Casey Parker

Stuck in Another Pointless DEI Training

The workplace. You know it. The one from your job. Where you go every day to clock in, nod through meetings, and pretend to be busy when your boss walks by. Or maybe you’re like me and it's just another one of those places where you have to pretend you don’t notice that you're the only person of color in the room. I mean sure, you’ve been doing it so long that now it comes to you fairly naturally, or maybe it's just a flickering thought that barely registers anymore. That is until that staff-wide HR meeting where they announce an addition to their annual ‘How to Act in the Workplace’ training. And you get excited because maybe it's finally that workshop that tells us how to exist in these spaces without the constant, unspoken weirdness (I’m not the only one who feels that right?). But then you hear it, those dreaded three letters: DEI.