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submitted by jet199Instigatrix from self.whatever

Soros's Open Society Foundation has been pushing the use and signalling of chosen pronouns at work, but the Hungarian language doesn't even have gendered pronouns. So he knows it makes no difference.

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[–]Alienhunter 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Pronouns serve two very useful purposes.

One they show which employees will put up with superfluous bullshit so they are the ones easier to exploit.

Two they out your crazy employees so that they can be flagged for the first wave of layoffs should the need arise.

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Three they show not everyone knows WTF is going on with the gender woo.

True story: our payroll company was switched to a new one that tries to get employees involved in a payroll company-centered social media network type of thing. It's horrible. Anyway, you can state your pronouns on the payroll company site and others can see it. The moderate leftoid 2 seats away predictably chose he/him. The clueless zoomer next to me asked what xim and xir meant . . . after picking them because they seemed fun. I explained it and he changed his selection LOL

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Lol.

I can sorta understand the pronouns in the corporate email situation, especially if you've got to deal with a lot of foreign clients with unfamiliar names. The neo-pronouns kind of break that function though.

Personally I've always been of the mind that in the business setting, it really doesn't matter if you know your contacts gender right? I mean, you'll figure it out within about half a second of speaking to them or seeing them right?

Sure some Indian contact I might not know whether or not to write "dear sir, or dear madam" but I can just write "dear valued customer" instead, or just use the person's name. Which I'm going to have to do anyway if people fail to list pronouns which they invariably will.

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The default is male in a professional setting, and always will be. The radfems seethe but anyone worth doing business with will issue a polite correction one time and be fine with it.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The radfems will seethe about it until some unscrupulous feminist ladder climber sees an opportunity to be a victim and eliminate her corporate competition.

Personally I'd just kick em out but the optics on that are bad since they like to play the mob.

Now granted that's a dangerous game to play because when the mob runs out of fresh meat you're on the menu but that would stop some of them.

[–]Ehhhhhh 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Not necessarily. Some companies seem to reward the ones that are transitioning.

[–]Alienhunter 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

You wouldn't want an employee that can't have kids and is reliant on a steady salary and insurance to maintain their medical costs? Easier to exploit.

Once it comes out that most of these people are crazy and don't benefit the company social darwinism will start working it's magic. Companies don't care. They're all numbers in a ledger. If giving accomodations to the trans employees nets you those sweet lucrative government contracts then that's gonna be what they do.