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Whiny Neurotic Psychopathic Sissybitches: Inside Google's Dedicated Grievance Newsletter

Google has an internal newsletter about microaggressions.

That right there is news enough, but the Daily Caller has even more.

Google's anonymous bias reporting newsletter, "Yes, At Google," has been known about for some time, but details have been few and far between. For the first time, The Daily Caller can reveal what gets talked about on the monthly microaggressions report.

...

The editor of the newsletter is Heather Cain, the leader of Google’s Respect@ program. Respect@ is a human resources initiative begun in 2015 which, according to the New York Times "includes a way for employees to anonymously report complaints of inappropriate behavior by co-workers."

So, it's a Narc Newsletter. A Stasi sheet.

Here are some excerps:


Discrimination against the differently-abled

...

"A coworker loudly exclaimed that whoever designed the cafe menu for the day must have been schizophrenic. His tone was so disparaging that it startled me. I was very relieved to see that our team member who has schizophrenia(and who sets a few desks away) was not at her desk at the time."

Oh thank God.

Sexism at Google

"A male [Software Engineer, SWE] sent an email to everyone on the project and many senior people, publicly calling into question the project of a female SWE. When she took him aside privately to state that she had felt disrespected by this, he said she was too emotional and he was just stating facts."

"A small group of people have made industryinfo@discussions so predictably unpleasant and unproductive that I have no idea why anyone is participating on that list anymore. I’ve seen women vocally quit the list over the last few months because threads have become so blatantly misogynistic. It is really unfortunate there's no moderated space to discuss news about Google with a broad audience. There are a lot of voices we’re not hearing because the default venue is so toxic."

A constant theme in the narc newsletter is SJWs policing other people's tone but then blowing a gasket when someone else polices xheir own tone. You see some of that in the next series of made-up unserious grievances:



Respect and civility are 'problematic'

"The original name for this theme was 'respect and civility,'" the newsletter's editor wrote. "Why did we change the name? Respect and civility are important but can be problematic when they get in the way of important conversations. There is also a different understanding of what can be 'expected' when interacting with each other within different communities. For example, some communities think civility is a baseline and respect is earned so you can’t demand someone to be respectful. Others feel that respect is a fundamental way of interacting with peers and a call for civility is essentially only used to tone police someone. We have chosen the word 'thoughtful' to replace them in order to encourage everyone to consider how they communicate using a more neutral term."

"...It's OK for a team to ask for a respectful community in order to get the information they need to help improve the product. In other cases, calling for 'respectful' or 'civil’'conversations doesn't work, e.g. when it's used as tone-policing to shut down uncomfortable sensitive conversations. It is most often used by people in positions of power this way.

"Here's a submission that highlights this: 'I'm frustrated that the yes-at-google editors are talking about 'civil' rather than 'respectful' discourse as the goal. I've had many incredibly disrespectful things said to me that were perfectly civil in tone, and had my own tone policed as 'uncivil' when I responded in frustration. Propagating the notion that we need to be ‘civil’ to each other at work, rather than 'respectful' is a recipe for people being tone-policed, or baited with provocations into being punished, with nothing happening to the person engaging in the provocation.'"

The reason they fight so much over tone-policing is that who polices whose tone is a demonstration of power. If you police someone's tone, you have power over them; if they police yours, they have power over you.
You see the same people shrieking about other people's wording then taking offense that someone criticized their own wording because this is nothing but juvenile power-seeking and king-of-the-hill gamesmanship.

Pronoun problems

"Someone I know has been effectively pressured into not using their preferred pronouns in work communications because some members of their team find it unclear or confusing. The person has tried to open a dialogue to find ways to make communications clearer while still using their preferred pronouns, but has had these efforts shut down."

What pronouns? Anyone want to bet they're very strange? I mean, stranger than being forced to call a man a "she." Something like "My pronouns are Ford Focus /Strudel/Lake Titicaca."


The ‘natural order’ at Google

"A fellow Googler told me it was my responsibility to make other care [sic] about racism and unless I could show how it impacted them personally I would have to get used to the 'natural order of things.'"
...

Straw spat

"The ableist plastic straw ban fad has reached Google. The food team is at least wiling to hear perspectives from disabled Googlers, but this is yet another example where disabled Googlers have to advocate just to maintain the status quo of partial inclusion."

Flirting gone wrong

...

"Anti-harrassment anti-discrimination training includes two examples of men flirting with women as inappropiate behabvior and zero examples involving any other gender configuration. This unthinkingly normalized that dynamic and derives any other."

More problems with pronouns:

Pride pronoun problems

"The Pride TGIF speakers didn't say their pronouns like they did last year, and it generally seemed like trans people were pretty much forgotten about in public discussions."

"We had an external workshop facilitator in our office this week, and they misgendered some employees. During a break, I mentioned this to the facilitator, as respectfully and unobtrusively as I could. The facilitator was open to this feedback, and in the afternoon session asked a person for their name rather than using a presumptive pronoun."

"I wasn't as unobtrusive as I thought because since then 2 individuals -not including misgendered employees- thanked me for bringing it up. I'm not writing because I want credit, I’m writing because I think it’s AWESOME that we’re getting to the point that multiple googlers in a room will pick up on an issue like this and support addressing it, whether they are directly affected or not."

Yay?

The soy police

"A coworker approached me to say that he noticed I consumed a lot of soy products (I'm a vegetarian) and that he was worried my testicles would shrink, my testosterone would fail, and estrogen would rise. It was inappropriate to begin with, but also cast people with lower testosterone as less masculine or manly."

...

And last but not least

"I have to read 'global slave' every time I mail or submit code."

Theory: Google is staffed by crybabies, pussies, wannabe dominatrices and other sexually-bent fruitcakes, bullies, psychopaths, and Nazis, and should not be permitted to exist, let alone control our public discourse.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 02:50 PM




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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 26, 2019 02:50 PM (9cans)

2 Bold /b

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 26, 2019 02:50 PM (t6MX/)

3

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 26, 2019 02:51 PM (t6MX/)

4 th

Posted by: FrodoB at June 26, 2019 02:51 PM (S9BC8)

5 Reading that was traumatic.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 26, 2019 02:51 PM (CPk08)

6 Grievance is a helluva drug.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 26, 2019 02:51 PM (oVJmc)

7 Inform on your friends!
Inform on your enemies!
Inform on everyone!


Always with the five minute hate.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 26, 2019 02:52 PM (ycWCI)

8 Break them up for their own good.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 26, 2019 02:52 PM (oVJmc)

9 Boldly micro-agressive.

Posted by: Texican ette at June 26, 2019 02:52 PM (gou4q)

10 I've been emboldened to post meaningless crap!

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 26, 2019 02:52 PM (CPk08)

11 Fuckin paxton

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 26, 2019 02:53 PM (85Gof)

12 My brain hurts

Posted by: Hikaru at June 26, 2019 02:53 PM (sm6Pk)

13 Who cares about their own good- they are the idiots who came up with this?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 26, 2019 02:53 PM (ycWCI)

14 The Tone Police

Posted by: Texican ette at June 26, 2019 02:53 PM (gou4q)

15 It sounds like Google is a hellhole, libs. You'd better quit.

Or better yet, get in their and fight even harder.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 26, 2019 02:54 PM (oVJmc)

16 Ok wait I think the plastic straw ban is stupid but how the fuck is it ableist?

You know what, forget I asked that. I don't want to know what tortured reasoning they have for this.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at June 26, 2019 02:54 PM (oZ6kz)

17 Theory: Google is staffed by crybabies, pussies, wannabe
dominatrices and other sexually-bent fruitcakes, bullies, psychopaths,
and Nazis, and should not be permitted to exist, let alone control our
public discourse.

I woulda just said retards but some of them can apparently code....

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 26, 2019 02:54 PM (CPk08)

18 Theory: Google is staffed by crybabies, pussies, wannabe dominatrices and other sexually-bent fruitcakes, bullies, psychopaths, and Nazis, and should not be permitted to exist, let alone control our public discourse.

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Alternate take:

We should cede all major and minor decision making authority to them without any sort of vote.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 26, 2019 02:54 PM (9cans)

19 Redditthedonald down (?)

Posted by: Floridachick at June 26, 2019 02:54 PM (FtLqQ)

20 "You see the same people shrieking about other people's wording
then taking offense that someone criticized their own wording because
this is nothing but juvenile power-seeking and king-of-the-hill
gamesmanship."

Good. Let them rot from the insides.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 26, 2019 02:54 PM (t6MX/)

21 14 The Tone Police
Posted by: Texican ette at June 26, 2019 02:53 PM (gou4q)

Like the soap?

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at June 26, 2019 02:54 PM (vgwv+)

22 Sponge!!!

Posted by: ALH at June 26, 2019 02:54 PM (uLuPn)

23 Ace to the barrel, please.

Posted by: Muad'dib at June 26, 2019 02:54 PM (sjdRT)

24 My pronouns are I'mABigLiberalDummy and KingTrump4Eva. Use them often or I will report you to HR.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2019 02:55 PM (hMuMA)

25 Huh. Read the content. Top 20 maybe?

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 26, 2019 02:55 PM (onMxx)

26 16 Ok wait I think the plastic straw ban is stupid but how the fuck is it ableist?

You know what, forget I asked that. I don't want to know what tortured reasoning they have for this.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at June 26, 2019 02:54 PM (oZ6kz)

==========

Some disabled people can't drink from cups without straws. It's a thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 26, 2019 02:55 PM (9cans)

27 Point. Laugh. Repeat.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 02:55 PM (l/Pix)

28 This would be hilarious if these people weren't also doing their best to pick our next president, and daily identifying new "Nazis" that must be purged from their platforms.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2019 02:55 PM (bDqIh)

29 Nope.
Shit.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 26, 2019 02:55 PM (onMxx)

30 I can't imagine spending my time with freaks like these day in and day out. Oh wait - I actually DID imagine it over 30 years ago when I quit the university's education program because I could see what my peer group would consist of if I continued on with a career in teaching.

Posted by: kathysaysso at June 26, 2019 02:55 PM (vkS2Z)

31 The Tone Police
Posted by: Texican ette


Their last album was kinda flat.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 02:56 PM (l/Pix)

32 19 Redditthedonald down (?)
Posted by: Floridachick at June 26, 2019 02:54 PM (FtLqQ)

=========

Quarantined, with apparent content deletion and bannings of members.

Same thing that happened to BLM...wait a second...BLM isn't quarantined...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 26, 2019 02:56 PM (9cans)

33 SCREAM AND LEAP!

On these crybabies, of course.


I'll tell you something else: They're lousy at writing English. I dunno if that also affects their ability to write code, but I wouldn't be surprised. "Disabled Googlers"????

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 26, 2019 02:56 PM (ClOmq)

34 Let them live in the hell's of their own creation.

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 26, 2019 02:56 PM (J+mig)

35
Does anyone at Goggle actually do their job? Or do they spend all day trading insults and HR complaints?

On the other hand, their job appears to be to shut down every conservative in the nation, so maybe we shouldn't interfere while they eat their own....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 26, 2019 02:56 PM (veoSD)

36 With all of the spying and tattling on each other, does any actual work get done at Google? If so, when and how?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Celebrate Independence Day With American Made Gripes from The Outrage Outlet! at June 26, 2019 02:56 PM (hLRSq)

37 There is unrest in the forest . . . .

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 26, 2019 02:56 PM (t6MX/)

38 They can't even police "hate speech" at Google, so what makes them think they should be policing "hate speech" on the entire internet?????

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2019 02:56 PM (bDqIh)

39 Are these what you call 1st World Problems?

Posted by: ALH at June 26, 2019 02:56 PM (uLuPn)

40 Yes but most places I've been with the plastic straw ban they have paper straws instead. Google has a bazillion dollar market cap but they can't buy paper straws?

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at June 26, 2019 02:56 PM (oZ6kz)

41 MMMMMOOOOMMMM! -- Google staff

Posted by: Archer at June 26, 2019 02:57 PM (gmo/4)

42 21
14 The Tone Police

Posted by: Texican ette at June 26, 2019 02:53 PM (gou4q)



Like the soap?

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at June 26, 2019 02:54 PM (vgwv+)

They speak to me in my head.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 26, 2019 02:57 PM (CPk08)

43 Some disabled people can't drink from cups without straws. It's a thing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


Sippy cups for the crew!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 02:57 PM (l/Pix)

44 So you're sayin' the google folk only know "will to power" and are using lingo/victim positioning tricks to gain the upper hand?

Wow. Who'd a thunk it.

Posted by: simplemind at June 26, 2019 02:57 PM (7V6k7)

45 They have successfully turned the world into one giant college campus from ~2000. Wait until the world becomes one of *today's* college campuses. Aye aye aye.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2019 02:57 PM (xpb00)

46 16 Ok wait I think the plastic straw ban is stupid but how the fuck is it ableist?

You know what, forget I asked that. I don't want to know what tortured reasoning they have for this.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at June 26, 2019 02:54 PM (oZ6kz)

Disabled people sometimes have difficulty holding cups and need to use straws. I actually had a disabled relative who we would occasionally take out to restaurants and the stupid straw ban would have fucked her over.

Posted by: Liberty at June 26, 2019 02:57 PM (O+Wek)

47 I prefer sucking on straws, and stuff.

Posted by: Captain Billy at June 26, 2019 02:57 PM (88+cf)

48 But we're not trying to control speech or the US elections! Really!

Posted by: Goolag at June 26, 2019 02:57 PM (oVJmc)

49 40 Yes but most places I've been with the plastic straw ban they have paper straws instead. Google has a bazillion dollar market cap but they can't buy paper straws?
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at June 26, 2019 02:56 PM (oZ6kz)

==========

Metal straws for everyone.

You know, the ones that take as much carbon to manufacture as a few thousand plastic straws.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 26, 2019 02:57 PM (9cans)

50
These are our masters.

Wrap your mind around that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 26, 2019 02:57 PM (5aX2M)

51 Sounds like the "Googlers" are tuning up to be like the Kilkenny cats, who fought so savagely that eventually there was nothing left of them but their tails.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 26, 2019 02:57 PM (ClOmq)

52 I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but if you want to do something about ocean trash, GO AFTER CHINA. FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at June 26, 2019 02:58 PM (Zwm1r)

53 Oh my. I don't know how heavy the participation is on this is - it could be a small-but-loud group. Whatever. Within its confines, though, it appears that among the Professionally Aggrieved, madness is the coin of the realm.

I love this bit:
"Anti-harrassment anti-discrimination training includes two examples of men flirting with women as inappropiate behabvior and zero examples involving any other gender configuration. This unthinkingly normalized that dynamic and derives any other."

Yeah. Totally unknowing, I'm sure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 26, 2019 02:58 PM (I2dne)

54 Heather sounds like a patriarchal name. I'm offended.

Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at June 26, 2019 02:58 PM (/B1LE)

55 The soy police

"A coworker approached me to say that he noticed I consumed a lot of soy products (I'm a vegetarian) and that he was worried my testicles would shrink, my testosterone would fail, and estrogen would rise. It was inappropriate to begin with, but also cast people with lower testosterone as less masculine or manly."


Wait--it DOESN'T shrivel your nuts?

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 26, 2019 02:58 PM (RD7QR)

56 I sense a disturbance in the Farce.

Posted by: Archer at June 26, 2019 02:58 PM (gmo/4)

57 40
Yes but most places I've been with the plastic straw ban they have paper
straws instead. Google has a bazillion dollar market cap but they can't
buy paper straws?

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at June 26, 2019 02:56 PM (oZ6kz)

cf "retards"

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 26, 2019 02:58 PM (CPk08)

58 Rick Nielsen originally wrote the song as the Tone Police, but fortunately slept on it before releasing it.

Posted by: Roy at June 26, 2019 02:58 PM (ABjxW)

59 Metal straws for everyone.

You know, the ones that take as much carbon to manufacture as a few thousand plastic straws.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


The metal ones you can actually use as a weapon.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 02:58 PM (l/Pix)

60

The soy police
"A coworker approached me to say that he noticed I consumed a lot of soy products (I'm a vegetarian) and that he was worried my testicles would shrink, my testosterone would fail, and estrogen would rise. It was inappropriate to begin with, but also cast people with lower testosterone as less masculine or manly."


I didn't know Joe Biden worked for Google.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 26, 2019 02:59 PM (TAmPV)

61 Trans people were forgotten? Umm, I'm skeptical about that. I wish they could be forgotten but that's as likely as forgetting about a testicular cyst the size of a basketball.

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 02:59 PM (aCNZ6)

62 LOL, all that crap is pretty fu$#ed up, right there.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 26, 2019 02:59 PM (ufFY8)

63 What a bunch of pussies - Nike slave labor.

Posted by: Archer at June 26, 2019 02:59 PM (gmo/4)

64 60

The soy police
"A coworker approached me to say that he noticed I consumed a lot of soy products (I'm a vegetarian) and that he was worried my testicles would shrink, my testosterone would fail, and estrogen would rise. It was inappropriate to begin with, but also cast people with lower testosterone as less masculine or manly."


I didn't know Joe Biden worked for Google.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 26, 2019 02:59 PM (TAmPV)

=========

Sounds more like LBJ.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 26, 2019 02:59 PM (9cans)

65 My hash is literally Hillary after a couple of her morning "wakeup" beverages.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2019 02:59 PM (xpb00)

66


Isn't they word "they" indicative of a plural state?

Then how they fuck is it good to call one person "they".

GTFO.

What's problematic is Googlers lying and deploying subterfuge to get people fired.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Williams at June 26, 2019 02:59 PM (7wsmM)

67 I prefer the metal straws. Keeps your drink cooler.

Posted by: ALH at June 26, 2019 02:59 PM (uLuPn)

68 Paper straws don't suck for long

Posted by: dagny at June 26, 2019 02:59 PM (nRWPy)

69 61 Trans people were forgotten? Umm, I'm skeptical about that. I wish they could be forgotten but that's as likely as forgetting about a testicular cyst the size of a basketball.
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 02:59 PM (aCNZ6)

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What about dragon people, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 26, 2019 02:59 PM (9cans)

70 Ah, so criticizing a woman's work is now mysogynistic, and then woman-babies get to cry and whine about it.

Feminism - setting women back since... whenever.

I work in consulting, and my clients are free to criticize my work as much as they want. These toddlers wouldn't last a day in this environment (and it's not a difficult environment for normal humans to work in).

I'm surprised they are still able to produce stuff with all these cry babies. Their productivity must suck.

Posted by: chique d'afrique at June 26, 2019 03:00 PM (rAFh8)

71 Shit it changed. Really. All that was missing was a flying lamp.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2019 03:00 PM (xpb00)

72 The soy police

"A coworker approached me to say that he noticed I consumed a lot of soy products (I'm a vegetarian) and that he was worried my testicles would shrink, my testosterone would fail, and estrogen would rise. It was inappropriate to begin with, but also cast people with lower testosterone as less masculine or manly."

Wait--it DOESN'T shrivel your nuts?
Posted by: joncelli


It does. Eating tofu for 9 months will have you shopping for a bra at Victoria's Secret.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:00 PM (l/Pix)

73 Not just google. My last employer maintained a list and managers who were nothing less than enforcers. Drink the koolaid or you get reassigned to an enforcer.

Posted by: BluesFish at June 26, 2019 03:00 PM (WQZ1O)

74 53: Now that you point it out, I wonder if that one actually could have been a troll. Because they seem to be requesting that harassment training include examples of women harassing men and homosexual harassment. Which we all know would go over like a lead balloon.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at June 26, 2019 03:00 PM (Zwm1r)

75 You know at least here when we have a tiff it's over something slightly less bullshit.

"I felt X's tone was inappropriate."

