How to Tell if Your Company has a Questionable EEO/Affirmative Action/Diversity Program

1. A big deal is made over Mexican food being served in the company cafeteria.
2. The CEO pops in on at the beginning of equal opportunity training, talks about how important it is, and then leaves after five minutes.
3. The rest of the executive team doesn’t attend any of the training because they feel the message is really for the closet bigots in middle and first-line management.
4. Financial contributions are given to any shake-down artist who extorts money in the name of civil rights.
5. Executives use expressions such as “walk the talk” when conversing with minorities.
6. Trainers tell male blue collar workers that women can handle the pressure of any nontraditional job, but will fall apart if someone tells a dirty knock-knock joke.
7. There are company-sponsored diversity committees for every conceivable group and each one has grievances.
8. People leave diversity training more divided than they were when they walked in the door.
9. The EEO/AA/Diversity offices are regarded as dumping grounds for incompetents.
10. Management talks "goals" but (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) uses "quotas."