The Michael Berry Show

Houston Business Journal

Headline

Companies are losing momentum on DEI. Here's why that could be costly.

DEI is diversity, equity, inclusion.

It is the idea that businesses don't need to bother with being productive and profitable and efficient, innovative.

Businesses just need to hire more people that aren't white males.

And the way this works, and this is what people don't seem to understand.

When you bring some woman in, and you go, I were bringing you in because we need some diversity.

And she's surprised she got hired because she didn't have the credentials that the other candidates did.

But you bring her in, and on day one you tell her you're our diversity.

And what does she think her job is, at that point, to be diverse?

If she had a penis, she wouldn't have been hired.

Well, that really has nothing to do with the job now, does it?

So when that person gets in, sometimes by design, and sometimes it just happens, they go, I don't.

Not really one of the guys.

The guys go for beers, and if I go, it's weird.

Well, this gets back to the, our girls and guys all the same, in the workforce in some cases.

In the workforce, in some cases.

Take the average guy in the average girl, and you go have them dig ditches.

The thing is going to turn out about the same.

Take the average girl, the average guy, you make them into longshoremen.

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