"How so?"

"He said he was going to fuck my dead mom."

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at June 26, 2019 03:00 PM (oZ6kz)

76 Paper straws don't suck for longPosted by: dagny at June 26, 2019 02:59 PM (nRWPy)

So many punchlines, dagny. Too many.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2019 03:00 PM (xpb00)

77 Google is staffed by crybabies, pussies, wannabe dominatrices and other sexually-bent fruitcakes, bullies, psychopaths, and Nazis


No Methodists?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2019 03:00 PM (gFFRx)

78 "This unthinkingly normalized that dynamic and derives any other."
*
*
. . .
Not only a classic example of academic doublespeak, but a misuse of "derives." English, MF-ers, do you speak it?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 26, 2019 03:00 PM (ClOmq)

79
"A coworker approached me to say that he noticed I consumed a lot of soy products (I'm a vegetarian) and that he was worried my testicles would shrink, my testosterone would fail, and estrogen would rise. It was inappropriate to begin with, but also cast people with lower testosterone as less masculine or manly."

Well I guess I won't advocate the ketogenic diet around this guy.

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:00 PM (aCNZ6)

80 Metal straws for everyone.



You know, the ones that take as much carbon to manufacture as a few thousand plastic straws.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 26, 2019 02:57 PM (9cans)

5 or 6 community straws per 1,000 employees should suffice to meet the needs of the disproportionately-abled.
There. Next problem, whiners.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 26, 2019 03:01 PM (t6MX/)

81 It is really unfortunate there's no moderated space to discuss news about Google with a broad audience.

Wait - they don't discuss it with guys??

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:01 PM (if8r4)

82 -
--
"Anti-harrassment anti-discrimination training includes two
examples of men flirting with women as inappropiate behabvior and zero
examples involving any other gender configuration. This unthinkingly
normalized that dynamic and derives any other."

--------------------------

What does "derives" mean here?

Posted by: irright at June 26, 2019 03:01 PM (pMGkg)

83

I really enjoyed the part where the Google Stasi told a woman to watch her tone, and she replied that she couldn't really tell what her tone was BECAUSE SHE WAS DEAF.

She had cochlear implants, which let her hear, apparently, but not the tones of speech.


It's like a woke-on-woke-on-even-more-woke WAR in there. What a miserable sounding place to work.

Posted by: imp at June 26, 2019 03:01 PM (w+Z9D)

84 When a free and open society has effectively met all of your daily needs (food, shelter, clothing, medical care), then certain types of people need to focus on all these first world problems, that have absolutely no resemblance to any kind of true problem requiring time, energy and attention.

Seriously, these pricks and bitches need to get a life and try addressing the real problems in society: drug abuse, homelessness and mental illness management. All this worthless virtue signaling does nothing to make lives better. Not. One. Bit. But it sounds cool and caring, which is why they do it.

Go work at a soup kitchen and do something that might make a difference for a needy person. Otherwise, Shut the F up.

Posted by: Czech Chick at June 26, 2019 03:01 PM (88cFV)

85
What does "derives" mean here?
Posted by: irright at June 26, 2019 03:01 PM (pMGkg)


Retard-spell for "derides."

Posted by: sunflower at June 26, 2019 03:01 PM (I54dk)

86 Heather sounds like a patriarchal name. I'm offended.
Posted by: Embarrassing Stain


"Next up! Heather on the pole at center stage!"

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:01 PM (l/Pix)

87 Yes but most places I've been with the plastic straw ban they have paper straws instead. Google has a bazillion dollar market cap but they can't buy paper straws?
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at June 26, 2019 02:56 PM (oZ6kz)
++++++++++
Of, that's easy. Within the confines of Google, they need to be a bit more relaxed and open because they're in the unenviable position of needed to *define* "hate speech" as that concept evolves continuously. In order to keep us plebes safe from hate speech out in the world.

This is discomforting for Google and its employees. But it is the price they willing pay to keep us safe as definitions and boundaries evolve. They have to deal with it so they can make our lives better. It's a sacrifice they willingly make.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 26, 2019 03:01 PM (I2dne)

88 but also cast people with lower testosterone as less masculine or manly."
==========
Rapinoe is probably manlier than pajama boy. More of a jaw, deeper voice, more aggressive. Of course, we'd have to get blood tests to see who has a higher testosterone level. . .

Posted by: simplemind at June 26, 2019 03:02 PM (VWESd)

89 'Calm down' he told her.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2019 03:02 PM (CgXLw)

90 This would be hilarious if these people weren't also doing their best to pick our next president, and daily identifying new "Nazis" that must be purged from their platforms.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2019 02:55 PM (bDqIh)


From what Ace posted I think they will be glaringly ineffective at this as any attempts will be blocked by squabbling over the petty things that one has said to another and now everything has to come to a screeching halt and everyone take sides in the hissy-fit between Kaydin and Saffron.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Celebrate Independence Day With American Made Gripes from The Outrage Outlet! at June 26, 2019 03:02 PM (hLRSq)

91 The overuse of bold is offensive and does not give equal time to italics.

Posted by: Upcoming Google Microaggressions Newsletter at June 26, 2019 03:02 PM (+dsLj)

92 GOOGLE SUCKS!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 26, 2019 03:02 PM (wtvvX)

93 Imagine that Google gets broken up into smaller pieces.

Would YOU be checking the property auctions for all their espresso machines and hover boards ?

Posted by: Total Control Racist at June 26, 2019 03:02 PM (UavMO)

94 Just like everywhere else, They probably have a bunch of regular folks just doing their job while all these other loudmouth SJWs waste time on this nonsense. that's the only way I can see the company accomplishing anything at all.

Posted by: chique d'afrique at June 26, 2019 03:02 PM (rAFh8)

95 Am I the only one who hates the corporate-speak usage of "team?"

Whenever I hear it, I'm tempted to ask what position the person plays on the team.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:03 PM (if8r4)

96 Now I know who Liz Warren makes me think of: An HR director at Google

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 26, 2019 03:03 PM (ptqGC)

97 I really enjoyed the part where the Google Stasi told a woman to watch her tone, and she replied that she couldn't really tell what her tone was BECAUSE SHE WAS DEAF.

She had cochlear implants, which let her hear, apparently, but not the tones of speech.



Ooooohhhhh. Sick buuuuuurrrn. Uptwinkles.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:03 PM (l/Pix)

98 But Google is the coolest and most relaxed place to work EVAH! They drink BEER, you guys. BEER.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at June 26, 2019 03:03 PM (oZ6kz)

99
"I felt X's tone was inappropriate."

"How so?"

"He said he was going to fuck my dead mom."



His identity as a Necrophiliac should be applauded, h8r.

Posted by: Goolag at June 26, 2019 03:03 PM (oVJmc)

100

The tone police
They live inside of my head
The tone police
They come to me in my bed
The tone police
They're coming to arrest me
Oh no

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2019 03:03 PM (aKsyK)

101 Am I the only one who hates the corporate-speak usage of "team?"

Whenever I hear it, I'm tempted to ask what position the person plays on the team.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara


Bent Over Power Forward.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:04 PM (l/Pix)

102 59 Metal straws for everyone.

You know, the ones that take as much carbon to manufacture as a few thousand plastic straws.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


The metal ones you can actually use as a weapon.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 02:58 PM (l/Pix)

Actually saw some at a store here in Paso Robles, CA

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at June 26, 2019 03:04 PM (vgwv+)

103 I wonder what an "Yes, at AoSHQ" newsletter would look like?

Posted by: josephistan at June 26, 2019 03:04 PM (Izzlo)

104 >>Isn't they word "they" indicative of a plural state? Then how they fuck is it good to call one person "they".

May be they could just ask to called "Legion, for we are many".

Posted by: bananaDream at June 26, 2019 03:04 PM (l6b3d)

105 This unthinkingly
normalized that dynamic and derives any other."
-------------------------

What does "derives" mean here?


Posted by: irright at June 26, 2019

*
*
. . .
I think Googler C24 meant "derides." If what she meant to write that, then it could just be a typo. If I felt charitable, I might say that.

If.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 26, 2019 03:04 PM (ClOmq)

106 67
I prefer the metal straws. Keeps your drink cooler.

Posted by: ALH at June 26, 2019 02:59 PM (uLuPn)

Until you drive over a bump and give yourself a palate piercing.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 26, 2019 03:04 PM (t6MX/)

107 THIS is how Leftism is intended to make society unworkable.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 26, 2019 03:04 PM (oVJmc)

108 54
Heather sounds like a patriarchal name. I'm offended.

Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at June 26, 2019 02:58 PM (/B1LE)


It's worse. "Heather" prioritises plants in naming conventions, to the neglect of minority taxa, such as fungi and protists, and thus marginalises them, reducing biodiversity in human nomenclature. With the global reduction in biodiversity due to anthropogenic climate change, this represents collusion with white supremacist/globalist/neoliberalist ecocide and constitutes an urgent crisis facing ourselves, our children and our vacation spots.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 26, 2019 03:04 PM (CPk08)

109 Dear Google Management,
Just ditch the micro-agressions newsletter and anonymous complaint sort of stuff, today, and move to where you want to go: Good old Stalin and Mao-tse-tung style Criticism and Self-Criticism sessions, with political officers (oops, I should have written "senior HR and Diversity Advocate Office personnel") running each one. Get those non-conformists to publicly admit their guilt, then shoot them (oops, I meant fire them).

Posted by: Gref at June 26, 2019 03:04 PM (AMIL/)

110 "He said he was going to fuck my dead mom."

if you take advantage of our services, we protect you from such worries. Guaranteed.

Posted by: The Winston McCauley Funeral Home at June 26, 2019 03:04 PM (/DuNp)

111 How do they prevent the one employee with testosterone from pushing all these estrogen soaked soyboys aside and taking over?

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:04 PM (aCNZ6)

112 Unbelievable. I don't know how any normal person could possibly work there.

Posted by: IrishEi at June 26, 2019 03:04 PM (NtglE)

113 On pronouncement.

Posted by: Blake - my preferred pronoun is: Pronoun at June 26, 2019 03:04 PM (qC1Sy)

114 What. A. Caricature! HAHAHA! I can't imagine working at that freakshow. It is everything SJW imaginable x a million. They are all sooo uptight that you couldn't pull a needle out f their behinds with a tractor.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at June 26, 2019 03:05 PM (JoUsr)

115 Elizabeth Warren reminds me of substitute teachers.

They make a lot of noise and don't have a clue what they're doing.

Posted by: ALH at June 26, 2019 03:05 PM (uLuPn)

116 Holy crap. What a load of stupid, infantile, little whiney bitches. How the fuck do they function?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 26, 2019 03:05 PM (XWb4y)

117 -
--
What does "derives" mean here?

Posted by: irright at June 26, 2019 03:01 PM (pMGkg)



Retard-spell for "derides."

Posted by: sunflower at June 26, 2019 03:01 PM
---------------------------------
Hah. So the genderweird are complaining about being excluded from the sexual harassers villain group. Classic.

Posted by: irright at June 26, 2019 03:05 PM (pMGkg)

118 It is really unfortunate there's no moderated space to discuss news about Google with a broad audience.

Wait - they don't discuss it with guys??
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara



ISWYDT.

Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:05 PM (l/Pix)

119 I wonder what an "Yes, at AoSHQ" newsletter would look like?


But first you will blow me.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2019 03:05 PM (tH5fk)

120 They come to me in my bed

The tone police

They're coming to arrest me

Oh no

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2019

*
*
. . .


Somebody's watching me . . .

Posted by: Forgotten '80s Click at June 26, 2019 03:05 PM (ClOmq)

121 I ate at a Sushi place that had metal chopstix not long ago.

Because Pandas NEED Bamboo, don't you know.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2019 03:05 PM (CgXLw)

122 "Yes, at AoSHQ"

Will there be "Roundabout"?

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 26, 2019 03:05 PM (O8WFE)

123 I wonder what an "Yes, at AoSHQ" newsletter would look like?


Lolgetfucked. What's in it for you!

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2019 03:06 PM (tH5fk)

124 they are all insane.

Posted by: President For Life Barack Obama I at June 26, 2019 03:06 PM (LISuA)

125 The tone police

They're coming to arrest me

Oh no

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2019 03:03 PM (aKsyK)

LOL, you beat me to it.
*golf clap*

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 26, 2019 03:06 PM (ufFY8)

126 >>"He said he was going to fuck my dead mom."


...and the Rabbi says, "Out of what?".

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2019 03:06 PM (CgXLw)

127 "Oh thank God."

Does she have a firearm permit? Asking for a co worker.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 26, 2019 03:06 PM (VpIIl)

128 I recently watched a funny movie, "The Death of Stalin". I'm thinking this is how Google is too.

Posted by: Archer at June 26, 2019 03:06 PM (gmo/4)

129 Until you drive over a bump and give yourself a palate piercing.

***

Self lobotomized when he sneezed at a picnic

Posted by: Total Control Racist at June 26, 2019 03:06 PM (UavMO)

130 How in the fuck does any actual work get done there? Jezuz fucking christ.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 26, 2019 03:06 PM (FiUMj)

131 50
These are our masters.

Wrap your mind around that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 26, 2019 02:57 PM (5aX2M)

These people get to be fucked up and celebrated for it.

I'd get beaten to death for being half as weird/fucked-up.

This world is a con-job.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 26, 2019 03:07 PM (sm6Pk)

132 OMG, so much of this could be solved with "toughen up, buttercup."

Must every slight or stray comment be cataloged and obsessed over? People say stupid things, they can be intentionally and unintentionally mean, they are biased. Grow up. Push back when it happens, tactfully as needed and move on. Or, just ignore it.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2019 03:07 PM (bDqIh)

133 is any work being done there? fire away.

Posted by: trapper's girl at June 26, 2019 03:07 PM (4fOQa)

134 What a bunch of gutless losers. It's like middle school slam books - anonymous bitching. If you don't like something, stand up like an adult and say so.

Posted by: annem at June 26, 2019 03:07 PM (bM37c)

135 I really hope Damore has this as an exhibit in his lawsuit.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 26, 2019 03:07 PM (oVJmc)

136

Mad Magazine

Woke vs Woke

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2019 03:07 PM (aKsyK)

137 Actually saw some at a store here in Paso Robles, CA
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin


Rtic and Yeti websites.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:07 PM (l/Pix)

138 The "Yes, at AoS HQ" Newsletter:

Commenter 143856: I feel that the tone here at AoS HQ is at times aggressive and not very open minded regarding alternative lifestyles.

Ace: How bout you gargle my balls, cuck?

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at June 26, 2019 03:07 PM (oZ6kz)

139 This world is a con-job.

With a gaslight on the side.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2019 03:07 PM (tH5fk)

140 111 How do they prevent the one employee with testosterone from pushing all these estrogen soaked soyboys aside and taking over?
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:04 PM (aCNZ6)


They have a microagression newsletter.

Posted by: blaster at June 26, 2019 03:07 PM (9VeU0)

141 >>95 Am I the only one who hates the corporate-speak usage of "team?"

One of the best from the Demotivational Poster people was:

T E A M
Because no single one of us is as dumb as all of us.

Posted by: bananaDream at June 26, 2019 03:07 PM (l6b3d)

142 -
--
How in the fuck does any actual work get done there? Jezuz fucking christ.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 26, 2019 03:06 PM (FiUMj)

--------------------------------------

They have incels in a sweatshop out back.

Posted by: irright at June 26, 2019 03:08 PM (pMGkg)

143 So I've worked at a lot of places. I mean a lot. Like probably hundreds of clients, as I am a consultant. And I've seen my share of idiocy, stupidity and SJW insanity. But I've never seen anything like this. Google is a special kind of fucked up.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 26, 2019 03:08 PM (FiUMj)

144 "Anti-harrassment anti-discrimination training includes two
examples of men flirting with women as inappropiate behabvior and zero
examples involving any other gender configuration. This unthinkingly
normalized that dynamic and derives any other."

--------------------------

What does "derives" mean here?
====================
Nothing . . .

"In 2019 as in 1984, anyone who can make dissonance mellifluous by condescending facility of expression is considered an intellectual beacon, even when his intelligence is above average when that average is modest. And this is because, as Erasmus wrote in his Adagia: In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.

But our Lord warned that there is a peril in following disseminators of cognitive dissonance Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch Matt. 15:14"

Posted by: Fr. George Rutler explains it all . . . at June 26, 2019 03:08 PM (VWESd)

145 Isn't they word "they" indicative of a plural state?

Then how they fuck is it good to call one person "they".

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Williams at June 26, 2019 02:59 PM (7wsmM)


I detest that usage.

"Everyone has their ..." --> EveryONE has HIS ..."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:08 PM (if8r4)

146

"Heather" prioritizes plants in naming conventions, to the neglect of minority taxa, such as fungi

Preach it, sister!!!!

My given name is Phalloides.

Posted by: imp at June 26, 2019 03:08 PM (w+Z9D)

147 Do you suppose our Mary Clogginstein is a google employee? Mary seems a bit more attached to reality then these weirdos but there is a resemblance.

Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at June 26, 2019 03:08 PM (/B1LE)

148 111 How do they prevent the one employee with testosterone from pushing all these estrogen soaked soyboys aside and taking over?
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:04 PM (aCNZ6)

-------------

I think we should send in an 'ette. One of the 'ettes would have all of those nancy pronouns screaming for mercy within minutes.

Posted by: Blake - my preferred pronoun is: Pronoun at June 26, 2019 03:08 PM (qC1Sy)

149 Based on the "Soy Police" segment, it looks like one of the horde has infiltrated Google. Good work. Shrinking testicles is the next public health crisis.

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at June 26, 2019 03:08 PM (hKi6n)

150 Theory: Google is staffed by crybabies, pussies, wannabe dominatrices and other sexually-bent fruitcakes, bullies, psychopaths, and Nazis, and should not be permitted to exist, let alone control our public discourse.

Not just a theory, but an actual fact.

Posted by: Lump at June 26, 2019 03:08 PM (ERZAn)

151 136




Mad Magazine



Woke vs Woke

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2019 03:07 PM (aKsyK)

Cry vs. Cry

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 26, 2019 03:08 PM (t6MX/)

152 So what do these fagz actually do??



Posted by: dananjcon at June 26, 2019 03:08 PM (xqfqx)

153 So Lieawatha is "choked" up over the detention camps?Do you think she would be choked up after seeing the thousands of homeless Americans?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 26, 2019 03:08 PM (O2RFr)

154 There has to be some ritualistic testicle shaving going on in that place. By the women.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 26, 2019 03:08 PM (VpIIl)

155 Did we miss the one about how they were telling a deaf person they didn't like her "tone?"

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 26, 2019 03:08 PM (jUVms)

156 "Yes, at AoSHQ"

Will there be "Roundabout"?

Posted by: Guy Smiley


Thunderdome.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:09 PM (l/Pix)

157 I wonder what an "Yes, at AoSHQ" newsletter would look like?


But first you will blow me.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2019 03:05 PM (tH5fk)


Sort of like:

"He called me a ball-less soyboy."
"Did you tell him to fuck off?"
"No."
"Why the hell not?"

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Celebrate Independence Day With American Made Gripes from The Outrage Outlet! at June 26, 2019 03:09 PM (hLRSq)

158 140
111 How do they prevent the one employee with testosterone from pushing all these estrogen soaked soyboys aside and taking over?

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:04 PM (aCNZ6)



They have a microagression newsletter.

