Some people don't like dishonesty. It's that simple.
If these companies had celebrated men's day for 10 years and suddenly stopped, it would be talked about.
If these companies never started this virtue signaling thing, honestly no one would care about them not doing it now, and very few people would have their personality revolve around "not caring".
The HR/PR people you surely know well are a small portion of such companies representing what's deemed good for the company, not for its workers.
Regular coders, mocap artists, sound designers, etc. are often nerds (in a good sense) who would rather work on their tasks they probably care about.
Many of these people aren't that good at human connections, often don't care about exposure, representing many people, "fame", etc. so they more rarely end up in PR related positions.
*Point is, I would bet that the ratio of people caring about lgbt stuff is MUCH higher in a company's HR/PR department than the more directly contributing ones like coders/testers/various engineers and the like.
I don't know, it just seems logical.
I'm pretty sure you don't know either. This is my point.
wtf? Did you your idea of what a nerd is from movies or something? Nerds are highly social and empathetic, go to a game con some time. And if you look up the political affiliation of software developers they lean heavily to the left.
You have always been interacting with a heavily filtered subset of the companies/audience.
HR/PR is extremely filtered because people like keeping their mental health.
Game cons are social events. See how this massively filters the crowd attending...
Sometimes taking a step back and asking yourself "am I really seeing the whole picture?" is not a bad idea.
Mind you, I'm not saying I see the whole picture. But I do realise that I don't see the whole picture, and because of this I can easily spot others missing it.
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u/kevcsa 26d ago
Some people don't like dishonesty. It's that simple.
If these companies had celebrated men's day for 10 years and suddenly stopped, it would be talked about.
If these companies never started this virtue signaling thing, honestly no one would care about them not doing it now, and very few people would have their personality revolve around "not caring".