... but if I did, I would quit. This is over the top. It feels more like a blanket list of vague infractions to have on hand so that they can rid of anyone they feel like.
This. It actually sounds like something I'd read on the Onion.
Except that it is happening in multiple places. NBC, has reacted to Matt Lauer's sexual shenanigans by enacting a new set of workplace rules that sound like a nightmare. Employees are required to report their's or any other employee's romantic liasons to Human resources. Being a snitch is now required - you can get in trouble if you don't. There are very strict rules on hugging another employee. A quick hug, immediate relaease, then back away to avoid any further contact. Even MarySue hates it. https://www.themarysue.com/nbc... [themarysue.com]
Other rules are that two people taking a taxi together is now verboten. And just so vegans don't feel left out, you cant take one to a steakhouse. I shit you not.https://pagesix.com/2017/12/25/nbc-tightens-sexual-harassment-rules-following-matt-lauer-mess/
Why on earth would they do this? In the #metoo age, a company that allowed a man to say go out on a date with a victim, and she didn't have a good time can be successfully sued for millions. One of the prime prosecution statements will be that the company culture encouraged this. So companies will now fall over themselves to demonstrate that they are against sex or any situation that might encourage interactions that might lead to males and victims interacting in any way that any person might interpret as sexual in nature. This is the future.
And people wonder why the population replacement rate (fertility rate) is at a record low. Who the hell would want to attempt to shag someone or date in is this environment? Hello right hand.......
As usual we punish the innocent, and the people like Lauer and Weinstein will find a way to still be assholes. This is a self correcting problem, as many victims will decide to go same sex, or become cat parents.
That being said, as more and more men check out of the relationship market, it is amazing to think that society has managed to make life with a member of the opposite sex and having children so repugnant as to stifle one of the basic instincts.
To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so.
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... but if I did, I would quit. This is over the top. It feels more like a blanket list of vague infractions to have on hand so that they can rid of anyone they feel like.
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This. It actually sounds like something I'd read on the Onion.
Except that it is happening in multiple places. NBC, has reacted to Matt Lauer's sexual shenanigans by enacting a new set of workplace rules that sound like a nightmare. Employees are required to report their's or any other employee's romantic liasons to Human resources. Being a snitch is now required - you can get in trouble if you don't. There are very strict rules on hugging another employee. A quick hug, immediate relaease, then back away to avoid any further contact. Even MarySue hates it. https://www.themarysue.com/nbc... [themarysue.com]
Other rules are that two people taking a taxi together is now verboten. And just so vegans don't feel left out, you cant take one to a steakhouse. I shit you not.https://pagesix.com/2017/12/25/nbc-tightens-sexual-harassment-rules-following-matt-lauer-mess/
Why on earth would they do this? In the #metoo age, a company that allowed a man to say go out on a date with a victim, and she didn't have a good time can be successfully sued for millions. One of the prime prosecution statements will be that the company culture encouraged this. So companies will now fall over themselves to demonstrate that they are against sex or any situation that might encourage interactions that might lead to males and victims interacting in any way that any person might interpret as sexual in nature. This is the future.
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Re: I don't have anything to do with FreeBSD... (Score:2)
Just got out of there. This sort of neo-puritan raging bullshit is completely unknown here in Asia.
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And people wonder why the population replacement rate (fertility rate) is at a record low. Who the hell would want to attempt to shag someone or date in is this environment? Hello right hand.......
As usual we punish the innocent, and the people like Lauer and Weinstein will find a way to still be assholes. This is a self correcting problem, as many victims will decide to go same sex, or become cat parents.
That being said, as more and more men check out of the relationship market, it is amazing to think that society has managed to make life with a member of the opposite sex and having children so repugnant as to stifle one of the basic instincts.