#general ignorance

[iheartvelma]

[transgirlhoshizorarin]

Dealing with Issues at Work

So I have an evaluation coming up, where I can finally talk to my immediate manager one-on-one without anybody suspecting that I’m going to report them.  But here’s some backstory.

If you go through my tag, #The-Great-Book-of-Kyle, you’ll probably see that I don’t view this “Kyle” person in a good light.  Mainly because of his blatant ignorance, but he has also shown himself to be a racist.  He spoke with another coworker, who I will dub “CC” for “Conservative Coworker,” about how he can be openly racist when none of the managers are there.  CC then asked Kyle if he’s keeping a lookout for both of them so they could freely make racist remarks with each other without getting caught, and Kyle affirmed that he was doing so.  By the way, both Kyle and CC are the only white men in the office, and that they said it within clear earshot of me should probably warrant at least a report to HR, right?

Also I should mention another instance where I was upset that CC and Kyle were discussing Global Warming.  CC was going on a didactic rant, telling Kyle that humans only contribute a small portion to global warming, and how it’s only a “natural” occurrence, or how global warming is a “good” thing on the basis that increasing temperature during the cold months will reduce the number of people frozen to death.  Obviously CC doesn’t see the big picture, and so I threw my mug on my desk and stormed out of the room.  My immediate manager saw that, and one of my other coworkers told them not to discuss issues like that in the workplace.  I returned nearly 30 minutes later, more calm, and CC apologized to me for talking about those things.  I told him that it was because I was under stress from having to deal with a time-sensitive project at work while also dealing with finals, which was a true statement on my part.

And just today, I heard CC talking with our director about making job listings for our location, since they’re going to be closing our location in Seattle since their manager is quitting soon.  CC was in charge of listing the required skills for the job, and called over another one of my coworkers, and mumbled to him, asking if he should include “does not get upset at conversations in the workplace.”  This was an obvious jab at me, because I am the only person in the office to express any sort of dissatisfaction at the things being said in the workplace, including openly racist remarks by the white employees, obvious ignorance to sociopolitical issues, ignorance to environmental issues, and general ignorance overall.

Based off of CC’s mumbling, thinking that I would not hear it, I can make some assumptions: He obviously does not see me as a friendly coworker.  He sees me as most likely anti-Trump.  He sees me as potentially anti-White.  He sees me as young, ignorant, and an environmentalist.

When I was sick and coughing, nobody said anything.  When my other coworkers cough, CC is the first to ask, “Are you okay,” “Do you need some water,” or “Are you feeling any better from yesterday,” and I can see it obviously through this behavior of exclusion that he obviously does not like me.  I want to say that I am a moral person, and I don’t look down on someone because of their skin color, gender, sexuality, age, mental capacity, etc., and yet I hear lots of prejudicial remarks from both Kyle and CC that lean more toward racial discrimination, and when I tried to offer them reasons why colored people are disadvantaged in the United States, for example, they somehow managed to explain away all of my rational statements with utter bullshit.  I stopped trying to convince them that there are other ways of thinking about issues like these, but as history, empirical/anecdotal evidence, and now personal evidence shows me, conservatives tend to stay closed-minded and refuse to consider anything that does not agree with their views as so often reinforced on bullshit news networks like FOX.

And so I’m going to report both Kyle and CC to my immediate manager, and if no action is taken against them for racist comments, I will go to HR or even higher.  I’m sick of working with intolerant fucks.

[justpointandthink]

So, I was with my friend preparing a children summer camp about differences...

I was searching for images on the pc when it opened a random page full of girls in bikini, at the exact moment a friend of mine looked at the monitor, and seeing all the girls, asked me if I was a lesbian, in a way of disapproval...

And we’re doing a camp about acceptance...

And another guy, with the intention of asking if maybe I was bisexual, said I was trasgender... 

