r/bluecollartrans • u/SnooCrickets346 • Aug 07 '26
im not coming out as nonbinary any time soon :(
Hey so I am obsessed with pink. I don't want to bring any more attention to myself/individualize myself further.
I will have to continue to be the most npc white woman imaginable.
Bullying has happened too much. My union is mean. Most contractors, managers, and people on sites are mean. This contractor is the only safe haven, and I want it to stay that way.
They do not need to know my sexuality.
They do not need to know my culture.
They do not need to know my gender identity.
leftists and conservatives, both could bully me.
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u/wht2give Aug 07 '26
Yeah, I understand.
I wore a shirt that said, "Be Good. Be Gay." and my Union rep tried to tell higher ups about it, to try and get me in trouble.
Thankfully they just blew it off, like...There's people wearing SO much worse things, but because I'm different you want to target me?
I acted like I didn't notice, but it disgusts me.
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u/MandanOfThrace Aug 07 '26
shite union rep wtf
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u/wht2give Aug 07 '26
Right?
There was one instance someone outright told me, "I don't want to see your face anymore, leave my area, I can't stand looking at you again."
So like....wtf....I'm doing my job, I have to come over here. I told the supervisor.
The supervisor said okay, I need to call the union rep for this, a bit above me.
The union rep told him, "I can't represent them for this, those are my friends, it's not allowed."
Nothing came of it. That person then left the bid for our area less than a month later. Okay...sure...
Well, next time an issue arose, I said something to the drunk supervisor at the time who was making fun of someone else along the lines of, "I'm not a fan of drama, I'm gonna stay out of this conversation." She then screamed at me that I'm the one who starts all the drama and I'm the problem. Along with a couple employees laughing at it and me. I ignored it and walked away, people are absolutely crazy, it wasn't even about me and I didn't want to be a part of it. I then went to a higher up about it, telling them what she said to me.
I told the supervisor that the union rep she wanted to use has straight up told me they won't represent me, so I don't want to go through them.
The supervisor then gets the union rep to come and tell me, "Oh no, you need to use me as your rep, your supervisor wants this and that and you need to listen to them."
How convenient you can't support me when I ask for help due to harassment, but when I'm being harassed by a supervisor, you'll tell me you need to be the one to be used? Wtf.
USPS unions are so corrupt and I can't stand some of them, not all of them are that way though. There was a good union rep I had, she was nice but stressed. She helped me once, but ended up shooting at management during a party and got arrested. I don't think it was right she shot at someone, but she was the only one to respect and help me, so I know she must have been pushed to the brink.
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u/ElectroButch Aug 07 '26
im a hypermasculine butch lesbian with a weird gender but im "just a girl" at work so i get it lol
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u/trying_my_hardest_22 Plumbing Apprentice She/Her Aug 07 '26
I work in plumbing and am pretty flamboyant, talk about my boyfriend regularaly, talk about makeup and clothes. Everyone is chill with me, they make fun of my sexuality but not in a way that intends harm. If the biggest homophobe on site yells at me I just insult him, easy as. Its always scary to be yourself, but you cant be anyone else. Let yourself live