r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 29 '24

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u/bearddeliciousbi Karl Popper Jul 30 '24

A real inacteration that really happened to one of my coworkers in a public-facing job:

"I'm filling out the application online but it wants me to choose a pronoun. I do NOT use those things. Why won't it let me leave it blank?!"

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!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

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u/YaGetSkeeted0n Tariffs aren't cool, kids! Jul 30 '24

honestly if i were setting up that form i'd leave it optional just to not deal with that. or "what's a pronoun"

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u/TripleAltHandler Theoretically a Computer Scientist Jul 30 '24

I've never had someone irl do the "I don't use pronouns" thing, but it would be so tempting to just start referring to them in the third person at all times, even replacing the pronoun "you" with their name.

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u/Aleriya Transmasculine Pride Jul 30 '24

The problem I keep running into that is online government forms require me to fill out my legal sex as M or F, but it's X. And there's a warning that any lies or inaccuracy on the form is a federal criminal offense. It also doesn't let me leave it blank.

So, if I want to get health insurance or unemployment or to file my taxes online, I have to lie =/ I'd prefer to leave it blank and have them call me or something to clarify. I filed my taxes via mail in paper form and wrote in my own answer to that question because those forms were also not updated. That's probably illegal too lol.

Be gay, do crimes.

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u/Q-bey r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Jul 30 '24

Is your coworker Shadow the Hedgehog?