An oldie, but goldie.
“Sorry I can’t come to work, still gay”
Psychiatry has not always been kind to the LGBTQ community. Homosexuality was considered a mental illness in many countries as late as the mid-20th century—if it was not classified as an outright crime. Even Sweden, that Scandinavian bastion of openness and equality, identified being gay as a disorder as late as 1979.
That year, a group of Swedes took advantage of the legal framework that made being gay an illness and called in sick to work, claiming their homosexuality as the reason. One woman, from the southern province of Smålandeven, managed to get Social Security benefits for calling in gay.
I think having been repeatedly fired/getting chased out of my career field for being trans should qualify me for some kind of benefit. When the fascism stops, will there be reparations?
“Sorry, cough cough. I’m just feeling too gay to come into work today. It’s a bad case - I think it might be catching!”
I’m Doctor Mario, and as a certified doctor I can tell you that that’s not the gay cough but rather your lungs wanting to escape the forest fire smoke on their own. No sick days btw, you have to take PTO.
They are also moving to Texas if I read the story I saw right. I’d catch a mega case of gay to not move there or go back to work until I found a new job.
Moving to texas as a remote california tech worker is incredibly common, but it mostly comes down to not wanting to pay california taxes. That being said, it’s important to note that the majority of west coast tech workers give fuck all about the common good or societal improvements, or they wouldn’t work for facebook/google etc
That’s all right-wingers, though, isn’t it? Until life slaps them in the tits and all the horrible shit they champion affects them personally.
Very true, though I think in the early days of the Silicon Valley boom most tech workers were liberal democrats, whereas since tech finally became very measurably lucrative, it’s since been flooded by neocons and techno-libertarians
When your first job nets you $250k plus stock, why would you think there’s an issue with capitalism?
It’s not even that it attracts a certain type, it also makes that type
If one is inclined, one can tell oneself that they are a good person and they are making the company better by being there.
Hahahahahaha
Fuck’em
But the pendant in me points out that the company didn’t change an internal policy for what they consider mental illness, just now theyre allowing
hate speech“free* speech”Now I wonder if that would pass muster as a legal argument - meta doesn’t necessarily believe this as our policy, but we allow people to express their hate on this platform
You’re not wrong, they need a union. Which is precisely why Facebook and Twitter pack their payroll with H1-b visas.
The US has a glut of skilled tech workers right now thanks to a quarter-million layoffs last year, the argument that they can’t find the labor locally is facetious. Also, every H1-b worker should be entitled to dual citizenship or full naturalization, whichever is their preference.
The pedant in me points out that you misspelled “pedant”.
No, after a harrowing run-in with the Witch of the Swamp, they had a talisman embedded in their chest that forces them to warn people when they need to be both pragmatic and somber.
So it literally is the pendant in them.
Probably an overlook of autocorrect.
In other words, they be searching for new jobs.
Leopards/faces, etc. These people were fine with contributing their cogs to the evil machine that is facebook in exchange for a ridiculous salary, but now want it to be a big deal when it affects them more specifically.
Typical Divide and conquer - Stop demonizing people who work for a living - it’s no different than demonizing every single American because of US foreign policy. Blame those at the top making their greedy decisions and the puppet masters behind them.
Wrong. These people can’t handwave away their portion of responsibility for the current situation. They chose to lend their skills to a company with a long, well-documented track record of actions harmful to society. If you can get hired by one of the FAANG companies you could also get hired by nearly any company.
maybe the users should shoulder some of that blame. I get working to pay the bills, but their users have no excuse.
Completely fucking wrong. People make the systems, and incentivize and even work for said systems that oppress, that doesnt make you free of responsibility in the least, quite the opposite. Americans are so afraid of personal responsibility its beyond insane.
You worship work culture so much you think its okay no matter what you do as long as you work, absolutely pathetic and disgusting
Oh yeah, lifestyle changes will totally change the system, just look how far green capitalism got us /s. As far as I can tell, personal responsibility and guilt is a tool used very successfully by the oppressive classes. It’s not progressive to point the finger at people who don’t have the luxury of hand picking an “ethical profession”-something I’d love to see an example of? Find better targets to be angry at bud.
Its not about handpicking a profession moron, what the fuck? Can you read?
Sad. No wonder Meta sucks. If the workers suck so does the company.
Which workers are you referring to here?
They most definitely mean the exec. Cuz they’re the only ones sucking.
Hopefully. But you never know.