[hysyartmaskstudio]

About the general public obliviousness one reason can be the fact there is not enough info about ghouls, but it could also show how ghouls aren't a high portion of the population and actually meeting one could be seen as rather rare. I mean, if people hear about a person killed by a serial killer they aren't immediately going to associate the episode with themselves. In the ward 11th battle we know there were only 200 and Eto talked about thousands, but Tokyo's population is around 15 millions

This is a fair point I think, to an extent, but then, ghouls have to eat one or two human corpses each a month to live. Think of it this way - the highest murder rates in the real world are about 50 in 100,000 or 1 murder for every 2000 people. These are the highest murder rates in the world.

And yet we are all very well acquainted with the idea of murder. Even if we don’t know anyone who has been murdered. Even if we shrug off the idea that one day we might get murdered ourselves. Even if we don’t pay attention to the PSAs about not walking alone at night in dark alleyways in case of murderers. We all know how murder works and that it’s a real thing. and we all even have those passing thoughts like “woah, that guy kinda looks like he could be a murderer,” or “man, I hope no one in this subway car is a murderer”

(Serial killers, outside the world of television police procedurals are actually pretty rare. The FBI puts the total number of active serial killers at any given time in the entirety of the US at maybe 50 - that’s one for every 6,380,000 people - a rate definitely lower than ghouls per capita in Tokyo.)If nothing else, there must actively be an effort to restrict TV shows about ghouls or the CCG, because honestly, police procedurals are probably a big part of why murder is actually such a mundane thought to people. Which is kind of strange, and totally something V’s shadowy bird-cage world would be involved with.

Still, this is a world where there is a CCG office in every ward, where ghoul attacks and CCG raids are on the main normal news stations, and where ghouls are something that the supernatural club at Kamii is dealing with. Not the detective club?

That’s a startling disconnect. What do these people think the CCG does? Is it possible that they really have never encountered all the news reports about it, or is there some really wide spread conspiracy theory around Tokyo/the world about it?

Maybe some people just avoid the news completely? I suppose that might be doable. It’s not like I know the names of all of the different government organizations in my area, let alone where they are located...idk. It’s definitely hard to wrap my head around with our only perspective on this world being from ghouls or the CCG.

[vonuberwald]

And 147 people died in the Garissa University killings - where was the Kenyan flag on FB then???

[pointetothesky]

Remember that time when I was looking through a child sponsorship brochure and I asked my mum why there was a boy in there from South America named Jesus and she said that it was disrespectful to God to name your kids that

[4l3x14f417h]

This week's gag reel .......

So this week’s classics from the office …. C - Whats pastrami? D - Isn’t it a type of naan bread C - Quiche is just pretentious pizza C - Popcorn is a fruit. . It comes from a seed C - Whats a sardine P - Its a fish C - I thought it was an olive C - I’m not a fan of rice, I don’t see what it brings to the table C@ - All the Asians to your yard? C - I thought Lupus was a potion in Harry potter C - I thought it was a historical based drama until the skull people turned up (C revealing his thoughts on Game of Thrones)

[thefreshprinceofmordor]

What did feminists do with their bras?

No, they didn’t. At least not when they were supposed to have done. Arguably the most influential feminist protest in history occured at the 1968 “Miss America” beauty contest in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

A small group of protesters picketed the pageant with provocative and controversial slogans such as “Lets Judge Ourselves as People” and “Aint she sweet; making profits off her meat”

They crowned a live sheep as “Miss America” and then proceeded to toss their high-heeled shoes, bras, tweezers and curlers into a “Freedom Trash Can”

What they did not do was burn their bras, they had planned to, but the police advised that it would be silly when standing on a wooden broadwalk.

So if no bras were actually burned that day, where did this contemporary myth originate?

The fault lies with the New York Post. Their journalist, Lindsay Van Gelder, “mentioned high in the story that the protesters were planning to burn bras, girdles and other items in a Freedom Trash Can….the headline writer took it a step further and called them “bra-burners”.”

This headline was enough to spark a media frenzy, journslists across america seized on it without even reading the article!

Hence the myth of bra burning was born, thank you for listening.