Lowe’s changes follow closely on the heels of announcements by Harley Davidson and Jack Daniel's, as well as similar changes made by Tractor Supply, John Deere and Best Buy.
  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    2 months ago

    Dialing back DEI efforts

    Translation: “We refuse to promote anyone into upper management who isn’t a direct relative of a senior executive”.

  • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
    27·
    2 months ago

    At least Home Depot seems to actually care about its lgbtq employees, and its employee training is full of anti-discriminatory language and policies while being openly welcoming to the lgbtq community. Even here in Florida, Home Depot is a pretty friendly place to work for LGBTQ employees.

    • wazzupdog (they/them)
      15·
      2 months ago

      Can confirm, I’ve worked with several individuals who are lgbtq+ only saw one issue with one person and it was swiftly dealt with.

    • FarFarAway@startrek.websiteEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      Which is interesting considering the owner is a maga.

      Edit: I didn’t realize he was no longer involved with the company. Jkjk

    • bizarroland@fedia.io
      3·
      2 months ago

      Home Depot already rolled back their dei requirements quite a while ago.

      I had them on my personal boycott list for years because their owner supported Trump. Then they came out and said that we don’t have anything to do with our former owner so I took them off my block list and then they came out and rolled back their dei protection so I put them right back on it.

      I’m also going to boycott Lowe’s and I’m going to cancel my Lowe’s card while I’m at it. Sure it’s just a drop of change but at least I’m doing my part.

  • AstroGnomeical@mander.xyzEnglish
    24·
    2 months ago

    “We’re now forcing multi-billion dollar organizations to change their policies without even posting just from fear they have of being the next company that we expose,” [Robby Starbuck, a video streamer and right wing online activist,] wrote. “We are winning and one by one we WILL bring sanity back to corporate America.”

    So it’s not because of any fault in the DEI program, it’s because of corporate terrorism from the right. Big surprise /s

  • nifty@lemmy.world
    14·
    2 months ago

    None of this matters, protections for individual rights need to made into laws and laws are enforceable via fines and lawsuits. Voting matters.