#or for a whole group? a groupchat or email chain even
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There's already a ton of election software or websites with names corresponding to "voting buddy" or similar
but I'd like a term for a person or group you've made an agreement with to each support and enable the other to vote. A source of mutual encouraging reminders (and maybe mild guilt about not meeting an expectation)
Any and all suggestions welcome. It would be great if there was a catchy name so this could become an accepted Thing
#voting#us politics#us elections#or any elections really#there are a lot of really clever people on this site i'm sure someone can vome up with something decent#like just a word for a person who works like a school fieldtrip buddy#the mutually voluntary human equivalent of a post-it note for each of you#or for a whole group? a groupchat or email chain even#just someone to check in and ask oh hey you voted yet? and idk offer help if there's an issue like#offer a ride or to watch the kids or to meet up and make it a fun get-together thing so it's not drudgery#could be anybody: friend parent co-worker random guy you see at the dogpark#bc it's not about *how* you're voting but just that you DO#saw somebody on here saying yeah they live in ny so it won't matter if they vote#which - tell me without telling me you don't care about local elections for one thing#but also uh can you maybe remember a time when counting the actual 'popular vote' actually became a really big deal???#for the entire nation even?#the us does not have ranked voting or required voting we need all the voter encouragement and support we can get
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Name: Austin Armstrong Â
Age: 34Â
Handle: F1r3_H4wK
Job: CHOOH2 Engineer Security access: Clearance level 4EÂ
Relations: Austin is having a rough time with his fam and honestly I donât blame them. Wouldnât want to be around this asshole either! Heâs got two living members in his immediate family: his mom died 6 years ago in the crossfire of a conflict between the IronSights and the Valentinos. While his younger sister and father live in Night City, heâs no-contact with both since he joined the Red Chrome Legion in 2061. Glad they donât enable his gonk-ass ideologies! Friend-wise, this guyâs actually got a pretty wide social circle, which is not suuuper ideal, but theyâre all red-pilled NEETs from the RCL so that balances it out. He hits up Bennet Alden (âR3g4l_34gl3â) most frequently on his Gardenpatch, though he is also active in the B1RD5 0F PR3Y groupchat with Bennet, Syon Bates (âBUZZZZ4RDâ), Camden Farrow (âV0ltUR3â), and Aves Martin (â3n-R4pT0r3Dâ). He does not have a mainline, obviously. I hope no girlie would ever lower her expectations that much. He regularly attends RCL meetings and has helped organize two of the smaller RCL rallies in Haywood. At work, he has been described as anti-social and withdrawn. He doesnât seem to get along well with his coworkers.Â
Notes: Not gonna lie, this guyâs the platonic ideal candidate. Security clearance with the right access? Check. History of threatened and/or actual violence? Double chek (looking at this guyâs alt accounts is high key terrifying. Youâd think he wants to make love to his guns with how many photos he posts of the hurricane assaults he probably canât even use.) Heâs even got a motive. Man had a pretty nasty email chain with his boss (Slater remind me to send that to you, itâs hilarious. You gotta read it) a few weeks ago. He made the major L move of posting about his RCL membership on his main page instead of his alts. Obviously his boss found out and totally freaked. Sent him an ultimatum saying that if he didnât leave the group, his contract would be terminated under its morals clause. Hit him with the âthe whole team would be aghast to discover your affiliationsâ shit too. Humiliated the fuck out of him. The only problem I can see with this guy is that he might not last until weâre ready to get our ball rolling. Iâm surprised he wasnât fired like, yesterday. If I were his boss, heâd be so done. But, you know. Not my circus, not my monkeys. If Petrochemâs HR wants to suck, Iâve got nothing to say, except than you for making our job easier <3 <3 <3Â
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Audrey Gelman, Co-Founder and C.E.O. of the Wing, Steps Down
She leaves in the middle of a furor over treatment of black and brown employees at the chain of femalesâs networking spaces.
Audrey Gelman, the creator of the Wing, a women-only co-working area, at the Washington, D.C., location in 2018. Credit ⊠Evelyn Hockstein/for The Washington Post, through Getty Images
Released June 11, 2020 Upgraded June 12, 2020, 8: 20 a.m. ET
Civil liberties movements benefited Audrey Gelman, a creator of the upscale women-only club and co-working area the Wing, until they werenât.
She adroitly browsed the cultural tide of feminism, female empowerment and the #MeToo movement, changing herself from a press agent to a veritable power broker.
Ms. Gelman, 33, resigned Thursday. Quickly after she did so, employees went on virtual strike to object her leadership and to request sweeping changes to the management of the Wing, especially its treatment of black and brown employees.
â The company is elevating management from within to produce a freshly formed Workplace of the CEO that will be composed of Lauren Kassan, Celestine Maddy, and Ashley Peterson,â a spokesperson for the business stated in an in-depth e-mail. She decreased to be interviewed.
â The decision is the ideal thing for the business and the very best way to bring The Wing along into a long overdue period of change,â Ms. Gelman wrote to coworkers. She maintains an ownership stake of more than 10 percent in the company and will stay on the board.
â Iâm eagerly anticipating spending a little time as a stay-at-home mother,â Ms. Gelman said in an interview Thursday night. She decreased to comment even more.
