Me: Yes sir I understand that the office door cannot be closed when two colleagues of opposite gender are alone together due to sexual misconduct concerns but as an openly bisexual employee I have to ask if leaving two colleagues of the same gender entirely unsupervised isn't a double standard

Me: Like. I feel I should also have my ass covered if a same-gender colleague accuses me of shit, you know

Bossman: Nahhhhhhh it's good

The morally grey cathedral goblin that lives on my shoulder and judges the value of my kneejerk impulses: If you grabbed his ass right now he would learn such an important lesson forever but we don't roll like that bro

Me: (out loud) Okay

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[–] disguy_ovahea 117 points 2 months ago

Bossman: We’re only compliant enough to stay out of the press. It’s not like I need to know the difference between gender and sexuality.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So I'm a first responder at my workplace. I'm literally a trained and certified medical professional. I got called for a coworker passing out a while back. I got there and they had the coworker now consious in one of our conference rooms along with the shift manager. The coworker was still feeling woozy so I start going through the assessment process.

This coworker was a young woman, I am a slightly less young man. I 100% get why the shift manager didn't want to leave me alone with her. At the same time though, I am bound by HIPAA, the shift manager is not. I can't disclose any medical information she tells me to anyone, the shift manager has no such restriction. So now I'm left trying to figure out how to ask my patient some rather personal medical questions with a lookie lou sitting right there listening to everything she says. That is invasive and uncomfortable when I'm asking about shit like her period (because low iron can be an issue) but becomes especially problematic when one of the questions I need to ask is if they're using any drugs (I work in a manufacturing plant, it happens). I don't record that they are if they say yes and I can't tell anyone (I just monitor for a bit in case of OD and ensure they get a ride home), but nobody is ever going to say yes to that question with their bosses boss sitting right there. Luckily the shift manager eventually got called away for something and I had a brief chance to ask those questions.

Like I said, As a man I 100% get why they don't want to leave me alone with women. At the same time though in situations like that it makes my job several times harder and is a potential legal disaster for me. It wouldn't be an issue at all if I was treating a guy. Also it's even more anoying because I'm fucking asexual. I get that they have no way to know that and people lie. I'm just pissed that situations like this get so complicated because the world is full fucking rapist assholes.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Your story is an example of how we have left the post-modern behind and founded the meta-modern world or from the OP entered the realm of the grey cathedral goblin.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

bold of you to assume he would learn any sort of lesson as opposed to firing you and immediately forgetting it happened

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Do it to your junior and spout bullshit about it being over the top and fake

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What do you do about nonbinary employees? Like, if drag is a dragon rider, is drag not allowed to be left alone with a dragon? Or not allowed to be left alone with anyone but a dragon rider?

[–] problematicPanther 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

maybe i'm old, but i have no idea what a dragon rider is. am i boomer now?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

It's someone who climbs on top of a dragon and sits there while the dragon is flying. Often while using a sword or other weapon, or while guiding the dragon in combat.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

But we dont roll like that, today.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

the cAssthedrule goblin - FTFY

There's one rule: ==please incorporate teh word rule in your post titles==

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The "one" rule is you have to post before you leave. You absolutely don't need to put rule in the title

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm a rule breaker, apparently

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

auch a rebel

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

On @[email protected], I saw yesterday, the quote, "==please incorporate teh word rule in your post titles==", and posted it above. Now I can't find it, and must get back to work. Also this is not a pipe!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Mod here: Not a cause for removal and we have a lot of rules, actually. The incorporating rule into posts is more of a suggestion to keep the culture going.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/130970 "==please incorporate the word rule in your post titles== Here are the things that get you banned: -saying anything remotely iffy with a lemmygrad or hexbear account -tankie behaviour -nazi behaviour -authoritarian behaviour -genocide denial -prejudice of any kind -anything else that is clearly bad

Things that get your post/comment removed: -AI generated content -anything in the banlist -posts that are so off topic that they don’t fit on 196 at all -moldy memes (old memes, crusty memes, irrelevant memes. The type of things you’d see on your aunt’s Facebook page or Elon musk’s Twitter account with a laughing emoji as the caption) -corpoposting

Ban length varies, and is mostly based off of whether or not I think you will change your behavior. I have baned certain people for upwards of 2000 days.

---------EDIT:NSFW RULES--------- NSFW Content is now fully permitted BUT it must be tagged. Any NSFW content that has not been tagged and blurred will be removed. Content warnings should also be added to the title in brackets. Example: [penis] or: [explicit description of sex]. Non-sexualized breasts of any gender are not considered inappropriate and therefore do not need to be blurred/tagged. Yes, even female breasts.

IRL GORE IS NOT PERMITTED UNDER ANY CONDITION.

Please leave any suggested edits in the comments.

JAN 2024 UPDATE: MOLDY MONDAYS Monday is now moldy Monday. on this day and only this day moldy memes are not only allowed, but encouraged. The crustier the better. The type of thing that’s been reposted at least 2,000 times with filters and bad crops and watermarks and hopefully minions. please caption with moldy rule

If you have any issues, please reach us at [email protected]. PLEASE do not dm me, as I am not consistently available and tend to step away from the mantle for weeks to months at a time."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for ALL of that. I hope you could just copy paste it. I do luv me some 196, but am not terribly creative, so have not posted near as much as I"ve enjoyed.

[–] tb_ 2 points 2 months ago

I hope you could just copy paste it.

See the linked post at the top of their reply

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Very based for not needing nsfw tag on posts depicting breasts in a non sexual manner

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

OP is a bisexual tho.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

teh epic bacon ruleh!!!1

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

hey hey what time does teh narwhal bacon?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Midnight, but i don't know what timezone

[–] grue 1 points 2 months ago

Not at midnight around here, that's for fuckin' sure!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

its tradition

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's a morally grey cathedral goblin?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A stone grotesque, a common part of gothic architecture.

If it had an open channel for running water away from the building, it would be a gargoyle.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Did... I just learn something... How do I subscribe to Gothic facts