Posted on 03/22/2023 11:28:33 AM PDT by MAGA2017
In an effort to foster “support and belonging,” Pierce Transit leadership expects employees to use pro-nouns selected by coworkers, including “ze/zir/zirs” and “they/them/theirs.” If you don’t, you may be subject to discipline.
Amy Cleveland, the Executive Director of Administration, distributed a memo titled “Pronoun Use in the Workplace” on March 8. It read that the agency, “recognizes the importance of using an individual’s preferred pronouns at work as a form of respect and courtesy.”
The memo outlined employer expectations. In addition to using a person’s name or requested pro-noun, it says if you mistakenly use the incorrect pronoun, you should “apologize and use the correct pronoun(s) going forward.”
If a staffer is bewildered by a coworker who pretends not to have a gender, insisting you say “ze” or “they,” it’s best left unsaid. Pierce Transit said, “it is not appropriate to question people on why they use certain pronouns or what those pronouns mean.” The memo sends staff to the Human Rights Campaign homepage, which does not include information about pronouns, but left-wing political causes.
“Pierce Transit expects all employees to be respectful and courteous to others. An employee who intentionally refuses to use another person’s preferred pronouns may be subject to potential discipline,” the memo concludes.
The pronoun memo is not the only expectation over forced language in the workplace.
On March 10, Pierce Transit held an hour-long class called “DEI Basics.” It’s part of the monthly “Inclusive Actions” initiative where the agency spends each month working to adapt new ways to be inclusive. March was focused on implementing “diversity, equity, and inclusion for shared success.” The class instructed employees on “how to incorporate [basic DEI] terms into our everyday speech.”
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I am SO GLAD I don’t work for anybody but myself.
How much more of this insanity must we endure?
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until we can take no more and either come out shooting or vote Democrat.
Sit down strike. Fight or succumb.
Anything other than he/she becomes “Hey dumbass”.
Like reparations, job loss for refusing Covid jabs and children being persuaded by school teachers to change their gender, if this isn’t enough to rile people up then what will?
Nothing fosters “support and belonging” more than diktats and tyranny.
And if MY pronouns are
” ImAmoronSo/ImAwankerSo “
they HAVE to use them 2
Right ?
Gotta love the long name of Pierce Transit: “Pierce County Public Transportation Benefit Area Corporation”. Another case of government pushing the private sector out.
I use the egosexual pronouns “I” and “me”.
"Myself". Is that your boss' pronoun? ;)
Just waiting for some smart-ass employee to simply refer to literally everyone as “ZE/ZIR/ZIRS” to the point of absurdity.
Then when they try to discipline him for making a joke out of it - he can prove he was just following their woke instructions
Yes, that’s what I call Mrs. Chandler.
Can you believe we are EVEN HAVING these sorts of discussions? Just five years ago this would have been something in the Bee.
It really hacks me off that we keep giving in to this crap and those leftist bastards keep taking territory inch after inch, foot after foot, mile after mile. It really worries me how much they assault the English language.
I will wager that, if Brandon & Co. and his ilk keep getting elected, it won’t matter one bit if you work for yourself. Every place you go will demand you conform.
They need to get everyone to wear buttons. I do remember one woman once who insisted on being called “royal highness empress,” and I don’t think we are too far from getting in trouble if you omit that.
It’s all getting a bit like Cold Comfort Farm, and the one relative lady who nobody could ever challenge on anything because she had once seen “something nasty in the woodshed”
Remember “live and let live” and “we just want to be left alone in our bedrooms?”
So do I, barely.
I am so glad I spent 29+ years in the military when there were actually warriors by my side. I loved the military but wouldn’t recommend a career to anyone today. What a damn shame.
Why should I have to use the pronouns preferred by a person. That’s an offense to me. What if I want use the pronouns that I choose for the pervert? That seems fair to both parties.
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