tchncs
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Universal Monk@lonestarlemmy.mooo.comBanned from community to Politics Unfiltered@lemm.ee · 1 year ago

Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day

abcnews.go.com

external-link
message-square
11
link
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • conservative@lemm.ee
  • hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
  • weirdnews@real.lemmy.fan
  • politics@lemmy.world
5
external-link

Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day

abcnews.go.com

Universal Monk@lonestarlemmy.mooo.comBanned from community to Politics Unfiltered@lemm.ee · 1 year ago
message-square
11
link
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • conservative@lemm.ee
  • hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
  • weirdnews@real.lemmy.fan
  • politics@lemmy.world
Employees at multiple federal agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by Friday afternoon, according to internal memos obtained by ABC News.
alert-triangle
You must log in or # to comment.
  • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    1 year ago

    How I’d this not a free speech violation?

    • liyunxiao@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      This is their professional speech, not their personal speech. Your employer has the absolute right to fire you if you use swear words in communique with your work email. That’s not a violation, just like this isn’t.

      The federal government simply considers this unprofessional, and since they’re applying the rule equally there’s also no basis for a discrimination or wrongful termination suit.

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      What free speech rights does a government employee have in their official correspondence?

      This is a civil rights violation, not a free speech violation.

  • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Tackling the big issues. This will certainly decrease the price of eggs (that have gone from $3.18/dozen to $7.79/dozen in the last 3 weeks), and ground beef (up from $3.63/lbs to $4.83/pound this month).

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      17 days ago

      Removed by mod

      • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        I get my eggs from a friend who has rescue chickens as pets.

        • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          edit-2
          17 days ago

          Removed by mod

          • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            👍

    • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      Well u can’t really blame trump for the eggs that is an issue of h5n1 and speculation on the egg market.

      • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Trump pledged to bring down food prices on Day One. Instead, eggs are getting more expensive

        • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          As much is trump is fucking shit the eggs are an outlier

          • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            5
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            1 year ago

            Then maybe he should focus on bird flu instead of my pronouns.

  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    so stupid. that always helps a lot. at my company we’ve discussed 15 minutes with 10 people, how to address the person from another company, who’s gender we don’t know and who’s name can be male and female, without hurting their feelings. i ended up writing an email asking about their pronouns. this wastes so much time and in the case of the white house, even taxpayer money. people can become super insecure if they don’t know. we also have a guy at the office who frequently gets misgendered because of his unusual first name. he always get’s super angry about it, but he also understands this can happen. why would one make this more complicated.

  • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    17 days ago

    Removed by mod

Politics Unfiltered@lemm.ee

politicsunfiltered@lemm.ee

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !politicsunfiltered@lemm.ee

A fresh perspective on political news, spotlighting voices and viewpoints beyond the mainstream.

Here, diverse political opinions are encouraged, making room for honest discussions about the full spectrum of political possibilities.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 1 user / day
  • 1 user / week
  • 2 users / month
  • 2 users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 89 subscribers
  • 72 Posts
  • 157 Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Universal Monk@lemm.ee
  • BE: 0.19.15
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org