U of M LGBT Center Creates "Safe Space" to Protect Students From Horror of Hearing Speakers—Both of Whom Are Gay

http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/24/u-michigan-lgbt-center-creates-safe-spac

from comments on Amy's link:
"Is there are reason for saying somebody identifies as gay, instead of just is gay? I get it that biological men may believe they are ("identify as") female, and vice versa, so the terminology kinda makes sense in that context. Outside of that context, I don't have any idea what it means. Should I be saying I identify as heterosexual, rather than I am heterosexual?"

"You haven't caught on to that yet, with the SJWs? It's always a soft-worded vague "I identify" as. Never "I am" Never anything concrete. It's some weird sort of insecure politically correct thing."

This "soft-worded vague" had not jumped out at me before. I'm going to have fun w/this.

Ten Ways Backward Companies Treat Their Employees Like Children

http://www.forbes.com/sites/lizryan/2016/02/23/ten-ways-backward-companies-treat-their-employees-like-children/#3b61a2585ef3

Bereavement leave policies that require employees to bring in a funeral notice to prove that a family member died are perfect evidence of a fear-based culture. If you don’t trust your employees to ask for and receive two or three days’ paid time off when a family member passes on, why do you have them on your payroll at all?

It is a slap in the face to ask an employee at such a difficult time to prove that something so raw and personal has happened. His or her whole department knows the sad story of the family member’s illness or accident. This shameful policy has no place in a modern organization.

There are times I lament my bachelorhood, but most of the time I feel like a stinking genius:

A Tuesday night town meeting in Spring Valley, NY devolved into chaos after a constituent accused Mayor Demeza Delhomme of having sex with his wife and ruining his marriage.

...

Delhomme vehemently denied Alfred’s claim, stating, “I don’t know this man. I’ve never met this man.”

However, two Spring Valley trustees defended Alfred, asking the mayor, “you screwed his wife and you say you don’t know him?”

Or...Next on Springer!

http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/24/town-meeting-goes-0-100-after-constituent-accuses-mayor-of-having-sex-with-his-wife-video/

This "soft-worded vague" had not jumped out at me before. I'm going to have fun w/this.

Bob, you know that I identify as a gay trans woman of color, right?

More on the Twitter, Facebook and so on:

http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-damming-of-free-flow-of-information.html

I'm reminded that the internet sees censorship as a form of network disruption and routes around it. I'm also reminded of this:

Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

"Bob, you know that I identify as a gay trans woman of color, right?"

I believe you IRA. I identify as an atemporal amoebic entity. We really need to stop the temporal oppression around here. Yesterday, today, tomorrow. How can you discriminate so? They are all just nodes on an eight vector field. Order them however you want. Just don't tell me how to order my days!

Yelp employee is fired over open letter to CEO complaining about low pay and high rent.

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/24/11109582/yelp-open-letter-explained

"So here I am, 25-years old, balancing all sorts of debt and trying to pave a life for myself that doesn’t involve crying in the bathtub every week. Every single one of my coworkers is struggling. They’re taking side jobs, they’re living at home. One of them started a GoFundMe because she couldn’t pay her rent." ~ Talia Jane, Yelp employee

AND

And the cities where labor markets are booming — San Francisco, but also New York, Washington, DC, Boston, and Seattle, among others — also have skyrocketing costs of living, in part because of their restrictions on building new housing. [emphasis mine]

Nearly 30 percent of 2012 college graduates ages 25 to 34 moved to San Francisco, DC, New York, and Austin, according to reporting from the New York Times. Those are exactly the cities that are becoming the most expensive to live in. The median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco is $3,200 per month.

Jane pays $1,250 for rent, about $120 for gas and electric, and $11.30 a day to commute to and from work. She said she makes approximately $1,500 a month; according to Glassdoor, Yelp customer service employees make around $12 an hour. Factor in the price of food (and we will put away the idea of eating healthy in this equation), and the numbers don't match up.

Stoppelman, a 38-year-old who has been featured on the Fortune 40 under 40 list, recognized this disparity in his response, tweeting that he acknowledged the cost of living in San Francisco was too high.

Stoppelman's solution is to move Yelp's entry-level jobs to less expensive areas, like Arizona, where $12 an hour is closer to a living wage.

But telling the approximately 115,000 people living below the poverty line in the San Francisco area that they should move to Arizona sounds like a complicated solution.

Complicated solution? Not really. Move to where you can afford to live.

Here is Talia Jane's letter to her CEO:

https://medium.com/@taliajane/an-open-letter-to-my-ceo-fb73df021e7a#.qbzv0exx4

This is what you get when someone who always got a participation trophy even though her soccer team lost every game enters the real world.

And another fine "gem" making herself unemployable (unless she's willing to be subemployed by Vox Media and/or Gawker)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3432695/College-student-quits-job-clothing-label-CEO-body-shamed-deleting-pictures-brand-s-Instagram-isn-t-size-small-model.html

"They are all just nodes on an eight vector field."

That's cute. Anyway...

