#discrimination in the workplace

[bluestonebliss]

Guess who just got fired for being autistic? Just to make my week even better. Because comedy comes in threes, my friends.

[loveerran]

yesterday, i met a beautiful black woman with beautiful natural hair. she was at work, and i was a customer. her hair looked kind of like this:

our conversation went approximately as follows:

me: “i love your hair!”

her: “really? i normally wear it straight”

me: “straight is definitely also a look, but what you have here is fabulous!”

her: “thank you?! my regional supervisor asked me if i was having a bad hair day”

...

black women are routinely criticized for wearing their incredibly gorgeous hair natural. that is a bad thing. if for any reason you did not know this, please accept this free PSA and forward to your friends (especially if any of them are white male regional supervisors).

[crazycatsiren]

"But they can't just not hire you or fire you for being disabled!"

Oh yes they can. And they do. All the time and everywhere. They'll never say "because you're disabled". It's always "you're not meeting the standards and demands of the job", every time.

It's why, as much as I'd like to work again when I'm back in the States, I don't think I can go back to teaching. "If you can't handle what it takes to be a teacher then you shouldn't have become one in the first place" will be what I'm going to run into, because no school wants to accommodate a disabled teacher.

[muzsmocsing]

Ling Wen: All this heavenly misogyny is really bumming me out man, want to help commit arson?

Pei Ming, already cancelling the date he's supposed to be on in twenty minutes: men ain't shit girl let's go

[marxism-leninism-meowism]

The OTW & Genocide

I truly apologize for taking so long to post this, but here's the compilation of screenshots I collected from the events that led to my departure from the OTW.

The document is not as extensive as I'd hoped to make it, due to personal issues IRL, but it's been long enough. I needed to just get this stuff out there.

[liberaljane]

Anti-Trans Legislation Kills

[Digital illustration of a Black trans women wearing a dress made of words describing anti-trans legislation. Bills included are, “gender-affirming care bans, insurance coverage bans, drag bans, misgendering, uneducated medical professionals, youth sports bans, book bans, dead naming, stigma, and workplace discrimination.’ Text reads, ‘anti-trans legislation kills.’]

[uh-mozzaza]

she put her best clothes on CAUSE IT'S A DATE YOU USELESS LESBIAN

[giantisms]

Do you have a pet peeve in g/t?

oh boy do i

hm. i think one of the biggest ones would have to be like. some worldbuilding stuff? for example you have established mixed size society, but then no emphasis on different sizes besides characters interacting with each other. you have giants and humans, and yet both parties' environments are... perfectly sized for each other...? you go to the "giant side" and suddenly animals and plants are their size? they're not even like. completely new species and types of flora and fauna they're just things WE are familiar with just. bigger. it completely shatters my suspension of disbelief. if you're calling them giants i'd assume they're, well, giant compared to not only humans but everything else as well

and then there's some logistics involved that make me question some things. if the giants in question also use cars and other vehicles, where do the resources for something so massive even come from? how would that impact the environment? how are they even useful to a giant that can already travel far and fast by simply walking?

idk maybe it's easier for people to write the "giant" party living the exact same life as humans for relatability and familiarity but it just makes me scratch my head. as i've said several times before my enjoyment for g/t also comes from the world interactions that emphasize that size difference, taking that away is just... eh

and in general this only really applies to works that base the idea around OUR modern society. in fantasy works and some sci-fi ones it's not that big of a deal because you already establish a world different to ours with different rules (and they tend to have good reasonings for all the issues i have above!). but if you're making something set in OUR reality with size difference involved then i expect a bit more realism going into it. the earth is only so big and has only so little resources that WILL run out one day. we don't have that much space or a good environment for all the animals already existing but giant sized and so on. maybe you can call me nitpicky considering the genre of g/t kind of inherently relies on the suspension of disbelief - giants and tinies aren't exactly "realistic" things as we know it - but a little bit of realistic approach makes it more enjoyable to me. it feels more real

[ominaterthegreat]

My sister, who spent four years at Mailchimp, just got laid off yesterday. She called me sobbing to let me know she got the email. No amount of a fat severance package can fix the damage to her psyche this job did imo. Her birthday is coming up soon. So i made her this cake.

(i only decorate a cake like once every few years lol don't come for me)

She started in customer support, and sure enough was skilled and talented enough in apprenticeships with a higher up team in a different department that she was happily brought onto the team.

