Not me. Plenty of men and plenty of women, plenty of natives and plenty of immigrants. As for religion, I don’t know, it’s not a big deal over here and very rarely talked about. Now that I think about it though, I can’t think of a single out homosexual, out of over a hundred people.
The department next to mine is quite lacking in diversity. About 20 people, all white, and only one of them male. Most of the women are married, middle-aged “kountry krafty” types.
There are 15 people in my office, and we’re all white. I was the only woman for a while (when there were fewer people), but we’ve added a few more so it’s about 5 women to 10 men.
We’re a satellite office, so if you add in our main office there are about 300 or so people. I know of two black guys and one Indian. As far as I know, the rest are white. I don’t know about religion, but I’d be surprised if there were more than a handful of non-Christians.
There are a few other company offices in more urban areas, and I imagine they are significantly more diverse, but in rural West Virginia, you just don’t get a lot of diversity.
Five permanent employees at my place of business, all white, all Christian (2 Catholics, 1 UMethodist, 2 undetermined) all women, 2 married, two divorced, one single. At Christmas time we get all wild and crazy and we have two black women as our seasonals. The last time we had a guy work here, he was gay so we considered ourselves very diverse!
In my branch: 6 white women, one Indian man. One woman was born in Germany and speaks the language, but moved to the US as a small child.
Our man just *loves * to hear us talk about shoes and gossip magazines and makeup and all that stuff. I can tell the way he shakes his head and gazes longingly at the paper cutter. He looks at us laughing away over accidently buying a Sweet Lemon candle rather than a Chiffon Lemon candle and then gazes again at the paper cutter. He loves it, I know he does.
Our staff is divided into two teams: office, and maintenance.
The maintenance staff is fairly diverse. 3 men (black, white and hispanic), and 1 white gal. The office staff is 5 white women. Everytime we have either another gender, or another nationality in the office, they’re either fired or quit after a short time. I’m not sure why, exactly
In my workplace, of possibly 200 people (including call center, printing, marketing, warehouse and management) we have:
4 African-Americans
1 Hispanic
1 non-christian
Everyone else is white, christian and overwhelmingly female – I don’t know the actual statistics, but I would guess we are 60% female (I know that we have 0 men in the call center).
Well, let’s see. I’m white hetero (married) female. I have 10 associates that report to me.
2/10 are female
3/10 are black
3/10 are married
10/10 are hetero to my knowledge
1 is Muslim, the rest are either Christian or at least celebrate Christmas
That’s 5 black men, 2 of them married, 1 of them Muslim, all hetero
Two white 2 women, neither married, both Christian, all hetero
Three white men, all single, though one is engaged, all Christian, all hetero
In my manager’s group of 22 reports, (she’s also white female), which includes myself,
16 are white
1 is Indian
5 black
4 are women (all the women are white)
1 of the white men is Jewish, one of the black men is Muslim, and the Indian guy is (I forget–I think it’s, what…Hindu? I feel so ignorant!)
10 are married, and I believe 1 is not heterosexual (though not “out” at work in spite of my company’s pro-diversity stance)
How’s that for diversity?
Oh, and I’m in IT.
By my count, we have three Norwegians, three Swedes, one Thai, and one American (yours truly). Six women, two men. This is a private Montessori preschool.
The interesting part is that the boss is Swedish, so some of the reminders and charts hung up around the place are written in a sort of half-Swedish/half-Norwegian. Since I’m the fastest typist it’s fallen to me to type up the monthly letters to the parents, and when the boss writes them (by hand, for me to type), part of my task is to unSwedishify them
All my colleagues are human. That’s all that really matters.
I recently changed labs at my work place. It is 100% white, male, and conservative. :rolleyes:
The description of "white "is just a little bit racist,at my place of work ,a construction site in the U.K. is ,off the wall, probably80% white ,but a third to half of them are Polish (not Polish american /English) many of whom do not speak a word of English plus other east europeans who also often usually have one broken English speaker to translate for usually 10 to 15 countrymen WHILE THEY TRY TO CARRY OUT THE TRADE THEY WERE EMPLOYED FOR at the same time.
There are also probably one fifth of the workforce from the Indian sub continent who tend not to speak English on site and ask for a translator if being given instructions. There are also a miniscule amount of sub Saharan Africans who can understand English of a sort.
The rest of us are Brits and Irish (who we do not consider to be foreigners anyway)
Personally I dont knock the emigrant workforce ,I’ve worked abroad often myself ,but there are a hell of a lot of Qualification in Trade frauds and we have several incidents where things could have turned nasty with a native English speaker almost screaming at what appeared to be a native Brit "stop turning the crane "as it was about to crush someone and they had no way to escape the situation.
The situation was resolved by a foreman running over ,jumping into the cab and smashing the totally oblivious crane driver in the face with his fist to stop him turning the crane .
It turned out that he was Lithuanian and spoke no English.
In my department, Operations, there are 6 employees - 5 men, 1 woman, all white.
Of the five men, two are married, one is about to be married, one is divorced, the other is single.
In the news department, there are 4 white men, 1 black man and 1 Korean woman. Only one of the men is married.
Engineering is two white, married men.
The GM of this division is a married black woman.
The GM of the entire company is a single white man.
At this time, there are no openly gay persons working there.
I don’t know about anyone’s religion; I have never heard the subject come up at work. (Yes, I realize how this differs from so many others’ workplaces, and how lucky we are.)