You see something absurd. You hear something absurd. You read something absurd = Yeah,TNTG. Posts tagged work.
It bes like that in the office sometimes
Over the weekend, The New York Times Magazine ran a piece about altruism, and they enlisted Key & Peele to make a sketch to compliment the article. It’s great!
“ A huge thank you to the first responders who have put their lives at risk in order to save others. Or, as they call it, ‘going to work.’
— Jon Stewart (via seriouslyamerica)
It still shocks (and mostly just disappoints) me how SHOCKED people are when I tell them that it is 100% legal to be fired simply for being gay.
They look at me like I’m lying and say things like “nooooo, that can’t be right?”.
I have been fired twice (in Ohio) for being openly gay.
I have been asked:
- to not wear my wedding ring
- Not acknowledge my wife’s existence
- To “just say you have a husband”
- To just not answer “yes” when people ask if I’m married because “you’re not REALLY married”
- To not bring my wife to the company FAMILY Christmas party
- Let people just assume we’re sisters
- Just make it easier on everyone and “just say you’re divorced”
These were not requests made from some Mom and Pop shop, I was a corporate executive for a large chain of high volume restaurants. My boss was the Director of Human Resources, and she would walk into my office and say the most ignorant things you can imagine.
People in America need to be educated on the reality that is life as a gay person in this country.
It’s not all gay pride parades and appletinis.
We need a leg to stand on.
We need people to wake up and educate themselves on the rights we are denied.
We need people…gay, straight, and in between, to open their eyes, stop ignoring what doesn’t directly effect them, and educate themselves.
“ They presented male employers with identical job applicants—same experience, same qualifications, same resume—except one was named Dave and the other Diane. Then men in traditional marriages rated “Diane” significantly lower than Dave. Because, you know, vagina. Every woman has felt that—that moment when you can see a man’s engagement switch off, and realize that he will never take you as seriously as he would if you came back with a chest-merkin and a handlebar mustache. But it’s an almost impossible feeling to quantify, and an even harder one to communicate to people who have never felt it. An argument that can be vaporized with an emphatic enough “nu uh!” is a difficult argument to win.
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That Condescending Feeling You Get From Dudes in the Office? Yeah, That’s Real. (via notemily)
Throughout my professional life I’ve seen men do the same pathetic maneuver in business meetings with women (which means hundreds of examples over two decades), which is to interrupt and disagree with or even summarily dismiss a woman’s ideas (on any given subject, doesn’t even matter, could be strategic innovation or it could be how to mow the lawn), then five minutes later rephrase those same ideas just slightly differently and receive praise for coming up with good stuff. Makes me wanna throw chairs through those glass walls. Another reason I can’t really go back to corporate life.
(via zuky)
