Posted on 11/20/2018 6:12:38 AM PST by C19fan
A reader sent me the following e-mail, which I have edited a bit to protect her privacy, and the privacy of others mentioned here:
I wanted to bring this to your attention. My husband had a conversation with a young friend of ours who is a recent college grad. He has been working at [a major retailer] for the last year. I’m not sure what his title is, but we have encountered him at the store. He is a great worker and has earned a number of company awards for his performance. He related to my husband that he had had a conversation with a friend at work about the use or non-use of transgender pronouns. He took the position that he would not feel comfortable doing this.
He was later called into his manager’s office and reprimanded. The manager told him that someone had overheard his conversation (manager wouldn’t say who), and that he had made this person feel “unsafe”. Our friend was written up for this, transferred to another store a long distance away, and suffered other severe sanctions! He was a bit naive to have engaged in this conversation at work, but good grief!
Yes, under communism, the slightest infraction was met with overwhelming punitive force. People were taught that they had better be afraid at all times, because one mistaken word, said in front of the wrong person, could mean their lives would change forever.
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A Day of Understanding
Teammates,
It’s important we embrace diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our business.
That’s why we are bringing teammates together for Day of Understanding workshops on Dec. 6 and Dec. 7. It’s part of our commitment to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion program. And it goes beyond just these two days as we continue to focus on building a more inclusive culture inside and outside XXXXXXXX.
We need every teammate’s voice to champion change and make an impact. I hope you will take this opportunity to share your perspectives and experiences, embrace our differences and learn from each other.
This corporate version of the Maoist Struggle Session is voluntary for now.
Remember those “Hello, my name is” sticky name badges? I hereby copyright “Hello, my pronoun is” and trademark its design.
“voluntary”
You don’t think note will be made of who doesn’t attend?
Our colleges have become training grounds for revolutionaries against Constitutional America. God help us.
I’ve been a little concerned about this.
My job requires a company vehicle that’s an upgrade from what other employees at my level get. It’s due to the equipment I’ll carry, not some status thing.
It’s a relatively high profile project.
Our fleet guy is new at the company and seems to be relatively incompetent at his job. Getting this accomplished has been like pulling teeth and I’ve had to be a little more aggressive in making him do his job than I normally am.
He also gives off a very strong gay vibe and I’m a little concerned he’s going to complain about me. My response will be that I don’t care that he’s gay, but I do care that he’s stupid and his intransigence has cost me a couple weeks on a time sensitive project launch.
The guy seems lost and lazy. I joked with my boss that I’ve been with the company ten years and know when I can sluff off. He’s been here 10 weeks and can’t sluff off at all yet.
...and one best not be the first to quit clapping...
The correct response to this at the git-go is to say that your preferred gender pronoun is “the general” or “General sir”, or “your highness”.
To the email, I don’t have enough eveidence to be sure it is real. Not that I doubt that that doesn’t happen. I’d sue. I’d sue for the same reason a soldier got off the boat at Omaha beach on D-day. To risk my comfort to preserve the nation.
“Social Justice Warriors have plagued mankind for more than 150 years, but only in the last 30 years has their ideology become dominant in the West. Having invaded one institution of the cultural high ground after another, from corporations and churches to video games and government, there is nowhere that remains entirely free of their intolerant thought and speech policing”
Only work topics are authorized at work, drone. Get back to your assigned duties.
How much of our lives are spent at work? How many personal relationships are forged at work? This is a push by leftists to control thought. They control schools, they control media, and they very much want to control the workspace.
embrace our differences
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Monumental hypocrisy. You either embrace and conform to the leftist agenda or they banish you to the workplace equivalent of Siberia.
No longer employees. Now comrades.
they very much want to control the workspace
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They’re almost there. The “project” in nearing completion.
If I may make a few comments...
1. I strongly doubt that they're interested in your perspectives and experiences. In fact, I'd lay odds on appearing in the next layoff if you said what you think.
2. I strongly doubt that they would embrace any differences that they have with you, unless by "embrace" they mean, "choke you until you stop breathing".
3. Whenever "learn" or "share" is used in missives like this, they really mean, "I talk, and you agree with me". No real sharing to be had.
But otherwise, good memo. /s
Document every single interaction with him. Time, place, conversation exchange, etc. If at all possible, always have another person present...even in any lunch room, break room.
At a former company, HR sent out "anonymous" surveys - some questions like those mentioned above, plenty more of "tell us how wonderful the company is, and please be specific" ones as well.
I tossed it in the trash. A couple of weeks later, HR came to me and asked why they'd not received my anonymous survey, yet.
Think about it.
It’s absolutely a communist tactic. Right out of “The Naked Communist.” They’ve been drip drip implementing their goals.
I do like to shop at Whole Foods maybe twice a month. A few months ago, I got in a checkout line where the checker was a woman with a short hairdo, but not a butch hairdo. When I arrived at the conveyor belt, I looked up and noticed this type of name sticker and she was ‘identifying’ as a male, with male pronouns and name. I now watch which line I get in, but have never seen her again. Creepy at best.
I hope someone stands up and says, "I am a White Christian Male. I cannot tell you how excluded I have been made to feel. Everyone judges me. Everyone blames me for everything. I feel like a punching bag. I hope that, together, we can make this a diverse workplace where White Christian Males can openly be who they are without being targeted for hatred. Thank you."
It’s just not the colleges, it’s the workplace too.
I always say my pronouns are sir.
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