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<blockquote data-quote="Bienvenuto" data-source="post: 1288536" data-attributes="member: 12860"><p>With all due respect to some of the above posters.. </p><p></p><p>coming on here to tell people that they don't have any problems in their workplace and that it wouldn't be a good idea to be a right wing shitlord at work isn't really saying much to those who (maybe through poor life choices or lack of foresight) find themselves having to navigate through clown-world-affected workplaces..</p><p></p><p>I recall working on site where we were concreting. Cement truck was parked down the bottom of the hill and we had to race our wheelbarrows up the steep hill through slippery mud to get to where it needed tipping out.</p><p></p><p>I started chucking up, then dry retching, but fuck it: that was the job.</p><p>At one point when I was tipping out my heart was pounding, my eyes rolled up, and my knees went.. almost buckled and tipped a whole load on the foreman who was in a sectioned off trench smoothing things out.</p><p>He yelled and swung at me with the edge of his shovel blade. </p><p>I managed to adjust and get it in the right hole and he managed to pull the swinging shovel.</p><p></p><p>Later, over a pint, he was telling everyone... "I swear he was gonna faint, and I WAS gonna take his fucking head off". I quite liked the guy and it was a bonding story between us.</p><p></p><p>But we're talking about the last bastions of male work and male bonding.</p><p></p><p>THIS is a CFO who is telling the Aggrieved Employee that it is terrible that he is discriminated against but that he is going to focus on the White Employee.</p><p></p><p>Then when the All the Employees ask "why don't you <em>be the change you seek</em> Mr CFO and choose based on merit?" (have a suspicion it would be the same choice but never mind) he points at me and goes on about my Unearned-White-Privilege..</p><p></p><p>Like his decisions are somehow my responsibility and my fault. #ToxicWhiteMale.</p><p></p><p>Its the fucking gall of these milk white skinned upper-management tossers that gets me. </p><p></p><p>(Granted at least this CFO admits to being white and doesn't claim Native Indian heritage unlike some of his kind.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bienvenuto, post: 1288536, member: 12860"] With all due respect to some of the above posters.. coming on here to tell people that they don't have any problems in their workplace and that it wouldn't be a good idea to be a right wing shitlord at work isn't really saying much to those who (maybe through poor life choices or lack of foresight) find themselves having to navigate through clown-world-affected workplaces.. I recall working on site where we were concreting. Cement truck was parked down the bottom of the hill and we had to race our wheelbarrows up the steep hill through slippery mud to get to where it needed tipping out. I started chucking up, then dry retching, but fuck it: that was the job. At one point when I was tipping out my heart was pounding, my eyes rolled up, and my knees went.. almost buckled and tipped a whole load on the foreman who was in a sectioned off trench smoothing things out. He yelled and swung at me with the edge of his shovel blade. I managed to adjust and get it in the right hole and he managed to pull the swinging shovel. Later, over a pint, he was telling everyone... "I swear he was gonna faint, and I WAS gonna take his fucking head off". I quite liked the guy and it was a bonding story between us. But we're talking about the last bastions of male work and male bonding. THIS is a CFO who is telling the Aggrieved Employee that it is terrible that he is discriminated against but that he is going to focus on the White Employee. Then when the All the Employees ask "why don't you [i]be the change you seek[/i] Mr CFO and choose based on merit?" (have a suspicion it would be the same choice but never mind) he points at me and goes on about my Unearned-White-Privilege.. Like his decisions are somehow my responsibility and my fault. #ToxicWhiteMale. Its the fucking gall of these milk white skinned upper-management tossers that gets me. (Granted at least this CFO admits to being white and doesn't claim Native Indian heritage unlike some of his kind.) [/QUOTE]
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