#discrimination in the workplace

[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.

[fatphobiabusters]

So you definitely don't want to read the comments on this one, but there's a new study out showing just how bad weight discrimination in the work force can be.

I like how they examine how the impact intersects with class and gender (just men and women, with 23000 ppl in their sample, I'm 100% sure there were trans ppl, unless they were deliberately excluded)

tw: o word, lots of fatphobia in the comments.

These results suggest that the aggregate costs of wage discrimination borne by overweight workers in America are hefty. Suppose you assume that obese women, but not men, face a wage penalty of 7% (the average across all such women in our sample) and that this is the same regardless of their level of education. Then a back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that they bear a total cost of some $30bn a year. But if you account for both the discrimination faced by men, and for the higher wage penalty experienced by the more educated (who also tend to earn more), the total cost to this enlarged group more than doubles, to $70bn per year.

-Mod Siarl

[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

[allthegeopolitics]

Home-improvement business Lowe’s has joined a growing list of companies to retreat from commitments on equality, diversity and inclusion (DEI), as a right-wing activist’s campaign continues. In recent months, conservative activist Robby Starbuck has drummed up outrage over large US corporations’ commitments to so-called woke policies. Several big-name businesses, including Harley-Davidson, Jack Daniels and John Deere, have already caved into pressure from the campaign. Now, an internal memo, being widely shared in the media, shows retail chain Lowe’s appears to be the latest brand to back down by announcing an end to its participation in surveys for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), as well as by combining employee groups into one umbrella organisation and ending support for “festivals, parades and fairs” – arguably meaning Pride events.

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[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

[thisisthinprivilege]

Thin privilege is when loading up your plate at a buffet is seen as automatically legitimate or at the very least not worthy of comment.

I'm in a tight spot financially for the next few months. My colleagues and I do a buffet lunch once a week that's also a lunch meeting. This week I loaded up way more than I usually do so that I didn't have to spend money eating again that day. I hadn't eaten anything up until then for the very purpose of eating as much as possible at lunch, and so was very hungry and went overboard.

I didn't go up more than once, and was only able to finish half my meal. I felt bad about leaving food on my plate, knowing I wouldn't be eating for the rest of the day and hating to waste food. So I tried to eat as much as I could slowly, while we were talking after most people finished their meals.

Thin coworker next to me was glancing at my plate *a lot*. She'd gone up twice and finished her food very quickly. Then we're chitchatting after we finish official business, and she starts out of the blue mentioning some Boomer weight loss advice she'd heard about how to "eat less at a buffet" and mentioned that it helped her not end up "emotionally" eating a bunch of food she didn't want "like ArteToLife is doing right now."

I try to do some minor fat activism in real life, even in my professional life. And my coworkers know about the Bad Event that happened to me that is making life financially tough at the moment. So I respond, "Well, I can't afford to eat multiple times a day because of Bad Event, so I'm trying to eat as much as possible right now." Coworker got the hint, I think. She's not a bad person, just very thin privileged (naturally thin her whole life, her entire family is also naturally thin) and can't understand that I didn't "emotionally eat" my way to being three times her size, and that following some Boomer tip about eating less at buffets isn't going to make me 1) lose weight sustainably 2) lose enough weight that I can even approach her size.

Thin privilege is having the privilege to be clueless about the actual pain, suffering and crushing inevitable failure of being a fat person attempting to become a thin person using not only every Boomer tip in the book but also all the in vogue popular and obscure methods of weight loss. Thin privilege is thinking it's appropriate to subtly nudge your fat colleagues into losing weight with the most laughably useless Boomer weight loss tips, because a naturally thin person can delude themselves that they feel "less fat" (i.e., less bloated) when they follow the Boomer tip so it must mean that fat people doing the same thing would lose weight.

[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.

[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.

[river-angels]

a job i applied for asked me if i'm lgbt, a racial minority, and/or disabled, i hate this shit so much it's unreal

[throes-of-warm-tornadoes]

hey guys! if you were a song, which one would you be?

[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.

[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.

[cutechan555]

Dear diary - page 3

Why can't I stop making them

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[rapeculturerealities]

Age Discrimination Against Women Over 40 Happens In An Infuriating Way, Study Finds | HuffPost Life

Researchers Amy Diehl, Leanne M. Dzubinski and Amber L. Stephenson surveyed 913 women leaders who work in higher education, faith-based nonprofits, law, and health care with open-ended questions designed to uncover the different types of bias they may have experienced in their careers. The findings, which are undergoing peer review at a journal, show that gendered age biases are still alive and thriving in many workplaces.

What Diehl, Dzubinski and Stephenson discovered is that there is no mythical “prime” working age or “sweet spot” for professional women. Women under 40 in the study saw their experience and credibility dismissed because of their age, while women between 40 and 60 ― what the study considered middle age ― continued to experience gendered ageism, too.

“There was always an age-based excuse to not take women seriously, to discount their opinions, or to not hire or promote them,” the researchers wrote.