Ok. So I was reprimanded today. Boss told me I cannot discuss politics because I am upsetting people.
Here's how it started. Last week one of the women was talking about how bad her mother's reaction to this vaccine was, how the vaccine is really poison and how she can't believe that THEY are trying to force us to take it (current active covid count in our facility is 2, btw) despite the fact that it is all a hoax anyway.
I told her that I am sorry her mother had a bad reaction to it and that there is a possibility of a negative reaction - but that over 600,000 people in the USA had negative reactions to Covid that included death.
She reported me.
Today, my office Karen and a Teamster were discussing "the guy" that used covid tests on an orange, a banana and a goat and they all tested positive. I interjected and laid out the actual facts. Last summer, the President of Tanzania made the claim that he tested them on a goat, orange and pawpaw (not knowing what a pawpaw was, these dipshits changed it to something they could understand). He was a noted Covid skeptic who claimed to be sending a plane to Madasgascar to hook up his people with a potent but unproven herbal cure. He claimed that the Chinese tests were faulty and are being used to create a crisis. He never proved his claim, nor has anybody else. I left out the part about how this clown died this year and is part of a conspiracy theory about how "prominent African leaders are being murdered because of their vaccine opposition". But since they didn't know that "the guy" was the late President of Tanzania in the first place, I thought it best to let them find that rabbithole on their own. So I left it at, "so you believe and unproven claim by the President of Tanzania over our own country's public health administration?"
Obviously, they kind of can't answer that without climbing up on a cross with me holding a box of nails and a hammer.
So they reported me instead.
Boss takes me aside... tells me I can't talk politics. I say, why not, political discussions are literally a daily occurrence and so are religious ones? He says I am upsetting people. Uh, yeah, I get that but they are upsetting me. He says that I wasn't part of the conversation today so I shouldn't have said anything. I pointed out that we share an office. It doesn't matter, he says. I ask if it would have been OK if I had asked permission to correct some of the facts in the story. No. I ask if I can discuss politics with a willing participant in the presence of others. No. I ask if I can talk in private about politics with a coworker. No. I point out that he often discusses politics and ask if he realizes that there is a double standard being set. Yes, but that's the way it is.
And they call US snowflakes.
"people sleep, sleep in the daytime
if they want to"
