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Zero Tolerance
To be clear on our longstanding corporate policy, Goodyear has zero tolerance for any forms of harassment or discrimination. To enable a work environment free of those, we ask that associates refrain from workplace expressions in support of political campaigning for any candidate or political party, as well as similar forms of advocacy that fall outside the scope of racial justice and equity issues.
Sir?
Yes, Jose?
Can I wear a Brown Lives Matter pin?
Yes, of course.
Cool! It’s in the shape of a star and has the badge number of my uncle, Deputy Allejandro Chavez, who was murdered last year.
Uh, well, I . . .
Sir, Sir!
Yes, Lin?
How about an Asian Grades Matter t-shirt?
What does that mean?
It highlights the systematic racial injustice and inequity that discriminates against Asians being admitted to elite colleges.
That may be a problem.
Why? To quote the policy, it is “a racial justice and equality issue.”
That’s a good question. I’ll get back to you on that.
Sir?
Clyde?
Native American Lives Matter?
Yes.
How about Inuit Lives Matter?
Yes.
Navajo Lives Matter?
Yes!
Zuni Lives Matter?
Yes!
Papago Lives Matter?
Yes!!
Uyghur Lives Matter?
Yes, yes, yes!! All tribes matter!
Sir?
Tamika?
How about All Black Lives Matter?
Yes, of course. It means the same thing as Black Lives Matter, doesn’t it?
No, BLM only cares about Blacks killed by the police. All Black Lives Matter is concerned with all Black lives.
Well, Ok, I guess . . .
Including the unborn.
No, no, you can’t do that!
But Black babies are aborted at more than twice the rate of other races. Isn’t that a “a racial justice and equality issue?”
Ah, Er, That’s . . . a . . . good . . .question, too. I’ll see what corporate has to say. Okay, this has been a . . .productive session. Let’s break for lunch; be back at 1:00 for a presentation on how to sell rims.
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Definitely working towards getting a lawsuit against them for hostile workplace environment.
On a serious note this type of thing is starting to happen at my work as well. The notion apparently is if you hold a “retrograde” viewpoint you don’t deserve to work anymore. I can’t see how this ends well. My only hope at this point is that after the election things die down a bit. The woke left is bound and determine to pull this country apart.
Goodyear had better listen to Trump. I believe they have a few defense contracts The Donald might examine more closely . . .
Every corporation in America felt the need to send out an email expressing disgust with the “murder” of George Floyd. My company, which will remain nameless, is going to “explore options on how to better address minority voices and promote diversity.” So what does that mean, more affirmative action? More racism? This is bad and it’s completely overtaken the corporate world.
You have to push back against these things ASAP. Things will not calm down. If your workplaces are going woke, you need to act now and help them understand that it will not be tolerated. If it comes to it, threaten to sue.
Plan to document as much as you can.
Found an article recently about how to handle the “woke workplace” and I bookmarked it on my computer at home. Will retrieve it later.
Jose, I love the way your mind works! Well done!
We used to have a word for people who objected to the notion that all lives matter. It started with an “r” and ended with “acist.”
This^
You can not let them have the narrative to themselves.
My company CEO said in a corporate wide podcast last week, that they have zero tolerance for racism. He then stated that they have already terminated people who have made (what they deem to be) racist comments on their personal Face Book page.
This was after he said we will be doing things to increase the number of minorities in key positions, which is racism. So far, he hasn’t been walked to the door. I’m puzzled (not really).
Since then, I have talked to many other employees about this, outside of the building for obvious reasons. Just about everyone has either unfriended all their FB friends who work here, or have quit social media altogether. Since racism isn’t defined, and can be anything that anyone wants it to be, you can’t say anything.
They prowl personal Facebook pages to see if there are comments deemed to be racist and then fire them based on that?
May a thousand lawsuits bloom!
That seems like the very definition of workplace harassment. Get a group of employees, get a lawyer, bring a lawsuit.
Time to find work elsewhere. I suspect in the end we will all be unemployed unless a minority or an ACTIVE leftist.
A lot of corporations put out statements that amount to nothing more than, “Please don’t call me a racists.” Most aren’t so much woke as afraid. The question is, do they really know their customer base? Are they caving to the Twitter mobs at the expense of loyal customers?
I am so glad to be retired! My last company was the first really large company that I worked for and they had many HR mandated ‘training’ sessions. At the time, it was mostly related to sexual harassment.
I was lucky that my work setup had three monitors controlled by the same keyboard and mouse, so I could have the HR session on one monitor while I worked on the other two.
I have seen several articles which indicate that teaching the new ‘anti-racist’ courses – to only white employees, of course – is a very lucrative business.
Yes.
How is (Marxist) blm NOT “political affiliated slogans or material?
The key ‘justification’ here is this line:
. . .forms of advocacy that fall outside the scope of racial justice and equity issues
Parse that out and what they are saying is that the only political positions you can be seen as supporting are left wing racial and sexuality grievances.
And yes, I see that in my workplace now as well. I suspect it is commonplace. By redefining the radical racist leftwing movement as for ‘justice and equity’ they justify one sided advocacy, and deny it is political. But there is a chasm between what we used to call colorblind equality of opportunity and race based hiring, advancement, and discrimination. They have turned reality on its head, and now demand we all buckle under to the new reality. Justice can’t be blind to race, sexual preference, etc. any more. Justice must bend, must be implemented differently, to make up for past injustice. (Injustice to atone for injustice is nonsense. . . )
I guess if I were a more independent person I would tell my employer I won’t work for them any more if they continue to frame the left as the only acceptable moral position for me to hold. But I have been here over 20 years, I’m close to retirement, I have pride in what I have done here in that time, and I’m just not ready for starting over. Instead, I will keep my big mouth shut and use the yearly, supposedly anonymous employee survey to voice my concerns. I don’t think it will make a dent in their new corporate appeasement of wokeness, and I suspect the survey will eventually get me in to hot water somehow. But that is the only real option I feel I have if I want to continue working here.
