It doesn’t matter if you’re a janitor or the CEO, they will come for you.
Predictable.
Basecamp CEO Jason Fried was forced to apologize for asking woke staffers to leave their politics at home. Ben Chesnut at Mailchimp may have been in an even worse position after the Intuit sale.
In a nearly 1,400-word email Chestnut said he’s identified a dangerous trend in his workforce: new hires introducing themselves using their preferred pronouns.
“This is completely unnecessary [for] a woman (who is clearly a woman) to tell us that her pronouns are ‘she/her’ and a man (who is clearly a man) to tell us that his pronouns are ‘he/him,’” he wrote in an email to a small group of employees obtained by Platformer.
Chestnut said he understood the practice was rooted in kindness, but added that “in the long run this approach does more harm than good.” Forcing people to behave a certain way was “the opposite of inclusion,” he added.
In his email, though, Chestnut worried that employees were getting distracted. They cared more about politics than the mission, he wrote, sounding notes that have previously been echoed by founders at companies including Coinbase and Basecamp.
Chestnut went on: “First, there is a very tiny number of peeps at Mailchimp who would consider themselves transgender. Forcing (either with orders, or through guilt) approximately 1,390 other peeps to adopt a new communication paradigm that humanity has never had to use in our 300k year existence, and in our 150k years of spoken language, in order to make things slightly more comfortable for an extremely small group of peeps is completely illogical.”
He added that if people are forced to do something illogical they will “eventually believe and do anything (even if it’s vicious).”
No kidding, albeit behind the curve.
“Now, everything is incredibly politicized,” he said in the email. “I am finding that peeps are no longer motivated by meaningful work – they are motivated to make political statements. They are using company time and company resources to win a game, against their opponents, in a game that is raging in their minds and on social media.”
Chestnut encouraged employees to respect people with different political viewpoints. “Understanding and respecting that fundamental concept – that grown adults can have different views — is a part of being American, and part of being mature adults,” he said. “Peeps of all different political leanings are free to vote the way they want to see our country governed. But that (very American) act is for the ballot box. Not for the workplace.”
Except the workplace is the Left’s latest conquest.
On August 10, Ben Chestnut, the billionaire founder and CEO of Mailchimp, announced he was abruptly stepping down. “Over the last 21 years as Mailchimp’s CEO, I’ve developed a strong sense of timing,” he said in a letter to employees. “Now is the right time for me to take a step aside and evolve my role.”
Maybe it’s unrelated, but Intuit’s statement raises obvious issues.
In an email sent to Platformer, Intuit said it was committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. “We also expect everyone, including leaders, to be accountable for approaching all situations with empathy, always considering the experiences of others,” they added. “While we can’t comment on internal personnel issues, we addressed this immediately and took appropriate action in alignment with Intuit’s values and principles. We have also made our expectations clear to everyone involved in this matter.”
What exactly did he do wrong? Intuit can’t and won’t discuss that. But the pattern is familiar. Anyone who questions the idea that there ought to be politics at work, e.g. Fried, Chesnut, is immediately identified as an enemy to be purged. If he questioned any of the more obnoxious elements of performative wokeness, like pronouns, he can also be denounced as a bigot who is endangering the safety of employees from Group X. It doesn’t matter if you’re a janitor or the CEO, they will come for you.
Keith O says
A couple of months back some dweebs asked me what my pronouns were.
I’d heard of this BS and thought, why not.
So my response was, my pronouns are F*#k yo and F*#k you too.
Not sure why, but they got offended, guess they aren’t as inclusive and huggy as they thought they were.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I think what offended them was that you weren’t explicit about which was an accusative pronoun, which was a dative pronoun and which was a possessive pronoun. You should have cleared that w/ them 😈
Keith O says
C’mon man, I’m Australian and English is our second language.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Does your first language have gender specific pronouns? Or other grammar forms?
Check Burry says
I have not been asked about pronouns. If some moron does ask I will ask back, What is a pronoun?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I recall when Intuit’s founder Tom Proulx backed initiatives like Prop 200, which would have given California No-fault motor insurance. How times have changed!
I’m just wondering one thing. Why can’t a company already well established – like Intuit – live w/o fresh capital from the likes of Blackrock, State Street and others, that would enable it to ignore the ESG compulsions of those companies and go totally woke? Why can’t we have a company do what Jason Fried did, and just order employees to leave their politics and their sex lives at home, rather than fire people like Jason who suggest these most commonsense ideas?
Aloha Akbar says
Sung to the tune of ‘The Logical Song’ by Supertramp
When I was male, it seemed that life was unremarkable
So tedious, oh, so unbearable, objectionable
All the queers at my work, they’d be acting so womanly
So feminine, oh, playfully schooling me
Then they sent me away, to teach me how to be effeminate
Illogical, amend my body parts, surgical
Then they cut off my balls, inject my chest with silicone
Oh clinical, oh scientifical, transitional
There are times when all the world’s gone mad
My mum looks like my dad
How Dare You! It is ma’am
Wont you please, please tell me where to pee
I know I am not me
Please tell me I am ma’am
I said watch what you say, or I’ll be calling you transphobia
Conservative, oh fanatical, criminal
You will resign from your job; we’d like to make you unacceptable
Unemployable, oh shame-able, replaceable
Oh Cancel, Cancel, yeah
But at night, transgender people sleep
Breast implants start to leak
I’m really just a man
Wont you please
Please tell me I’m a girl
I know it sounds absurd
Please tell me who I am
I am ma’am, I’m a sham, Sam I am,
Shalom says
Oh I love that song. Very clever and funny!
Scotsman48 says
If I was the CEO like him I would fire the bloody lot of them and not step down from the Company I founded as he just handed them the victory that demand.
My pronouns are WTF is wrong with you?.
somehistory says
Anytime a guy has a company, he should keep control even if he makes it available for people to own stock.
He should make sure no one, no group of shareholders, owns enough stock to override him or vote him out.
Freedom to speak has been so damaged by those who are of evil mind. Yes, it is evil to insist that other people must bow to one’s demands, to not allow others to make any decisions or have any opinions that are not aligned with the one making the demands.
This is all from satan.
And it is starkly clear just how close this cult is to the cult of islam in making demands that, if not followed, lead to one being silenced, ostracized, “killed in the marketplace…losing jobs, reputation, etc.” and murdered outright.
Evil should be resisted, no matter what disguise it wears..
somehistory says
“Soap Brand Forced to Change Its Packaging After Liberals Said It Was RACIST”
“One of the largest manufacturers of health care products, Unilever, is being forced to change it’s packaging due to it allegedly making people feel “excluded.”
Apparently the word “normal” displayed on their Dove packaging could be misconstrued as excluding some people.”
https://gopnewsfeed.com/soap-brand-forced-to-change-its-packaging-after-liberals-said-it-was-racist/?utm_source=GNF%20M4BS2&utm_source=GNF%20Q4BS2&utm
James Lincoln says
Incredible, somehistory.
I guess there is no such thing as “normal hair” anymore…
somehistory says
James, the article had a photo of Dove soap…or not soap…which I grew up using as it was the only one that didn’t irritate my skin. Guess no one has “normal” skin either.
According to the report, a lot of people commenting, were against the thing. I do believe that the crowd of crazies and complainers are about to have gone too far.
Check Burry says
Does this mean soap is bi sexual. WOW
Shalom says
There’s a daily diet of these shocking stories. Go to New Culture Forum on YouTube and you’ll see a woman being interviewed who is attempting to sue the Tavistock/NHS healthcare. We are seeing the destruction of all norms, it’s very worrying and I can’t see it ending. 😥