â We have been informed over and over by our leadership that weâre a mission-driven business, even as the businessâs actions regularly prove otherwise,â employees composed in a statement Thursday afternoon. âIn uniformity with numerous of our associatesâ previous, present, and in specific, the black and brown people without whom The Wing would not existâ as a united group of employees, we are participating in a virtual walkout beginning today. â
Deidra Nelson, the companyâs chief financial officer and one of two black females in the businessâs C-suite, likewise resigned.
With her service partner Ms. Kassan, Ms. Gelman established the Wing in 2016 with the idea that ladies in gig-economy New york city needed a location to take conferences, network and revitalize their makeup.
Less than a month after the opening of the clubâs first area, in New Yorkâs Flatiron district, Donald J. Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the governmental election, and unexpectedly the Wing had a brand-new objective and seriousness. It chartered buses to ferry members to Washington for the inaugural Womenâs March and provided its members panel conversations like âWorkshop on Anxiety & Depression in a Post-Trump World and âA Conversation With Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.â
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The Wingâs founders, Lauren Kassan, left, and Audrey Gelman, at the SoHo location in New York in 2017. Credit ⊠Hilary Swift for The New York Times
As they rallied around suitables of combating the patriarchy and celebrating a diversity of female and nonbinary members, a brand name was born. In the next three and a half years, Ms. Gelman and Ms. Kassan raised more than $100 million from investor and financiers like Valerie Jarrett, a former consultant to President Barack Obama, and the soccer star Megan Rapinoe, opening 8 more areas, from London to Los Angeles.
In the middle of the hoopla and news media attention that she courted, Ms. Gelman ended up being a self-appointed president of Instagram-friendly feminism, appearing on the cover of Inc. and in the pages of Style.
But the Black Lives Matter motion, magnified by the police killing of George Floyd, has actually not played to Ms. Gelmanâs benefit.
Despite the outward attention to promoting diversity among its subscription, the majority of Wing members were white and had the ways to pay the fees. (In New york city, subscription expenses $215 a month to attend one club and $250 a month to attend any. Fees are waived for about 300 low-income members.)
While the business staff was about 40 percent individuals of color, the workers who ran the areas themselvesâ the coffee shop employees, the cleaners, the maintenance personnels, the desk clerksâ were per hour wage earners who were mainly individuals of color, according to previous staff members.
The stress started to rise to a boil last summer, when an altercation happened at the Wing location in West Hollywood in between a white visitor of a member and a black member. Employees who experienced the run-in stated they felt the white guest was at fault. In accordance with Wing bylaws, employees alerted the white female that she would be banned from the space.
But Ms. Gelman and Ms. Kassan reversed the choice. Staff members at the West Hollywood location and at the New york city head office were annoyed, according to two previous senior workers.
Early this year, 26 previous and present employees explained low pay and poor treatment of workers in a New york city Times Publication post.
When the coronavirus hit, the Wing needed to close its areas and laid off more than 300 individuals. The company revealed a Wing Worker Relief Fund. In Between April 15 and June 7, workers might get one-time help grants of $500 each.
By mid-May, numerous former staff members had actually received their checks, but others had not. On June 1, one employee who asked for an update on her payments was informed in an email that âthe fund is currently stopped briefly as we continue to raise more money and disperse grants to the existing candidates.â
By then, civil liberties demonstrations had started to increase in what was becoming a national watershed minute for racial justice. Corporations around America have actually tried to position themselves on the ideal side of history by posting on Instagram about their commitment to anti-racism.
The Wing was among them, stating to its 548,00 0 fans that it would make a $200,00 0 donation to causes associated with the Black Lives Matter movement. That was the exact same day it told some workers it had actually run out of cash and couldnât spare $500
â This is a time of enormous grieving,â the post said. âThe Wing unilaterally condemns all racist and state-sanctioned violence against Black communities. We stand with the protesters who are putting their voices and bodies on the line to promote for the dire modification that we need in this nation.â
The response was maybe not what Ms. Gelman and her fellow executives had hoped. âHold up, how do you have 200 k for orgs when you still have not paid various workers that applied for the worker relief fund?â said one commenter, amongst many. âEspecially black & brown area staff who were making $1650 Big yikes. Check your priorities.â
Others seized the day to highlight general work conditions for individuals of color at the Wing.
â Black lives didnât matter when majority of the black personnel would cry in the break space from the mistreatment from our superiors,â composed Tahirah Jarrett, 29, a former staff member who was paid by the hour. In an interview Thursday night, Ms. Jarrett consented to have her comment released. âBlack lives didnât matter when I said I had a miscarriage and was asked to still come into work. The black ladies of Dumbo had a whole groupchat that we spoke in every day for MONTHS since we didnât feel safe operating at the wing. Black lives donât matter to yall.â
The aggravation amongst workers and former workers continued to percolate through the past week, with staff members taking steps to organize an action via group chats and e-mails.
On Monday, a black female deputy chief of staff who reported to Ms. Kassanâ and been enlisted to support Ms. Gelman after her executive assistant had actually been laid offâ give up. That was a catalyst for some workers to arrange and stage their strike.
Ms. Gelman stepped down. Not long after, Instagram posts and tweets began to emerge, specifying, âAudrey Gelmanâs resignation is insufficient.â
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