My department keeps hiring for 'culture fit' but our culture was built by and for people who look like me and the few colleagues who don't fit that mold keep leaving after six months and in exit interviews they're polite but I know we're the problem. We talk about wanting diversity but we've created a system that selects it out.
More people experience this than they realize.
A workplace is caught between stated inclusive values and embedded practices that systematically exclude, creating a revolving door that everyone notices but no one names directly.
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