tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11279250.post4744582329679876322..comments2024-02-13T01:35:29.765-06:00Comments on MultiCultClassics: 13082: IPGobbledygook.HighJivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11372784671087002387noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11279250.post-33456568736477422872016-02-18T21:33:48.552-06:002016-02-18T21:33:48.552-06:00That is some mighty, mighty spin going on at the I...That is some mighty, mighty spin going on at the IPG diversity statistics page. <br /><br />I especially like the "total minorities" detail, because that gives IPG free reign to lump anyone they want in there and call it a victory.<br /><br />Got 85 white female managers, 9 white male gay managers, 5 disabled white managers and 1 black manager? 100% "TOTAL MINORITY" DIVERSITY!<br /><br />All joking aside though, just how bad are the ethnic diversity numbers exactly, if they're going to such enormous lengths to fudge them? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11279250.post-1743017817414043982016-02-18T00:32:20.555-06:002016-02-18T00:32:20.555-06:00If IPG had invested 1/10th of the effort they put ...If IPG had invested 1/10th of the effort they put into creating half-truths (creating and funding Adcolor just to turn around and give themselves diversity awards, putting Heide on the Urban League Board of Directors and making donations just to turn around and give themselves diversity awards, fudging numbers to count overseas offices and foreign hires as US minorities, etc.), we'd probably have some actual ethnic diversity in their ad agencies now in 2016. <br /><br />Instead we have Campbell Ewald throwing Ghetto Parties and no one saying "boo" for four months, countless millions of dollars in accounts on the line (goodbye, USAA, goodbye protest of the Navy) and white women serving as the only visible face of diversity. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com