Posted by: blaster at June 26, 2019 03:07 PM (9VeU0)



Which tells you how low the maximum testosterone level is at that place.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 26, 2019 03:09 PM (CPk08)

159 I expect Google to erupt into some kind of global gay slap fight. Not a cup of testosterone in the whole fucking disorganization.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 26, 2019 03:09 PM (XWb4y)

160 My company is 100% work-from-home. Hard to offend anyone or be offended as long as you keep your e-mails nice and anodyne. And I'm never alone in an office with a woman, since I'm always working alone. I like it this way. Google sounds like a nightmare.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 26, 2019 03:09 PM (O8WFE)

161 Stacy McCain had posted about Project Veritas' Google investigation on his blog, where I commented "Why do I keep thinking of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror?". In response, commenter McGehee said, "The Madames Defarges at Ravelry?"
I think together we hit the nail on the goddamned head.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 26, 2019 03:09 PM (wtvvX)

162 This is hilarious, everyone is offended with everyone else. hahahahaaaaaahhhh Idiots.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 26, 2019 03:09 PM (jUVms)

163 134
What a bunch of gutless losers. It's like middle school slam books -
anonymous bitching
. If you don't like something, stand up like an adult
and say so.

Posted by: annem at June 26, 2019

*
*
. . .
Sounds like the Mean Girls moment when Rachel McAdams writes "Fugly Slut" on her own picture in the yearbook, so she can put the blame on Lindsay Lohan.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 26, 2019 03:09 PM (ClOmq)

164 Does aoshq have a newsletter? Do microaggressions get you tossed into barrel?

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:09 PM (aCNZ6)

165 I think we should send in an 'ette. One of the 'ettes would have all of those nancy pronouns screaming for mercy within minutes.
Posted by: Blake


AtC.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (l/Pix)

166 Well, now I have to get a roku. My streaming blu ray playing is no longer supporting Hulu as of 5 minutes ago

Posted by: josephistan at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (Izzlo)

167 Never forget - they wish to control us.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (6qErC)

168 The Mean Girls of Hi-Tech!!!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (ClOmq)

169 So do they yet have a tone police department?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (if8r4)

170 I am now working on a way to weaponize metallic straws.

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (hKi6n)

171 here it is:
[x] buy alphabet stock
[x] google play is best
[x] gmail and hot mail are the only way
[x] android phones are tops

Posted by: Yea Me I checked all the boxes at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (RKPlw)

172 So Google is the safe space that all the college grads are looking for. Pathetic. To think that there are 19-year old men and women in the military putting up with all kinds of crap...

Maybe Google will implode from stupidity.

Posted by: Smilin Jack and I search with DuckDuckGo at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (EwzO+)

173 Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at June 26, 2019 03:07 PM (oZ6kz)

Broseidon is pretending to speak for Ace. And mansplaining.

Posted by: Total Control Racist at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (UavMO)

174 The Chinese food in the cafeteria at Google headquarters isn't kosher.

Soy vey, I'm triggered.

Posted by: Google snowflake, partially melting in the California sun at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (COzlW)

175
I think we should send in an 'ette. One of the 'ettes would have all of those nancy pronouns screaming for mercy within minutes.



ATC, you wanna rule Google?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (oVJmc)

176 143
So I've worked at a lot of places. I mean a lot. Like probably hundreds
of clients, as I am a consultant. And I've seen my share of idiocy,
stupidity and SJW insanity. But I've never seen anything like this.
Google is a special kind of fucked up.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 26, 2019 03:08 PM (FiUMj)

I left Silicon Valley decades ago. Shades of this were there, but fortunately the corporate culture was engineering dominated. I shudder to think what it is now with all the whiny snowflakes.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (t6MX/)

177 "The reason they fight so much over tone-policing is that who polices whose tone is a demonstration of power."

Well put!

It's not just Google, BTW. It's now all the major corporations and all of academia. All office workers have to bear this crap now. HR people are the chief enforcers. Fuck them, every which way.

Posted by: gp And His Crispy Scalp at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (mk9aG)

178 95 Am I the only one who hates the corporate-speak usage of "team?"


Oh man...I worked at a place in the 90's that had constant "quality" meetings where the fucking word "quality" was used every ten motherfuckingseconds.

I hope they all got herpes.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (tH5fk)

179 These places are hell holes to work at. The only place I've seen more employee churn than Netflix was when I worked at a fruit packing shed. And I suspect one of the supervisors was fired because he used vacation time. They randomly purged people for no particular reason.

The tech companies are proving to be economic liabilities.

Posted by: notsothoreau at June 26, 2019 03:11 PM (JKNZq)

180 That post makes me want to recruit 1,000 men with truncheons to go through every building on the main Google Campus, administering beatings to all they encounter.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2019 03:11 PM (Kpl3J)

181 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge at June 26, 2019 03:11 PM (DeUUb)

182 I am now working on a way to weaponize metallic straws.


Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (hKi6n)

They grind into a nice shiv.

Posted by: Archer at June 26, 2019 03:11 PM (gmo/4)

183 We should totally forgive these peoples Student Loans.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2019 03:11 PM (CgXLw)

184 Heh. We have "team" right in our e-mail address.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 26, 2019 03:11 PM (O8WFE)

185 169
So do they yet have a tone police department?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019

*
*
. . .
"Tone? You got your treble, you got your bass. Simple. Whaddaya need us for?"

Posted by: The Tone Cops at June 26, 2019 03:11 PM (ClOmq)

186 Google is the world run by women.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 26, 2019 03:11 PM (XWb4y)

187 They must have aerosolized testosterone blockers in the HVAC at google.

Posted by: annem at June 26, 2019 03:11 PM (bM37c)

188 Isn't they word "they" indicative of a plural state?
Then how they fuck is it good to call one person "they".
...
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Williams at June 26, 2019 02:59 PM (7wsmM)
+++++++++++
This goes back to early PC days. Remember back when the masculine pronoun was used where sex is indeterminate? For example:

"The student picked up his back pack before going home."
"The customer found that our process disrupted his day."

Now, this was suddenly unacceptable because the student or the customer could be a woman! So the grammatically-correct way to accommodate this is:

"The student picked up his or her back pack before going home."
"The customer found that our process disrupted his or her day."

But that's stupid and awkward. Enter "they" - it is flat-wrong but less cumbersome than "his or her." Suddenly the following becomes acceptable:

"The student picked up their back pack before going home."
"The customer four that our process disrupted their day."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 26, 2019 03:11 PM (I2dne)

189 They sent us a survey on how to improve the work environment here. There was a free form section so I wrote in "a top shelf bar centered around 20 year old scotches".

Hey, they asked and it was anonymous.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 26, 2019 03:11 PM (VpIIl)

190
Never forget - they wish to control us.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (6qErC)


But they can't control themselves.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2019 03:12 PM (BWL+E)

191 All this shit comes out of the colleges. All the grievance theory, all the factional rationalization, all the terminology, and all the brainwashing.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 26, 2019 03:12 PM (oVJmc)

192 In other words, THOSE guys are FAGS!

Posted by: Sponge at June 26, 2019 03:12 PM (DeUUb)

193 168 The Mean Girls of Hi-Tech!!!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (ClOmq)
------------

And that's just the boys!

Posted by: Blake - my preferred pronoun is: Pronoun at June 26, 2019 03:12 PM (qC1Sy)

194 148 111 How do they prevent the one employee with testosterone from pushing all these estrogen soaked soyboys aside and taking over?
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:04 PM (aCNZ6)

-------------

I think we should send in an 'ette. One of the 'ettes would have all of those nancy pronouns screaming for mercy within minutes.

Posted by: Blake - my preferred pronoun is: Pronoun at June 26, 2019 03:08 PM (qC1Sy)


It is ripe to be absorbed into Alextopia.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Celebrate Independence Day With American Made Gripes from The Outrage Outlet! at June 26, 2019 03:12 PM (hLRSq)

195 I'd be embarrassed to tell anyone I worked at Google.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 26, 2019 03:12 PM (PxX58)

196 179 These places are hell holes to work at. The only place I've seen more employee churn than Netflix was when I worked at a fruit packing shed."

oh wait, at first I thought you said you worked at a fudge packing shed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2019 03:12 PM (Kpl3J)

197 Dear AoS microaggression newsletter:

Commenter Sponge always yells "FIRST!" I think this disparages higher comment numbers and makes them feel unworthy simply because they were posted later.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at June 26, 2019 03:12 PM (oZ6kz)

198 The Mean Girls of Hi-Tech!!!

*(*

Catch the new series Wednesdays on the WB

Posted by: Total Control Racist at June 26, 2019 03:12 PM (UavMO)

199 The soy guy was right...I wouldn't say it out loud to the soiboi though. I'd think it. I wouldn't say it.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 26, 2019 03:13 PM (O8WFE)

200 Never forget - they wish to control us.
Posted by: Anon a mouse


Bwahahahahahahaha. Yell loud. They can't control their bowels.

Control us. Bwahahahahahahaha.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:13 PM (l/Pix)

201 82 I am now working on a way to weaponize metallic straws.


Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (hKi6n)

They grind into a nice shiv.
Posted by: Archer at June 26, 2019 03:11 PM (gmo/4)

If John Wick killed three men with a pencil how many could he kill with a metal straw?

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:13 PM (aCNZ6)

202 one? You got your treble, you got your bass"

No highs, no lows, must be Bose...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 26, 2019 03:13 PM (6qErC)

203 There won't be any shooting at Google. There is going to be the first workplace violence incident involving a thermo-nuclear device.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 26, 2019 03:13 PM (VpIIl)

204

I'll give you a tone adjustment!

Posted by: The Equalizer at June 26, 2019 03:13 PM (aKsyK)

205 157 "He called me a ball-less soyboy."
"Did you tell him to fuck off?"
"No."
"Why the hell not?"
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Celebrate Independence Day With American Made Gripes from The Outrage Outlet! at June 26, 2019 03:09 PM (hLRSq)

More like

"Did you drive out to his house and snap his neck with your bare hands?"

"No."

"GTFO, Zek. But don't forget your shovel, you're spending the rest of your life digging canals."

Posted by: Hikaru at June 26, 2019 03:13 PM (sm6Pk)

206 It's amazing these people haven't all committed suicide, and somewhat disappointing too.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 26, 2019 03:13 PM (19g6/)

207 162 This is hilarious, everyone is offended with everyone else. hahahahaaaaaahhhh Idiots.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 26, 2019 03:09 PM (jUVms)
--------

Idiots that make $30B in net income a year.

Posted by: WisRich at June 26, 2019 03:13 PM (G0vdT)

208 180 That post makes me want to recruit 1,000 men with truncheons to go through every building on the main Google Campus, administering beatings to all they encounter.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2019 03:11 PM (Kpl3J)

Wet towel snappings work just fine, and are more humiliating

Posted by: josephistan at June 26, 2019 03:13 PM (Izzlo)

209 I have a bit of a crush on the HomeAdvisor spokeschick.
She is a One, who can remodel my bathroom.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 26, 2019 03:13 PM (ufFY8)

210 Ok wait I think the plastic straw ban is stupid but how the fuck is it ableist?
-------
There are some paralyzed people who need straws to drink. And conservatives here are using it against Justin's stupid, fucking, hoped-for single-use plastics and plastic straw ban so don't crap on the idea.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 26, 2019 03:13 PM (Dh1wo)

211 Wait, someone with full-blown medically-diagnosed schizophrenia is working as a software engineer at google?

Isn't this a medical miracle of some sort, or does the detachment from reality his disease gives him actually an asset in this environment?

Posted by: nevod at June 26, 2019 03:13 PM (psJuX)

212 "Heather" prioritizes plants in naming conventions, to the neglect of minority taxa, such as fungi



Preach it, sister!!!!



My given name is Phalloides.

Posted by: imp at June 26, 2019 03:08 PM (w+Z9D)

Sister? I identify as a Bdelloid rotifer.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 26, 2019 03:14 PM (CPk08)

213 It'd be a shame if the place was sealed up and the power shut off.
/s <= yes, this is sarcastic, narc.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 26, 2019 03:14 PM (DrqHq)

214
Google: Paris Commune

Trump: Adolphe Thiers

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2019 03:14 PM (BWL+E)

215 These places are hell holes to work at. The only place I've seen more employee churn than Netflix was when I worked at a fruit packing shed."

oh wait, at first I thought you said you worked at a fudge packing shed.
Posted by: Tom Servo


Talk about churn.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:14 PM (l/Pix)

216 186 Google is the world run by women.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 26, 2019 03:11 PM (XWb4y)


THAT'S NOT FUNNY!!!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:14 PM (if8r4)

217 175


I think we should send in an 'ette. One of the 'ettes would have all of those nancy pronouns screaming for mercy within minutes.





ATC, you wanna rule Google?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (oVJmc)

She should go in, dazzle the vaginally-possessed with shoe porn, and slaughter the soy boys to keep them from breeding.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 26, 2019 03:14 PM (t6MX/)

218 I'd be embarrassed to tell anyone I worked at Google.

--

Someone over at Mooch's Mirror posted a picture from inside Google. It seriously looked like a kindergarten. Primary colors, colorful child-friendly "fun" designs all over the place. It looked like it was made for children. Apparently, it is.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at June 26, 2019 03:14 PM (JoUsr)

219 Dear AoS microaggression newsletter:

The IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE... guy intimidates me with his all-caps shouting. And sometimes I still don't get why it's funny, which makes me feel inferior. Hold me.

Posted by: Is this the right place? at June 26, 2019 03:14 PM (O8WFE)

220 The greatest enemies of the USA are the teachers and professors. These are the people subverting young minds against their country, culture, family and ultimately themselves.

Posted by: Floridachick at June 26, 2019 03:14 PM (FtLqQ)

221
There's a real hornets' nest of suppressed rage there that will blow Gargler to kingdom come once folks start slinging lawsuits at one another.


Why are we allowing these head cases to control the free flow of ideas and discussion?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 26, 2019 03:14 PM (pNxlR)

222 When your workers have the time necessary to be this petty and nutty, it's a pretty good sign your firm must have monopoly pricing power, otherwise, your workers would be, you know, working ... so your competitors couldn't over take you.

Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at June 26, 2019 03:14 PM (hdzef)

223 Another bold expostulatory prose garden from Ace!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 26, 2019 03:15 PM (tBq0Q)

224 The soy police wear body cams, but they just use them for genitalia selfies

Posted by: Regular joe at June 26, 2019 03:15 PM (6/uwW)

225 "206 It's amazing these people haven't all committed suicide, and somewhat disappointing too."

Especially with all the diagnosed schizophrenics on staff suffering microaggressions.

Posted by: avenrt at June 26, 2019 03:15 PM (psJuX)

226 A more devious corporate entity would use the microaggressions newsletter as their 'first to fire" list when it is time for layoffs.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Celebrate Independence Day With American Made Gripes from The Outrage Outlet! at June 26, 2019 03:15 PM (hLRSq)

227 So- if someone at Google gets pissed off at you, do they yell at you using proper pronouns?

Posted by: Marcus T at June 26, 2019 03:15 PM (VpIIl)

228 these people haven't all committed suicide"

They hate you more than they hate each other.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 26, 2019 03:15 PM (6qErC)

229 It'd be a shame if the place was sealed up and the power shut off.

--

Dog Day Afternoon comes to Google. Sounds good to me.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at June 26, 2019 03:16 PM (JoUsr)

230 Now I see why Nancy represents these folks. Hard to recognize dementia when you are borderline insane.

Posted by: Ever at June 26, 2019 03:16 PM (ZZDMQ)

231 They hate you more than they hate each other.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 26, 2019 03:15 PM (6qErC)
+++++++++
Nailed it in one. Thread winner.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 26, 2019 03:16 PM (I2dne)

232 When a Google employee goes postal all he does is stomp his little feet.

Are Americans familiar with the concept of going postal, or is that a Canucky thing?

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:16 PM (aCNZ6)

233 But that's stupid and awkward. Enter "they" - it is flat-wrong but less cumbersome than "his or her." Suddenly the following becomes acceptable:

"The student picked up their back pack before going home."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 26, 2019 03:11 PM (I2dne)


God, how I detest that usage.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:16 PM (if8r4)

234
When I speak my mellifluous tone's
Been compared to a ripe provolone
But, if it offends you
Don;t let this upend you
Go sit on a dildo of stone

Posted by: naturalfake at June 26, 2019 03:16 PM (PhPlm)

235 You know who'd straighten this shit out? Andrew Dice Clay, that's who.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at June 26, 2019 03:16 PM (hjaPQ)

236 My company is 100% work-from-home.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 26, 2019 03:09 PM


Y'all hiring?

Posted by: Bert G at June 26, 2019 03:16 PM (tOP4K)

237 Dog Day Afternoon comes to Google. Sounds good to me.
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at June 26, 2019 03:16 PM (JoUsr)


Wow. There really is nothing new under the sun.

Posted by: blaster at June 26, 2019 03:16 PM (9VeU0)

238 These people make the Heavens Gate Cult look sane.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 26, 2019 03:16 PM (VpIIl)

239

Did we miss the one about how they were telling a deaf person they didn't like her "tone?"
Posted by: Seems Legit


I mentioned it. But only as an aside to the general miserable nature f the war-of-all-against-all. Google is reverting to the pre-society state of nature.

Posted by: imp at June 26, 2019 03:17 PM (w+Z9D)

240 "I get overtime and 5 paychecks a week."

Posted by: Google employee with multiple personalities at June 26, 2019 03:17 PM (UavMO)

241 If John Wick killed three men with a pencil how many could he kill with a metal straw?

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:13 PM (aCNZ6)


More dangerous than a chainsaw bayonet.

More to the point, how long before there is a mass shooting at Google?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Celebrate Independence Day With American Made Gripes from The Outrage Outlet! at June 26, 2019 03:17 PM (hLRSq)

242 Google is PAGAN

Where is Joe Friday when you need him?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 26, 2019 03:17 PM (MIg/G)

243 198
The Mean Girls of Hi-Tech!!!



*(*



Catch the new series Wednesdays on the WB

Posted by: Total Control Racist at June 26, 2019

*
*
. . .
You joke, but don't be surprised if it happens. Joanna Garcia stars as a new, naive recruit at a big search-engine tech company, with Courtney Cox and Leslie Jordan as her mentors and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the obsessive CEO who is busy building a Tone-Police Department. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 26, 2019 03:17 PM (ClOmq)

244 What would you say you do here?

Posted by: Bob visiting Google at June 26, 2019 03:17 PM (v0R5T)

245 227 So- if someone at Google gets pissed off at you, do they yell at you using proper pronouns?

How does that work..."Fuck...xu"? "Suck mxi dick?" I can't get the hang of this.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 26, 2019 03:17 PM (O8WFE)

246 >>So Google is the safe space that all the college grads are looking for. Pathetic. To think that there are 19-year old men and women in the military putting up with all kinds of crap...

Maybe Google will implode from stupidity.
- - - -

FIRST, they set up an office environment that encouraged employees to share personal information and discuss all manner of political topics on inhouse online forums.

THEN they got HR involved in policing the hurt feelings of people based on all of the non-business related information they encouraged employees to integrate into the workplace.

Spoiler alert: The only way to have close to a "safe space" at work is to stick to work at the office. Not that you have to demand *no* personal talk, but just to keep it in check, such as the "water cooler" discussions in the break room, etc.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2019 03:17 PM (bDqIh)

247 Seriously, never accept an open beverage from someone else in that place.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 26, 2019 03:17 PM (VpIIl)

248 They're so busy tone-policing each other that they haven't shut down the Cheech and Chong "Blind Lemon Chitlin" vids on their YouTube outlet.

And in at least on of the vids, Blind's in blackface.

The horror! How can this stand?

