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post 1697201813 01-30-2024, 05:42 PM
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Work is making me use pronouns

So I work in a pretty big company. They have recently introduced an update to email signatures that automatically state "he/him" next to my name.

I did not opt in for this, but they have done it company wide. I feel pretty annoyed by this move. How would you cope if this was your work place?

I have to delete it every time I send an email. Isn't a big deal, but I send over 30 a day which becomes annoying...

Surely this isn't right...
post 1697201893 01-30-2024, 05:43 PM
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post 1697201953 01-30-2024, 05:44 PM
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make a script that auto deletes it
post 1697202143 01-30-2024, 05:47 PM
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There has to be a way to change it. Any company that is progressive enough to force pronoun usage has to understand that you could come in tomorrow and be she/her or 168+ other identities. Just ask them how to change it to they/them then actually change it to fock/you.
post 1697202183 01-30-2024, 05:49 PM
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post 1697202353 01-30-2024, 05:52 PM
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Start putting a different pronoun in every email and tell them you're genderfluid
post 1697202933 01-30-2024, 06:06 PM
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meh when I was a big company they did that chit and I never updated my signature. I also never included my phone number srs.

At my current role, 10x smaller company, I signoff with my first name and nothing else. Never followed the email sign standard and nobody has cared.
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post 1697203053 01-30-2024, 06:08 PM
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Tell them you don't recognize pronouns for yourself. Your are pronoun-less.
post 1697203163 01-30-2024, 06:12 PM
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Originally Posted By 24hrPharmacy⏩
So I work in a pretty big company. They have recently introduced an update to email signatures that automatically state "he/him" next to my name.

I did not opt in for this, but they have done it company wide. I feel pretty annoyed by this move. How would you cope if this was your work place?

I have to delete it every time I send an email. Isn't a big deal, but I send over 30 a day which becomes annoying...

Surely this isn't right...
The easiest way is to just play the game.

We trade our time for money, and the email belongs to them, not you. I feel like there are way more important battles at larger organizations like various forms of wage theft and employee legal rights violations.

That is where you need to focus. Not on your little opinions and feels.


The only way any employee can counter act business decisions is with legal precedence already in place. There is no legal concern here. It is just an opinionated bitch fest.

I agree it is bull****, but that literally does not matter.

You have no leg to stand on here, just get over yourself.

If you have irreconcilable differences with the company for this, just acknowledge that and resign.

I am extremely confident these are your only productive options.


You could respectfully voice your concerns, they will be ignored. I wouldn't anticipate too much pushback after that as long as you express yourself appropriately.

If you let your emotions win, you could become close to violating EEO or harassment policies, which would make it a pretty easy decision for them to terminate you if they felt the need.
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post 1697203313 01-30-2024, 06:15 PM
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New pronoun every day, keepem guessing
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post 1697203393 01-30-2024, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted By Ironmanlet⏩
The easiest way is to just play the game.

We trade our time for money, and the email belongs to them, not you. I feel like there are way more important battles at larger organizations like various forms of wage theft and employee legal rights violations.

That is where you need to focus. Not on your little opinions and feels.


The only way any employee can counter act business decisions is with legal precedence already in place. There is no legal concern here. It is just an opinionated bitch fest.

I agree it is bull****, but that literally does not matter.

You have no leg to stand on here, just get over yourself.

If you have irreconcilable differences with the company for this, just acknowledge that and resign.

I am extremely confident these are your only productive options.


You could respectfully voice your concerns, they will be ignored. I wouldn't anticipate too much pushback after that as long as you express yourself appropriately.

If you let your emotions win, you could become close to violating EEO or harassment policies, which would make it a pretty easy decision for them to terminate you if they felt the need.
Yeah i have come to the realisaiton i just need to do this. No point fighting, however I still ask IT how to can updated my signature myself (without making a big deal of it, and telling them what im updating)
post 1697203513 01-30-2024, 06:20 PM
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I don’t see why you care that much. If that’s your biggest problem you’re golden.
post 1697203613 01-30-2024, 06:22 PM
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can't you edit the signature to not include them?
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post 1697204213 01-30-2024, 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted By DrugsToGetBig⏩
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This. My company wrote up a vax mandate protocol in case OSHA started enforcing mandates. I think they were testing the water to see if they could get away with it or not. I was the first to tell them if that goes into effect, I will resign immediately. Everybody else I worked with followed... Long story short, OSHA didn't enforce it and the company would have faced mass resignations if they tried it.

"But my kids need a roof." Is a bs excuse. You want your kids to grow up under a bunch of commies? Pretty sure they'd respect parents more than if they had a spine than prostitute themselves to commie overlords for a paycheck and sell out their genetation
post 1697204263 01-30-2024, 06:37 PM
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Lmao

Iuse pronouns all the time andyoumost likely do as well

Bunch of morons ITT
post 1697204293 01-30-2024, 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted By r32gojirra⏩
Lmao

Iuse pronouns all the time andyoumost likely do as well

Bunch of morons ITT
Dude you are so gay. But you are from Australia so it makes sense. Such a feminine society over there
post 1697204443 01-30-2024, 06:40 PM
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Tell them you identify as a person who doesn’t disclose your pronouns
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Originally Posted By 24hrPharmacy⏩
They have recently introduced an update to email signatures that automatically state "he/him" next to my name
If they did it automatically, you may have grounds for a lawsuit for causing emotional damage. Talk to a lawyer and tell them you identify as they/them and how dare they misgender you. Play their own game against them
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Tell them you're trans. Transparent. Your pronouns are Who and Where.
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threaten to sue them if they dont remove it

use the same bullshyt tactics the crazy alphabet people use against them
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Time to identify as furry gender. Sometimes you identify as a cat, sometimes you identify more with gerbil gender. Either way your desk needs a litter box for someone else to clean up. If Susan has a problem with you squatting and slithering out a turd rope just before lunch every day, it sounds like Susan needs a few days of sensitivity and gender equity training. If she protests she needs a pink slip and to be shamed on social media.
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my pronouns are "what" and "why" or "bubba" and "meh"
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Tell them you choose not to identify as anything. If they don't respect your wishes or bully you, hit them with a gender discrimination suit as it's none of their business what you identify as.
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Originally Posted By bsrkoacar2⏩
If they did it automatically, you may have grounds for a lawsuit for causing emotional damage. Talk to a lawyer and tell them you identify as they/them and how dare they misgender you. Play their own game against them
This lmao
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Identify as racial slurs. It'll be racist and a lawsuit waiting to happen if they discriminate against you for the race you identify as. (Super Ded fkn Srs)
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Just troll them and put they them theirs pronouns
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tell them you’re offended that they just assumed you use “he/him” and that your actual pronouns are alien ones that can’t be pronounced by the human tongue and can’t be written in any earth alphabet
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