I want to be more brave about my beliefs, and more open. Why are the left allowed to be so loud about what they believe but if a conservative or even just someone with different beliefs disagrees, you face consequences with the Karen's? I live in a blue area UGH, trying to move, i am a hairstylist. I work in a salon with mostly liberals from what I've gathered. I can't STAND sitting around listening to the pc bs they spew. I wouldn't actively engage in conversations about politics because it does no good and won't change their mind. HOWEVER. I am finding it dreadful to take myself to work anymore because 99% of my clients are liberals and loud about it. For some reason they assume I'm liberal as well. I don't necessarily want to talk politics with my clients but I am so sick of working on liberals. I love what I do but it's killing my passion to work on people I can't stand and our morals don't align.
Recently a liberal coworker suggested changing mens and womens cuts to long short or medium hair cuts 🙄 she probably hates me because I still call my "clipper cuts" mens cuts, and I always will. And I absolutely refuse to use anyones pronouns especially if I can tell they're a tranny. I want to refuse service to them truthfully. I know this would get me fired even though if someone refused service To a conservative being so blunt they would probably be rewarded. And I know being more open about my beliefs will isolate me and probably push me out of the salon eventually. It actually already happened, and I was 7 months pregnant when she fired me 🙂
Really I'm just ranting because I feel like the shit is so overwhelming and I can't stand living in this area but the world is so expensive right now and I can't afford yo get to a red area yet, I know once I can move and work on likeminded people or not loudmouth liberals who push their byllshit on everyone my passion will come back. But man I will see names on my books and want to just call in because I know who that person is, and just trying to make small talk is daunting when I know how opposite we are.
The tranny flags and rainbow shit and drag queens are all just really getting to me. I'm sick of this being shoved down my throat and I don't want to conform I don't want to abide by these made up rules, but since I work with the public and live in an extremely blue area, I just feel like I'm compromising my beliefs and my spirit is suffering.
I'm so sorry for this word vomit but it's hard holding this shit in every day and doing my best to support my family and trying to paint a happy face but knowing I just don't fit in and don't want to fit in with these people let alone touch them and work on their bodies and share energy with them for at least 30 minutes!
Another thing that's been weighing on me lately I have literally like 3 friends in this town and in high school had ONE. I keep seeing people I went to school with that I remember trying to fit in with and they were such fucking weirdos that I never understood why I couldn't make friends with all these different groups and what was wrong with ME, but seeing these people now realizing they're extreme lefties, it makes sense. And I remember being in high school and someone making fun of me because I didn't believe in abortions or something? I don't know how they knew that because I never talked about that but it's just all clicking now as a 30 year old woman, why I never fit in anywhere in this town and how much happier and safer I would feel in a red area. If anyone has read all of this thank you, my personal diary post of the day that nobody cares about but I needed yo get it off my chest!
One day when they are screaming about being tranny and proud I want to scream about how there's only TWO GENDERS and not fear losing my job.
One thing I learned is that you cannot run your mouth if you cannot withstand the consequences - be them loss of employment, loss of clients, loss of friends/family or what have you. What I am saying is that you have to develop some independence. And you also have to develop some confidence in your own abilities.
When you can set up your own shop, or seamlessly move to another should an asshat try to mess with you, then you have achieved what I am talking about. It isn't easy. Some careers are far more difficult to do this with than others. But stylists are independent contractors in many places. So this is one of the easier career paths to do this on.
My brother in law is in middle/upper management at a very large fortune 500 company. The last several years, increasing amounts of wokeness have been burping out of the mouths of the CEO and top tier executives. Obvious race and age discrimination is occurring in hiring/layoff decisions. Some of the executive management decisions is resulting in substantial pay losses due to poor performing stock, of which options on said stock are a major part of compensation. Additionally, he told me this morning that this company is justifying capping salary increases at no greater than 2% because "this company will not contribute to the inflation problem..." which ought to set every employee on fire going apeshit. Strangely, it isn't happening. Although he did say that there are an unusual amount of people leaving the company from positions that historically people remained there for duration of their working careers. But not in numbers reflective of this awful management.
I told him that he obviously should seek other employment. Very difficult when he is in a highly specialized field which lacks more than a handful of competitors. That has yet to be fruitful. But the main thing I said was to archive ALL company emails pertaining to wokeness and discrimination, along with every company email that might pertain to these subjects. Also to write down detailed accounts of conversations on these topics at work as to the who/what/when/where/why. He's going on nearly 2 years of documentation as he suffers in silence.
I believe that with proper evidence, a solid case for hostile work environment and for age/race discrimination will be viable. If he simply cannot get out of there for greener pastures, he can at least get some substantial compensation for being victimized.
I'd suggest the same thing to you: document/archive EVERYTHING. Build a couple of months worth of this. Talk to an employment lawyer that is based and uncucked. Find out your employer's and your own boundaries within this area. When you've done all of this, you can start putting your toes in the water.
Great advice!