I read your whole post and then started laughing at your video description.
It sounds like an HR video new hires are required to watch where some over the top 50 year old woman who failed her realtor examine welcomes you to your new work family.
Thank you for the suggestions of the tours. The white washing is despicable, and it will only get worse unless people call it out.
It sounds like an HR video new hires are required to watch where some over the top 50 year old woman who failed her realtor examine welcomes you to your new work family.
Lol, yes. In a nutshell. That description is actually very close to the mark. If I recall correctly it was a female member of the Cecil family of about that mature age who was smiling so forcefully and so desperate to seem nice that I wondered if she was doing it at gunpoint. It was excruciatingly obvious that someone had given them the DEI speech and said “you have to do this if you want to shut down criticism of your past labor practices.” So they did. It didn’t work.
In truth, the Vanderbilt-Cecils were no better than any other Golden Age employers, and given some of the credible history, among the worst. I think they would give anything to go back to those days and force the rest of us to go back with them to serve them – but now they can’t afford to keep up the big houses without us plebes paying admission, so they have to act suddenly egalitarian if they want to continue to live there. I hope she choked on it, lol.
EDITED TO ADD: They have the same kind of shit on the Wikipedia page for George Washington Vanderbilt II, how nice he was to all the little estate children and gave them presents even if they couldn’t make it to the Christmas party. Jesus. I don’t want to shit on one man’s kindness, if in fact all that is true, but that’s what that entire video was made of. A look at the talk page reveals the involvement of the Biltmore Estate in the maintenance of the Wiki page.
I read your whole post and then started laughing at your video description.
It sounds like an HR video new hires are required to watch where some over the top 50 year old woman who failed her realtor examine welcomes you to your new work family.
Thank you for the suggestions of the tours. The white washing is despicable, and it will only get worse unless people call it out.
Lol, yes. In a nutshell. That description is actually very close to the mark. If I recall correctly it was a female member of the Cecil family of about that mature age who was smiling so forcefully and so desperate to seem nice that I wondered if she was doing it at gunpoint. It was excruciatingly obvious that someone had given them the DEI speech and said “you have to do this if you want to shut down criticism of your past labor practices.” So they did. It didn’t work.
In truth, the Vanderbilt-Cecils were no better than any other Golden Age employers, and given some of the credible history, among the worst. I think they would give anything to go back to those days and force the rest of us to go back with them to serve them – but now they can’t afford to keep up the big houses without us plebes paying admission, so they have to act suddenly egalitarian if they want to continue to live there. I hope she choked on it, lol.
EDITED TO ADD: They have the same kind of shit on the Wikipedia page for George Washington Vanderbilt II, how nice he was to all the little estate children and gave them presents even if they couldn’t make it to the Christmas party. Jesus. I don’t want to shit on one man’s kindness, if in fact all that is true, but that’s what that entire video was made of. A look at the talk page reveals the involvement of the Biltmore Estate in the maintenance of the Wiki page.