"If you don’t trust your employees to ask for and receive two or three days’ paid time off when a family member passes on, why do you have them on your payroll at all?"

Because you have been forced to take on employees with no link to their performance or skill set, that's why, and the general knowledge of cow-orkers isn't evidence to Payroll.

People suck. In NYC, they staged a bus crash to see what happens because there were more injury claims from such a crash than there were tickets in the till, and sure enough, after the crash, people rushed to get on the bus to be found there when the cops arrive, so they could file injury claims, too.

You don't accept the local culture's concept of linear time Doctor. So why are you trying to oppress me? Some sort of Time Lord privilege? Your species self selected name says it all. Well I for one will not be your time serf! Check your time privilege Doctor.

His or her whole department knows the sad story of the family member’s illness or accident. This shameful policy has no place in a modern organization.

When my dad died, most of my coworkers didn't even know he had been ill. I'm a fairly private person and so don't talk about my personal life at the office. I also don't write public letters to my CEO telling him how broke and entitled I am.

I've heard of Talia Jane. Number of fucks given: 0.

WELL! According to my wife I identify as "CLUELESS" so there!

Not sure how that fits in w/this gender stuff but since I'm CLUELESS I'll just assume it means I have WHITE PRIVILEGE 'cause you know I'm white and 200 years ago all of us WHITE BROTHERS were sitting around figuring out how to make sure WHITE BROTHERS stayed in power and not pay taxes on our tea.

That doesn't sit well w/the ladies according to this article below.

(It's really long and is basically "Blah Blah Blah Damn White Establishment Blah Blah Need Gov't Subsidy Gov't Funding Blah Blah Blah)

Ex. Kids are let out early afternoon to suppress the ability of women to work outside home. White establishment did this on purpose of course blah blah blah.

http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/02/political-power-single-women-c-v-r.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email

Well, color me surprised:

Assistant Professor Melissa Click, captured on video calling for “some muscle” to remove reporters from a campus protest site, was fired Wednesday by the University of Missouri Board of Curators, Chairwoman Pam Henrickson said in a prepared statement.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/education/turmoil_at_mu/university-of-missouri-curators-vote-to-fire-melissa-click/article_4b0ae653-2d61-5f3f-9ede-a129d12f0fd1.html

Skynet smiles:

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/227558/

"Assistant Professor Melissa Click ..."

Amazing IRA. I thought she was getting tenure.

Same number of fucks given over Talia too.

"Move to where you can afford to live."

LOL - imagine Compton and Oakland moving en masse to Manifest Destiny, Oklahoma.

Affordable? Very! Entertaining? Oh mas oui!

Street theater works for commie hippie pinko subversives bent on destroying the high-minded do-gooders on Wall Street, right?

So anti-abortionists came up with this little gem in front of the White House.

Idaho militia shoots 12-year-old girl in the stomach.

"Bereavement leave policies that require employees to bring in a funeral notice to prove that a family member died are perfect evidence of a fear-based culture."

Maybe; but, more likely it is because some folks have several "grandparents" die all the time; especially with their funerals scheduled for a Friday just before a Monday holiday. "Dear ol' granny is still looking out for me; she loved me so much she gets me a four-day weekend"

And really, it isn't that hard to show a copy of the obituary; heck, nowadays it is easier as most obits are on the funeral homes' website.

If someone considers that to be a "slap in the face" then they haven't worked for some of the assholes that I've worked for. They should quit their bitchin' and be glad that they have a paycheck.

LOL - imagine Compton and Oakland moving en masse to Manifest Destiny, Oklahoma.

Affordable? Very! Entertaining? Oh mas oui!

Posted by: Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at February 25, 2016 4:17 PM

Why not? It's happened before.

The Okies moved to California in the '30s. From that, we got the Bakersfield sound and accent.

3.5 million people moved out of the Plains states between 1930 and 1940.

Six million African-Americans moved North to find jobs between 1910 and 1970.

True, Conan.

Now we just need to find something in Oklahoma to attract huge numbers of people.

I'm going out on a limb here but - I don't believe their summer stock theater productions of the eponymous Rogers & Hammerstein musical will cut it.

Unless they want to go into farming Oklahomans aren't that welcoming Gog. Sure, you can come visit. But don't stay too long.

And I thought the diaspora of California has happened for a while now. They just aren't all going to the same place. I know in Texas they only feel comfortable around Austin. In Dallas or Houston they tend to move out after a year or so. Which is a good thing. We have enough morons already. We don't need another moron voting block moving in.

Now we just need to find something in Oklahoma to attract huge numbers of people.

I'm going out on a limb here but - I don't believe their summer stock theater productions of the eponymous Rogers & Hammerstein musical will cut it.

Posted by: Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at February 25, 2016 10:08 PM

True. The Sooners were idiots. I'll be passing through Oklahoma in a coupla weeks. If I see anything to attract a Californian, I'll post it here.

Perhaps Kansas City. I hear everything's up-to-date there.

I read something yesterday that said that of everyone under the age of 35 who graduated from college in 2012, one-third of them relocated to one of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Austin.