Since I am retired, and hang out in social circles in which the topic is not likely to come up, this is theoretical for me. But, I want to ask someone (or a company) that expresses support for “Black Lives Matter”: “Why do you support the destruction of the nuclear family?” One of the few specific goals of the official Black Lives Matter organization is the destruction of the nuclear family. Yet few people who parrot “Black Lives Matter” know that.
A follow-on question would be: “Why do you think that men should excluded from child-rearing and other facilities to develop society? Why do you think lesbian and queer women should hold dominant positions in society, to the exclusion of heterosexual women and of men?” Implicit on several of the organization’s goals is that men should not participate in structures that develop the next generation, and that priority should be given to lesbian and queer women.
Too many people and companies parrot the words “Black Lives Matter” with no idea that very few of the goals of the official Black Lives Matter organization have anything to do with elevating the lives of black people.
I would be sorely tempted to point out that the unacceptable “political affiliated slogans or material” contradicts the statement that are listed as acceptable, since the two items listed as “acceptable” are clearly political.
I suppose the sticking point is that the woke don’t consider wokeness to be political.
That makes sense given it’s more like a religion with them.
Exactly. It is black and white morality to them. You either agree with them or you are a reprobate. And a reprobate does not have any right to express disagreement with a moral position taken by morally superior people.
You don’t support BLM 100%, you are racist. No in between, no consideration of the stated goals and positions of that group. They are morally above reproach, and anyone in even the slightest opposition is literally worse than Hitler, Satan, Bull Connor, you name it.
It’s the new puritanism. Burn the heretics.
The masters of “Tolerance” always seem to have their own list of things that are intolerable. It’s convenient that Goodyear lists them alongside of their list of the mandatory. Beyond satire.
Good point. A pastor at our prior church kept making political statements about gun control (the topic of the moment in 2018) and insisted that the statements were not political. She would dismiss out of hand anyone who suggested that such comments were political.
Is it not illuminating that Blue Lives Matter is considered the polar opposite of Black Lives Matter? That merely stating support for police is considered a direct affront to Black Lives Matter?
Now, which do you support- Police, or anti police? It is no deeper than that.
Goodyear is clearly on the side of anti police, based on their own statement.
How many people in corporate woke America would last a week after we abolish police? Don’t they know where the conquerors will pillage first? (Hint: Where the money and stuff is. In other words, management’s houses!)
They have private security so, they can virtue signal to their heart’s content without worrying about paying the price. At least in the short term. I think that the fact that the gaps in equality get bigger under democratic policies and administration is actually a feature rather than a bug for most of them.
You are probably right. I am just trying to forestall this as long as possible key is to try to stay long enough to afford to be somewhat self sufficient. Right now that requires me to keep my head down and bite my tongue a lot. There are lines I won’t cross. My hope is that if the wokerati win in November they will calm down for a while and if they lose they will go insane enough that push back will be easier. It isn’t much at this point but it is all I have.
If you find that Article I would be very interested in it.
Vox Day’s Corporate Cancer helped a friend whose workplace is going woke clarify how to think about this and decide what to do.
I don’t think @raxxalan‘s hope is that “if the wokerati win in November they will calm down for a while” is reality based. The DOJ will be in their hands, and will be renamed in reality if not on the sides of buildings as the Department of Social Justice.
Blind. Deaf. Dumb. Dangerous.
Way back in June, my hospital had a “hug our community” day that was billed as a stand with black lives matter. Just 2 weeks prior, all the area police had a “blue light drive around the hospital.” I fired off an email to HR telling them what a slap in the face that was to all those good folks in blue to have something that supported this Marxist group. I actually received an email back, but with the usual pap about being supportive of those who don’t have adequate access to healthcare, yada, yada, yada. I knew it would fall on deaf ears, but I felt better that I at least registered my objection. I also made sure all my retired nurse friends knew about it. Many let their voices be heard, also. I’m so glad I will be gone from the workhouse in a few months.
My dentist, a lovely young woman with a thriving practice, put out one of those sappy corporate style emails a couple of months ago, pledging how much she believes in social justice and Black Lives Matter. I had a cleaning appointment a couple of weeks after receiving that email. When she came into to examine me after the cleaning, I asked her why she supported the organization, Black Lives Matter. I said, “Jackie, have you looked into that group? Do you know what they stand for? Have you ever gone to their website and read beyond the first page? You have a wonderful family with two young boys and a husband who is your partner, not only in this business, but in life as a whole. Do you realize that this group publicly states its support for community child-rearing? Do you want the community to raise your children, or do you want to do that yourself and with your husband? Go read their website. The word, FATHER, is never mentioned. Do you realize that every major Black leader, including President Obama, has stated categorically that the breakup of the Black family and the lack of an in-home father is one of, if not, the biggest problem of the Black Community? The organization you are supporting is against the nuclear family. Do you believe in that? And what about our police. Do you believe they should be defunded? Who are you going to call when the alarm goes off in the middle of the night? What if those only sometimes peaceful protesters come marching down this block and throw Molotov cocktails through your front window. Who is going to stop them? Jackie, before you send any more supportive emails, you should spend fifteen minutes looking into who and what BLM is.”
Maybe I had some effect. Her last email was about her business and their handling of cleanliness issues relating to COVID 19. Nomore social justice, BLM pandering.