Posted by: Les Kinetic at June 26, 2019 03:18 PM (4ZE6o)

249 Incompetent Intersectional: "I want to work in a high-pressure STEM career alongside highly competent white male engineers!"

HR person: "Your intersectional credentials are excellent! You tick almost all the boxes: female, queer, Muslim-curious, political hysteric. You're hired!!

Incompetent Intersectional, One Week Later: "Waaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!"

Posted by: gp And His Crispy Scalp at June 26, 2019 03:18 PM (mk9aG)

250 23 Ace to the barrel, please.
Posted by: Muad'dib at June 26, 2019 02:54 PM (sjdRT)
_______

He's just looking for an honest man.

Hint: He won't find one at Goolag.

And IMO, that went from Theory to Proven Fact in record time.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 26, 2019 03:18 PM (VaN/j)

251 It'd be a shame if the place was sealed up and the power shut off.

Patience, Grasshopper. PG&E has already said that they'll power down the grid next time there are Santa Ana winds (i.e., hot dry gusty winds coming off the desert) to avoid starting any more wildfires.

Google HQ is in the area serviced by PG&E, IIRC.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:18 PM (if8r4)

252 Two American troops were killed in Afghanistan today.


Meanwhile, at Google.....

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 26, 2019 03:18 PM (ptqGC)

253 I saw the Tone Police open for Die Braunhemden at the Kit Kat Klub in '33.

Posted by: ShainS -- There are but two Parties now: Traitors and Patriots at June 26, 2019 03:18 PM (e3m1/)

254
I demand that details of any documented tranny on tranny flirting be brought out in public, immediately!

'Cause I doubt that it exists.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 26, 2019 03:18 PM (pNxlR)

255 Those guys are fooked in the head

Posted by: Yo! at June 26, 2019 03:18 PM (1XAal)

256 I am now working on a way to weaponize metallic straws.
======

I saw a cleaning kit for them today at Costco.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 26, 2019 03:19 PM (vg8iE)

257 Y'all hiring?
Posted by: Bert G at June 26, 2019 03:16 PM (tOP4K)

Not at the moment.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 26, 2019 03:19 PM (O8WFE)

258 If John Wick killed three men with a pencil how many could he kill with a metal straw?
==========
Well, he use it like a blowgun couldn't he?

Frankly I was at lunch today at a place that requires you to order your straw. I thought, hmm, is the market timing right for metal straw sold in a little case that you can carry with you in your jacket, purse and pack away when you are done?

Posted by: simplemind at June 26, 2019 03:19 PM (e6aUp)

259 God, how I detest that usage.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:16 PM (if8r4)
++++++++++++
You and me both, Jay. I use "he." I've been called on it twice. I haven't been fired. Yet. Might happen soon, though - my company is running a "diversity" survey that is optional but with high pressure to complete. I will not complete it. This will come to a head on the last day of the survey, when I have to tell my boss that I will not be completing it. At that time, I will be a known thoughtcriminal and thus my days will be numbered.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 26, 2019 03:19 PM (I2dne)

260 249 Incompetent Intersectional: "I want to work in a high-pressure STEM career alongside highly competent white male engineers!"

HR person: "Your intersectional credentials are excellent! You tick almost all the boxes: female, queer, Muslim-curious, political hysteric. You're hired!!

Incompetent Intersectional, One Week Later: "Waaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!"
Posted by: gp And His Crispy Scalp at June 26, 2019 03:18 PM (mk9aG)


You left out a crucial credential: mentally ill.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:19 PM (if8r4)

261 Ace's shelves are trans. They transitioned from shelves to flat pieces of wood. Their pronouns are fuck, shit and ass.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2019 03:19 PM (xpb00)

262 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 26, 2019 03:17 PM (ClOmq)

OMG get j j to start on it

Posted by: Google employee with multiple personalities at June 26, 2019 03:19 PM (UavMO)

263 Some day a normal employee (if there is one) is gonna go "Googal" and that'll put going postal to shame.

Posted by: IrishEi at June 26, 2019 03:19 PM (NtglE)

264 219
Dear AoS microaggression newsletter:



The IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE... guy intimidates me with his all-caps
shouting. And sometimes I still don't get why it's funny, which makes me
feel inferior. Hold me.





Posted by: Is this the right place? at June 26, 2019 03:14 PM (O8WFE)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE JOKE IS ALWAYS EXPLAINED AT TEDIOUS AND UNNECESSARY LENGTH, AND EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THAT THE UNNECESSARY EXPLANATION IS THE JOKE, BUT THIS POSTER IS PRETENDING NOT UNDERSTAND IN ORDER TO PARODY A GOOGLE EMPLOYEE COMPLAINING

Posted by: Ben Roethisberger at June 26, 2019 03:20 PM (CPk08)

265

"The main characteristics that distinguish bdelloids from related groups of rotifers are exclusively parthenogenetic reproduction"

LOL

Posted by: imp at June 26, 2019 03:20 PM (w+Z9D)

266 We need common sense metal straw control.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 26, 2019 03:20 PM (ufFY8)

267 a bit OT - latest poll out with respect to Roy Moore and Alabama GOP Primary preferences. Guess who's leading? (not a majority, but a plurality)

T o m m y T u b e r v i l l e .

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2019 03:20 PM (Kpl3J)

268 209
I have a bit of a crush on the HomeAdvisor spokeschick.
She is a One, who can remodel my bathroom.Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 26, 2019

*
*
. . .
The redhead and occasional blonde who looks good in a tool belt? Oh yaaass.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 26, 2019 03:20 PM (ClOmq)

269 You and me both, Jay. I use "he."

Me too. I consistently used "he" in testifying in court a while ago (not as a principal, but rather as a bit player), and no one batted an eyelash.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:20 PM (if8r4)

270 Google HQ is in the area serviced by PG&E, IIRC.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:18 PM (if8r4)
++++++++++
Something tells me they'll find a way to keep the Bay Area running. Blackouts are for poor plebes who have the misfortune to live inland.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 26, 2019 03:20 PM (I2dne)

271 Google microaggression newsletter, post-AtC edition:

"My department no longer worries about microaggressions, our new boss has embraced the macro. All live in fear of the stompy boots, and office expenditures on adult diapers have tripled due to all of the soiled pants. When did our office get renamed Bartertown? No matter, she runs it."

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 26, 2019 03:20 PM (J+mig)

272 I think we should send in an 'ette. One of the 'ettes would have all of those nancy pronouns screaming for mercy within minutes.
Posted by: Blake - my preferred pronoun is: Pronoun at June 26, 2019 03:08 PM (qC1Sy)
________

ATC would work. But my vote is for Fenelon - double triggering, with all that Christianism.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 26, 2019 03:21 PM (VaN/j)

273 103 I wonder what an "Yes, at AoSHQ" newsletter would look like?

Posted by: josephistan at June 26, 2019 03:04 PM (Izzlo)

It would trigger my workplace's filter software within 100 comments.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at June 26, 2019 03:21 PM (+/C3g)

274 Absolutely batshit bugfuck outhouse rat insane these people are.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 26, 2019 03:21 PM (NWiLs)

275 Y'all hiring?

Posted by: Bert G at June 26, 2019 03:16 PM (tOP4K)



Not at the moment.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 26, 2019 03:19 PM


Well, shit.

Posted by: Bert G at June 26, 2019 03:21 PM (tOP4K)

276 Woops, posted on the previous thread.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at June 26, 2019 03:21 PM (mIJ9W)

277
We had an external workshop facilitator in our office this week, and they misgendered some employees. During a break, I mentioned this to the facilitator, as respectfully and unobtrusively as I could. The facilitator was open to this feedback, and in the afternoon session asked a person for their name rather than using a presumptive pronoun.


May I suggest that, "Fuck off, freak", was the appropriate response?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 26, 2019 03:21 PM (pNxlR)

278 metal straw sold in a little case that you can carry with you in your jacket, purse and pack away when you are done?
>>
Collapsible like those metal or plastic hiking cups?

Posted by: FrodoB at June 26, 2019 03:21 PM (S9BC8)

279 Ironic that Google ensures that it's bias reporting service is anonymous when their main goal seems to be collecting the private data of their users.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 26, 2019 03:22 PM (BJKQV)

280 I mentioned it. But only as an aside to the general miserable nature f the war-of-all-against-all. Google is reverting to the pre-society state of nature.
=======
Yep. Its the French Revolution, only they subbed out the guillotine with a microaggression newsletter.

Such weirdo's, let's put 'em in charge!

Posted by: simplemind at June 26, 2019 03:22 PM (UfKHw)

281 ATC would work. But my vote is for Fenelon - double triggering, with all that Christianism.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 26, 2019 03:21 PM (VaN/j)

Oooh, the shrieking in the wake of a sincere God bless you would be epic.

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:22 PM (aCNZ6)

282 The redhead and occasional blonde who looks good in a tool belt? Oh yaaass.


Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 26, 2019 03:20 PM (ClOmq)

Yes.
She has a sexy voice, at least I think so.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 26, 2019 03:22 PM (ufFY8)

283 If it's not Trannies, it's Google.

Posted by: wth at June 26, 2019 03:22 PM (v0R5T)

284
"A coworker approached me to say that he noticed I consumed a lot of soy products (I'm a vegetarian) and that he was worried my testicles would shrink, my testosterone would fail, and estrogen would rise. It was inappropriate to begin with, but also cast people with lower testosterone as less masculine or manly."


BOOM! Fooking science lowered the boom!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 26, 2019 03:22 PM (pNxlR)

285 262
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 26, 2019 03:17 PM (ClOmq)



OMG get j j to start on it

Posted by: Google employee with multiple personalities at June 26, 2019

*
*
. . .

If Hollywood could still poke fun at itself, this would run like a marathoner with the wind at his back. But it can't or won't.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 26, 2019 03:22 PM (ClOmq)

286 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE JOKE IS ALWAYS EXPLAINED AT TEDIOUS AND UNNECESSARY LENGTH, AND EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THAT THE UNNECESSARY EXPLANATION IS THE JOKE, BUT THIS POSTER IS PRETENDING NOT UNDERSTAND IN ORDER TO PARODY A GOOGLE EMPLOYEE COMPLAINING
Posted by: Ben Roethisberger at June 26, 2019 03:20 PM (CPk0


THIS IS FUNNY BECAUSE IT HAS MY NAME WRONG LIKE THEY ARE DEADNAMING ME, AND BECAUSE THE TONE IS PROBLEMATIC.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at June 26, 2019 03:22 PM (9VeU0)

287 >>I have a bit of a crush on the HomeAdvisor spokeschick.


She reminds me of Patti Scalfia (sp?) the Springsteen whore.

I am a fan of the MTailor chick. She's got great tits.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2019 03:23 PM (CgXLw)

288 How do they prevent the one employee with testosterone from pushing all these estrogen soaked soyboys aside and taking over?


It's sort of like the perennial question: How many five year olds can you fight at once in a battle royal?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2019 03:23 PM (gFFRx)

289 How do they ever get any work done? Wait, let me rephrase that. How do any of the few competant people ever get any work done?

Posted by: Biergood at June 26, 2019 03:24 PM (uGKH7)

290 Something tells me they'll find a way to keep the Bay Area running. Blackouts are for poor plebes who have the misfortune to live inland.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)


I guarantee every Silly Valley behemoth has multiple Briggs and Straton power sheds behind their servercenters.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 26, 2019 03:24 PM (DrqHq)

291 Come on ace . When you post a Babylon Bee article you should at least let people know at the end of the post.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at June 26, 2019 03:24 PM (qQ7kL)

292 The redhead and occasional blonde who looks good in a tool belt? Oh yaaass.


I seem to recall Tim the Toolman Taylor having a hot female assistant.

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:24 PM (aCNZ6)

293 I want to get a metal straw with the end beveled and sharpened like an old-school oil can spout.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 26, 2019 03:24 PM (NWiLs)

294 "The main characteristics that distinguish bdelloids
from related groups of rotifers are exclusively parthenogenetic
reproduction"



LOL

Posted by: imp at June 26, 2019 03:20 PM (w+Z9D)

Yeah. I reproduced a couple times but for the life of me, looking back, I don't find it credible that sex had anything to do with it, so me being a bdelloid rotifer is the simplest, most reasonable explanation.

Posted by: ASlcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 26, 2019 03:24 PM (CPk08)

295 This is not a fucking parody? because my sides hurt from laughing.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at June 26, 2019 03:24 PM (VPvxh)

296 Dear AoS microaggression newsletter:

Commenter Sponge always yells "FIRST!" I think this disparages higher comment numbers and makes them feel unworthy simply because they were posted later.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic

It confuses the fuck outta the rest of us....Can I say that?

Posted by: lower comment numbers at June 26, 2019 03:24 PM (e1q4h)

297 cast people with lower testosterone as less masculine or manly


Err, take that up with God.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2019 03:24 PM (gFFRx)

298 Frankly I was at lunch today at a place that requires you to order your straw. I thought, hmm, is the market timing right for metal straw sold in a little case that you can carry with you in your jacket, purse and pack away when you are done?
Posted by: simplemind at June 26, 2019 03:19 PM (e6aUp)




They already sell these. Got a bunch for free at a trade show a few months ago. I don't know if they are on the market yet.

Posted by: G. Gnome at June 26, 2019 03:25 PM (al6UK)

299 Frankly I was at lunch today at a place that requires you to order your straw. I thought, hmm, is the market timing right for metal straw sold in a little case that you can carry with you in your jacket, purse and pack away when you are done?
Posted by: simplemind


Make sure the case has room and comes with chopsticks. I'll buy two.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:25 PM (l/Pix)

300 >ATC, you wanna rule Google?



Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (oVJmc)



Do the adjustable office chairs go low enough that they will be able to see her?

Posted by: Muad'dib at June 26, 2019 03:25 PM (sjdRT)

301 273 103 I wonder what an "Yes, at AoSHQ" newsletter would look like?

Posted by: josephistan at June 26, 2019 03:04 PM (Izzlo)

It would trigger my workplace's filter software within 100 comments.


Posted by: Virginia SoCon at June 26, 2019 03:21 PM (+/C3g)


The Pope declared it anathema and ordered all copies burned, declaring "The heck with the Love of Christ, I'm getting the Inquisition spun up again and telling them go Old Testament on these weirdos."

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Celebrate Independence Day With American Made Gripes from The Outrage Outlet! at June 26, 2019 03:25 PM (hLRSq)

302 our team member who has schizophrenia(and who sets a few desks away)

The schizo googler has a few desks ... one for each personality. That's pretty cool.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 26, 2019 03:25 PM (le1m7)

303 So I'm guessing a retirement Strip-O-Gram is right out?

Posted by: xnycpeasant at June 26, 2019 03:25 PM (koNhm)

304 If one of the richest companies in the world is so flush with cash that their employees can waste their time on the bullshit, why do they even need employees?

Just fire them all and bank the salaries.

And this right here is proof positive they are a monopoly. Companies that have to compete can't afford this crap.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 26, 2019 03:25 PM (frj4F)

305 You and me both, Jay. I use "he." I've been called on it twice. I haven't been fired. Yet.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 26, 2019 03:19 PM (I2dne)


After someone sanctimoniously misuses "they" in this fashion I've been known to reply, "Yeah, we was just talking about that."

When the person corrects me, I reply, "Well, I didn't want to say 'he' or 'she,' so I used the plural instead. Just. Like. You."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:25 PM (if8r4)

306 "A coworker approached me to say that he noticed I consumed a lot of soy products (I'm a vegetarian) and that he was worried my testicles would shrink, "

I prefer good old fashioned workplace banter, where a man could approach any of his co-workers with complete confidence and tell them that he thought their testicles were going to shrink.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2019 03:25 PM (Kpl3J)

307
Gonna be all "Lord of the Flies" there once PDJT gets re-elected.

"Kill the pig! Drink its blood!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 26, 2019 03:25 PM (pNxlR)

308 I left Silicon Valley decades ago. Shades of this were there, but fortunately the corporate culture was engineering dominated. I shudder to think what it is now with all the whiny snowflakes.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (t6MX/)

Software engineers (I was one) may be smart and know how to code, but they are not like Mechanical Engieers, EEs, and Civil Engineers who have a much more professional curriculum.

Posted by: Smilin Jack and I search with DuckDuckGo at June 26, 2019 03:26 PM (EwzO+)

309 284
"A coworker approached me to say that he noticed I consumed a lot of soy products (I'm a vegetarian) and that he was worried my testicles would shrink, my testosterone would fail, and estrogen would rise. It was inappropriate to begin with, but also cast people with lower testosterone as less masculine or manly."

BOOM! Fooking science lowered the boom!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 26, 2019 03:22 PM (pNxlR)


Vegetarians have testosterone?

Posted by: 29Victor at June 26, 2019 03:26 PM (BJKQV)

310 "He was worried my testicles might shrink..."
Objection: assumes facts not in evidence.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at June 26, 2019 03:26 PM (koNhm)

311 Oddly, the new boss has not visited yet. Rumours are the Jumping Spiders we raise in terrariums in the office are contributing to this significantly.

Posted by: Australian Googler, post-AtC at June 26, 2019 03:26 PM (tBq0Q)

312 Hey google, want to double your profits? Take the writers at "Yes, at Google" and fire every fucking one of them. Hire some cheap Indian engineers to take their places. Seriously - double your productivity at half the cost.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at June 26, 2019 03:26 PM (VPvxh)

313 A-and then there was cake and the cake to employee ratio was incorrect and I had been told there would be cake

Posted by: Google employee with multiple personalities at June 26, 2019 03:26 PM (UavMO)

314 Broken bold tag alert. Sure, I'm late to the game, but in my defense, I am a Moron.

Posted by: physics geek at June 26, 2019 03:26 PM (huQJB)

315 The STEM-Women even did it to Linus Torvalds: sent him to SJW-Tone-Policing camp. He committed the same error that all competent white male engineers do: focused on the projects, not the tone.

I just don't get how these losers can walk into a new job, get flamboyantly offended by nonsense, and then _demand_ that everybody else in the workplace change to suit _them_.

When I was working, I was expected to work productively with everybody, and if I didn't like somebody, that was on _me_, not on _them_. And I sure as hell never had the time to complain about people's f*cking "tone!" There was too much sh!t to get done on schedule to worry about everybody's sensitive snowflake f*cking feelings. Not when I'm working 90 hrs/wk on a 40hr salary.

Posted by: gp And His Crispy Scalp at June 26, 2019 03:27 PM (mk9aG)

316 How the hell do these people get any work done?

At least we Happy Horde are multishirking in a snarktastic and honest way.

Posted by: alexthechick - now with extra sand! at June 26, 2019 03:27 PM (mf5HN)

317 I have a bit of a crush on the HomeAdvisor spokeschick.
........

My current TV commercial crush is Tatiana from NewDay USA.

Posted by: wth at June 26, 2019 03:27 PM (v0R5T)

318 281 ATC would work. But my vote is for Fenelon - double triggering, with all that Christianism.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 26, 2019 03:21 PM (VaN/j)

Oooh, the shrieking in the wake of a sincere God bless you would be epic.

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:22 PM (aCNZ6)


Hitting them with the Holy Water sprinkler while shrieking The Power of Christ Compels You would be quite a sight.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Celebrate Independence Day With American Made Gripes from The Outrage Outlet! at June 26, 2019 03:27 PM (hLRSq)

319 Aren't Google Offices essentially decked out like a Montessori school?

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2019 03:27 PM (CgXLw)

320 I'll bet there are many corporate workforce places where this kind of shit is happening.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at June 26, 2019 03:27 PM (4ZE6o)

321 Posted by: Insomniac

What was the word on your 10:00 job call?

