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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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Gee, @cdor, that’s pretty brave considering she hadn’t even started working in your mouth yet. Some of those little tools are pretty sharp! Fortunately my hygienist is conservative, too, so when she doesn’t have her hands in my mouth, we commiserate.
And seriously, good job!!
Now that I think about it, I am puzzled. Even through all the “Me Too” rigamarole, my company said and did absolutely nothing. No extra harassment training, no company-wide email remind everyone about the issue, just total silence. In the past, we all had to take “Respectful Workplace” training, which acknowledged the concept of “third-party harassment” (you can’t say anything that any passerby who overhears your conversation might find offensive), but we have had no follow-up training for at least two years. Neither our parent company nor our company has said one word about police, or BLM, or anything else at all. I find it quite refreshing.
Well, on second thought, maybe our company’s mind is elsewhere, like on the tanking of the aerospace industry, which is making all of our lives miserable.
Kind of sums it up, doesn’t it?
The Nazis were fond of the term ‘Gleichschaltung’, meaning coordinating, lining-up, ensuring that everyone and everything was supporting their ideology.
It may be possible to stop and even reverse the Gleichschaltung that is going on in America now, but if the Dems win the presidency, and especially if they also increase their power in Congress, then things for individualists are going to get much, much worse.
Take action now to support good candidates, financially and otherwise.
Congratulations, Goodyear. You just created a loyal Firestone customer.
I’m glad my tires are Michelin! (I know, they probably do the same nonsense)
“Liberty is meaningless, where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.”
Frederick Douglass
(The concept of Liberty isn’t even a consideration these days)
The Italian fascists were equally fond of this…not to mention every Marxist regime that has ever existed.
I think it’s Glenn Reynolds who frequently tags his links with something like “You may not be interested in the Gleichschaltung, but the Gleichschaltung is interested in you.”
Ugh.
Just ordered 4 expensive Goodyear tires for my car Tuesday.
I would cancel except I would loose a large deposit.
They will be the last Goodyear product I buy.
Looks POTUS just got them to blink.
Virtue Reversal: Goodyear Bends The Knee After Trump Sparks Boycott
The Puritans had a dogma they could articulate. These folks are more like ordinary Nazis, they know who to hate, and are easily manipulated, but not much else.
I just had a flat tire. I am sitting in the waiting room for my replacement. It was a Goodyear. I’m getting Yokohama.
Why?
I had quite literally read this post about twenty minutes before my tire blew up.
It’s kind of funny.
To be fair, the letter from the CEO states the slide came from a Goodyear plant and was never endorsed by the corporate office. That does shift my understanding quite a bit and is a different message. The amazing thing is that anyone would not see the irony in the slide, but I’ve seen such slides quite recently that were intended to be taken very seriously per my own job, so this is really not a one off. So I’m fine with my purchase of a different brand in the moment.
That’s some amazing CYA.
My 2014 post, Life in the Fully Politicized Society, is, unfortunately, still very relevant–more so, I’m afraid, than when it was originally published. Even the mention of Michelle Obama is topical again.
Cooper Tires are American made and of good quality. No blimp though, although I still associate blimps with Hitler’s Germany.
What will happen to the Goodyear blimp?
It will be sent to fat acceptance therapy. You, however, will be sent to re-education for shaming it.
I don’t think Germany ever operated blimps, which are nonrigid airships (from the ‘limp’ in the name)…the US Navy did, though, and used them very efffectively against U-boats. Zeppelins were/are airships with a rigid frame, and that’s what Germany operated…prior to WWI, thoroughout that war, and up till the Hindenburg disaster.
Interestingly, the head of the Zeppelin company, Hugo Eckener, was so popular in Germany that he was considered as a presidential candidate, but decided not to run. Had he run and been elected, history might have been very different. See my post here.
The Zeppelin company in Germany is again in the business of building rigid airships, and that’s where Goodyear is getting their new ships…which are now not, technically, blimps at all.
Reading through the posts, I can only say that you guys are finally finding out what it was like to be a teacher in Seattle for more than 40 years. This garbage was going on beginning in 1971 and only intensified over the years. No one could or would understand what it was like. Your job depended on not reacting to the most incredibly racist statements directed against anyone who belonged to The White Collective. Only white people could be racist because, according to them, only white people had power. There was something pretty strange about sitting in a meeting with 60 other people and being selected out, because of the color of my skin, as being personally responsible for things that happened nearly a hundred years before either of my parents came to this country. And while I sat there disallowed from making any obvious statement about my complete lack of responsibility for the various “crimes” I was being charged with because of my race, I was also told that I had all the power, and they had none. Bizarre. However, if Trump isn’t elected and Biden is, all of you who work in the corporate universe are going to find out what it was like, because you will be subjected to the same “human relations task forces” and other parasitical organizations who have been raking in the dough for years giving administrators a pat on the back while the hoi polloi get the treatment. I cannot tell you how happy I am to be out of the system, and free from that incredible garbage.
Leftism is the default. It’s attained the stature of a law of thermodynamics.
Our gym sent out an email for a BLM fundraiser. My wife asked the owner to look into what BLM actually stands for. After doing some research he still went forward with the event, but sent all the funds raised to a local non-profit that is actually doing some good in low-income black neighborhoods
Yes. But some CYA is more credible than other CYA. I don’t know. There are a lot of Goodyear plants. But the entire interlude says something is rotten in Denmark… or… errrr… our culture.
There’s a term for this – when a group wreaks violence to achieve their goals and will only stop when they are appeased with concessions. It’s called “terrorism.”
If you read the statement, it says exactly the same thing as the slide. In fact, the first piece of dialogue in my post is lifted verbatim from the corporate statement.
Gonna need some lawyers.
That is BS. I have been in many corporations over my 40 years in business. A company of this size does not distributed this type of message without it going through a corporate legal. Heck most will not even send out corporate wide emails without legal going through it. The CEO is lying through his teeth.
The last Goodyear tires I bought were garbage anyway. Couldn’t wait for them to wear out so I could replace them.
Leftism as entropy?