LGBTQ+ Meta staff reportedly taking time off for ‘mental illness’ after hate speech policy change

An oldie, but goldie.

"Sorry I can't come to work, still gay"

Psychiatry has not always been kind to the LGBTQ community. Homosexuality was considered a mental illness in many countries as late as the mid-20th century—if it was not classified as an outright crime. Even Sweden, that Scandinavian bastion of openness and equality, identified being gay as a disorder as late as 1979.
That year, a group of Swedes took advantage of the legal framework that made being gay an illness and called in sick to work, claiming their homosexuality as the reason. One woman, from the southern province of Smålandeven, managed to get Social Security benefits for calling in gay.
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I think having been repeatedly fired/getting chased out of my career field for being trans should qualify me for some kind of benefit. When the fascism stops, will there be reparations?
- To paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy’s bit about men losing their hair:
  “You will never hear a competent business owner say ‘I hate trans!’ Because as long as you’re a good worker, we like you! And we’re not going to say anything that’ll make you get up and leave.”
- Note that there's a typo in the source article:
  One woman, from the southern province of ~~Smålandeven,~~ Småland, even managed to get Social Security benefits for calling in gay.
- All I can do is a cuddle.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/09/calling-in-gay-did-70s-swedes-really-get-paid-sick-leave-for-being-homosexual.html
- I didn't mean to imply this has really happened, just the idea is old.

"Sorry, cough cough. I'm just feeling too gay to come into work today. It's a bad case - I think it might be catching!"

I'm Doctor Mario, and as a certified doctor I can tell you that that's not the gay cough but rather your lungs wanting to escape the forest fire smoke on their own. No sick days btw, you have to take PTO.
- Sounds like Dr Mario needs to talk to Dr Luigi.
  By the way it's one of my favorite games ever for couch head to head gaming. The only person who could match me was my mom, until I played against my wife after dating her for over a year. Yeah yeah 🚩🚩🚩🚩
“I’ve been taking a lot of Echinacea but I just can’t get this cock out of my throat!”

In other words, they be searching for new jobs.

Leopards/faces, etc. These people were fine with contributing their cogs to the evil machine that is facebook in exchange for a ridiculous salary, but now want it to be a big deal when it affects them more specifically.
- Typical Divide and conquer - Stop demonizing people who work for a living - it's no different than demonizing every single American because of US foreign policy. Blame those at the top making their greedy decisions and the puppet masters behind them.
Especially when this newly crowned king destroys the ADA.

Moving to texas as a remote california tech worker is incredibly common, but it mostly comes down to not wanting to pay california taxes or real estate prices. That being said, it's important to note that the majority of west coast tech workers give fuck all about the common good or societal improvements, or they wouldn't work for facebook/google etc
- If one is inclined, one can tell oneself that they are a good person and they are making the company better by being there.
- It also comes down to the fact that housing in Texas is largely much cheaper than in California.
- Wow you think they even give fuckall? None of the tech workers I know do.
- Majority of enterprise tech workers everywhere*
  That's why I hate myself enough to do early stage, where you can be a human

Hahahahahaha

Fuck'em

But the pendant in me points out that the company didn't change an internal policy for what they consider mental illness, just now theyre allowing ~~hate speech~~ "free* speech"

Now I wonder if that would pass muster as a legal argument - meta doesn't necessarily believe this as our policy, but we allow people to express their hate on this platform

The pedant in me points out that you misspelled "pedant".
- No, after a harrowing run-in with the Witch of the Swamp, they had a talisman embedded in their chest that forces them to warn people when they need to be both pragmatic and somber.
  So it literally is the pendant in them.
- The pendant in me thinks they got it perfect.
- Thanks, I appreciate it. The witch's evil pendant doesn't have a spell check. (Ironic, I think so)
- Thank you for your service.
- Probably an overlook of autocorrect.
You're not wrong, they need a union. Which is precisely why Facebook and Twitter pack their payroll with H1-b visas.
The US has a glut of skilled tech workers right now thanks to a quarter-million layoffs last year, the argument that they can't find the labor locally is facetious. Also, every H1-b worker should be entitled to dual citizenship or full naturalization, whichever is their preference.
- We need to streamline the citizenship process before we face population collapse due to capitalism. But.
  That's just feeding more people into the machine
  But.
  It's worse where they came from so it's better to give them citizenship right?
  But.
  Not for at least four more years.