Guy gets fired even though he was doing great at his job because the employer didn't want to get into trouble for canning a woman, who was surfing the web instead of doing her work.

lemonygingerytea · 2018-10-31T10:43:11+00:00

It's a shame he didn't get a recording or any evidence. Would be perfect for a law suit.

Aksu593 · 2018-10-31T09:32:01+00:00

The fact this is on r/unpopularopinion really says a lot about our society

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irrelevant_usernam3 · 2018-10-31T14:36:09+00:00

The company I work for won't let me interview anymore after denying female applicant. I'd done maybe 100 interviews and they were all men. It's a programming job and she was the first woman to apply, so she must have been pushed through.

I doubt she had ever written a line of code in her life. In the interview, she failed the most basic questions. (Write a function to return true the first 10 times you call it and false after that.)

Of the interviewers, I was the only one to say no and have not been selected to interview since. The hiring manager mentioned it was because I didn't "promote diversity." The woman got hired anyway in a senior programming position...

SwordfshII · 2018-10-31T13:16:32+00:00

The military specifically seeks to retain women. All branches do this but some are worse than others. The Navy for instance requires face and full body pictures on records and for promotion boards.

There is literally no reason for that as there are fitness tests and annual/semi annual evaluations that cover every aspect of service.....

Source: Had more than a decade as an officer, my wife is still an officer

rn7889 · 2018-10-31T15:03:09+00:00

I had a tech at work straight up beg me “just to give it to her one time” I simply said no. I had to talk to the manager because someone overheard it. Manager says she could fire the tech, but because she’s African American and a woman she simply can’t.

J2501 · 2018-10-31T11:29:27+00:00

I think most people surf the web at work, and it's shitty when companies start witch-hunts about that, especially if cyberslackers are meeting or exceeding the expectations of their day-to-day duties, given the relevant proprietary training. Too often I have seen that protectionism and elitism keep some people trapped in silos, or roles where they aren't doing all that they could, leaving them with too much free time they end up using to surf. Then when it comes time to downsize or cut costs, these people are sacrificed to protect workers who have been more socially included, hence they are more productive, and at a higher level.

dogkindrepresent · 2018-10-31T14:11:51+00:00

There a more insidious version of this. Many managers will keep the best people on the bench while giving the most important work to people that can't do it but so that they get the credit. Usually diversity hires. You then end up fixing the work at best.

What you end up with is being paid to do someone else's homework while they get all the credit or you find yourself paid as a private in house tutor for the appointed hero teaching them to do stuff you're already qualified to do but aren't allowed to.

FijiTearz · 2018-10-31T19:12:10+00:00

Equality for women in the workplace, I'm all for it. Now, superiority in the workplace? Fuck that. The fact his employer is probably right about her being able to take action for being laid off just for being a woman even if she's doing a shit job, is total bullshit. This was a hard working man with a family and this dumb bitch was constantly getting caught not doing her job and being on the internet. He should come back to bite them in the ass & take action against THEM. He absolutely has a case if he can prove that was literally the reason he was laid off.

lessismorenow · 2018-10-31T14:01:53+00:00

sounds like we are not getting the full full story here

ModeratorsAreDouches · 2018-10-31T18:35:02+00:00

What the hell? This sounds insane.

Hirudin · 2018-10-31T17:06:49+00:00

Not really pleased with people dumping on the company for this instance. They're damned if they do, damned if they don't. Direct your ire toward the biased laws that force this situation to happen, and not to the people who are trying to navigate the litigious clusterfuck that feminism created.

StrokeMyAxe · 2018-10-31T21:02:30+00:00

So this is just some hypothetical statement? Where is this happening and where is the proof?

YappleMacintrash · 2018-10-31T22:17:38+00:00

The company I work for basically does this on the hiring/promoting end of things. We hire and promote women way more than men. Yet most of the women we hire/promote is just a front for how 'progressive' and 'equal' we are (we actually have a whole subsection of our website solely dedicated showcasing the women leadership we have). When in reality most of these women can barely do their jobs but they beat out several perfectly qualified men simply because they were women.

I actually know personally of a situation where a man was pulled out of a leadership position so a woman could take his place. Since she is just there for show and has no clue what she is doing he pretty much manages the department by proxy behind the scenes while she takes all the credit. I was personally denied the opportunity to take a fairly prestigious leadership coaching course simply because I was a man. In fact the exact words told to me by the person selecting the participants was 'You would be great for this but...ladies first!'

Merit is one of the only true equalizers. Too bad that promoting this idea promptly gets you labeled as a 'misogynist' and 'rape apologist.' Sometimes I wonder if it's worth the struggle in the long run. Because it seems to be only getting worse.

thrway_1000 · 2018-10-31T22:26:18+00:00

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FinFihlman · 2018-10-31T22:29:03+00:00

The fuck is with the "Unconfirmed" tag?

P1000123 · 2018-10-31T22:36:55+00:00

Women suck in the work place. We coddle them at work just like we coddle them everywhere else. It's a joke.

Eienkei · 2018-10-31T19:17:14+00:00

I have seen shit like this happen in major companies! They fired a competent guy who was working there for 8 years to hire a "woman" as their man-to-woman ratio was not looking good. This is anti-feminism and sexist!

NecroHexr · 2018-10-31T13:56:38+00:00

We going with speculation now?

OblongSnowball · 2018-10-31T16:02:00+00:00

For some weird reason I don't trust that we're getting a full and unbiased story here

Kryptek185 · 2018-10-31T12:51:56+00:00

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Guy gets fired even though he was doing great at his job because the employer didn't want to get into trouble for canning a woman, who was surfing the web instead of doing her work.

Crosspost "If you hired a woman because she’s a woman, that’s sexism and you’re part of the problem." from /r/unpopularopinion:

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