Gods, yes. I’m extremely sympathetic with the folks in this article, but you always ALWAYS triple-check that you’re on mute or off the call before talking shit. My headset that I use for work Zoom meetings has a mute button, so I generally have three separate mutes set for such meetings: one on the headset, one on my…

As a 20 year customer service veteran, I know that the first thing you learn when you take pizza orders for a living is where the damn mute button is. And frankly, it’s best and safest to wait until you’re sure the call’s disconnected entirely before IMing the entire room about the asshole/moron/Karen you just dealt…

The worst part, the very worst part, of any public facing job is the public. No question. If you work the register at a store, you see enough dead-from-the-neck-up people in one day to permanently ruin your outlook on the human race. If you work in the public sector, you spend at least one day a week fielding loud…

Totally with you there! I’m a white, cis-gendered male with relative means. The very least I can do is try to financially support those whose systematic oppression I have so benefitted from.

What is definitely admissible is an interview he made where he specifically stated that he did write a song as a fantasy of hurting Evan Rachel Wood. Song is called ‘I Want to Kill You Like They Do in The Movies’. I guarantee a jury will have zero people who have ever willfully listened to Manson’s music, it’ll be in…

I’m so glad it works for you too! I wish I could remember where I first heard a version of this policy so I could credit them - it definitely wasn’t my original idea, I’m not that smart - but throwing money at problems is my preferred M.O. for most situations anyway ;)

I LOVE that idea!

This asshole needs go to prison for a long, long, looooooongggg time.

Long, long, LONG overdue. How no officials cared to do anything after he publicly bragged time and time again about abusing women, I will never understand.

About freaking time 

I believed Fisher right away, but there also wasn’t much to believe him on because his accusations were very nebulous (as someone else pointed out, probably because of an NDA).

I think a lot of shitty bosses are really good at making sure they don’t do anything “actionable” and as far as HR is concerned “not actionable” means “nothing happened”. Or shitty HR will just twist everything to “non-actionable”.

Thanks for your candor about this. You’re doing this admirably.

I won’t go into too many details because it’s not my tale to tell, but my wife was harassed, stalked and threatened by an individual in her office. When she finally went to her superiors, they either made excuses for him or outright didn’t believe her. Things got bad. She’s had a different job for several years now,…

These are totally fair questions. I’ve definitely looked hard at my own reaction and tried to figure what aspect race played in it, as well as what victims “owe” in terms of details.

The reason people like this get away with so much for so long is that the majority of people, the majority of the time, don’t deliberately distort reality for shits/giggles/power, so we aren’t used to being treated that way.

I only got out from under my maniac boss in September of last year. So I still reflect on the whole mess on occasion and describe it to my wife and I listen to the words coming out of my mouth and I sound like I’m paranoid, or have a persecution complex. Am I crazy? Was I imagining things? Was I really just an idiot…

And there’s nothing like trying to describe a toxic work environment to make a person sound “unhinged.” It’s a miasma, infiltrating everything until everyone associated with the environment thinks it’s normal and any attempts to say otherwise sound nuts.

I had a boss when I was first starting my career that was like this. She would do so many things to sabotage me but when I would speak up or try to draw attention to it I just came off as “negative” and someone who was rocking the boat. Like Fisher, when I would file complaints or take it up the chain, I couldn’t…

Fisher was also probably subject to far more aggressive NDA language about what he could and couldn’t say about his time on Justice League. The lack of details was probably due to fear of saying anything specific enough for WB and DC to take action against him. Carpenter’s specifics are much more personal and arguably…