Posted on 12/30/2014 9:41:56 PM PST by Bigtigermike
Also do NOT resign, under any circumstances. Make them fire you. If it goes that far, make stink and be sure you get maximum $$ from it.
I’d say you are being targeted because of your sexual orientation, which is not a violation of Federal law, but it may well violate the employment discrimination laws of your state.
If you were a homosexual, you could use the word “queer”, with its traditional meaning, as you did, or with the slang meaning, and there would be no hearing. Therefore, there is only a hearing because of your orientation, and that means, if you live in a state where sexual orientation is a protected class, they are violating that law.
“Honestly, I wouldn’t go to any “hearing” with your bosses, without your lawyer present.”
That’s great advice. Take a lawyer. You’ll end up with a settlement at minimum. No matter what, you’re going to need a new job. Dust off your resume and spiff it up.
You need a lawyer, or some legal representation, because they have no intention of listening to your side. Your employer is taking what they consider the path of least resistance. If you belong to a labor union, that may help.
This is speeding toward ‘wrongful termination’.
Unless you signed some agreement to a “Zero Tolerance” policy of discrimination, which may or may not allow for any mistakes, you can say, I should have first received a verbal or written reprimand and a short period of probation I was not given any opportunity to be educated on company policy and to later implement said policy in a correct fashion. There has been no recorded effort to train you in the manner of behavior they seem to prefer.
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OMG. You have offended the hypersensitives. Keep a written record of every single thing that happens with regard to this for your attorney. Consider finding an attorney ASAP if you don’t have one. Do you have job reviews, awards, commendations, kudos to refer to regarding your job history and performance? You’ll need all of it. You probably shouldn’t approach this person on your own anymore.
Sorry you’re going through this.
“Good luck. The protected groups can feign offense and get whatever they want.”
Well, the thing is, “gays” are not a protected group, under the law. “Sexual orientation”, of any kind, is what is referred to under the relevant laws. If his state has those laws, they prevent the employer from discriminating in favor of, or against, any particular orientation. So he can claim disparate treatment, even as a heterosexual, if they are not punishing homosexuals for using the word “queer” also.
From personal experience I agree. apologizing only provides ammo, giving them the excuse to say offense was intended when it wasn’t.
And never, never, never give up!
Just whoop his little faggot azz.
Faggies are drama queens who seek to dominate “breeders”.
I hate faggies. Come and get me, coppers.
And they want to replace straight people with more homosexuals in the work place. Believe me, if they prevail one of their demands will be that Mike be replaced by a queer.
If the word was used in its original meaning, strange or odd, and not homosexual, there are no grounds for any disciplinary action. It’s akin to blacks being offended by the use of the word niggardly (stingy). Or illegal aliens claiming they’re being accused of being from another planet. PC has the potential of ruining the English language.
My brother got fired from a job a few years back
when some of his coworkers were complaining
about the hard work they were doing and he said,
“Well, it sure beats picking cotton.”
take your lawyer and a printed copy of this (definition below)for everyone in attendance, along with the fact that you intend to file charges with the Labor Board for harassment and intimidation...and if necc. a civil suit.
Homosexuals don’t own the word ‘queer’
Indeed - how they take it is the last meaning for using the word. Sounds like he’s a heterosexualophobe.
People have a right to use the word - in any of it’s many other meanings.
Include a statement stating you used the word in reference to not being ‘queer’ - i.e. ‘strange’ ‘ different’ etc for “working long hours” - And you are not responsible for someone doing a knee-jerk misinterpretation. The only mistake you made was to apologize...instead of making a simple statement that you were using the word, AS YOUR DITTY ILLUSTRATES - in a more popular meaning of the word - per the dictionary meanings. Apologies are due to YOU, all around.
BUT TAKE A LAWYER - or a lawyers letter. That makes them sit up and take notice.
QUEER:
adjective, queerer, queerest.
1.
strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular:
a queer notion of justice.
2.
of a questionable nature or character; suspicious; shady:
Something queer about the language of the prospectus kept investors away.
3.
not feeling physically right or well; giddy, faint, or qualmish:
to feel queer.
4.
mentally unbalanced or deranged.
5.
Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.
homosexual.
Happy New Year!
You got it. I feel a song coming on.
Go while the getting is good.
Homosexuals use ‘queer’ all the time and it’s no big deal. QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY was a Bravo TV series.
I guess it’s like the N-word. They can use it but we can’t?
Good luck. A shame we’re in the post-free speech America.
Ah well, they’ll just make you take sensitivity training for an hour or two. Sometimes they’ll make everyone there take the training.
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