Posted by: Blue Hen at June 26, 2019 03:27 PM (e1q4h)

322 I guarantee every Silly Valley behemoth has multiple Briggs and Straton power sheds behind their servercenters.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 26, 2019 03:24 PM (DrqHq)
++++++++++
Oh yes. Huge diesels. Huge diesels that cost a fortune to operate. They won't grumble about it publicly, of course, but after a few multi-day blackouts that bust their power ops budget happen, they'll use their channels...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 26, 2019 03:27 PM (I2dne)

323
I seem to recall Tim the Toolman Taylor having a hot female assistant.

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019

*
*
. . .
At one point, I think, that was Pamela Anderson when she was still a cute girl-next-door type.

Tim Allen has an eye for attractive co-stars. On his Last Man Standing series, the dark-haired girl who used to play the middle daughter, Molly Ephraim, puts you in mind of the young Elizabeth Taylor.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 26, 2019 03:27 PM (ClOmq)

324 272
ATC would work. But my vote is for Fenelon - double triggering, with all that Christianism.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 26, 2019 03:21 PM (VaN/j)

Is the goal to enforce cis/het normativity?

Posted by: Hikaru at June 26, 2019 03:28 PM (sm6Pk)

325
Metal straws for everyone.


Sharpen one end and hey, presto! you got a makeshift shiv!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 26, 2019 03:28 PM (pNxlR)

326 I honestly can't say I've ever been concerned about a coworker's testicles shrinking. I guess I'm not very caring.

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:28 PM (aCNZ6)

327 The Pride TGIF speakers ...

______


Thank God I'm Fucked?

Posted by: ShainS -- There are but two Parties now: Traitors and Patriots at June 26, 2019 03:28 PM (AU8g4)

328 In Soviet Russia tone police YOU!

Posted by: GRUgle at June 26, 2019 03:28 PM (koNhm)

329 303 So I'm guessing a retirement Strip-O-Gram is right out?
Posted by: xnycpeasant at June 26, 2019 03:25 PM (koNhm)

Mamm-O-Gram: Bringing Knockers Direct to Your Door!

Posted by: Insomniac at June 26, 2019 03:28 PM (NWiLs)

330 This chick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReAuRagt7bQ

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2019 03:28 PM (CgXLw)

331 33 genders...male, female and 31 kinds of Google queers

Posted by: DanMan at June 26, 2019 03:28 PM (0SEK8)

332 Hey google, want to double your profits? Take the writers at "Yes, at Google" and fire every fucking one of them. Hire some cheap Indian engineers to take their places. Seriously - double your productivity at half the cost.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at June 26, 2019 03:26 PM (VPvxh)
++++++++++++
I'd bet actual money that at least a plurality of them *are* Indian engineers. The demography of Silicon Valley firms virtually guarantees it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 26, 2019 03:29 PM (I2dne)

333 I miss the 80's, when lines of coke in the bathroom and the occasion quicky in the parking lot at work was no big whoop.

Posted by: dananjcon at June 26, 2019 03:29 PM (xqfqx)

334 Frankly I was at lunch today at a place that requires you to order your straw. I thought, hmm, is the market timing right for metal straw sold in a little case that you can carry with you in your jacket, purse and pack away when you are done?
Posted by: simplemind at June 26, 2019 03:19 PM (e6aUp)


I'm thinking about bringing out a line of shoes with four inch spikes on the bottom, just the thing for tiptoeing through the crap and needles in SF.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:29 PM (if8r4)

335 >>>have to advocate just to maintain the status quo of partial inclusion.

Sounds like life to me.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (8qzwe)

336 324 272
ATC would work. But my vote is for Fenelon - double triggering, with all that Christianism.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 26, 2019 03:21 PM (VaN/j)

Is the goal to enforce cis/het normativity?

Posted by: Hikaru at June 26, 2019 03:28 PM (sm6Pk)


That or a high body count.

To-may-to, To-mah-to.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Celebrate Independence Day With American Made Gripes from The Outrage Outlet! at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (hLRSq)

337 The ableist plastic straw ban fad

LOL.

The retards trying to ban plastic straws aren't "ableists". They're retards. It's the "retarded plastic straw ban".



And you guys are scared of these incompetent fruitcakes?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (le1m7)

338 321 Posted by: Insomniac

What was the word on your 10:00 job call?
Posted by: Blue Hen at June 26, 2019 03:27 PM (e1q4h)

It's another incremental step in the right direction. Nothing's for certain yet but looks promising. Thanks for asking!

Posted by: Insomniac at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (NWiLs)

339 ATC would work. But my vote is for Fenelon - double triggering, with all that Christianism.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 26, 2019 03:21 PM (VaN/j)

Oooh, the shrieking in the wake of a sincere God bless you would be epic.
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:22 PM (aCNZ6)


While I would be a benevolentish overlord, I defer to Fenelon.

All she would have to do is look sad and say "I'm disappointed, not mad". That would fix things right quick.

Do I still get to make random Googlers cry though? Because I still want to do that.

Posted by: alexthechick - now with extra sand! at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (mf5HN)

340 Oh yes. Huge diesels. Huge diesels that cost a fortune to operate. They won't grumble about it publicly, of course, but after a few multi-day blackouts that bust their power ops budget happen, they'll use their channels...
Posted by: Joe Mannix


Cummings. We have one here at work. It's outside in an enclosure on it's own concrete pad away from the building.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (l/Pix)

341 322 I guarantee every Silly Valley behemoth has multiple Briggs and Straton power sheds behind their servercenters.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 26, 2019 03:24 PM (DrqHq)

Generators go on the roof, not below ground level. Last thing you want is for your generators to flood during a major storm. A few places in Houston found that out the hard way, one had a complete failure after Harvey.

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (J+mig)

342 LOL:

"When I told my manager I felt excluded from the team I was told to 'search within yourself for the problem' when I told my manager essentially that I found that answer unacceptable I was told that I was too sensitive."

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (bDqIh)

343 This can't be all real Some of these people must be pulling the newsletter editor's chain. I'm reeling trying to wrap my head around the fact that this is actually real, I can only make sense of it if I assume most of it is people pranking the editor. If it is above board all of a sudden I very much like our chances in civil war 2.0.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (kUmUV)

344 I think I see a market for stainless steel rifled murder straws in 9mm or .45. Black finish with picatenny rail and AR style pistol grip.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (XWb4y)

345 For those of you that have never sorted fruit, it's not uncommon for someone to take their first break and never return. I remember one woman at Netflix, that dressed like Abby on NCIS, who just disappeared at one point. Took a week before I realized she was gone.

They fired four supervisors and the Call Center supervisor in one night. And if you got a bad survey, even if they were complaining about a different rep, you'd get the boot. I managed to last a year, then the manager from hell left this company and I could come back. There's something to be said about working for a compassionate company. I'd have been fired at Netflix when my husband was in the ICU. This company let me use my vacation time to deal with his illness and death, then let me have the time back to use when I needed it.

Posted by: notsothoreau at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (JKNZq)

346 >330
This chick



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReAuRagt7bQ

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2019 03:28 PM (CgXLw)


She likes the ganja?

Posted by: Muad'dib at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (sjdRT)

347 325
Metal straws for everyone.

Sharpen one end and hey, presto! you got a makeshift shiv!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 26, 2019 03:28 PM (pNxlR)

Post this on 4chan. See if they can get "Common Sense Straw Control" as a topic in the next Dem debate.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (BJKQV)

348 Ethan Van Sciver has the perfect voice for these people, and it makes everything funnier when you read those complaints with the soy boy voice in your head.

Posted by: Kensington at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (IkE19)

349 330
This chick



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReAuRagt7bQ

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2019 03:28 PM (CgXLw)

Hmmm....very curvy.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 26, 2019 03:31 PM (ufFY8)

350 Hey Google, guess what, people say stupid shit.

So? I mean literally, so what? people who let that stuff affect their job performance aren't worth having employed at Google.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at June 26, 2019 03:31 PM (VPvxh)

351 333 I miss the 80's, when lines of coke in the bathroom and the occasion quicky in the parking lot at work was no big whoop.

Posted by: dananjcon at June 26, 2019 03:29 PM (xqfqx)

I was born too late, dammit.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 26, 2019 03:31 PM (NWiLs)

352 "Theory: Google is staffed by crybabies, pussies, wannabe dominatrices and other sexually-bent fruitcakes, bullies, psychopaths, and Nazis, and should not be permitted to exist, let alone control our public discourse."

Copyright that and put it on a tee shirt.

Posted by: mrtmz at June 26, 2019 03:31 PM (m/Gc2)

353 Used to be the states served as a laboratory for policy. Now we have Google, etc., showing us how they want the entire country run.

Don't ban them. Expose the hell outta them.

Posted by: nick at June 26, 2019 03:31 PM (S5dL8)

354 I self identify as a Curmudgeon.

You children will call me by my preferred pronoun, MISTER Q., or SIR.

That is all, now go be micro aggressed over in the corner, with the Dunce cap on.

Posted by: Don Q at June 26, 2019 03:31 PM (NgKpN)

355 Cummings. We have one here at work. It's outside in an enclosure on it's own concrete pad away from the building.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (l/Pix)

We got 3, all different brands.

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 26, 2019 03:31 PM (J+mig)

356 >>>I've . . . had my own tone policed as 'uncivil'

Gack! These people are adults?

Posted by: m at June 26, 2019 03:31 PM (qxAnn)

357
300
>ATC, you wanna rule Google?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 26, 2019 03:10 PM (oVJmc)

Do the adjustable office chairs go low enough that they will be able to see her?


Posted by: Muad'dib at June 26, 2019

*
*
. . .

Not necessary. She will have an elevated throne. Possibly of skulls.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 26, 2019 03:31 PM (ClOmq)

358 Cummings. We have one here at work. It's outside in an enclosure on it's own concrete pad away from the building.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (l/Pix)
+++++++++++
Same here. Big bastard - has to run our work space, data center and data center cooling (our work spaces are on a different HVAC system, so when the power goes out it gets uncomfortably hot after about 30 minutes).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 26, 2019 03:31 PM (I2dne)

359 I'm thinking about bringing out a line of shoes with four inch spikes on the bottom, just the thing for tiptoeing through the crap and needles in SF.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:29 PM (if8r4)

Residents of medieval cities wore clogs to walk through all the shit and muck.

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:32 PM (aCNZ6)

360 344 I think I see a market for stainless steel rifled murder straws in 9mm or .45. Black finish with picatenny rail and AR style pistol grip.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (XWb4y)

If it has a chainsaw bayonet option I'm in for a dozen.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 26, 2019 03:32 PM (BJKQV)

361 I don't see the problem.

Posted by: David French at June 26, 2019 03:32 PM (IkE19)

362 Civil War 2: Electric Bugaloo!

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at June 26, 2019 03:32 PM (VPvxh)

363 Dear Yes, at Google. I had a dream about wearing a MAGA cap last night. I would like to make a complaint against myself but I am unsure of the HR procedure to do so. I would like to be able to sleep without worrying about an insensitive employee triggering these thoughts.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at June 26, 2019 03:32 PM (qQ7kL)

364 Heard on Town hall radio news break the Wise Latina and Notorious RBG were the only two to vote that a WWI Christian cross for a war memorial to tear it down.
Those two need to hopefully spend a eternity in Hell.

Posted by: Skip at June 26, 2019 03:33 PM (BbGew)

365 Hire some cheap Indian engineers to take their places. Seriously - double your productivity at half the cost.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at June 26, 2019 03:26 PM (VPvxh)


They've got a cheap Indian engineer running the place, now. CEO. And he still lives, mostly, in his office and shares an apartment with 26 other INdian engineers.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 26, 2019 03:33 PM (le1m7)

366 The name of that Newsletter: "Dear Diary".

Posted by: Axeman at June 26, 2019 03:33 PM (DuZls)

367 Aren't Google Offices essentially decked out like a Montessori school?
-----
Yes, see #218, above.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 26, 2019 03:33 PM (Dh1wo)

368
Got a call this afternoon to tell me I had been turned down for the job I interviewed for last week. Sometimes the best dog in the ring doesn't win.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2019 03:33 PM (BWL+E)

369 My old company used a retired locomotive for their site power. You knew when that big bastard turned on...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 26, 2019 03:33 PM (I2dne)

370 My preferred pronoun is "But First."

Posted by: Mr. Yuwilcucmydic at June 26, 2019 03:33 PM (koNhm)

371 They're worrying themselves into psychosis.

Posted by: m at June 26, 2019 03:33 PM (qxAnn)

372 When I was working, I was expected to work productively with everybody, and if I didn't like somebody, that was on _me_, not on _them_. And I sure as hell never had the time to complain about people's f*cking "tone!" There was too much sh!t to get done on schedule to worry about everybody's sensitive snowflake f*cking feelings. Not when I'm working 90 hrs/wk on a 40hr salary.
Posted by: gp And His Crispy Scalp at June 26, 2019 03:27 PM (mk9aG)


Well, don't you feel like a chump now?

Posted by: blaster at June 26, 2019 03:33 PM (9VeU0)

373 Got a call this afternoon to tell me I had been turned down for the job I interviewed for last week. Sometimes the best dog in the ring doesn't win.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2019 03:33 PM (BWL+E)

Aw, I'm sorry Hadrian.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 26, 2019 03:34 PM (Ez6QX)

374 Making some good, solid macroaggressions would help these children grow up.

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:34 PM (aCNZ6)

375 How the hell do these people get any work done?
...........

Me? I just Google futa ponies all day.

Posted by: Google cubicle #47306 at June 26, 2019 03:34 PM (v0R5T)

376
I detect something rather sly in this one:

"Anti-harrassment anti-discrimination training includes two examples of men flirting with women as inappropiate behabvior and zero examples involving any other gender configuration. This unthinkingly normalized that dynamic and derives any other."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 26, 2019 03:34 PM (M9ntN)

377
Idiots that make $30B in net income a year.
Posted by: WisRich at June 26, 2019 03:13 PM (G0vdT)


-------

Well, yes, but they can't enjoy it because they're always pissed off.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 26, 2019 03:34 PM (jUVms)

378 Dear Yes , at Google.

Yesterday I was using the copy machine . I did not like the tone it was giving me.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at June 26, 2019 03:34 PM (qQ7kL)

379 Sounds like someone got all of the works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn completely wrong.

Posted by: Radical Centrist at June 26, 2019 03:34 PM (EwGMS)

380 Home advisor chick at one point looked a lot like Mythbusters chick. I would like to see them duke it out.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2019 03:34 PM (xpb00)

381 368
Got a call this afternoon to tell me I had been turned down for the job I interviewed for last week. Sometimes the best dog in the ring doesn't win.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2019 03:33 PM (BWL+E)

Sorry man. At least they had the courtesy to tell you. I usually just get ghosted.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 26, 2019 03:34 PM (NWiLs)

382 I can think of few places more in need of a fuel-air bomb than Google HQ.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, giving up on descriptives at June 26, 2019 03:35 PM (AM1GF)

383 Sucks, Hadrian. Just keep at it and something will turn up that's right for you.

Posted by: notsothoreau at June 26, 2019 03:35 PM (JKNZq)

384 The it is just lunch lady is smoking ...

Posted by: Yo! at June 26, 2019 03:35 PM (1XAal)

385 ace> Theory: Google is staffed by crybabies, pussies, wannabe dominatrices and other sexually-bent fruitcakes, bullies, psychopaths, and Nazis,

But they're rich so they know better than us.

Nothing has changed in a century.

Posted by: Trum-Paolo at June 26, 2019 03:35 PM (OE84+)

386 Cummings. We have one here at work. It's outside in an enclosure on it's own concrete pad away from the building.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (l/Pix)


On my way home from work, I drive past a building that is the "incubator" space for new companies aka all tech stuff and it sounds like there are enormous generators going at all times. This building is also directly across the street from a power station.

Given that I happen to know that some of the stuff that is being incubated there is actually being incubated what with there being some bioengineering companies that are a bit dodgy about where their funding is from KOFF CDC KOFF, it's a wee bit worrisome as to why they need all that power.

Posted by: alexthechick - now with extra sand! at June 26, 2019 03:35 PM (mf5HN)

387 380
Home advisor chick at one point looked a lot like Mythbusters chick. I would like to see them duke it out.


Posted by: ... at June 26, 2019 03:34 PM (xpb00)

With pillows and lingerie.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 26, 2019 03:35 PM (ufFY8)

388
Theory: Google is staffed by crybabies, pussies, wannabe dominatrices and other sexually-bent fruitcakes, bullies, psychopaths, and Nazis, and should not be permitted to exist, let alone control our public discourse.

======

Theory: Google also has a few very clever trolls.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 26, 2019 03:35 PM (M9ntN)

389 But that's stupid and awkward. Enter "they" - it is flat-wrong but less cumbersome than "his or her." Suddenly the following becomes acceptable:

"The student picked up their back pack before going home."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 26, 2019 03:11 PM (I2dne)

God, how I detest that usage.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:16 PM

And it's unnecessary. Make it ALL plural: "Students..." unless you know it's only one and you don't know the student. In which case, "The backpack was picked up be the student."

Funny thing is that before I became a teacher, I worked in a corporation that had some of us doing corporate training seminars. I did business English for a group from Manufacturing, most of whom had high school diplomas and a few who went through community college or trade school. They did the plural in their e-mails - "Project managers must submit their proposed deadlines in writing." - and they had fewer e-mail issues than folks upstairs.

And two great guys, one of whom was the only supervisor without a college degree, told me, "You should become a schoolteacher and get out of here."

Posted by: NaughtyPine - actual English teacher at June 26, 2019 03:36 PM (/+bwe)

390 Isn't they word "they" indicative of a plural state?

Only sort of. It can legitimately refer to an unspecified individual from a wider group.

"Someone stole my tofu sandwich from the refrigerator. They should know it also contains my antibiotics."

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 26, 2019 03:36 PM (wzvqt)

391 Got a call this afternoon to tell me I had been turned down for the job I interviewed for last week. Sometimes the best dog in the ring doesn't win.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2019 03:33 PM (BWL+E)
+++++++++
Sorry to hear that, Hadrian.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 26, 2019 03:36 PM (I2dne)

392 378 Dear Yes , at Google.

Yesterday I was using the copy machine . I did not like the tone it was giving me.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at June 26, 2019 03:34 PM (qQ7kL)

Ditto

Posted by: 29Victor at June 26, 2019 03:36 PM (BJKQV)

393
Approaching the world from an adult standpoint would cure 99% of these overgrown children's problems.
Reality will grind them into carbon dust and they can be disregarded to live their lives in pathetic anonymity.
The only problem I see is that in large groups they temporarily skew the process. As seems evident currently.

But long term they're destined to be ludicrous failures.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 26, 2019 03:36 PM (KATBx)

394 Well, yes, but they can't enjoy it because they're always pissed off.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 26, 2019 03:34 PM (jUVms)
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True dat. Between the hate and guilt of making so much money, what's a SJW to do!

Posted by: WisRich at June 26, 2019 03:36 PM (G0vdT)

395 315 When I was working, I was expected to work productively with everybody, and if I didn't like somebody, that was on _me_, not on _them_.
Posted by: gp And His Crispy Scalp at June 26, 2019 03:27 PM (mk9aG)

TRIGGERING!

Posted by: m at June 26, 2019 03:37 PM (qxAnn)

396
I usually just get ghosted.

Posted by: Insomniac


Yes, I expect that for most of the positions I apply for I will never hear anything back.

