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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

But we dont roll like that, today.

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31 points

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

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6 points

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

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6 points

What’s a morally grey cathedral goblin?

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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.

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8 points

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

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70 points

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.

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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.

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17 points

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?

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6 points

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

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11 points

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.

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I mean, if you constantly refer to yourself in the third person, you’re going to be unemployed, so it’s not something drag should concern dragself with, is it?

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11 points

Oh look, someone is doing something eccentric online that doesn’t actually harm anyone!

Better extrapolate that to their real life, make assumptions about that life and leverage that to make fun of them. Gotta make sure people conform to my expectations of behaviour online, right?

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6 points

Terry doesn’t like this comment

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behavior like yours is why the world is so shit to queer and neurodivergent people. you see someone doing something slightly weird and cannot resist the urge to insult them. fuck all the way off

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12 points

Drag doesn’t see anyone here who refers to themself in the third person.

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That guy is dickhead but ‘dragself’ goes hard, you should add it to your vocab lmao

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13 points

Drag is awesome and should continue to be as drag is.

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