Posted on 07/07/2016 4:51:48 PM PDT by PAR35
Calling in black is essentially an excuse for a day of self care, wrote Slack engineer Erica Baker in a Medium post called "Processing."
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"Sometimes, I don't want to deal with the emotional weight of having to explain my feelings to someone who couldn't possibly understand them, no matter how hard they tried," she wrote.
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The phrase "calling in black" has been around for at least a year, when "Evelyn from the Internets" posted a video on YouTube advocating the need for a mental health day.
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(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
And, apparently the tech companies are finding it to their advantage to pay certain folks to not show up.
You could call in woman too.
If you try calling in white guy, they’ll say you have to come in, who else is gonna actually do all the work?
When I hear the words “black” and “silicon” together in a sentence I assumed this was about Nicki Minaj
My job rarely allowed me to just call in “sick,” unless I was actually too ill to get out of bed or away from the bathroom. We had the concept of “mental health days” but if you were actually doing something of real-time importance they had to be coordinated.
Now that I’m retired, they’re all mental health days.
Hmmmph.
I should call in Menopausal. When I came back, all the scissors and sharp pencils will be gone.
I guess responding by saying suck it up and come in would be considered a micro-agression.
Back in TV production land, there was a female co-irker who was white and a pretty good person.
Anyway, I worked with her in the same department until she left a couple of years later. She was a supreme expert at calling in sick and having 0 vacation or sick time.
Even when she was there on a typical day and leaving for lunch, we’d make a note of the time and bet sodas on what time she would be back or choose not at all.
I got a lot of drinks by choosing not at all.
In California, that would probably be an invitation to some guy.
What a load of crap. Funny how they don’t get emotionally upset by the (far more numerous) victims of Black-on-Black crime. Maybe we should all get upset and call in sick when a person of our race is murdered by a person of another race?
Probably true. So they need employees who live in the past. People that call themselves a word that shows that is what they must be in their own minds.
Maybe the superstar athletes and "musicians" and even these people need to step up and try and change some of the negative aspects of their culture.
Tell their brothers and sisters to stop playing the fool. Pull their pants up. Learn to read, write and speak English. Give themselves a chance at a future with more of that forward thinking.
P.S. STFU obama and disappear. You are a big problem to too many people.
Truth post of the day!
Truth post of the day!
I don’t get to call in sick unless I am hospitalized.... I haven’t taken a sick day in over 10 years. If they are too emotionally fragile to deal with the job they should seek other employment
White people would be calling off every 12 hrs then. Who’s going to do the work?
If they push that card too much, companies will take that into consideration when hiring.
She wrote about what it was like to attend work after the death of Sterling. She felt the need to seclude herself from her coworkers.
Who on earth would hire people like this who are so self-absorbed that they need time off to grieve for strangers? Don't they understand that they are pain-in-the-assing themselves out of the job market?
I used to tell my people, when you're dead, you will get all the sleep you want!
40 plus years and only three sick days.
One day, I would have gone in, but I wasn't getting on the train without my own toilet! And a bunch of lost time RVN (workplace violence?)
Had a paid vacation, but some years could not get away, just put it on the check.
I used to tell my people, when you're dead, you will get all the sleep you want!
40 plus years and only three sick days.
One day, I would have gone in, but I wasn't getting on the train without my own toilet! And a bunch of lost time RVN (workplace violence?)
Had a paid vacation, but some years could not get away, just put it on the check.
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