Like I said, job hunting is like looking at a centerfold. You have fantasies about scoring with this beautiful creature, but you soon find out you're just another unwanted loser.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2019 03:37 PM (BWL+E)

397 Theory: Google also has a few very clever trolls.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 26, 2019 03:35 PM (M9ntN)



Theory: The trolls don't have to look very far for inspiration.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 26, 2019 03:37 PM (CPk08)

398 The Google company picnic provides all the wine coolers and twee cocktails you can drink.

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:37 PM (aCNZ6)

399 Got a call this afternoon to tell me I had been turned down for the job I interviewed for last week. Sometimes the best dog in the ring doesn't win.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2019 03:33 PM

May I pray for you, Hadrian?

Posted by: NaughtyPine - actual English teacher at June 26, 2019 03:37 PM (/+bwe)

400 Given that I happen to know that some of the stuff that is being incubated there is actually being incubated what with there being some bioengineering companies that are a bit dodgy about where their funding is from KOFF CDC KOFF, it's a wee bit worrisome as to why they need all that power.
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Well those level III containment centers don't work on a hamster wheels ya know.

Posted by: simplemind at June 26, 2019 03:37 PM (5EveD)

401 I bet the bar around the corner from Google is an interesting place come 5 o'clock.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 26, 2019 03:37 PM (2LelM)

402 Like I said, job hunting is like looking at a centerfold. You have fantasies about scoring with this beautiful creature, but you soon find out you're just another unwanted loser.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2019 03:37 PM (BWL+E)

I'll drink to that.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 26, 2019 03:37 PM (NWiLs)

403 " I'll bet there are many corporate workforce places where this kind of shit is happening. "

Can anybody name a Fortune-500 corporate office where it _isn't_ happening? Where the employees (besides having real work to do) _don't_ have to undergo mandatory training to understand how to deal with the problems of "whiteness, toxic masculinity, inherent bias, tone-policing" and all the other trendy PC superstitions?

Somehow in America we got to this point where "giving offense," however defined, is the Worst Thing You Can Do. It started with militant anti-racism, and the amazing self-hatred that white people have.

Posted by: gp And His Crispy Scalp at June 26, 2019 03:37 PM (mk9aG)

404 Seriously, these fuckers make me look like the very picture of psychological health.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, giving up on descriptives at June 26, 2019 03:37 PM (AM1GF)

405 Theory: Google also has a few very clever trolls.

---

the only way to destroy a dictatorship from within is to rigidly apply their rules at all times.

Posted by: Keto not Beto at June 26, 2019 03:37 PM (JziUy)

406 These people have a perverse, all-consuming thirst for power over others.

What really creeps me out is that the average person doesn't understand that this is cause for concern.

Posted by: Emmie at June 26, 2019 03:37 PM (4HMW8)

407 Home advisor chick at one point looked a lot like Mythbusters chick. I would like to see them duke it out.
Posted by: ...


In a pool of pudding.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:38 PM (l/Pix)

408 When you let women run a place--and trust me that's what they are doing--bitchy cat-fighting propagates.

Posted by: Axeman at June 26, 2019 03:38 PM (DuZls)

409 342 LOL:

"When I told my manager I felt excluded from the team I was told to 'search within yourself for the problem' when I told my manager essentially that I found that answer unacceptable I was told that I was too sensitive."

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (bDqIh)


I once had a rabid feminist whine to me that she was not invited when the others went out for a drink after work.

"And after all I've done for them, pointing out whenever they say or do anything sexist."

Yeah, like breathing, for example. She seemed to think she'd been doing everyone a huge favor by doing this.

And did she think I was going to do? Order them to include her? I despised her myself.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:38 PM (if8r4)

410
387
380

Home advisor chick at one point looked a lot like Mythbusters chick. I would like to see them duke it out.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2019 03:34 PM (xpb00)

With pillows and lingerie.Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 26, 2019

*
*
. . .
Kari Byron vs. Amy Mathews? Oh, yes. Bikinis and boxing gloves, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 26, 2019 03:38 PM (ClOmq)

411 There's a scene in the 1981 American Werewolf in London that comes to mind when thinking about how Google should be treated. Just like that.

Posted by: Lawrence L at June 26, 2019 03:38 PM (Uu7xZ)

412 401 I bet the bar around the corner from Google is an interesting place come 5 o'clock.
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 26, 2019 03:37 PM (2LelM)

For some values of "interesting."

Posted by: m at June 26, 2019 03:38 PM (qxAnn)

413 "Well, don't you feel like a chump now?" I sure f*cking do, for a lot of reasons.

Posted by: gp And His Crispy Scalp at June 26, 2019 03:38 PM (mk9aG)

414 "Someone stole my tofu sandwich from the refrigerator. They should know it also contains my antibiotics."
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Sorry, that was a typo, I meant, my antipsychotics.

Posted by: simplemind at June 26, 2019 03:38 PM (VWESd)

415 Good lord - I could take a handful of low-tier UFC fighters in there, and crown myself emperor, and not one of those soy-whatevers would rise and challenge.

What a bunch of F'n wimps.

Posted by: Pinochet Air Tours Flt Attendant at June 26, 2019 03:39 PM (67aEn)

416 In a pool of pudding.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:38 PM (l/Pix)

With them hungry.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 26, 2019 03:39 PM (ufFY8)

417 I looked at the cost of living where I am and the cost of living in SF area and people making 250k would have a lower standard of living than I do and that's not included the literal shit on the streets.

They're not rich. Even assuming stock options, if you need to come up with a million bucks for a down payment on a 1,000 sq apartment, you aren't rich even if you have the million bucks.

Posted by: alexthechick - now with extra sand! at June 26, 2019 03:39 PM (mf5HN)

418 Hot Air has changed their comment section.

To wut , idk

Posted by: REDACTED at June 26, 2019 03:39 PM (DPjeO)

419 414 "Someone stole my tofu sandwich from the refrigerator. They should know it also contains my antibiotics."
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Sorry, that was a typo, I meant, my antipsychotics.
Posted by: simplemind at June 26, 2019 03:38 PM (VWESd)

I've heard it both ways.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 26, 2019 03:39 PM (NWiLs)

420 "I have to read 'global slave' every time I mail or submit code."

______


LOL -- I remember this nuttiness starting back in at least the 80's when there were objections to devices computing and electronic devices being referred to as "master" and "slave."


Mental Illness ... it's what's for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert for half the country now.

Posted by: ShainS -- There are but two Parties now: Traitors and Patriots at June 26, 2019 03:39 PM (zsddc)

421 "The original name for this theme was 'respect and civility,'" the newsletter's editor wrote. "Why did we change the name? Respect and civility are important but can be problematic when they get in the way of important conversations.
---
They misspelled lectures.

Posted by: Axeman at June 26, 2019 03:39 PM (DuZls)

422 I'd be out in the parking lot with some macro aggressions inside of an hour.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 26, 2019 03:39 PM (pw+jk)

423
May I pray for you, Hadrian?

Posted by: NaughtyPine - actual English teacher


I'm touched beyond expression that someone should say that, but prayers should go to those who really suffer.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2019 03:39 PM (BWL+E)

424 "By the student." Word-recommendations on this thing are weird. "Student" should be "Swedish" according to it.

Posted by: NaughtyPine - actual English teacher at June 26, 2019 03:39 PM (/+bwe)

425 I liked the Myth Busters chic

Posted by: Skip at June 26, 2019 03:39 PM (BbGew)

426 -
--

I'm thinking about bringing out a line of shoes with four inch spikes on
the bottom, just the thing for tiptoeing through the crap and needles
in SF.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:29 PM (if8r4)



Residents of medieval cities wore clogs to walk through all the shit and muck.

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:32 PM

----------------------------

San Fran footware: MuckBoots, Bogs, Kamik, LaCrosse, etc.

Posted by: irright at June 26, 2019 03:40 PM (pMGkg)

