My work acknowledging it's over and how to cope

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YouBet
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4stringAg said:

The galling thing about this crap is the presumptuousness. The assumption here is that the wrong outcome is happening and we must all be somber and work through it. Like Trump winning is something for everyone to be mournful about.
Exactly. This is just one of millions of examples of bias in favor of Democrats. Employers shouldn't give a **** about who wins the Presidency other than how it will impact their income statement and balance sheet.

Treat your employees like grownups and not children who need to be coddled. Good f'ing lord.
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DallasAg 94 said:

This explains it.

My liberal company sent out a Social Media use update. We are not permitted to use SM from any work resource and we are not to post to SM during work hours. Doing so could be grounds for termination, unless authorized by the company, unless it is work related.

If a co-worker reports you, you are required to provide account access. That includes "anonymous" postings. We are also no longer to disclose any work condition information.

I thought maybe it was just an impending RIF.
Better watch your back on Texags!
The world needs mean tweets

My Pronouns Ultra and MAGA

Trump 2024
agent-maroon
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Isosceles_Kramer said:

agent-maroon said:

"Safe spaces" lol


I loathe that term

Yeah, I totally get that. I'm laughing at the thought of adults who are such fragile poons that they have to have the emotional protection of an arbitrarially designated & completely imaginary volume of office space to cope with an election outcome. It's the absurdity of it all that gets to me.
BigRobSA
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HollywoodBQ said:

I use skills I learned as a college student at Texas A&M - ignore people who are babbling and not making any sense.


Never talking to wimmenz.
AGROAg88
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Have they closed all the bars in San Francisco? No safer place...
PCC_80
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usmcbrooks said:

zephyr88 said:

Tanya 93 said:

Half my staff can't vote.

They just work
Republicans?
Illegals?
Convicted Felons ? ? ?
Waffledynamics
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Many Democrats are mentally ill and cannot cope with the idea of a Republican president. I'm not kidding. So many things I see are "make him go away and he can't hurt us anymore!!!"

This is mental illness, ideological bigotry, and insanity.
DallasAg 94
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Trajan88
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You're a candidate for wearing the "Dark MAGA" cap instead of the standard red MAGA cap.

Serious Lee
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watching thread to see if your company keeps that same energy if/when they steal the election again.
HollywoodBQ
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Ozzy Osbourne said:

HollywoodBQ I also work for a Silicon Valley company and you give me hope man. Who knows how many secretly sane people I might be workin with!
It's the same deal as living in Hollywood.

The libs are outspoken and believe that everyone thinks just like they do and anyone who has diversity of opinion is a Luddite or a Caveman.

Conservatives exist in tech and even in the Bay Area but, they've learned to survive by keeping quiet.
HollywoodBQ
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DallasAg 94 said:

This explains it.

My liberal company sent out a Social Media use update. We are not permitted to use SM from any work resource and we are not to post to SM during work hours. Doing so could be grounds for termination, unless authorized by the company, unless it is work related.

If a co-worker reports you, you are required to provide account access. That includes "anonymous" postings. We are also no longer to disclose any work condition information.

I thought maybe it was just an impending RIF.
Holy crap.

Better set up some burner accounts and only post from your Jason Bourne burner phone.
HollywoodBQ
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BigRobSA said:

HollywoodBQ said:

I use skills I learned as a college student at Texas A&M - ignore people who are babbling and not making any sense.


Never talking to wimmenz.
Learned that one long ago.

When I worked for the State of Texas in the mid-1990s, the only full day training we got was sexual harassment.

Funnily enough the only sexual harassment I ever received at that job was from a gay dude (an Aggie Wrangler no less).

That scenario wasn't covered in the course.
HollywoodBQ
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Trajan88 said:

You're a candidate for wearing the "Dark MAGA" cap instead of the standard red MAGA cap.


Mine is on back order but I out the - Never Surrender sign in my yard tonight.
bmks270
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Just waiting for the post election safe space and offering of coping PTO if Trump wins by progressive corporate HR.
Ramdiesel
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4stringAg said:

The galling thing about this crap is the presumptuousness. The assumption here is that the wrong outcome is happening and we must all be somber and work through it. Like Trump winning is something for everyone to be mournful about.


I work with a bunch of DEMs in Phoenix. I avoid talking politics at work at all costs, but get earfulls from them all around all the time. I know they have to know I'm Republican. They know I grew up on a ranch in the middle of nowhere in West Texas, and they know I like to hunt and fish, and they know I drive a big arse diesel truck that's tuned and rolls coal. They know my kids participate in rodeos, and that I own a small ranch here in AZ...These should all be clues. You are right though, the presumptuousness that I want to hear all of their crap.

Sometimes, I think they say the stuff they say around me to try to get a rise out of me, and it really pisses them off when I won't take the bait. I don't care about there feels. They certainly don't care about mine.
HollywoodBQ
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Username checks out.

If they're D voters in AZ, that means they probably bailed on Kalifornia. So I'd be tempted to ask them why they left utopia and one party rule?

Circa 2005, I had a lesbian co-worker who won a cruise out of Galveston and she knew I was from Texas. She came over to my cube to ask me if there was any other airport she could fly into in Houston besides "Bush".

She said, I know it's named for his father but I hate these people.

I told her about Hobby but that she'd probably have to fly Southwest out of Ontario.

It's funny when the principled folks don't want to be inconvenienced by cattle call boarding.

I told her that I still call IAH - "Intercontinental" because that's what we've been calling it since I was a little kid. She decided that was OK.

Bonus story - I noticed the strong resemblance between her children and a Guatemalan co-worker of mine and I came to find out that the reason was because he was the sperm donor.

