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Don’t get mad, file a formal complaint and watch them squirm
If there is one thing that the corporatisation of human society has enabled, it is the unfettered power of human resources departments. As anyone who works for a large enough organisation will tell you HR is not your friend, it is there to defend the interests of the organisation, so if they receive a formal complaint from an aggrieved external party, they are bound to investigate it. Yes, I am being petty minded, but there is a great deal of joy to be obtained from watching a bigot squirm when you report their antics to their organisation’s HR department.
My single biggest lesson about social media came in 2009 when my then line manage saw a Facebook post from the weekend and called me out using it. It was mortified, and it completely changed how I use social media. I stopped adding co-workers, restricted all my content to private mode, and only added folk I knew. Oh, and I stopped posting random shit about what I was doing like a woodpecker with a keyboard. This reduced all work-placed comments to zero, making my work/life balance so much easier.
Which is why I do not understand why public facing people are so forgetful of this when they post random inane rubbish on their feeds. Doubly so when they post transphobic abuse, racism, ablism, and any other form of hate. They seem to think their comments are done in a…