427 Those two need to hopefully spend a eternity in Hell.
Posted by: Skip at June 26, 2019 03:33 PM (BbGew)
~~~~~

And that "wise Latina" went to the same Catholic high school as me.

They're quite proud of her too. SMH

Posted by: IrishEi at June 26, 2019 03:40 PM (NtglE)

428 speaking of insane nutbags, isn't tonight the DNC debate?

Posted by: Keto not Beto at June 26, 2019 03:40 PM (JziUy)

429 Kari Byron vs. Amy Mathews? Oh, yes. Bikinis and boxing gloves, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius


Pfft. Kari would pick off Amy before she got near the ring. Barrett at three quarters of a mile...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, giving up on descriptives at June 26, 2019 03:40 PM (AM1GF)

430 Maybe Google pays a bonus to employees who file HR complaints about other employees. If every Google employee had 3 or 4 complaints in their HR file, they all can be fired 'for cause'.

In the words of Captain Jack Sparrow, 'Leverage'.

Posted by: JB1000 at June 26, 2019 03:40 PM (16OL0)

431 " I'll bet there are many corporate workforce places where this kind of shit is happening. "

Can anybody name a Fortune-500 corporate office where it _isn't_ happening? Where the employees (besides having real work to do) _don't_ have to undergo mandatory training to understand how to deal with the problems of "whiteness, toxic masculinity, inherent bias, tone-policing" and all the other trendy PC superstitions?

Posted by: gp And His Crispy Scalp


I work in a Fortune 500 corporate hq.
We have way too much to do to play games.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:40 PM (l/Pix)

432 Maybe the men at Google are just holding it all in.

Come the weekend they hunt grizzlies with knives and impregnate wenches, comely wenches.

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:40 PM (aCNZ6)

433 Sheep is quite upset that we aren't giving free access to America and her treasury to anyone who can say the word "asylum" at our border.
LOLGF

Posted by: Hawkpilot at June 26, 2019 03:40 PM (XhCej)

434 "When you let women run a place--and trust me that's what they are doing--bitchy cat-fighting propagates."

Amen.

Posted by: gp And His Crispy Scalp at June 26, 2019 03:41 PM (mk9aG)

435 How does one subscribe to this google newsletter?

Posted by: Ministerium für Staatssiicherheit at June 26, 2019 03:41 PM (fuK7c)

436 Tbe Conservative Case for the Stasi

by Max "Das" Boot

Posted by: James OBrien MD at June 26, 2019 03:41 PM (7e1Ho)

437 We should refer to the schizophrenics as "differently realitied".

Posted by: SJW Suggestion Board at June 26, 2019 03:41 PM (DuZls)

438 432 Maybe the men at Google are just holding it all in.

Come the weekend they hunt grizzlies with knives and impregnate wenches, comely wenches.
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:40 PM (aCNZ6)

The REAL men impregnate grizzlies.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 26, 2019 03:41 PM (NWiLs)

439 this is also a reminder or whatever that we should know that paypal's deluged daily with SJW calls to defund everyone from actual german n@zis to you know everyone else.

Posted by: Keto not Beto at June 26, 2019 03:41 PM (JziUy)

440 Last thing you want is for your generators to flood during a major storm. A few places in Houston found that out the hard way, one had a complete failure after Harvey.

a lot of subdivisions learned a harsh lesson re: stale diesel as well.

Posted by: DanMan at June 26, 2019 03:41 PM (0SEK8)

441 Scheisse.

Posted by: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit at June 26, 2019 03:41 PM (fuK7c)

442 422 I'd be out in the parking lot with some macro aggressions inside of an hour.
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Once you get the swing of things imagine all the shit you could stir up there? I could be a gas fucking with their heads.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 26, 2019 03:41 PM (2LelM)

443 Well those level III containment centers don't work on a hamster wheels ya know.
Posted by: simplemind at June 26, 2019 03:37 PM (5EveD)


It honestly sounds like jet engines are running.

I try not to think about it too much.

Posted by: alexthechick - now with extra sand! at June 26, 2019 03:41 PM (mf5HN)

444 408
When you let women run a place--and trust me that's what they are doing--bitchy cat-fighting propagates.

Posted by: Axeman at June 26, 2019 03:38 PM (DuZls)

My Mom told me when I was younger than 29 that she preferred to work with men rather than women, specifically for this reason. Guys were less inclined to get into the bitchy bullshit. She worked in a steel mill in the office doing teletype stuff, apparently.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 26, 2019 03:42 PM (ufFY8)

445
Thanks for taking care of that. Ugly.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2019 03:42 PM (BWL+E)

446 As a denizen of corporate America, I can assure you all this niceness is purely on the surface. In fact the nicer things are on the surface the nastier they can be underneath.

Posted by: Caliban at June 26, 2019 03:42 PM (qEujL)

447 I'm touched beyond expression that someone should say that, but prayers should go to those who really suffer.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2019 03:39 PM

I think God doesn't really love that way. I prayed that no neighbor cat eat the robin fledgling that was on my porch last week. You have to at least rank up with a baby bird!

Posted by: NaughtyPine - actual English teacher at June 26, 2019 03:42 PM (/+bwe)

448 Hot Air has changed their comment section.

To wut , idk
Posted by: REDACTED


I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 26, 2019 03:42 PM (DrqHq)

449 Wasn't legalizing homo marriage supposed to end these problems?

Posted by: Captain Hate at June 26, 2019 03:42 PM (y7DUB)

450 Beth Chapman est mort:

Beth Chapman, star of the reality TV show Dog The Bounty Hunter lost her ongoing battle with cancer and died Wednesday morning in a Honolulu hospital. She was 51.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 26, 2019 03:42 PM (O8WFE)

451 Last thing you want is for your generators to flood during a major storm. A few places in Houston found that out the hard way, one had a complete failure after Harvey.

a lot of subdivisions learned a harsh lesson re: stale diesel as well.

Posted by: DanMan at June 26, 2019 03:41 PM (0SEK


Fukushima.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 26, 2019 03:42 PM (le1m7)

452 DEMOCRATIC DEBATES

The field is so large that the Democratic National Committee and NBC News split it into two 10-person debates, from

-->9 to 11 p.m. ET on Wednesday and Thursday,

airing on NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo.

per NPR

Posted by: m at June 26, 2019 03:42 PM (qxAnn)

453 287 >>I have a bit of a crush on the HomeAdvisor spokeschick.


She reminds me of Patti Scalfia (sp?) the Springsteen whore.

I am a fan of the MTailor chick. She's got great tits.
Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2019 03:23 PM (CgXLw)

That would be Amy Mathews, formerly had a DIY home show. Multi images at DuckDuckGo

Posted by: Smilin Jack and I search with DuckDuckGo at June 26, 2019 03:42 PM (EwzO+)

454 27 Point. Laugh. Repeat.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 02:55 PM (l/Pix)

LOL - I did that on the recent vacation, sitting about the pool, when some triggered *whatever* took offense at my book's title 'The British are Coming' - Rick Atkinson's new read.

I pointed, laughed, and went back to reading. Mrs. Attendant said I was terrible for hurting her feelings. Better than two .45's to the chest...

Posted by: Pinochet Air Tours Flt Attendant at June 26, 2019 03:42 PM (67aEn)

455 429
Kari Byron vs. Amy Mathews? Oh, yes. Bikinis and boxing gloves, though.


Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius



Pfft. Kari would pick off Amy before she got near the ring. Barrett at three quarters of a mile...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, giving up on descriptives at June 26, 2019

*
*
. . .
Probably. How about Amy vs. the redheaded Wendy's girl from a couple of years ago?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 26, 2019 03:42 PM (ClOmq)

456 Snowflakle

Posted by: Axeman at June 26, 2019 03:42 PM (DuZls)

457 First, seal them off from the rest of humanity. Hey, their little ~urban gardens~ should keep them fed indefinitely, right? Then...

*nod* Let them fight.

Posted by: Saber Alter at June 26, 2019 03:43 PM (+om3e)

458 I knew from the VERY beginning that "Don't Be Evil" was a bunch of marketing bullshit.

Marketing is the 5th Level of Hell.

Posted by: Kingsnake at June 26, 2019 03:43 PM (3JbJY)

459
155 Did we miss the one about how they were telling a deaf person they didn't like her "tone?"
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 26, 2019 03:08 PM (jUVms)


A la Garrett Morris --

YOUR TONE IS OFFENSIVE TO ME AND OTHERS! PLEASE MODIFY IT IMMEDIATELY!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 26, 2019 03:43 PM (pNxlR)

460 403 " I'll bet there are many corporate workforce places where this kind of shit is happening. "

Can anybody name a Fortune-500 corporate office where it _isn't_ happening?

-------------

seen on shclicter:

build your own twitter
build your own credit card
next it's build your own country.

There is no non PC SJW gaywad corporation

Posted by: Keto not Beto at June 26, 2019 03:43 PM (JziUy)

461 >>"And after all I've done for them, pointing out whenever they say or do anything sexist."



Oh yeah, she would be so much fun at happy hour! /s

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2019 03:43 PM (bDqIh)

462 "Theory: Google is staffed by crybabies, pussies, wannabe dominatrices
and other sexually-bent fruitcakes, bullies, psychopaths, and Nazis, and
should not be permitted to exist, let alone control our public
discourse."

Spot on. Multiple Goolag survivors among the horde have confirmed this.


It's the kind of thing you can tell people, but nobody will really believe you until details like this come out. These aren't isolated examples, either. It's a non-stop circus of first world problems.




Posted by: lurker (the other one. buy radios too) at June 26, 2019 03:44 PM (eAshZ)

463 "LOL -- I remember this nuttiness starting back in at least the 80's when there were objections to devices computing and electronic devices being referred to as "master" and "slave.""

I remember when we were told not to refer to "aborting" a program.

Posted by: gp And His Crispy Scalp at June 26, 2019 03:44 PM (mk9aG)

464 >>417 They're not rich. Even assuming stock options, if you need to come up with a million bucks for a down payment on a 1,000 sq apartment

I was reading an article where there's an RV epidemic in SF. People who can't afford anywhere to live but work there are living in RVs parked outside on the street taking up all the room. I guess they have to run out, drive them around the block a few times, and then park again to not get tickets. Not new, nice RVs but decades old broken down ones.

Posted by: bananaDream at June 26, 2019 03:44 PM (l6b3d)

465 Beth Chapman, star of the reality TV show Dog The Bounty Hunter lost her ongoing battle with cancer and died Wednesday morning in a Honolulu hospital. She was 51.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 26, 2019 03:42 PM (O8WFE)

Trust me., I'm the last person to respond instinctively. But I do wonder why obituaries never say dad died after a brief and cowardly battle with cancer.

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:44 PM (aCNZ6)

466 Lol. Iran's "supreme leader" says he won't back down in face of sanctions.

Ok there bud. Hope you like hummus and crackers. Oh yeah and lots of pissed of people in the street.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 26, 2019 03:44 PM (HTIJG)

467 WTF happened to Drudge? I mean yeah I get he wanted to be more centrist to get more traffic. But he's gone full on leftist retard lately. He has a link to ZeroHedge (LOL) talking about how we're in a recession already. Cuz you know, record high stocks, unemployment under 4%.....kinda textbook definition of a recession right?

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 26, 2019 03:44 PM (FiUMj)

468 Imagine finding the nastiest bitch in Google and starting a rumor that she donated to anti-gay movements cuz queers are scary. It would be fun starting slap fights and then calling them out for their lack of tolerance and predatory tone.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 26, 2019 03:45 PM (2LelM)

469 LOL -- I remember this nuttiness starting back in at least the 80's when there were objections to devices computing and electronic devices being referred to as "master" and "slave."


Mental Illness ... it's what's for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert for half the country now.
Posted by: ShainS -- There are but two Parties now: Traitors and Patriots at June 26, 2019 03:39 PM (zsddc)
+++++++++
And there is way to find inoffensive language that describes hierarchy - one of many ways you know they're all insane and stupid.

Other things that won't work:
- Parent and Child (doubly offensive - hierarchical and family-ist)
- Superior and inferior (quality judgement)
- Master and subordinate (nice try, racist)

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 26, 2019 03:45 PM (I2dne)

470 Is it possible to get President Trump's Twitter feed live without a Twitter account?

Posted by: Skip at June 26, 2019 03:45 PM (BbGew)

471 I would like to see them duke it out.
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Phrasing!!!

Posted by: andycanuck at June 26, 2019 03:46 PM (Dh1wo)

472 next it's build your own country.

There is no non PC SJW gaywad corporation
Posted by: Keto not Beto at June 26, 2019 03:43 PM (JziUy)

....

We did that already. But these Human Locusts refuse to leave.

Posted by: Saber Alter at June 26, 2019 03:46 PM (+om3e)

473 They're not rich. Even assuming stock options, if you need to come up with a million bucks for a down payment on a 1,000 sq apartment, you aren't rich even if you have the million bucks.
Posted by: alexthechick - now with extra sand! at June 26, 2019 03:39 PM (mf5HN)

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Not quite. A decent apartment goes for $1M in SF. Which means $30K down payment, since 3% down is the new 20% down.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 26, 2019 03:46 PM (FiUMj)

474 "437 We should refer to the schizophrenics as "differently realitied".

Posted by: SJW Suggestion Board at June 26, 2019 03:41 PM (DuZls)"
..
I know you're joking, but there are already euphemisms for this and people do actually use them in professional settings.

Posted by: lurker (the other one. buy radios too) at June 26, 2019 03:46 PM (eAshZ)

475 Do I still get to make random Googlers cry though? Because I still want to do that.
Posted by: alexthechick - now with extra sand! at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (mf5HN)
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Darn right! Making Googlers cry expected! Because it's in your job description and there will be a performance review!

Posted by: Blake - my preferred pronoun is: Pronoun at June 26, 2019 03:46 PM (qC1Sy)

476 I'm probably late to this, but it seems that (unionized, of course) employees of Wayfair are set to go on strike rather than deliver supplies to illegal alien detention centers.

Fire them. All of them.

Posted by: DocJ at June 26, 2019 03:46 PM (DU2N9)

477 How does one "battle" cancer?

Go "GRRRRRRRR!!!!" and flex REALLY hard?

You get chemo and/or radiation and hope & pray for the best, but you don't "battle" it ...

Posted by: Kingsnake at June 26, 2019 03:46 PM (3JbJY)

478 I identify as a Corgi and am microagressed upon every time someone here feels that I need to be "called" to a new thread.

Posted by: Mama AJ at June 26, 2019 03:47 PM (wSGZR)

479 There is no non PC SJW gaywad corporation

Posted by: Keto not Beto at June 26, 2019 03:43 PM (JziUy)


I think the retarded civil courts and juries have contributed greatly to this.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 26, 2019 03:47 PM (le1m7)

480 The second "of human Bondage " on atm, with Isobel Elsom, who along with Lucille Watson, among my fav female supports.

Posted by: REDACTED at June 26, 2019 03:47 PM (DPjeO)

481 I imagine Google could never fire you if you were hiding in a safe place. It would be kind of like hiding in a cathedral in old timey days.

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:47 PM (aCNZ6)

482 Can anybody name a Fortune-500 corporate office where it _isn't_ happening? Where the employees (besides having real work to do) _don't_ have to undergo mandatory training to understand how to deal with the problems of "whiteness, toxic masculinity, inherent bias, tone-policing" and all the other trendy PC superstitions?

Posted by: gp And His Crispy Scalp at June 26, 2019 03:37 PM (mk9aG)


My duties in corporate America included business development in a Fortune 500 company. Startups had "can do" attitudes, and were down to business, with no time or money for that kind of nonsense. But once at a startup that had grown to about 200 people, while we waited for our contact we read the bulletin board in the lobby and saw a posted dress code, announcements for United Way, various birthday and shower announcements, etc.

Just then our host showed up and brightly announced that it was casual Friday there. While he jabbered on happily, my colleague and I looked at each other: "The rot has begun."

I think 200 or so is about the critical threshold for that crap. I further think that secretaries are the drivers of it, because they're more social than the male scientists and /or engineers. They're the ones who start with the birthday cards, the cake, the baby showers, and all the other stupid time-wasting crap that gradually erodes productivity.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:47 PM (if8r4)

483 "Do I still get to make random Googlers cry though? Because I still want to do that.
Posted by: alexthechick - now with extra sand! at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (mf5HN)"

Just read them random statutes. That makes me cry.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 26, 2019 03:47 PM (HTIJG)

484 This is so good ace. thank you.
but I didn't liker your fucking tone. just sayin.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 26, 2019 03:48 PM (8lGpb)

485 I identify as a crossbow and was recently horrified that when someone in the lunchroom suggested that eating lots of soy had transformed me from a longbow.

Posted by: Mama AJ at June 26, 2019 03:48 PM (wSGZR)

486 Do I still get to make random Googlers cry though? Because I still want to do that.
Posted by: alexthechick - now with extra sand! at June 26, 2019 03:30 PM (mf5HN)

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Only if you get it on video so that we can all enjoy with a Genocide-Sized bucket of popcorn.

Posted by: Saber Alter at June 26, 2019 03:48 PM (+om3e)

487 I'll probably be Willowed, but I have to say I laughed until I cried when I read the Google newsletter excerpts.

Posted by: Ladyl urgent prayer needed for Laura and Allison at June 26, 2019 03:48 PM (TdMsT)

488 -
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The second "of human Bondage " on atm, with Isobel Elsom, who along with Lucille Watson, among my fav female supports.


Posted by: REDACTED at June 26, 2019 03:47 PM

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Don't the people behind you waiting to get some cash get pissed when you watch?

Posted by: irright at June 26, 2019 03:49 PM (pMGkg)

489 Newsletter should be named The Google Archipelago

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 26, 2019 03:49 PM (DjiZK)

490 Can eyerolling get you written up at Google?

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:49 PM (aCNZ6)

491 >>458 I knew from the VERY beginning that "Don't Be Evil" was a bunch of marketing bullshit.

It's kinda just Norman Bates saying "No Mother! I won't be evil!"

Posted by: bananaDream at June 26, 2019 03:49 PM (l6b3d)

492 Picking-up a Microsoft Surface Book (used) on Friday. That will be the end of the Chromebook.

Last piece of the puzzle is replacing the Pixel with a (secondary-market) Xr. Yeah, Apple isn't great, but they're not Gulag and I just need something to get me through until there's an open-source alternative or I can just drop the smartphone once and for all.

And yeah, I know about the Librem5 - alert me once they're actually starting to ship them and the reviews aren't universally horrible.

Posted by: DocJ at June 26, 2019 03:49 PM (DU2N9)

493 Other things that won't work:
- Parent and Child (doubly offensive - hierarchical and family-ist)
- Superior and inferior (quality judgement)
- Master and subordinate (nice try, racist)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 26, 2019 03:45 PM (I2dne)


I recall that at some place (IIRC in SF) people lost their shit about a master and slave hard disks.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:50 PM (if8r4)

494 Did we miss the one about how they were telling a deaf person they didn't like her "tone?"
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 26, 2019 03:08 PM (jUVms)

A la Garrett Morris --

YOUR TONE IS OFFENSIVE TO ME AND OTHERS! PLEASE MODIFY IT IMMEDIATELY!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot



Right index finger in left palm, tap, tap, tap. Hook 'em Horns. "OK" sign, index finger of other hand through the hole, open palm vertical squiggle, twice. Dolphin leaps right to left then left to right. Two fingers up bunny hop, hands in armpits flap elbows, flap, flap. Thumb and finger "L" to forehead, tap, tap, tap, squiggle, mark of Zorro in the air, hesitate, catch breath.

Thumbs in ears waggle fingers, thumb and pinkie "Hang Loose" waggle

= What did you say?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:50 PM (l/Pix)

495 485
I identify as a crossbow and was recently horrified that when someone in
the lunchroom suggested that eating lots of soy had transformed me from
a longbow.

Posted by: Mama AJ at June 26, 2019 03:48 PM (wSGZR)

Or were they eating chili with carrots?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 26, 2019 03:50 PM (ufFY8)

496 485 I identify as a crossbow and was recently horrified that when someone in the lunchroom suggested that eating lots of soy had transformed me from a longbow.
Posted by: Mama AJ at June 26, 2019 03:48 PM (wSGZR)

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I've been saying for several years I identify as an A10 / Warthog ...

Posted by: Kingsnake at June 26, 2019 03:50 PM (3JbJY)

497 My Mom told me when I was younger than 29 that she preferred to work with men rather than women, specifically for this reason. Guys were less inclined to get into the bitchy bullshit. She worked in a steel mill in the office doing teletype stuff, apparently.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 26, 2019 03:42 PM (ufFY
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My wife said the same thing.

Plus I saw with my own eyes in the workplace that there were three female colleagues who were each in separate cube aisles and would be met with only huffs, and groans and eye-rolls when entering the other aisles. And variations of the whispered question "what is *she* doing here?"

Not saying I never worked with women who weren't like that, though. I have.

But women tend to care more about interpersonal relationships and social status (at least in a way where they want to have a "conversation" about it) than men.

Posted by: Axeman at June 26, 2019 03:50 PM (DuZls)

498 479 There is no non PC SJW gaywad corporation

Posted by: Keto not Beto at June 26, 2019 03:43 PM (JziUy)

I think the retarded civil courts and juries have contributed greatly to this.

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yeah, plus the usual GOP surrender to make normal people second class citizens here.

Posted by: Keto not Beto at June 26, 2019 03:50 PM (JziUy)

499 489 Newsletter should be named The Google Archipelago
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 26, 2019 03:49 PM (DjiZK)

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You win the internet. *thumbs up*

Posted by: Kingsnake at June 26, 2019 03:51 PM (3JbJY)

500 I identify as a Moronette and am microagressed upon when ppl shorten it to 'ette.

They don't realize that leading apostrophes are disparaging and misogynistic.

Posted by: Mama AJ at June 26, 2019 03:51 PM (wSGZR)

501 432 Maybe the men at Google are just holding it all in.

Come the weekend they hunt grizzlies with knives and impregnate wenches, comely wenches.
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:40 PM (aCNZ6)

Not in San Franshitsco, they don't.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 26, 2019 03:51 PM (sm6Pk)

502 I identify as a crossbow and was recently horrified that when someone in the lunchroom suggested that eating lots of soy had transformed me from a longbow.
Posted by: Mama AJ


It also makes your arrow droop.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:51 PM (l/Pix)

503 I was summoned by HR when one of my black female employees reported me for talking shit about Tiger Woods with another one of my employees. The phrase that triggered her was ' he sold his soul to the devil'

It was left unsaid but the result of HR meeting was, employee complaint nonsense, we are doing this so as to not make waves , please keep this in mind. Thank you.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at June 26, 2019 03:51 PM (oByg+)

504 Is it possible to get President Trump's Twitter feed live without a Twitter account?

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I don't belong to Twatter, but go to his page all the time. I don't know what a live feed means. I just refresh the new comments.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at June 26, 2019 03:51 PM (JoUsr)

505 468 Imagine finding the nastiest bitch in Google and starting a rumor that she donated to anti-gay movements cuz queers are scary. It would be fun starting slap fights and then calling them out for their lack of tolerance and predatory tone.
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 26, 2019 03:45 PM (2LelM)


And put a Trump sticker on her car. Watch the fun.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:52 PM (if8r4)

506 Cuz you know, record high stocks, unemployment under 4%.....kinda textbook definition of a recession right?


You could have high stock prices and record low unemployment and still have a recession if they're accompanied by two quarters of negative GDP growth.

Posted by: The Textbook Definition of Recession at June 26, 2019 03:52 PM (fuK7c)

507 Trust me., I'm the last person to respond
instinctively. But I do wonder why obituaries never say dad died after a
brief and cowardly battle with cancer.

Posted by: Northern Lurker,

I'd be happy with, "Dad died from living too much."

Posted by: Roland THTG at June 26, 2019 03:52 PM (88+cf)

508 chronological children.

the calendar may say they are adults, but they're all stuck in the terrible twos.

their parents and teachers did them ZERO favors.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 26, 2019 03:52 PM (RCJ3M)

509 I need a new tablet. Is it possible to get one that is NOT infested with google disease?

Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 26, 2019 03:52 PM (myjNJ)

510 With real estate so expensive in the Bay Area, how many trailer parks do you think are left?

Posted by: notsothoreau at June 26, 2019 03:52 PM (JKNZq)

511 Or were they eating chili with carrots?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 26, 2019 03:50 PM (ufFY
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*huffs*

Insults against the differently-vegetabled is ALL I ever hear!

Posted by: Carrots in Chili at June 26, 2019 03:52 PM (DuZls)

512 LOL -- I remember this nuttiness starting back in at least the 80's when there were objections to devices computing and electronic devices being referred to as "master" and "slave."

Mental Illness ... it's what's for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert for half the country now.
Posted by: ShainS -- There are but two Parties now: Traitors and Patriots at June 26, 2019 03:39 PM

The "master/slave" comment was in there, too!

After reading the whole thing, the only two folks I felt bad for were 1) the WV worker who was sending money to family and had to put up with assholes making comments about WV being incestuous etc. and 2) the dude just wanting to get through the day and leave without hassle.

Posted by: NaughtyPine - actual English teacher at June 26, 2019 03:52 PM (/+bwe)

513 idiot!

the term i use is "chronological adults"

the calendar may say they are adults, but they're all stuck in the terrible twos.

their parents and teachers did them ZERO favors.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 26, 2019 03:53 PM (RCJ3M)

514 Holy shit, these people have built for themselves a rhetorical minefield where you have to veeeeery carefully pick every word and tone lest it blow up in your non-gender specific face.
