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post 1653248663 12-27-2021, 07:09 AM
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Just got referred to as “they” at work

JFL.

One of my co-workers just referred to me as “they” in an email, rather than “he.” I look 100% heterosexual masculine man. Never once implied I prefer clown world pronouns.

What strange times were living in...
post 1653248793 12-27-2021, 07:13 AM
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Originally Posted By GuineaDago585⏩
JFL.

One of my co-workers just referred to me as “they” in an email, rather than “he.” I look 100% heterosexual masculine man. Never once implied I prefer clown world pronouns.

What strange times were living in...
You should get offended and say they are implying your sexuality might be fluid and it’s an inappropriate and offensive pronoun to direct at an alpha male such as yourself.

Or if you want to play it safe just hit em back with “they is not my preferred pronoun, please refer to me as he/him”
post 1653249163 12-27-2021, 07:27 AM
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I'm going to put Xi/Xim in my work email signature to see how many ****g0ts use them. I just LOL when I see she/hers in emails since 99% of the people who use that BS are emotional women
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post 1653249343 12-27-2021, 07:33 AM
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I got referred once as "kiddo"; by an older lady.

Kinda felt good lol.
post 1653249393 12-27-2021, 07:35 AM
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post 1653249473 12-27-2021, 07:37 AM
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post 1653249513 12-27-2021, 07:40 AM
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This is how you beat them at their own game. Make your preferred pronouns long as phuck. Also add in a few obscure letters that aren't on most keyboards (perhaps something in the Cyrillic alphabet).

Be like "bitch you better be callin' me RhoSigma4386to the second power".

Really make 'em work for it.
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post 1653249573 12-27-2021, 07:42 AM
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Originally Posted By Issobolic28⏩
I got referred once as "kiddo"; by an older lady.

Kinda felt good lol.
I used to have an old black lady as a neighbor. She always called me "sugar booger". I lived there for 2 years and don't think she ever knew my actual name. LOL
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post 1653249823 12-27-2021, 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted By BFast55⏩
I used to have an old black lady as a neighbor. She always called me "sugar booger". I lived there for 2 years and don't think she ever knew my actual name. LOL
LOL ...

It was a colleague of mine years ago; I was 33 at the time. Too funny lol
post 1653249903 12-27-2021, 07:49 AM
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A buddy of mine was in the hospital maybe a month ago, every single worker there had name tags on with their preferred pronouns.
post 1653250083 12-27-2021, 07:52 AM
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I hope to god this is just a phase and society will look back at this tranny worshipping era and cringe
post 1653250333 12-27-2021, 07:58 AM
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I do it all the time with new people at work.

Play it safe
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post 1653250393 12-27-2021, 07:59 AM
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post 1653250423 12-27-2021, 08:00 AM
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You should *reply all* and eviscerate him/her/they so that every coworker sees the email. Sound as offended and righteous as you can because that's how one of them would react if someone assigned them the incorrect pronoun.
post 1653250443 12-27-2021, 08:01 AM
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Originally Posted By 128⏩
I hope to god this is just a phase and society will look back at this tranny worshipping era and cringe
Yeah pretty sure we gonna look back on child sex changes in the same way we see lobotomies.
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post 1653250853 12-27-2021, 08:10 AM
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would be funny if all the guys in an office started referring to each other as "her" in the emails just to piss off the sloots at work.

we live in clown world, might as well make it funny.
post 1653250883 12-27-2021, 08:10 AM
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Now you can go in the woman's bathroom and peep through the stalls and get a pass for being a female
post 1653251273 12-27-2021, 08:22 AM
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Demand your pronoun is anal full nelson rapist & that you demand to be addressed as such.
post 1653251323 12-27-2021, 08:24 AM
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Originally Posted By northernlights7⏩
You think that's weird? My job put in "gender neutral restroom" signs up for all the staff bathrooms around the entire building a year or so ago. Because a few "trans" workers out of many hundreds of staff bitched about it. I get emails like monthly begging me to fill out some stupid work survey of gender identity, which I've refused to acknowledge for years.

