Wait a minute though. If a person was harassed, by… say their politics day after day, would that not make it a hostile workplace?
Oh, @Spice_Weasel, I’m so sorry your childhood was like that. Mine wasn’t anywhere as bad, because my mother had an instinctive understanding of mental issues, that she later refined when she became a clinical social worker: so my ADD was diagnosed and managed when I was a teenager. But I understand the struggles, and how easy it is to lose focus. If you’re like me, the diagnosis came as a huge relief - “You mean I’m not crazy, stupid, or lazy?”, as one book about ADD is titled. I feel ya, sister.
Your husband should have replied, “No need, I’m the content creator.”
I understood that. I really didn’t mean to respond to you directly. Just trying to continue the conversation now that I am in a better place mentally.
Also the information you provided was new to me!
I heartily second this book. Since ADD/ADHD hadn’t been “invented” when I was young, I had all three pejoratives thrown at me on a regular basis; and while the book is a little late to make a major difference in my life (I was diagnosed at 75), merely being able to start putting my past in perspective is a huge step forward.
No. This is straight from the government:
Harassment is unwelcome conduct that is based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity, or pregnancy), national origin, older age (beginning at age 40), disability, or genetic information (including family medical history).
Your political views are not a protected class.
What if a manager put up pride flags all over knowing that a subordinate was homophobic? Or pictures of steaks knowing a person was a vegetarian?
Is that not harassment? I think that could be a battle in court.
75! Oof.
Like trying to explain to my 85 year old grandfather that he’s autistic.
“Your kid’s fine. I was the same way at that age.”
Yeah… there’s a reason for that!
But seriously, shortly after I was diagnosed I did a group coaching thing and the first chapter you work through is about self-concept. So many people with ADHD have been told by the world their entire lives that they aren’t good enough, and it takes a lot of work to unpack all that.
“Harassment is unwelcome conduct that is based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity, or pregnancy), national origin, older age (beginning at age 40), disability, or genetic information (including family medical history).”
I think the sexual orientation thing goes both ways (no pun intended), although it’s just a guess on my part.
I don’t fully trust the police, and I don’t like the SovCits, so I’m not really sure who to root for here. But pulling out your gun on a traffic stop is pretty stupid. Farmington police shooting of suspected sovereign citizen Chase Allan ruled justified
Read what I wrote again, those aren’t protected classes. It’s not an umbrella term that covers everything. What is protected is codified.
Now, it can change. In fact, it was only in 2020 that SCOTUS decided that sexual orientation and gender identity were included in the law. So yes, that can be a battle in court, though that court is the Supreme Court in this case.
Ha. Good pun though. I’m a pretty basic married white guy. But I will not stand for ANY type of harassment to anyone. Sometimes all you have to do is stand up from your seat in a bar, and back up the staff.
Just applauding everyone who’s coping with ADD or “time blindness”.
Many of our design students go to work for computer game companies. One of the largest ones has flexible hours (work any time, as long as you’re available for meetings/questions from noon to 3pm). The other big one in town has a more traditional 9-5 schedule. I’ve listened to students select an employer based on whether they can “cope with a schedule”.
I think people with ADHD can also make great entrepreneurs (not me, I so cannot) not the least because they can work on their own time. We also tend to be highly creative. You want a creative, innovative person who thinks outside the box, ADHD FTW. It’s not all bad.
I’m comfortable with calling that guy a stupid MFer.
My daughter has ADHD and she’s an astonishingly good artist.
Read the article and yes, any sovcit who escalates the way this moron did, then goes for a gun, is totally in FAFO territory. The police have good reason to be wary of these nutcases.
And I say that as a bleeding heart liberal who thinks there are way too many unjustified police shootings of civilians.
This.
And “suspected sovereign citizen Chase Allan”? Suspected my ass, the entire encounter is straight out of the SovCit script.
The police are necessary, for better or worse. SovCits are not. The fewer, the better.
I blame Whitesnake
To be fair, this was a fast-moving story this morning, as that’s when he was found. My guess is the article you saw was posted before anyone had time to properly copyedit it. In the old days when you read an article in a newspaper, it was about events from yesterday, or at least hours earlier, and so there was time for the story to make it’s way past copy editors and others.
That guy’s mother was a SovCit, too.