Now extra bonus, Guatemalan guy was adopted by a Scottish-American family and he would attend Scottish heritage events wearing a kilt.

That's the LA I used to enjoy. It does not exist anymore.
ts5641
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I want more GIFs and memes of lefties crying after the election this time.
Dr. Mephisto
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4stringAg said:

The galling thing about this crap is the presumptuousness. The assumption here is that the wrong outcome is happening and we must all be somber and work through it. Like Trump winning is something for everyone to be mournful about.
Democracy is only wonderful when everything goes their way. Thinking differently is "literal violence!"

They are so soft.

In a hot war, these people would die before a shot is fired. They're so fragile!
Rex Racer
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A former co-worker started a blog the day Trump took office the first time. She called it "Fascism Watch". Guess she'll be starting that back up.
Wabs
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Trump has literally broken half of America.
Cromagnum
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William Foster said:

We had a white lady go absolutely crazy in our office following Trump's first victory. Her peronality completely changed. The morning after he won, I heard her in the breakroom talking to a filipino-American long time coworker and she literally said "I am terrified, but I can't imagine how terrifying this must be for you" (I realize that sounds made up, but it's not...on my mother). Filipina coworker is a Christian family woman and didn't even know how to respond and I honestly couldn't believe what I was hearing.

She went from being a happy, positive, team oriented individual to completely bitter and tough to work with. She got fired several months later, apparently after numerous behavior reports, as no one could get along with her anymore. My first glimpse of TDS, long before that was even a known "thing".


And now she's the terror of her neighborhood HOA
stick95
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I have a safe space for you. If you can act like a nut regardless of who wins the election, then you can be at home in your safe space permanently.
Hoyt Ag
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DallasAg 94 said:

This explains it.

My liberal company sent out a Social Media use update. We are not permitted to use SM from any work resource and we are not to post to SM during work hours. Doing so could be grounds for termination, unless authorized by the company, unless it is work related.

If a co-worker reports you, you are required to provide account access. That includes "anonymous" postings. We are also no longer to disclose any work condition information.

I thought maybe it was just an impending RIF.
That policy was definitely written by women named Debbie, Pam and Barbara with a combined weight of 900lbs.
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I have posted this before, but here goes again for crazy ...


Ran into a previous coworker in late 2017. Unknown to me, I ask how he was and he mentioned that he had just finalized his divorce. His wife went off the rails after the election so fast that the divorce was final within six months.

She quit her job that paid over 200k per year. Tried to have her ex-husband (my buddy) arrested for abuse...when the police showed up she claim that he was emotionally abusing her by being a man. Moved in with a group of other women struggling to get by. Started wearing the p*55y hat at rallies. Fast forward to 2020 when i saw him again. She has gone from clean cut to buzz cut with completely tattooed body. Gained 50 pounds. Has no job and begging her ex and her parents for money.

The father in law still keeps in touch with him and has apologized to him many times about his daughter.


The irony, my buddy was a liberal and voted for Clinton just like his wife. In 2024, he is a proud conservative with a wife and two children.
CDUB98
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Hoyt Ag said:

DallasAg 94 said:

This explains it.

My liberal company sent out a Social Media use update. We are not permitted to use SM from any work resource and we are not to post to SM during work hours. Doing so could be grounds for termination, unless authorized by the company, unless it is work related.

If a co-worker reports you, you are required to provide account access. That includes "anonymous" postings. We are also no longer to disclose any work condition information.

I thought maybe it was just an impending RIF.
That policy was definitely written by women named Debbie, Pam and Barbara with a combined weight of 900lbs.
ttu_85
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Ozzy Osbourne said:

HollywoodBQ I also work for a Silicon Valley company and you give me hope man. Who knows how many secretly sane people I might be workin with!
Wow I cant imagine the hell of working so many libtards at an SV based tech company. I'd be fired within a week. I worked in tech for 30 years but thank God most of that was as my own boss.
TX AG 88
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TexAgs91 said:


Rocky the Dog quality right there!
TexasAGGIEinAR
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HollywoodBQ said:

Received a message today regarding the need to create a safe space to facilitate healthy conversations to help employees deal with their emotions after the election.

Even Bay Area employers know Trump is coming back and are preparing for the post election freakout.

2016 obviously caught people off guard and Bay Area folks were thrilled with the 2020 outcome. Although they would have liked for Covid to last a little longer.

The fact that they're already figuring out how to cope after the election means they don't believe it's going to go their way.

Keeping my fingers crossed.


I kinda wish I still worked for Clorox. I'd have purposely booked travel to Oakland/Pleasanton to watch the meltdown in person. God knows they'll have several "corporate calls" to caudle the spineless Libs that the company holds so valuable. It's gonna be beautiful.
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This could be either an after election reaction or they are out of pumpkin spice latte reaction.
LMCane
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HILARIOUS!!!

10 days beforehand and they are prepping like it's a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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HollywoodBQ said:



Learned that one long ago.

When I worked for the State of Texas in the mid-1990s, the only full day training we got was sexual harassment.

Funnily enough the only sexual harassment I ever received at that job was from a gay dude (an Aggie Wrangler no less).

That scenario wasn't covered in the course.
OK, we have GOT to hear that story!
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doubledog said:



This could be either an after election reaction or they are out of pumpkin spice latte reaction.
That idiot will appear calm, cool, and collected compared to what we're about to see.
Being in TexAgs jail changes a man……..no, not really
Burpelson
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Whichever side wins it's gonna be rough in this country for the tenure of the President.
japantiger
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Look at the bright side, management can use anyone entering the safe-space as layoff candidates...good opportunity to get lean and competitive
 
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