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tsukinofaeriiYou know, I usually love my job and coworkers, but right now I'd really just love to (verbally) ream the lot of them, and I can't even really call them out over it because the topic of conversation isn't a protected class.
Long story short, the question of homelessness came up. (It might be significant that this topic arose among the higher-earning, white, middle-aged employees, but maybe not.) The three participants hold opinions I find very offensive, namely that homeless people are either mentally ill or just trying to make an easy buck and that they could get jobs if they tried. I'm not even going to start with everything that's wrong with this, because I'll just get upset and I'm not really sure anyone at work even knows I can get upset except perhaps Melanie (who is my cousin's girlfriend and straddles the "co-worker/family" line). I'll just say that I'm very well aware that in any given situation there is going to be someone trying to take advantage of people. In this case (as someone who does give money to people who ask for it when and if I can afford it), I feel that it's better to be wrong 199/200 times, just to be right that once.
Long story short, the question of homelessness came up. (It might be significant that this topic arose among the higher-earning, white, middle-aged employees, but maybe not.) The three participants hold opinions I find very offensive, namely that homeless people are either mentally ill or just trying to make an easy buck and that they could get jobs if they tried. I'm not even going to start with everything that's wrong with this, because I'll just get upset and I'm not really sure anyone at work even knows I can get upset except perhaps Melanie (who is my cousin's girlfriend and straddles the "co-worker/family" line). I'll just say that I'm very well aware that in any given situation there is going to be someone trying to take advantage of people. In this case (as someone who does give money to people who ask for it when and if I can afford it), I feel that it's better to be wrong 199/200 times, just to be right that once.
