Hmmm. No men work in our company.
Or does that make us diverse?
I work in an office with nine other white women and one white bloke who’s been declared an honorary woman! No diversity at all. Nope, none whatsoever.
My current team is about 200 people. Four Indian guys. Two Spaniards (one male, one female). Last week we got a new woman: makes four of us. Three French guys. The new woman is also French. There was another Hispanic (male, Puertorican from Harlem) but he left shortly after I arrived.
We’re in Germany but dang, this place needs, dunnow, some Black Irish or something, for variety…
Oh, another guy is Swiss, of Hungarian father and Swiss mother. He used to be the Most Exotic Person in the whole team.
In the university where I work, my last office did have a Mongolian, Turk and two Chinese on the general office staff. But they’ve all left and now there’s just the one Chinese girl to make the place a bit less white female.
In fact, the university on the whole is looking to up its number of male staff amongst lower grades, each office seems to have one male member of staff on average.
I think this is cheating, but out of the 29 teachers and 2000+ students at my school, all except me are black =). There are two other women working, and each class has a few girls in it.
The funny thing is that today they gave me a lecture on how diverse our school is…you’ve got your Bamilike, your Ewondo, plenty of Fulbe, etc.
We have a Vietnamese supervisor at work… actually, she’s higher than that, and damned near executive level… but… well, to put it kindly, she is as thick as two short planks. In the private sector, she’d have been shown the door years ago, but she is kept on (and usually given some project to keep her out of harm’s way, where she can’t break anything).
The running joke is that my workplace is very racist, sexist, etc (it isn’t), so when the managers were told to hire a woman, a person from an non-English speaking background, and a person with a mental disability, they decided to be economical and hire Annie. 
Are you implying I’m all those things? 
Every single person in my workplace is a gay white university-educated left-wing male between the ages of 20 and 29.
Of course, I work alone, so this is probably not the screaming human rights concern it might be.
Heheheh. Sorry, it did come across that way.
But of course I don’t mean that (you’re not Vietnamese. )
I once worked for an almost entirely Indian firm. Prior to this, I thought I understood what challenges black people faced in the workplace and elsewhere since I grew up in the “inner city” and mixed pretty well in both white and black communities. However, it was the experience of being the only white face in the crowd, with people that could (and often did) exclude me from the most mundane activities (such as lunch or a casual conversation) that clued me in on how wrong I had been.
I am not saying I completely “get it” now. I certainly understand the isolation and being made to feel different as a result. I also came to understand being a “token employee” as a result of that experience. I was hired to put a white, American face on an otherwise foreign, Indian firm. It made me very uncomfortable.
I don’t think it would be me. I just started a new job, and of the co-workers that sit in my immediate vicinity there is: one Japanese, one white American, one Indian, one Tawainese, one Nigerian and one Latino. My boss is also a white American, his boss is an African-American woman, and the head of the company is Lebanese.
My engineering department consists of about 40 people. Three are black, one is Chinese, four are women. The rest are white men.
There is one Jewish guy, and the Chinese woman mentioned to me once that she wasn’t Christian. As far as I can tell the rest are conservative Christians. None are openly gay. Most are married with kids.
I’ve spent my whole career in this type of enviroment. It’s one reason I enjoy the SDMB - I can experience diversity here that I don’t see in real life.
My work is extremely diverse. We have back, white, asian, and all manner of mix. We have Texan, Quebecois, English-Canadian, French-Canadian, Vancouverite, Albertan. We have Indian, Chinese, Canadian, English (from England, I mean), Serbian, Croatian, Russian, Korean, Mexican, Spanixh, Irish, Guyanan, Pakistani, Argentinian, Italian, Hungarian, German, African, Japanese, Romanian, Filipino. And that’s just from an inventory of people whose names and faces I can recall. The president is French (from France, not Quebec). Flags of dozens of countries hang in the production area; those are where the customers are located.
The other Esperanto speakers no longer work here, though. Bummer.
I have absolutely no idea what religions we are; that’s a private matter. Though Christmas, Chinese New Year, and Diwali are popular around the lunch tables at the appropriate season.
So, I guess I’m out of the running on this one.
Well, I was almost thinking “library” but then you did say “industry” and that you have a union.
It sounds kind of like the fashion industry.
Anyway, we do a lot of statistics and programming, and we have a fair amount of Chinese, but very few women or black people. On my floor, 2 women out of about 25 employees, no black people, no jewish people, 5 Chinese. At the company, we might have 2 or 3 black people, and maybe no hispanics out of 150 or so.
Musical theatre.
I’m another who’s sure to lose the “award.” I work in a diverse industry in a diverse city (Houston, TX). My co-workers are all races, ethnic backgrounds, religions & sexual orientations. (Not much talk about sex, but I can tell!)
There used to be a restaurant downtown with amazing Mexico City sushi at happy hour. (And martinis.) Twice, I saw gatherings that puzzled me. They were obviously groups of people who worked together in “corporate” settings. Finally, I realized what was “different” about those them. They were all white!
42 white males, 1 asian (me). We are a commercial property company and I’ve been the only minority ever in the company.
I’m definitely in the running for “Least Diverse.”
At my part-time job, there are about 25 women, no men. We’re all between the ages of mid-30s and late 50s, all white, all Christian, all with very similar middle-class backgrounds, one woman is widowed, one is divorced, one (me) is separated, all the rest are married, and we all have 2 or 3 kids.
Everyone except me at my school is Bulgarian. My school is more diverse than that, it’s about 30% ethnic Turkish and 20% Roma. But no Roma or Turkish teachers. This is not unusual.