New and Unimproved Workplace Rants

My supervisor has decided in her exalted wisdom that we are not allowed to discuss work matters in the breakroom (she is the only one of five current sups who thinks policing conversations had on personal time is her job) and has her pet Tattle Twins who will decide from the smokers’ patio what people may be quietly conversing about on PERSONAL time inside the breakroom and run get the unfavorites like me chewed out. Interestingly enough, this particular conversation, which neither Tattle Twin actually could have heard was between me (white woman older than sup) and very nice teammate (Asian woman younger than sup). Guess who the ONLY party to have sup down her throat was (hint: not the one younger than sup). Sup has a definite pattern of treating white women older than she is (sup is African-American, just FYI) like utter crap (excepting the sycophantic Tattle Twins) while treating those of color, men, and those younger than she is quite well. Even the autistic guy (he’s open about it) on another team has noticed the pattern!

When did I start working in a (bleep) kindergarten, and is the Conversation Gestapo bit even LEGAL in California?