Posted on 09/09/2016 1:08:02 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Man would rather get fired than watch diversity video Thu, 09/08/2016 - 7:00am | Tracy Crane
CHAMPAIGN — A Social Security Administration employee who believes he shouldn't have to watch a workplace diversity video about the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, because it violates his religious beliefs, fears he may lose his job because of it.
David Hall, 42, of Tolono has worked for the federal agency for 14 years, based in the Champaign office as an area systems coordinator, an information technology position.
In late April, Hall said, employees nationwide received an email from the agency about a 17-minute LGBT diversity and inclusion training video that they were told to watch at their work stations. Employees were required to certify that they had seen the video.
Hall said he is a Christian — "not anti-anyone or anything," but "for God, for Jesus" — and believes the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin.
So, he didn't watch it.
His supervisor gave him direct orders to do so — first on June 2, then again on June 24. Again, Hall refused both times.
As a result, an official reprimand was placed in his file — the first he has ever received, he says — and he was suspended without pay for two days, Aug. 15-16.
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Yes. To a point. And I’m glad you found better employment.
However...WE SHOULD NEVER HAVE TO BE FORCED TO MAKE THAT CHOICE IN THE FIRST PLACE BY OUR GOVERNMENT!
I worked for a Fortune 70 and one of our managers refused to take the mandatory sexual harassment training that spun up after the Clarence Thomas hearings. They threatened to fire him and he retired.
Problem: He handled all the car leases for the corporation. It got really ugly.
That kind of thinking is how we lost our culture to begin with.
You will be indoctrinated or we will destroy you.
More people need to take a stand. If we don’t start pushing back we will in fact be destroyed
Nope and in this case it is a triple whammy. His is a white, Christian male.
Exactly. Talk about slavery...
OMG—I am so with this poor man!
Vote Trump!
Re: “Try that with a mandatory Bible study required by an employer. You don’t have to believe, just be present.”
Point taken, but what I said still holds true.
HR = mean faced bull dykes.
FYI.
Good on him!
But, again...our Government should NOT be mandating this crap and threatening our livelihoods!
The problem is these days, is they trot someone LBGTQCisWTF into your training session, militant as can be and will MAKE you participate with group circle jerks called breakout groups.
Many defense contractors have rushed into this because of federal contracts giving preference to companies who do it. They do it in the hope of getting the contracts, and it is easier and cheaper to socially engineer the workforce than build a better jet or cheaper missile.
So you don’t just watch a diversity and “respect” lesson once a year. You have to sit through quarterly sessions with a lecturer on “Unconscious Bias” say all men are sexist, all heterosexuals are -phobic, all whites are racist. You’re asked your beliefs, and you’re expected to agree with them at the end. Disagree with any statement, and you’re at a minimum criticized, often shamed, sometimes penalized for violations of the “respect” policy. I had an HR rep tell me that contradicting the official views of certain groups was disrespect, that there was no way to express disagreement respectfully.
And I understand the insanity of the LBGT mandates in these classes. My former employer paraded a constant stream of cases to normalize the insanity. A woman’s husband left her for a man, oh, she’s gotten over it. Say it is sad her marriage ended, disrespect, demerit. A guy stands up and gushes about how supportive the company and boss are as he came out to X and Y and Z. That was the whole lecture.
A woman publicly asks for advice on her husband wanting to cheat with men on the side and stay married for the sake of their four children under ten. I said I’d understand staying with a man committing adultery regardless of gender, if not, do you want a referral to a divorce attorney? Someone reported that to HR, they decided my statement was LBGT neutral, but adultery is a judgemental term, demerit.
The company celebrated transgenders and paid for their healthcare, earning a perfect score on the Out and Equal index the feds use for preference in contracts. And when a mentally ill man in a dress sexually harassed women in the bathroom, it was treated as a spat between two women. Only when one SOB was proven by another coworker to actively be interfering with my work did they punish him. Before that, it was all my fault because I disapproved of him being in the bathrooms and didn’t consider him a woman.
This was part of every department meeting, every quarterly meeting, several minutes of every team meeting. I asked the HR rep at what point this constant parade of celebration of adultery constituted sexual harassment to me, a married woman? I was told it COULD NOT BE, because I was part of the privileged (normal) group. I said I found this constantly brought up offensive, as well as the company tying raises and bonuses to ideological conforming. They said it was respect.
I said it was disrespectful of my views, and finally mentioned faith. “You could just be saying that to get out of the next seminar you have to take if you want to keep your job!” My manager was able to vouch, yes, I have paid more in private religious school tuition for my children than my mortgage, but no, I didn’t proselytize at work. Another demerit and lecture series, each more outrageous than the last. Each more openly biased against whites, men, heterosexuals, until they finally outright bashed Christians as part of the problem.
My manager wasn’t surprised when I quit, only surprised I took a pay cut to leave. But when they’d essentially cut my pay and were demanding extra weekend shifts (and I have children), a pay cut to work in a conservative environment with a flexible schedule was the price I literally paid to work with sane people.
I could have gone to work for any other defense contractor, as a woman with top secret clearance, but ALL of the federal contractors are pushed that way by political pressure and pulled by lure of the money. And employees are pushed to parrot it to keep their jobs and lured with the promise of raises and promotions tied to ideological lockstep.
They have redefined tolerance, “agree to disagree”, to endorsement, “You have to agree with me or shut up, or really, celebrate my decision or you’re evil!”
They don’t realize that this redefinition of “tolerance” creates ideological intolerance.
The Beauty of Intolerance, a Book Review
http://hubpages.com/literature/The-Beauty-of-Intolerance-a-Book-Review
The online modules have quizzes to verify you’re paying attention and learned what they want you to learn.
The authoritarian left is turning into the Chinese Great Leap Forward - they aren’t ideologically pure, purge them!
I worked for a defense contractor until last year. The online modules track when you watched them, have attention check / quiz questions ... no, you can’t just play it and say you’re done.
HR is where way too many women’s studies and ethnic studies graduates go to work, because they know all the rules/laws/federal preferences that those factions want to have to enforce their views.
The online modules have quizzes to verify you’re paying attention and learned what they want you to learn. So you can’t just doze through it and be done, hence the even greater violation of one’s rights.
Diversity Training leaders are the new political officers a la USSR.
I understand, and you're right.
I'm just not sure what I would do. I would like to think I would stand up for principles, but at the same time, I would be worried about losing the income. I really don't know what I would do in such a case.
I know I could never commit murder or have an abortion, but this is more of a gray area, IMO.
Anyway, thanks for responding, FRiend. All the best.
“...a pay cut to work in a conservative environment with a flexible schedule was the price I literally paid to work with sane people.”
That was one excellent rant! So glad you escaped. I retired from the Army before all of the nonsense of today. I absolutely HATE that We The People have to put aside our moral (let alone religious!) beliefs to cater to these mentally ill nut jobs...who are treated as if they’re NORMAL.
And in the end, WHAT is all of this accomplishing? Not a damn thing. I can tell an employer anything I want, just to keep the peace and my job. All of this mandated CRAP from Mother Government is NOT changing hearts and minds.
In fact, I’d bet it’s doing the exact opposite - but that’s Socialists for you! Constantly entangled in unanticipated consequences...but they FEEL good about themselves while literally STOMPING on the rights of others!
*Rolleyes*
| Off to the diversity gulag! |
How "progressives" load up the "basket"...
"PIP has become an acceptable and common practice to get rid of the "black horse" employee that is typically high-skilled and highly productive, thus at odds with a team of mostly mediocre members (including the manager) and hard to terminate based on pure work performance."
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