She ran events, improved entire workflows that saved the company thousands of dollars, delivered tasks on time and of high quality, and was highly praised by leaders of other teams and from those above her boss. She kicked ass and took names.

On that team, she spent two years experiencing bullying and discrimination for having ADHD. Yes, arguably the most common ND condition out there just about. She had to take 2 months off for mental health leave to get her ADHD diagnosis to defend herself from all the corporate bullying. She documented her boss literally making things up and her coworker refusing to communicate with her and then blaming her for things not being done how she wanted. They actively ignored all the times she went above and beyond expectations and all the times she did receive praise from other teams. I watched two corporate goons crush the confidence my sister had finally closed together for herself.

The CEO of Intuit called her and 1800 other employees that were laid off "low performers" in a public statement. A convenient 10% of Mailchimp was completely laid off. We knew this was coming because over the past year or so, Intuit has been forcing managers to label a specific percentage of people as "Does Not Meet Expectations" on year end reviews to justify letting people go, no matter how much they actually did meet expectations.

I look in the Intuit Mailchimp tags and only see one post about them Union busting. The only posts are just geared towards companies comparing and contrasting products and marketing strategies. Reddit isn't much better because the only sub on there is the official one modded by MC themselves. This isn't the biggest fire rn by any means but it's once again proof that the people behind these corporations are as soulless and evil as the corporations themselves. No matter how much good you do they will never appreciate you.

I hope the company eats shit and dies. Intuit is ruining everything people liked about MC, from the product to the culture. Fuck you.

[sevspins]

fired for being autistic

being fired for being autistic a few weeks before autism acceptance month is crazy. people are very evil and they’re still not ready to accommodate autistic people in the work space. they only like us when they can SAY they work with us for brownie points but not when they have to “deal” with our autism.

[die-tenebris]

Holy fuck I'm so tired of this. (I mean really I just need to get off reddit but) trans men are a marginalized group who face oppression and violence on the basis of their identity. Full stop. If you dismiss or belittle this fact you are contributing to that oppression. None of us living a marginalized life are sitting on an hierarchy of how easy or difficult our lives are.

[cutechan555]

Dear diary - page 3

Why can't I stop making them

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Discrimination and toxic workplace

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[kouhaiofcolor]

Something I found interesting someone spoke on in YouTube comments regarding the socioeconomic disadvantages Black People (Black Women most prevalently, but Black People at large) deal with navigating unemployment, working in education and real estate because of white women.

Though we already know this, the ways in which white people have a strong, biased history of prioritizing themselves and (sabotaging/policing/socioeconomically restricting) others doesn’t only deprive, exhaust, overwork and dehumanize Black Americans; it subjects Black people from the UK to the same mistreatment and alienation, obviously. This is something white women definitely weaponize w/o consequence & at the expense of others openly as well as privately (reserving or cherry-picking whom has the right to a specific career, wealth bracket or quality of life in their own interest & at other races of women’s expense).

Seemingly — and with enough evidence to suggest the same in reality — the only women white women actually fight for or protect w/ any genuine compassion or concern, are other white women. Occupationally, socially, economically, etc. Exclusively. They don’t put in anywhere near as much work otherwise for anyone else on a considerably grand scale; Black Women least of all. This is also why I hate when they get on their soap boxes to snivel and look to be infantilized about how much “more” accountable white men are for exercises in white supremacy than they are or have ever been.

Here’s the source (short vid) if anyone wants to check it out. Side note, I am also v aware these aren’t biases that white women fortify against Black Women only. I am v much aware that they impose these kinds of obstacles on women who aren’t white on an international level and that it is a widespread issue. However, I’m looking more closely, and therefore speaking directly, to how this affects Black Women in the US & UK in particular.

Can we dish, Black Tumblr? Can I get Black Women’s opinions on this if you’re willing to discuss?

[chimaera0803-blog]

I hate when bosses tell you "if you're too sick to come into work then you need to be resting." It's so ableist. It completely ignores that contagion doesn't equal severity. Its very paternalistic and doesn't allow for reasonable accommodations. Thinking like this is part of why disabled and chronically ill people have a hard time keeping jobs.

If an employee is telling you they can be productive while caring for themselves and protecting others, it's not your place as a supervisor to prevent them from working.

[skunkatt]

Being disabled in the work place is lifes hardmode fr.

The targeted harassment, the lies, gossiping "behind your back" ( more like an isle over ), the " you need to speed up " talks, the guilt and shame you feel for living a life you did not choose.