Posted on 05/10/2023 4:01:02 PM PDT by Morgana
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former BNSF worker who was named one of the railroad’s employees of the year in 2021 for her work in supporting LGBTQ+ workers is now suing the railroad where she worked for 30 years, saying that after being promoted regularly earlier in her career she was denied advancement opportunities after her gender transition.
Randi Berghorst sued the Fort Worth, Texas-based railroad in federal court recently, arguing BNSF discriminated against her.
“I’m extremely disappointed that this is where it had to go,” she said.
BNSF declined to comment directly on Berghorst’s lawsuit, and it hasn’t yet responded formally in court. But railroad spokesperson Lena Kent defended BNSF’s hiring practices and said the railroad doesn’t discriminate against people based on gender identity and sexual orientation. Kent cited the PRIDE+ employee group that Berghorst helped form as evidence that BNSF “is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.”
“Once hired, our employees are entitled to be treated with dignity and respect; have equal access to tools, resources, training and development opportunities and have equal opportunity to achieve their full potential,” Kent said.
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You might win, but you ain't getting rowboat money on damages. Juries hate these freaks.
"But around the same time she got that award, Berghorst said she was struggling to even get an interview for the more than a dozen jobs she applied for despite her impressive resume. That was in sharp contrast from earlier in her career when the 50-year-old was promoted regularly before her gender transition in 2018.
Berghorst said she had even previously held some of the jobs she was applying for and got positive reviews from her supervisors when she did them. Berghorst had worked her way up in the ranks to several different management jobs, but she decided to step away from a demanding roadmaster job in 2016 when she was struggling with mental health issues.
“I was going through quite a bit of stuff and getting ready for what would soon be my transition,” she said.
That prompted Berghorst to start looking into filing a discrimination complaint against the railroad and eventually to apply for the Federal Railroad Administration job she holds now as an inspector based in the Illinois city of Woodstock.
“I made that decision after it seemed that things were going nowhere with BNSF,” Berghorst said. “And I had my 30 years in, so I was locked into the railroad retirement.”
I am so sick of diversity and inclusion I could puke. If you are good at your job, you will be included. I could give a hang how tan your are or who you crawl in bed with or what you wear. If you have a penis, use the men’s, if not use the lady’s. That is all.
Being a pervert and getting the BNSF 2021 pervert freak of the year doesn’t translate in a promotion having to do with the train business. Now if they are promoting someone to senior pervert freak then he might be able to “tuck” into that distorted position.
It wasn’t that long ago that employees were expected to keep their fetishes out of the workplace and engage in that weirdness on their own time.
Has anyone else noticed, “employees of the year” are invariably recognized for above average JOB PERFORMANCE that benefits the employer & his constituents,whereas when LGBTQIA+ employees receive commendations, it’s ALWAYS for nothing beyond advancing their own agenda?
So BNSF (Warren Buffet’s Railroad) is being sued by a MENTALLY ILL MALE who thinks HES a women? Ever thought BNSF might not promote you BECAUSE YOU ARE MENTALLY ILL?
She reached her level of incompetence.
*** White male employees can probably make the same claim — with much more justification.***
Straight white male employees, and you’re spot on.
Peter Principle at work.
Let it be known to future generations that the false religion of ‘diversity’ caused the downfall of America.
Man, you’re talking about some back-breaking work. Almost as bad as what I did for a living back in my 20’s, slinging around a Stihl 64
It is one thing to think somebody is crazy, it is quite another to see them prove in publicly.
A Stihl 64?
Dude! I slung around a Stihl FS 250r!
Warren Buffett owns BNSF. Kinda hoping the freak takes home a couple billion. Maybe that will send this destructive POS to his dirt nap.
So am I!
I think HE did!
I would have too.
😁 Those were the days
But tbh, I’d have rather had a trimmer to use as opposed to a dinosaur of a chainsaw, so there
It’s with the FRA now. Another freak hired by them. They have hired every crook, kook, pervert, commie, misfit, and malcontent they can find.
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