If you ever wanted a picture-perfect example of how absurdly fixated the modern economy has become on "diversity" issues, here it is:

Joe Bruno, a former executive in the wealth management division of Wells Fargo, had long been troubled by the way his unit handled certain job interviews.

For many open positions, employees would interview a "diverse" candidate — the bank's term for a woman or person of color — in keeping with the bank's yearslong informal policy. But Mr. Bruno noticed that often, the so-called diverse candidate would be interviewed for a job that had already been promised to someone else.

He complained to his bosses. They dismissed his claims. Last August, Mr. Bruno, 58, was fired. In an interview, he said Wells Fargo retaliated against him for telling his superiors that the "fake interviews" were "inappropriate, morally wrong, ethically wrong."

Now here's a big shocker, folks:

The interviews, [multiple employees] said, seemed to be more about helping Wells Fargo record its diversity efforts on paper — partly in anticipation of possible regulatory audits — rather than hiring more women or people of color.

Hard to believe, isn't it? A corporate obsession with "diversity" led to a parody of hiring practices spurred on by desperate staffers hoping to keep the DEI squads off their backs, all of it wasting the time of the people the diversity fixation was supposed to help in the first place.

Even The New York Times seems to be figuring things out:

The internal confusion around Wells Fargo's diversity policies highlights how even the noblest goals can end up getting warped as they make their way from idea to practice, ultimately hurting the very people they were meant to help.

Ummm...

You heard it in The New York Times, folks—that's the paper of record, so it must be true!

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