They also have a "diversity committee" made up almost exclusively of members of the "LGBTQIA+BBQKFCBBCETC" crowd that meets a couple times a month to bitch and moan about cisgender straight white guys, and more recently, how they are mad because they think people aren't wearing their workplace mandatory face diapers tightly enough.
20 odd years back I thought it bizarre my office actually had a car park committee(all female) & left their work piling up once or twice a week to sit in a room discussing who could park where for 60-90 minutes, the problems with customers from the supermarket next door parking there & even more so that the bosses actually let them get away with it. Now it seems normal by comparison to what is happening now.
post 1653251443 12-27-2021, 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted By Issobolic28⏩
I got referred once as "kiddo"; by an older lady.

Kinda felt good lol.
I get called 'Sir' by men twice my age at work, feels fckin' weird.
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Is it morally acceptable to insist everyone puts 'Dr' in front of my name if I identify as a doctor? And if not, why not?


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Make your pronouns n***er and f***ot and insist they call you by them.
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Originally Posted By GuineaDago585⏩
JFL.

One of my co-workers just referred to me as “they” in an email, rather than “he.”I look 100% heterosexual masculine man.Never once implied I prefer clown world pronouns.

What strange times were living in...
you sure you don’t look like this op?

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post 1653252493 12-27-2021, 08:56 AM
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Originally Posted By gbullock32⏩
I get called 'Sir' by men twice my age at work, feels fckin' weird.
I hate bring called "Sir". Lol.

Or any other word that implies I am older; etc.

Referring to me by my first name is fine...

I even told my sister her kids don't need to address me as "uncle,". She didn't go for the idea; saying they have learn respect; etc. The kids are only 5 and 6; maybe when they're older I'll tell him they don't need to.
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Originally Posted By Duckliver⏩
Or if you want to play it safe just hit em back with “they is not my preferred pronoun, please refer to me as he/him”
This is the only correct answer besides superman punching your co-worker.
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The best response is to act totally ignorant of this insane world they are living in. Just reply back that that they are mistaken and it was just you, and nobody else who completed the task (or whatever context this is). When they try to explain it to you, listen patiently, then just say "nah that ain't for me, but thanks".

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Originally Posted By jimbob007⏩
20 odd years back I thought it bizarre my office actually had a car park committee(all female) & left their work piling up once or twice a week to sit in a room discussing who could park where for 60-90 minutes, the problems with customers from the supermarket next door parking there & even more so that the bosses actually let them get away with it. Now it seems normal by comparison to what is happening now.
I used to work at a factory for about a year awhile back before getting into my current job. Said factory has been a local factory that's done various types of production for like literally a hundred years or some chit in the same location. By the time I got hired on, they were already turning to more corperate bs, having stupid pointless "meetings" and "committees' and chit to satisfy stupid HR requirements.

Most of their "committees" revolved around safety oriented matters. Made enough sense, even if the "committees" were a totally uncessarry gimmick that weren't accomplishing much besides having something that looks good to show was supposedly being done to some corperate pricks. They eventually started making everyone join some stupid committees. I wound up being on a "stretch team committee" where a few of us met up montly to discuss the basic stretches management had us do for a couple minutes before each shift.

One guy I worked with got stuck on some "cleaning committee" or some chit where they were to talk about ways to keep the machines cleaner or some bs. As part of the committee projects, some photos of workers were taken showing what they were up to. Dude had a pic taken if him where he was subtly, yet still pretty obviously giving the camera the finger with a huge smile on his face. Somehow, HR/management didn't notice/care, and they let the pic get posted at a machine on the front of a pamplet they made with cleaning tips lmao.
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Originally Posted By Duckliver⏩
You should get offended and say they are implying your sexuality might be fluid and it’s an inappropriate and offensive pronoun to direct at an alpha male such as yourself.

Or if you want to play it safe just hit em back with “they is not my preferred pronoun, please refer to me as he/him”
THIS.

Take offense to it srs. These idiots only understand stupidity so give it to them.
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At the very least you need to go to HR, if not the police. They're gonna make you play the game eventually, might as well play to win. Personally I keep 7 different signatures in rotation, and see how many different pronouns I can force someone to use in an email chain. That's called gender-fluidity.
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