Affirmative
Mar06
on 2019-03-06
at 17:55
Gary wasn’t always so progressive.
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Alejandro
Gary, thanks for stepping in. Kimi had to leave for a while on important business.
Gary
You know, I wasn’t expecting to go from “customer” to “Assistant Manager” in one swoop.
Alejandro
Free burrito. Gets ‘em every time. So, what happened to working for MegaMarket?
Gary
Affirmative action in promotions.
Alejandro
They gave your job to someone else?
Gary
No, I suggested that women and minorities deserved an equal chance at advancement. When they started trotting out Bible verses, I walked.
Alejandro
At least you had the sense to not suggest LBG- LGTB-? Gay rights. You’d have been shot at dawn.
Narration
And he needed a mature white male on the payroll, anyway.
Gary, thanks for stepping in. Kimi had to leave for a while on important business.
Gary
You know, I wasn’t expecting to go from “customer” to “Assistant Manager” in one swoop.
Alejandro
Free burrito. Gets ‘em every time. So, what happened to working for MegaMarket?
Gary
Affirmative action in promotions.
Alejandro
They gave your job to someone else?
Gary
No, I suggested that women and minorities deserved an equal chance at advancement. When they started trotting out Bible verses, I walked.
Alejandro
At least you had the sense to not suggest LBG- LGTB-? Gay rights. You’d have been shot at dawn.
Narration
And he needed a mature white male on the payroll, anyway.
Having your life turned upside down, shaken like a snowglobe and then spun down a spiral ramp will do wonders for your outlook.
Not only did they give my job and a raise to someone else, I had to train her how to do my job. But that was about 25 years ago. At least I don’t blame her for what happened. She was as much a victim of circumstance as I was.
One wonders. Was MegaMarket open on the Sabbath Day?
Probably, such places are willing to use people with a different Sabbath or not very religious to make a profit, but they just use them, they don’t tend to promote them and they seem to like to screw them out of pay raises earned. I’m appalled by the number of businesses that will trot out the Bible when it saves them money, but couldn’t care less about abusive g their employees religious convictions. I had a friend whom got passed over for promotion because his Sabath was sundown Friday to sundown Saturday and mandatory company meetings tended to be early Saturday mornings. Rock, meet hard place.
Good for you uncle Gary.
Had that happen. I’ll admit I was salty, mainly because I’d been doing the job for 5 years and the new guy was literally just out of high school.
@Opus. =P
So it’s a “Here’s a valued customer/friend with experience I need, and could use the money” thing. I can get behind that.
Something doesn’t sit right here. How does Alejandro know Kimi was called away urgently and that he should hire a replacement?
Gina probable reported the situation and the information would be passed on to the courier services.
I’m certain that the “justification with Bible verses” was a bit of a sticking point in itself, since one imagines he’s heard a LOT of that over the years.
[Roy Ayers] Alejandro would have been notified by his superior when Gina got transported out of the base and they found the Big House unsecured and void of people and animals. Now i’m wondering about Gabe since he was leaving town when he got removed for his safety.
His suitcase with tag was on the porch.
Replies are not properly nesting…
“Something doesn’t sit right here. How does Alejandro know Kimi was called away urgently and that he should hire a replacement?”
It probably has something to do with mermaids or Ace clones or whatever.
Alejandro brings up a point. At first, it was indeed called “the Gay Rights Movement” (GRM), then “Gay and Lesbian Rights”, eventually becoming “GLBT”, but now it’s “LGBT”. How and why did the L suddenly move out front, especially when it’s totally superfluous?
Lesbians are still, and still refer to themselves as, gay, so why is the L even there?
Because not all lesbians like being called gay. One is actually for females while the other is used primarily for men. On the other hand it does not really pay to complain too much about what label is used when the negative reaction tends to involve extreme violent reactions. Better to keep a low profile and not complain and thus attract negative attention. It doesn’t tell hurt to be identified by something that close if the alternative I’d rape and possibly being literal beat to death.
Jakk Frost:- because most believe ‘gay’ refers only to men, when, as you implied, it’s neutral and covers both gender
Oberon:- mentioned that about the non-nesting replies a little while ago, it started around the time the font went all weird
Homosexual is gender neutral. Gay most often refers to men, women are called lesbeans. The early Rights Movement eaven up to the time of Harvey Milk’s political career starting up had the two groups unable to get aling very well on the political front. This was made worse by the AIDS epidemic. It took the realization that they needed each other to have any kind of numbers for political pull. Even then, it was difficilt to get bisexuals accepted and even more so trans people with all their varients. Hopefully one day there will be a realuzation that Equal Rights has to mean everyone and we can stop eorrying about lables and start working on identities that are based on we are all humans with rights. Until then maybe let others decide what lables fit rather than trying to slap the ones we like onto others. If someone wants to be called gay. lesbean or whatever, I’m not going to insist on a stripsearch or invalidate their identity.
Probably, you can usually find people whom need rent and food money more than they worry about what might happen after they die. Also if you plan correctly you can balance your staff for Sabbath on Saturday vs Sunday and still be pious and make money as well.
Gina to Ron is the most likely point of contact.
Didn’t Earl mention a MegaMarket in his town closing?
Yeah. Different town, but same corporation. Doesn’t sound like the healthiest company.
You offend enough people, they start going to your competitors, even if they have to by their eggs for an extra 50 cents.
The problem comes when there are no competitors.