DEI Trainer Blasts Oregon Forestry for Prioritizing Merit Over Identity in Hiring Practices

A DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) trainer has criticized Oregon’s Forestry Department for hiring employees based on merit rather than identity or gender. Megan Doner, the former DEI lead at the department, filed a complaint, claiming queer staff felt unsafe and that the department’s culture was a "boys' club." Doner’s frustration centered on her boss, Mike Shaw, who emphasized hiring the most qualified candidates over focusing on gender or identity. Shaw, now on leave, was reportedly accused of making sexist remarks and undermining DEI efforts. Critics argue this incident reflects the larger issue of progressive hiring policies clashing with industries that require practical skills, like forestry. Doner's complaint has sparked a broader conversation about whether merit-based hiring should be set aside for more "inclusive" practices in physically demanding fields like forestry. Oregon’s governor, Tina Kotek, has supported DEI advancement despite backlash.

#MeritBasedHiring #DEICriticism #ForestryIndustry

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00:00 - Merit-based hiring focus
02:03 - Diversity hiring critique
04:04 - Industry performance matters
06:09 - Tough forestry jobs
08:16 - Pronouns debate at work
10:10 - DEI efforts sidelined
12:12 - Complaint over joke
14:25 - Forestry culture criticized
17:29 - Lack of diversity progress

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[benjaminhoak]

This "lady" hasn't been in the forest in her life. Probably never even left the I-5 corridor.

[wohargRadu]

Hiring on anything else than ability, skill and merit is a sure recipe for disaster of giant proportions.
This kind of people should simply be ignored and told to SFU.

[thisisyourcaptainspeaking]

Inexperienced foresters have caused immeasurable environmental damage.

[BoarderMiah]

My sister is a forestry supervisor in Oregon. She has so little tolerance for nitwits like this dei freak. She worked hard to be qualified to get the jobs she's had and despises people who use some attribute they happen to have been born with to get ahead.

She worked fires for a few years when she was younger and able to pass the physical for fires. She fully supports that women should pass the same one that men do. Fire doesn't say, oh? You're a woman? I'll take it easy on you!

[greglane]

I was on a Forest Service wildland Hot Shot crew in the 80s. Helped me pay my way through college.

Only saw one female on a Hot Shot crew worth her salt and we al respected her. Matter of fact she was the only female Hot Shot crew member I ever saw.

This is a job where if your crew mate F8cks up you can get killed so easy.

You have to be able to carry heavy loads, run chain saws, work 50 plus hours non stop. sleep on slopes in the middle of the day (when they let you sleep) straddling a tree so you don't slide down hill. It is the toughest physical job I ever did.

Screw the DEI trainer. Has no idea how many of her "diversity hires" will be lost on the fire line. They will not make it.

[athena]

As an Asian woman, I laughed at the imagery of myself "smushed" on the football field.
I'm glad the pendulum is swinging back to sanity.

[barkingmouse]

Why hire a headache? You work for the company. Not the other way around.

[PumpkinKingXXIII]

I personally feel is someone is talking about their pronouns and sexuality preferences at work it creates a hostile work environment and makes me uncomfortable. Work is for work, not for expressing your kink.

[crazeyoldlady]

I was born and raised in Oregon. I'm 74 and now looking to move to Idaho. The politics in this state sucks.

[CoryRwtfyt]

Logging is dangerous work. It’s not a place for the weak.

[deborahcharles]

All this needs to stop. Crazy nonsense, give me a break. What does pronouns have to do with forestry. They don't want to work just talk all day about their sht. Narcissist

[MrWebster]

The local media in Portland really portrayed this nonsense as a major problem.

[catwashere]

I have been trying forever to get in the nba! I am a, discrimated against, disabled old, very old woman. What's their problem?
😬🤣🤣🤣

[vincetaylor]

Its a job not a social setting. There is absolutely no reason for anyone at your job to know your sexual identity. Or political choice .or religion. Its work do your job and go on your way . That goes double for teachers.

[joeybenton]

Ya know I worked for Mt. St Helens at the center, I loved it! Everyone is kind, never experienced anyone acting the way described, to me it’s like they make a bigger deal out of it, than what needs to be. It works for them. I don’t play stupid reindeer games!

[captainz]

I will gladly hire any competent person based on their experience/merit. Hiring based on identity/pronouns/skin-or-hair-color, especially in a job where making mistakes could get you or others killed, it's important you are hired on merit not other nonsense.

[barrierjohn]

As a life long resident of Oregon, THANK YOU Mike Shaw. Maybe there’s still hope for our State.

[cathyburrows]

In middle of an emergency I don't want to worry an individuals offended to wrong pronoun .

[meatbyproducts]

I lnow a gay guy in forestry. No one there cares he is gay and he hates the pink hair DEI nonsense. He loves his job.

As a ma. That has gotten a compliment about ordering lunch, i was proud when someone i respected said I could "stretch a buck to get a fucking great meal". I was responsible for ordering meals as an additional duty. I wrote up a little book on how the person that replaced me could do the same job. My boss called me up at my new job and thanked me for making sure the new guy could keep everyone happy at group meals and meetings.