Just saw a trending post on LinkedIn where an employer is giving all its employees time off of work following the results of the kyle rittenhouse trial, and almost every comment is cheering them on. Does anyone else feel like we’re living in crazy town?? It seems like everything nowadays is about politics, everyone should just keep their beliefs to themselves on both sides
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lol what's the person's name who posted? I bet it's that gravity payments guy without even checking yet, sounds like something that he would do.
“Dianna M.” - COO of Hire Runner
oh nice. I guess it wasn't the gravity payments guy. I shouldn't be too fast to knock him because it does seem like he's doing some good things. his posts on LinkedIn are kind of in your face though.
Let me bite this from the other side. Let’s assume for a moment that you have seen something so heinous on the news that you’re totally distracted and can’t get anything done at all. You’re just completely incapable of getting any work done, the boss knows it, and they give the firm a day off to process. Let’s assume that’s the case. If that’s true, then in many instances, my reaction is to criticize the media for being too powerful rather than the boss or the employees for being too soft.
There’s 1,000 police killings in the US annually. Very stable figure for the last 20 years. Includes all races, creeds, and mental states. Includes people who are in a shootout with police and those who are not. But to hear on the news every day that people that look like you are getting killed at disproportionate numbers, that there’s a target on your back. That hurts. It hurts when you hear 8 minutes of footage of someone breathing their last on television and crying out for their mother (regardless of criminal acts perpetrated or substances consumed). It hurts when you hear frightening footage of people shouting at each other all the time. It hurts when you see people die and then other people get angry and start breaking things, followed by those people getting locked up or tear-gassed. It hurts to watch the news show the National Guard being deployed in a neighborhood or a phalanx of riot shields advance on some crowded avenue. And maybe, just maybe, it even hurts when you read kellycriterion writing about all of these things in vivid detail, which makes me somewhat question the morality of even posting sometimes. That hurts. The media hurts. It regularly traumatizes people (particularly marginalized people) because it is economically sustainable to do so. For this reason, I don’t criticize people for wanting to take some time away from it. I criticize the people who inflicted the damage in the first place.
EDIT: With a lot of the stuff shown any more, I’m left thinking “if I had wanted to see this crap, I would have gone to LiveLeak instead, so what are we doing here?” People need respect for human dignity and what should and shouldn’t be shown. Not all that happens is rightfully the news.
Bad stuff happens 24/7, there are billions of people in the world. If there is something negative on the TV, just ignore it. Also It sounds like you are getting into the merits of the case, which I am trying to avoid
What happens when it gets recommended on your social media feeds? What happens when a coworker talks about it at work? What happens when you see a sign in someone’s yard or an errant bumper sticker? This ostrich head-in-the-sand complex is not how humans are psychologically wired.
As a side note, I wrote none of my remarks with Kenosha on my heart. All of it was about something else. Cheers
1. What kind of weirdo watches cable news so much that it physically prevents them from functioning at work? I'd fire a person like that for just being unproductive
2. When adjusted for the amount of crime they commit, nobody in America is killed by police at disproportional numbers
3. If you want time away from current events then turn your tv off
1. It isn’t just the TV. It’s the landing page on your search engine. It’s the online news. It’s social media. It’s T-shirts. It’s water cooler talk at the office. If you are interacting with other human beings, there are certain news stories that will be simply unavoidable. I don’t care what psychological mechanisms you try to use; it will have an impact on you. Regardless of whether you believe the veracity of the following thesis, it is widely spread by the media: the police are killing people who look a certain way at disproportionate rates. That they are targeted. Hunted. That the people who are entrusted with protecting the public are abusing their power and murdering people. These are tall charges that strike at the very most fundamental aspects of life and liberty. These tall charges have impacts on people.
2. You don’t know the parameter you claim to know: actual crimes committed. How many times were Federal laws violated in calendar-year 2020? You have no hope of telling me. The only thing you can talk about is who gets charged and who gets convicted. You can’t find worms under stones you didn’t pick up, and the police can’t find crime where they don’t go. All that we know is that certain demographic groups are more represented in police killing deaths than underlying population proportions on their own would suggest.
3. I feel this is adequately answered in 1. To supplement, think of the appeals that other media sources make about CRT being taught in elementary schools. Regardless of the veracity of that claim, it’s a very serious charge when you say that teachers or curriculum architects are conspiring to teach lies to your children while you aren’t with them. That they’re being taught to hate themselves for crimes never committed. Flagellate themselves over sins never done. That the education system itself, which is meant for teaching people about how the world works, is being subverted and turned into a political conveyor belt that indoctrinates Kindergarteners and College students alike to think a certain way for no better reason than a ballot box power grab. That’s serious stuff, and if you find people who disbelieve the police killing story I mentioned above, there’s a good sporting chance they believe the one I just mentioned. Everyone has a yarn.
"Ok. So you want to hand me a fully authorized excuse to get out of work? You know I have no interest in this topic at all, and made a point to avoid it at work because I believe in etiquette, but you're ok using it to open this PTO door to me? It's also not coming out of my banked PTO? I can just stay home and chill and not have to fake sick or anything and you'll just go along with it? Game on, fool." - Executor of unintended consequences
Why do you care? You're not getting off work, it sounds like you don't care to, so why are you so intent on criticizing the way other people run their business? Presumably you don't object to someone giving their employees off for a religious holiday... and unlike the Easter Bunny or Santa, Kyle Rittenhouse and his victims exist and impacted the world around them in a tangible way.
The holidays are to spend time with family, kyle rittenhouse is just a news story that is completely irrelevant to daily life for 99.999% of people. Also it doesn’t matter “why” I pointed this out, that’s irrelevant
Excuse me, the holidays are not about "spending time with family". They are about the holiday for which the time off is being given. That most Americans choose to spend that time with their family, instead of in Church praying, is what is immaterial. You think most people being given "Kyle Rittenhouse Day" are going to Kenosha? No, they're gonna do something random with their loved ones. The same as a holiday. Sure it's irrelevant. Santa is irrelevant to 100% of people, seeing as he's entirely fictional, and yet not a peep of complaint out of you on that one.
Of course it matters. You took time to post this. So you're concerned. The obvious answer is that a business owner can give time off to their employees for any reason they like, which I doubt is a sentiment to which you'd object. So your concern in this specific instance must have some driving cause. What is it?
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