Preferred Pronouns.....in a professional email signature

Exactly. Life is too short.


These days I just call everybody chief anyway. Saves time.

 

Actually I know a cure. It's a bit risky.

 

Or Bud. Recognized subtle insult here in these parts.

 

WTF? That's completely silly.

Of course when dubbing tapes, we can't call the decks "master" and "slave" anymore, so who am I to complain.

 

thats racist!!!

 

I like the idea. Kind of like wearing a Klan hood to work, I know to avoid you as you are loon.

 

Theory vs reality.

 

We like our nazi's in uniform, that way we can identify em, (snaps) just like that...

 

The justification I got for it at the hugerific tech company was that it is more inclusive if everyone does it. This way, no one feels isolated because they are the only one with the need to state their pronouns.

It's all the rage. I am not partaking in the rage.

 

Seriously? That is crazy. People have gone completely over the top when it comes to the "trigger" words. Maybe I am just old but I really don't see how anyone could be offended by master and slave when referring to audio equipment.

 

I agree.

Sincerely,
Most awesome Lord & Savior G

 

The irony is if you have to announce or tell others what your gender is,
You’re more than likely not that gender.
I’m a 500 watt led lightbulb

 

I call bullshit on that. No way you're that bright

Hey Beac, What did they replace master and slave with?

 

Efforts are being made to remove it from s/w also. Complete craziness.

 

My church is going down this road. The pastors now state their preferred pronouns at the start of every service.
Our church does have a transgender lady that is married to a lesbian (I am still trying to wrap my head around that one), but they are both nice people and that is all that really matters. We also have a couple of teens that are non-binary, so I guess announcing the genders feels welcoming to them and our church does try to welcome everyone. In general I support in that.

So far it hasn't started at my work, but I would not be surprised if it is only a matter of time. I get genders at work wrong on occasion, as we are a worldwide company and names are not always a good indication of gender when you can't even figure out how to pronounce them and you have never seen the person as they are 10.5 time zones away. In the grand scheme of things, there are lots of real problems in the world and if calling someone they or heshe instead of her or him makes them feel better it doesn't really matter to me.

 

I just got my first email stating the preferred pronoun. I get it, a college coach, didn't think much of it and still don't.

 

This falls into the "I don't feel important so I am going to make people recognize me" category.

 

Everything is completely silly these days... I got in a 'discussion' about the word jigger... a couple people in a meeting were offended and I was like WTF?! They were offended because it RHYMED with an offensive word, even though it was used completely correctly and in context.

I can't take these moronic rules.

 

The more that you coddle the idiots and go along to get along, the more idiots you'll find yourself surrounded by.

 

So now they only say “larger” and “shovel operator” and “person who rigs”?

And Winnie the Pooh’s friend is “spring loaded feline”?

Fuck people