I just want to gloat about my dispensary in here. We're definitely where the cool queers get their weed. I've never been treated with anything but love and respect. The GM and AM both have significant personal connections to trans people in their lives. (The AM is my best friend, and I've seen her tense up at the notion that a random woman looked enough like her to be her sister, because she doesn't have a sister, and she will fight about it <3) The weekend closing manager is me. We are the only dispensary in town with the "Transgender safe space" tag on Google. (There are several with the LGBTQ friendly tag.) It's just all around a wonderful place to work and shop.
Big businesses are definitely worse about it because they don't have real training and nobody feels they have the authority to act on things in the moment. I work at a small location for a medium sized business. If there is an issue with how a trans person is addressed, I can swoop in and make sure it is immediately corrected and understood. I have been fast enough to stop potentially uncomfortable moments before they happened. (I like to think nobody at my dispensary would do worse than an uncomfortable misstep, but I try to prevent those too.) There is no equivalent to that in a large, faceless corporate workplace. Managers, regardless of their quality or training, aren't going to be reliably present. Employees are on their own with their existing skills, training, personalities, and biases. You can find a small business with a culture of respect you can count on. You'll always be gambling with a big business.
Why can't I see any comments there? I can see the posts, but it says they all have 0 comments?
Wdym? I just always work late shifts and meet other weird night people at the handful of businesses still open when I get off work.
Truth. I don't have to deal with this now, but give me Mariah Carey over "affordable woman who claims to sing like Mariah Carey" any day. There are so, so many bad Christmas covers it is ridiculous. I don't like Mariah Carey more than anyone else, but she is legitimately talented and skilled. There are worse singers and musicians covering the same songs.
I'm an autonomy maximalist. If you think this is right for you, do it. It's just a wild idea to me. For me, it was a door that, once opened, could not be closed.
Ngl I wouldn't do that for a partner. Not a chance. I don't have family in my life. No future partners of mine will meet my family. I don't have to meet my partners' families. I wouldn't make myself miserable for two weeks minimum for any family. Not a chance I would do this. You say "when I am safe again." I wouldn't be with a partner who wanted me to feel like that for their comfort.
Harvey Guillen has my vote!
Nope. I got the ADHD. I need the robot to remind me about things. It'd make some of you sick how many notifications I get. I have notifications turned on for every channel in two Discord servers. Traffic on them is usually slow to modest, but still. Lemmy is the only platform I use daily that isn't allowed any notifications because I've been using forums for about twenty years and don't often forget to check in here.
Plague, the infestation afflicting the whole muskrat nation.
I work the way I do for me. As someone who is hyper focused on my job, I understand what you're getting at. Before my recent promotion, I was doing way more work than my coworkers for the same pay because I was work obsessed. But it was what I wanted to do. I am excellent at a job that is genuinely important.
At this point I have wholeheartedly embraced it. I've been even more focused since my promotion. I will be the convenience store woman, but for my dispensary. It makes me happy.
You're not wrong. I stopped going to CVS in part because only a portion of the pharmacy staff could be respectful. Two of the three actual pharmacists (both of the men -_-) obviously didn't care if I got my estrogen or injection supplies. They also couldn't keep my supplies in stock or get them in a timely manner, then treated me like I was seeking drug paraphernalia when I constantly needed syringes.
I guess I just don't trust that anyone has adequate training and policies for this. My experience is that, if there isn't anyone with authority making us a policy priority, we are at the mercy of the personal beliefs and opinions of whoever is working at the moment. =/