+1 for the funny joke!

But as a story of "DEI" in real practice vs a company who fakes it:

I worked as a system engineer for a gov contractor SaaS company with 4 C-levels. 2 were men, and 2 were women. The CEO was a second generation Italian. The CFO was a guy. The 2 women were in charge of the core part of the business: development lifecycle (design, dev, QA), and customer experience (helpdesk, consultants, sysads). The lady responsible for dev was also a developer and designer, and a damned sharp one at that. The lady responsible for customer experience was a systems engineer by trade. More than a few times I consulted with her about company direction for our infrastructure and growth plans.

There never really was public vocalizations in the company for DEI - it was about actually getting people from a wide background and putting them in power. And to that, our group reviewed potential hires, with all demographic details wiped. It was just the facts what they had done, to prevent us from focusing on demographics unchangable by us.

When BLM hit news hard, our CEO said bluntly in our monthly meeting "We're not able to hire most black candidates because police regularly harass their communities, give them an arrest record or a criminal record, and that prevents getting a public trust clearance. We are also powerless to change this by ourselves." I've *NEVER* heard spokespeople say even close to that, and here's our CEO pulling the curtains aside to look at the meat grinder.

Aside that terrible fact, the company did its best to hire diversely, promote from within, and put a diverse group of people in charge at leadership positions. Federal regulations GREATLY hamper good people with asinine decisions and local governmental harassment.

Sadly, this company a year prior got in bed with a venture (vulture) capitalist. They, after assuring "no real changes will happen (HAH!)", sold us like a Pokemon card to a terrible company. You could feel the grease off of this place. Felt like a used car lot combined with a county carnival/fair.

There were 8 C level positions in this 600 person company. For 7 of them it was "White male". The "DEI Officer" was a black woman. Doing this shows me you absolutely do not care about actual diversity, but only the thinnest veneer as not to be called out by other companies. (See? We have a token Black Woman on our C levels!) Like... You just "bought" a 200 person company with 2 scary sharp women as proven C level leadership... and threw them away as their newest acquisition.

It is gratifying you enjoyed the humor. At the time I thought I was following your redundant usage of "male" and "sausagefest," the latter referring in metaphor to genital particulars. But maybe it isn't redundant in that the practice of SOGI informs that gender identity is different from sex assigned at birth. Thus perhaps you were attempting to say that the all members of the group had a gender identity that matched their sex assigned at birth? It is beyond my comprehension of what constitutes workplace communication to communicate such matters.

I'm sorry to hear your federally regulated employer headed by an Italian, a guy and two scary sharp women who were ladies was bought out and sold to a terrible company.