”. Not “Pride month and a bit”. Why wouldnt they take it down?
Thought it was “end scene”!
A few years ago, where I work, they hired a ton of people on a contract. After the contract was up, the only person who didn’t get offered a permanent role was the openly gay dude.
Now it’s all rainbow virtue signalling bullshit.
This is just looking for things to whinge about.
Companies or corporations don’t care about your sexual choice or gender. If the stoning LGTB people in the street was legal they’d be handing out rocks with their logo on it.
Jaysus we could give them the whole year and it still wouldn’t be enough
Probably will get downvoted to hell for this but society/media hasn’t given companies much of a choice now but to publicly display support for pride month. It’s like the poppy in England. If a public-facing organisation doesn’t make an outward support of pride month then someone will pick up on it and criticise them.
It did seem opportunistic a few years ago for companies to get in on it but now it’s expected. And you don’t want to fall on the wrong side of all this stuff.
Right lads. Get this stuff in the bin and get the Halloween shite out
They took down the Ukrainian flags for Pride flags when June rolled around, so are they going to put them back or is there a new cause for them to whore out?
Why would companies continue with it all year round? It’s marketing campaign based around a calendar event, similar to any other marketing campaign for a short term event or holiday. Pride ends when it ends. This argument has always seemed a bit silly to me.