Shrinks for generations are going to be getting rich.

Posted by: Max Entropy at June 26, 2019 03:53 PM (ur/Uv)

515 What all these complaints remind me of: How women (in general) will come home from work or a family event (whatever) and proceed to b#tch about the slights and petty squabbles to our husband. Not to do anything about it, really, just as a way to get it out of of our system. And all hubby has to do is the occasional "Uh huh," "Really?" or "Huh" while we babble.

That these petty complaints are documented and distributed for reading is crazypants.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2019 03:53 PM (bDqIh)

516
knew from the VERY beginning that "Don't Be Evil" was a bunch of marketing bullshit.


DuckDuckGo's motto should be "Those Other Guys Are Evil."

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 26, 2019 03:53 PM (TAmPV)

517 My wife said the same thing.

So did mine.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:53 PM (if8r4)

518 Yeah, like breathing, for example. She seemed to think she'd been doing everyone a huge favor by doing this.
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One of my autistic kids, son 15, has super sensitive hearing. I'm oldish and my hearing is not that great. I don't hear certain things at all. So apparently when I breath through my nose it makes some kind of annoying noise that' I can't hear but he can. He's told me about this, and I try to accommodate him by breathing through my mouth when he's with me in a quiet room. Sometimes I forget. . .

This morning:

"Dad, you're being selfish again".

"Sorry son, I'll stop breathing." "Oxygen is for quitters". *Dad chants to self in SpongeBob voice* "I don't need it. I don't need it. . ."

(Kid giggles) "Thanks Dad. You're the best Dad I ever had."

"Come over here and let me blow my nose on your shirt".

I mean, reasonable accommodation is all well and good, but at some point you gotta be realistic and start making fun of it before it gets to crazytown. Google is so far past crazytown, it will take the Starship enterprise traveling at warp 7 years to get back to "normal".

Posted by: its the dialogue from an old spongebob episode he used to watch like 10 years ago at June 26, 2019 03:53 PM (UfKHw)

519
I'm probably late to this, but it seems that (unionized, of course) employees of Wayfair are set to go on strike rather than deliver supplies to illegal alien detention centers.

Fire them. All of them.

Posted by: DocJ at June 26, 2019 03:46 PM (DU2N9)






When the Border Patrol cancels orders and goes to WalMart because the Wayfair employees threw a hissy fit, I'm pretty sure that violates their union-negotiated contracts and will make firing them that much easier.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 26, 2019 03:53 PM (veoSD)

520 Wow. Those examples read like jokes but I'm guessing they're not.

I think they need to modify their "Don't Be Evil" motto. They can start with "Don't be a nincompoop."

Posted by: bluebell at June 26, 2019 03:53 PM (aXucN)

521 But women tend to care more about interpersonal relationships and social status (at least in a way where they want to have a "conversation" about it) than men.
Posted by: Axeman at June 26, 2019 03:50 PM (DuZls)


And don't even start on their basset hounds. They won't shut up about their damn dogs at home. Finally solved the problem by having no female employees, which I can get away with since I have fewer than 5 employees.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at June 26, 2019 03:53 PM (kUmUV)

522 468 Imagine finding the nastiest bitch in Google and starting a rumor that she donated to anti-gay movements cuz queers are scary. It would be fun starting slap fights and then calling them out for their lack of tolerance and predatory tone.
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 26, 2019 03:45 PM (2LelM)

One that she wants people to think she's M->F trans, but she obviously isn't.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 26, 2019 03:54 PM (sm6Pk)

523 "I further think that secretaries are the drivers of it, because they're more social than the male scientists and /or engineers. They're the ones who start with the birthday cards, the cake, the baby showers, and all the other stupid time-wasting crap that gradually erodes productivity."

Amen, brother! I never had time for that stuff, didn't see why they _did_.

I'd add that in the office, any female can instantly and unilaterally usurp power in any situation, simply by claiming offense, or bursting into tears, or having to leave suddenly in feigned disgust at whatever she thinks is "inappropriate" that day. Everybody has to cater to her offendedness. I suppose this privilege now belongs to all intersectionals in America 2019.

Posted by: gp And His Crispy Scalp at June 26, 2019 03:54 PM (mk9aG)

524 500 I identify as a Moronette and am microagressed upon when ppl shorten it to 'ette.

They don't realize that leading apostrophes are disparaging and misogynistic.
Posted by: Mama AJ at June 26, 2019 03:51 PM (wSGZR)

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Apostrophes look like erect penises which is reproductionist.

Posted by: Kingsnake at June 26, 2019 03:54 PM (3JbJY)

525 I would like to see them duke it out.
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Unless you're German and into that sort of thing.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 26, 2019 03:54 PM (Dh1wo)

526 490 Can eyerolling get you written up at Google?
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:49 PM (aCNZ6)

What CAN'T get you written up at Google?

Posted by: m at June 26, 2019 03:54 PM (qxAnn)

527 I'm thinking of going for a midweek, mid afternoon beer. Should I or shouldn't I?

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:54 PM (aCNZ6)

528 Google can't go out of business fast enough in my opinion. MAGA!

Posted by: Kenny The G from AZ at June 26, 2019 03:54 PM (O2IeG)

529 I could troll the fuck out of that.
Is Google hiring?
What's the over/under on how long I would last?

Posted by: Max Entropy at June 26, 2019 03:54 PM (ur/Uv)

530 Trust me., I'm the last person to respond
instinctively. But I do wonder why obituaries never say dad died after a
brief and cowardly battle with cancer.

Posted by: Northern Lurker,
I'd be happy with, "Dad died from living too much."
Posted by: Roland THTG


"Dad died from the neighbor lady's husband".

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2019 03:54 PM (l/Pix)

531 493
Other things that won't work:

- Parent and Child (doubly offensive - hierarchical and family-ist)

- Superior and inferior (quality judgement)

- Master and subordinate (nice try, racist)

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 26, 2019 03:45 PM (I2dne)



I recall that at some place (IIRC in SF) people lost their shit about a master and slave hard disks.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:50 PM (if8r4)
Next thing you'll see is these 'tards stating that when having sex with a woman doggy style is wrong because it is domineering and exudes toxic masculinity.
And using the "cowgirl" position is wrong because it doesn't use the proper pronoun. Somehow cowxhe doesn't sound right.And what will they say about the term masturbate. Has the word "master" in it - and we know what that implies!!!!

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 26, 2019 03:54 PM (N39Ws)

532 >>Can eyerolling get you written up at Google?

Yes, because some ppl are blind and can't roll their eyes and can't see you rolling your eyes and so you are communicating behind their backs--if they have backs, that is.

Posted by: Mama AJ at June 26, 2019 03:55 PM (wSGZR)

533 well, we are second class citizens, but at least we aren't these people writing about pronouns. That's America 2.0 and thanks, everyone, for helping make it happen.

Posted by: Keto not Beto at June 26, 2019 03:55 PM (JziUy)

534 "Someone I know has been effectively pressured into not using their preferred pronouns in work communications"
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Help me here--when someone uses their own pronoun, it's it always "I" or "me"? Have these been re-posessed by the SJWs too?

Seriously, do some substitute other freak verbiage for the first-person-singular pronouns now? If not, how do you "pressure someone into not using their own preferred pronoun"?

Very confused...

Posted by: Kevin Canuck at June 26, 2019 03:56 PM (PxAO0)

535 What all these complaints remind me of: How women (in general) will come home from work or a family event (whatever) and proceed to b#tch about the slights and petty squabbles to our husband.

"She's trying to destroy me!"

Never heard that from the lovely Mrs Guevara, but I have heard it from female subordinates. Two in particular hated each other, and so at least once a week I'd have one come into my office blubbing, and then later the other. I used to worry that the carpet was going to get moldy. My secretary used to joke that I needed a psychiatrist's couch in my office.

Fortunately, I had nothing else to do but referee these squabbles.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:56 PM (if8r4)

536 You morons wonder why I'm frothing angry all the time, 40 years working in office environments will do that to you. I should have been a plumber or landscaper.

Posted by: gp And His Crispy Scalp at June 26, 2019 03:56 PM (mk9aG)

537 Seriously, do some substitute other freak verbiage for the first-person-singular pronouns now? If not, how do you "pressure someone into not using their own preferred pronoun"?

Bob Dole has his own solution.

Posted by: Bob Dole at June 26, 2019 03:56 PM (l8gTz)

538 >>And put a Trump sticker on her car. Watch the fun.


Probably will be willowed, but. . . Years ago worked with a nice woman who had a habit of playing the martyr; no one appreciated all the hard work she did blah blah blah. A guy in IT, a friend, created a stealth "Lisa Day!" where everyone was greeted with the announcement of Lisa Day when they logged in. EVery time Lisa walked by we all stood and clapped. Mid-day we had a parade and a cake for Lisa.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2019 03:56 PM (bDqIh)

539 It was left unsaid but the result of HR meeting was, employee complaint nonsense, we are doing this so as to not make waves , please keep this in mind. Thank you.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation

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sounds like a hostile work environment.

Posted by: Keto not Beto at June 26, 2019 03:57 PM (JziUy)

540 >>Can eyerolling get you written up at Google?

Yes, because some ppl are blind and can't roll their eyes and can't see you rolling your eyes and so you are communicating behind their backs--if they have backs, that is.

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Heh. My G*d, that's totally a plausible response from these crazy babies.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at June 26, 2019 03:57 PM (JoUsr)

541 The red states might have slightly less than half the total population of the United States but 90 percent of the testerone.

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:57 PM (aCNZ6)

542 They can start with "Don't be a nincompoop."



Posted by: bluebell at June 26, 2019 03:53 PM (aXucN)

I haven't heard 'nincompoop' in a long time. I still like it.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 26, 2019 03:57 PM (8lGpb)

543 522 468 Imagine finding the nastiest bitch in Google and starting a rumor that she donated to anti-gay movements cuz queers are scary. It would be fun starting slap fights and then calling them out for their lack of tolerance and predatory tone.
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 26, 2019 03:45 PM (2LelM)

One that she wants people to think she's M->F trans, but she obviously isn't.
Posted by: Hikaru at June 26, 2019 03:54 PM (sm6Pk)

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"She posts at this awful place called Ace of Spades as someone called AlextheChick. You just need to see the things she writes!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 26, 2019 03:57 PM (9cans)

544 Wasn't legalizing homo marriage supposed to end these problems?

Posted by: Captain Hate at June 26, 2019 03:42 PM (y7DUB)
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Instead, it fed an appetite for capitulation.

Posted by: Axeman at June 26, 2019 03:57 PM (DuZls)

545 Do these people do any actual work?
Or do they spend all day every day weeping and scolding?

Posted by: NavyMom at June 26, 2019 03:58 PM (HGZyc)

546 541 The red states might have slightly less than half the total population of the United States but 90 percent of the testerone.
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 26, 2019 03:57 PM (aCNZ6)

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So, how is that testosterone situation going to go for blue states in a couple of generations?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 26, 2019 03:58 PM (9cans)

547
But once at a startup that had grown to about 200 people, while we waited for our contact we read the bulletin board in the lobby and saw a posted dress code, announcements for United Way, various birthday and shower announcements, etc.
.
.
.
I think 200 or so is about the critical threshold for that crap.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 03:47 PM (if8r4)






Actually, I'm pretty sure that the threshold is "we've grown enough so that we now have our own HR Department".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 26, 2019 03:58 PM (veoSD)

548 "Imagine finding the nastiest bitch in Google and starting a rumor that she donated to anti-gay movements cuz queers are scary. It would be fun starting slap fights and then calling them out for their lack of tolerance and predatory tone."

Probably illegal.

Posted by: gp And His Crispy Scalp at June 26, 2019 03:58 PM (mk9aG)

549 *emerges from slumber*
For 2000 years I lay dormant. Who now wakes me from my repose?
Oh. It's a bunch of fucking piss buckets from Google.
Honest to God, is there a more useless, unnecessary group of people than grievance mongers? Is there anyone out there who doesn't think the world would be a better place if we went full Golgafrincham and shot them into the sun?

Hi, btw. I've been incommunicado FOREVER, but I'm going to try to get back to the HQ whenever I can!

Posted by: MWR, The Public Intellectual (aka Beth) at June 26, 2019 03:58 PM (rP4OC)

550 I haven't heard 'nincompoop' in a long time. I still like it.


Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 26, 2019 03:57 PM (8lGpb)

I prefer the term 'dumbass'.
Jackass also works.


Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 26, 2019 03:58 PM (ufFY8)

551 I identify as a willow tree and


oh, forget it this shit is exhausting

Posted by: Mama AJ at June 26, 2019 03:59 PM (wSGZR)

552 Help me here--when someone uses their own pronoun, it's it always "I" or "me"? Have these been re-posessed by the SJWs too?

Seriously, do some substitute other freak verbiage for the first-person-singular pronouns now? If not, how do you "pressure someone into not using their own preferred pronoun"?

Very confused...
Posted by: Kevin Canuck


"They/them" which obviously leads to problems.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 26, 2019 03:59 PM (DrqHq)

553 Nood.

Posted by: Bob Dole at June 26, 2019 03:59 PM (l8gTz)

554 I was with a tech company that kept a startup culture after it got listed on NASDAQ.

Secretaries weren't the problem. There were only one or two. We had an HR girl who had the status and pay of a secretary.

Where things went bad was when we got a $200K VP of HR.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 26, 2019 03:59 PM (fuK7c)

555 536
You morons wonder why I'm frothing angry all the time, 40 years working
in office environments will do that to you. I should have been a
plumber or landscaper.

Posted by: gp And His Crispy Scalp at June 26, 2019 03:56 PM (mk9aG)

...and don't be an elementary teacher, trust me. Estrogen poisoning. Schools out and I went right o the boxing gym to hit stuff.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 26, 2019 03:59 PM (8lGpb)

556 I haven't heard 'nincompoop' in a long time. I still like it.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 26, 2019 03:57 PM (8lGpb)
---------

Thank you, Cannibal Bob. Sometimes the old ways are the best ways.

Posted by: bluebell at June 26, 2019 03:59 PM (aXucN)

557 I'm outraged!!

Somebody has been using MY personal pronouns!!!

Their MINE!!! MINE I tell you!! STOP USING THEM!!!

Posted by: Axeman at June 26, 2019 03:59 PM (DuZls)

558 >>Posted by: MWR

Hey you! I haven't been here either, but I popped up to make fun of these idiots.

/back to lurk mode

Posted by: Mama AJ at June 26, 2019 04:00 PM (wSGZR)

559 544 Wasn't legalizing homo marriage supposed to end these problems?

Posted by: Captain Hate at June 26, 2019 03:42 PM (y7DUB)
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Instead, it fed an appetite for capitulation.
Posted by: Axeman at June 26, 2019 03:57 PM (DuZls)

=====

Kingsnake's Two Laws Of LIberalism

1) No matter hoe liberal you are, you will never be liberal enough.

2) Give a liberal an inch, they will take a foot and demand a mile.

Never forget that. Feel free to quote me ...

Posted by: Kingsnake at June 26, 2019 04:00 PM (3JbJY)

560 Slow down, I can't keep up

Posted by: Skip at June 26, 2019 04:00 PM (BbGew)

561 Generators go on the roof, not below ground level.

Ours is on a concrete pad on the ground. Hilariously, it's directly adjacent to the 4 electric car charging stations.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 26, 2019 04:00 PM (ZGrMX)

562 I used to work in big software tech and my experience is that most folks in software are as equally snowflaky and thin-skinned as the Google bunch. Millenials have nothing on all generations of tech workers. Even well-meaning constructive criticism absolutely flummoxes them. Since they don't interact much outside their group, they think they're experts on everything. Now I work in a field where I'm occasionally on large construction sites. Ahhh.

Posted by: Brass Bancroft at June 26, 2019 04:01 PM (8JWHR)

563 Actually, I'm pretty sure that the threshold is "we've grown enough so that we now have our own HR Department".
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 26, 2019 03:58 PM (veoSD)
+++++++++++
About 200 is probably close. I suspect the threshold is "the point at which everyone doesn't know everyone else." The mesh web breaks down and hierarchy becomes essential. This also then necessitates bureaucracy, which is not an objectively bad thing - big organizations need that. If you let the wrong people in, however, it will lead to a metastatic cancer and you get this kind of crap.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 26, 2019 04:01 PM (I2dne)

564 Amen, brother! I never had time for that stuff, didn't see why they _did_.

Posted by: gp And His Crispy Scalp at June 26, 2019 03:54 PM (mk9aG)


I've figured that one out. It's because secretaries are paid for their time, and so are perfectly happy to fart around at work.

Executives are paid for results, not their time, and any time spent farting around just means that they have to stay later.

I call it the "garbage man conundrum." The garbage men get a holiday off? Great. Now they've got TWO days' trash to pick up instead of one.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 04:01 PM (if8r4)

565 Watching Miss Bala now. Gina Rodriguez got a chin like the bow of a supertanker. Kirk Douglas just now phoned and said "Cripes, look at the size of the mandible on that chick."

Posted by: gp And His Crispy Scalp at June 26, 2019 04:01 PM (mk9aG)

566 Secretaries weren't the problem. There were only one or two. We had an HR girl who had the status and pay of a secretary.

Where things went bad was when we got a $200K VP of HR.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 26, 2019 03:59 PM (fuK7c)
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I warned people for years. For years people's standard reaction was "Who's going to hire these snowflakes?!". And I told them MANY of them are going into HR, an already estrogen-sodden branch of Corporate America.

Posted by: Axeman at June 26, 2019 04:01 PM (DuZls)

567 Weak men lead to bad times.
Bad times lead to strong men.
Strong men lead to good times.
Good times lead to weak men.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 26, 2019 04:02 PM (ysKYj)

568 "Dad died from the neighbor lady's husband".

"Dad died from the neighbor lady, and mom.
Mostly mom."

Posted by: Roland THTG at June 26, 2019 04:03 PM (88+cf)

569
335 >>>have to advocate just to maintain the status quo of partial inclusion.


Partial inclusion? Like, in the land of the armless, the one-armed person is king?

Give a shout out to Michelle Fields!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 26, 2019 04:04 PM (pNxlR)

570 Wasn't legalizing homo marriage supposed to end these problems?

The problem is it made gays and lesbians boring, and the Marxists need someone to OUTRAGE THE CHRISTIANISTS at all times. So they invented the tranny thing.

For the same reason, colleges now are agreeing that non-trans gays are not actually worth any intersectionality points.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 26, 2019 04:04 PM (ZGrMX)

571 Don't Be Evil

They should have gone really meta and done:

Don't Project

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2019 04:04 PM (g/Vvo)

572 I suspect the threshold is "the point at which everyone doesn't know everyone else."

That was my conjecture as well.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 26, 2019 04:04 PM (if8r4)

573 Why are we allowing these head cases to control the free flow of ideas and discussion?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 26, 2019 03:14 PM

We're not. This is how we got Trump!

Posted by: Worc1 at June 26, 2019 04:06 PM (+uDPK)

574 "And I told them MANY of them are going into HR, an already estrogen-sodden branch of Corporate America."

I got about 3/4 of the way to an MBA, had to take an HR course. The textbook was illiterate poorly-spelled drivel, dogma, superstition and nonsense. I returned the book and dropped the whole f*cking program. I despise HR people, and boy-o-boy do they hate me.

Posted by: gp And His Crispy Scalp at June 26, 2019 04:06 PM (mk9aG)

575 My pronoun is actually MWRFAN4EVA. But she doesn't even notice me anymore.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2019 04:07 PM (g/Vvo)

576
Hire some cheap Indian engineers to take their places. Seriously - double your productivity at half the cost.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp

=====

I bet that's how that fvck Sundar Pichai got started.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 26, 2019 04:07 PM (M9ntN)

577 I saw the The Tone Police open for Loverboy in 87 at the Cajundome

Posted by: hurricane567 at June 26, 2019 04:08 PM (aU8S2)

578 576
Hire some cheap Indian engineers to take their places. Seriously - double your productivity at half the cost.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp

=====

I bet that's how that fvck Sundar Pichai got started.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 26, 2019 04:07 PM (M9ntN)

=====

Much of my time in tech was spent correcting those Tata engineers many mistakes ...

Posted by: Kingsnake at June 26, 2019 04:08 PM (3JbJY)

579 KOFF CDC KOFF,

I've got the walking Ebola and the boogie-woogie blues.

Posted by: DaveA at June 26, 2019 04:09 PM (FhXTo)

580 Well, I was wrong. I thought that the stupid stuff going on in Colleges and Universities would never be countenanced in the business world.

Now I see how and why so many businesses are being sucked up into this insanity contrary to the rules of running a profit making business.

They're mimicking Google and other Tech businesses who are more tolerant of the college/university nonsense.

Maybe they see it as profitable or see it as necessary to attract those with the skills they need and they accept the insanity as a cost of acquiring those skill sets.

I was right about one thing; PC will kill us. Not all of us because eventually a collapsing society will lose the ability to destroy anyone because the infrastructure will be weak or gone.

It's not a meteor that will kill us it's the striving for self esteem with little ability to earn it.

Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at June 26, 2019 04:11 PM (MioLM)

581
"She posts at this awful place called Ace of Spades as someone called AlextheChick. You just need to see the things she writes!"
-----
And she links awful videos like this one!
https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/
1143693373133316097

Posted by: andycanuck at June 26, 2019 04:11 PM (Dh1wo)

582 These people are on the crazy train.

Posted by: I am not corey Booker at June 26, 2019 04:13 PM (nRj4F)

583 "I'm sorry sir, you cannot take that metal straw onto the aircraft."

Posted by: The Man from TSA at June 26, 2019 04:13 PM (hKi6n)

584 Probably illegal.
Posted by: gp And His Crispy Scalp at June 26, 2019 03:58 PM (mk9aG)

---

It isn't, but you can only do it if you're female, gay, or gender-LARPing. Then, you're permitted to claim that your passive-aggressive bitchiness is the only way women/gy men/gender LARPers are permitted to express themselves because, cisheretonormativewhitepatriarchy.*

*-based on a true story

Posted by: Saber Alter at June 26, 2019 04:19 PM (+om3e)

585

Good Lord.


You are what you eat employ.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 26, 2019 04:20 PM (vEIlU)

586 A consensus of the sane accept the AoS Gulag Staff Theory.

Posted by: Locke Common at June 26, 2019 04:21 PM (HSjGz)

587 Preschoolers go to college, get coddled and told they can still have their binky. Then they go to Google and expect to keep their binky.

Binkyism will take this country down.


Posted by: Jeff K at June 26, 2019 04:22 PM (cpVs2)

588 96 Now I know who Liz Warren makes me think of: An HR director at Google
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 26, 2019 03:03 PM (ptqGC


Perfection!

Posted by: Flyover at June 26, 2019 04:33 PM (B5K06)

589 The complaints remind me of the conflict resolution episode of "The Office."

Posted by: Crimso at June 26, 2019 04:34 PM (uCLNU)

590 None of these leftists ever tell me why they're not policing the gender language of Spanish-speaking Americans.

They keep saying "language" whenever they mean "English."

Sort of like the way they say they hate "religion" and then all they knock is Christianity.

Posted by: RKae at June 26, 2019 04:49 PM (z7C6w)

591 Preschoolers go to college, get coddled and told they can still have their binky. Then they go to Google and expect to keep their binky.

Binkyism will take this country down.


Posted by: Jeff K

----

Women raise toddlers; men raise productive citizens.

They no longer have husband/fathers to pass the toddlers off to so the job can get completed.

These are the products of single mothers. You know: "Strong women." "Fish without bicycles."



Posted by: RKae at June 26, 2019 04:51 PM (z7C6w)

592 That soy comment was definitely a joke. Good job secret Google conservative!

Posted by: Sarcman at June 26, 2019 05:02 PM (IAGvD)

593 Google is definitely the "tip of the spear" when it comes to a looney bin

Posted by: SMOD at June 26, 2019 05:18 PM (QkjLD)

594 I'm sure that working at Google, the literal "foreskin of technology" can raise up your objectives.

Posted by: SMOD at June 26, 2019 05:20 PM (QkjLD)

595 Hi, Ace! I'm going to disagree with the middle 3/8 (roughly) of your theory. I think someplace like Google *should* be permitted, indeed *encouraged*, to exist so that it can absorb all such disordered and abnormal folks out of the other not-yet-topsy-turvy organizations out there, and segregate them from same. The catch, of course, is that, having achieved such a state of affairs, Google or equivalent would then have to be rendered powerless to tyrannize others outside its own narrow reach.

Posted by: Philip at June 26, 2019 06:11 PM (bklXd)

596 Now I understand Google's interest in artificial intelligence.
There's absolutely no natural intelligence in evidence.

Posted by: KenG453 at June 26, 2019 06:31 PM (KbK30)

597 I never thought a high school environment would be preferable, ever, until I read this.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 26, 2019 07:20 PM (mEn6y)

598 I guess we have to nuke it from orbit just to be sure.

Posted by: whitecollarredneck at June 26, 2019 07:43 PM (SYvU/)

599 Like a person or group with mass dementia these people are in an insulated world of their own.They symbolically cut other peoples tongues out to suppress wrong think/speech that probably 95% of the US populations doesn't give a rats derriere about.It is an insane asylum.I see a split personality crisis looming and then they will start talking to themselves.

Posted by: obsidian at June 27, 2019 12:37 PM (7+yqP)

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