Dude, you must be new here, I'm a trans woman. And I insist on the space (trans SPACE woman), because I'm a woman first who happens to be transgender.

"I think that....that doesn't matter, you know? How you mean things doesn't matter."

If this was as difficult to assemble as it was to read, I hope you get some time off soon. That was downright chilling and you deserve some sort of medal.

Seriously, thank you for doing the emotionally demanding work that I'm sure this was. This is all terrifying, but important to know about.

I have to say: I never, ever understood what it really meant for something to be "triggering" until I started following this incident, tried to read Rodger's "manifesto," and learned more about the conversations/cultures on these forums.

As pissed as I am that yet another "but what about the men!!!" troll has shown up, I will remind myself:

A woman walks into a bar, and then leaves because whoever runs the bar is an asshole.

I call bullshit on this new meme...

After the first few months of working here, I started to have friends ask if I was still working here, as if it was a hobby or something. Because work is in an office and it's clean and how on earth could you enjoy being dirty and working in a grotty old warehouse??

My job switched to this more or less last year and it's awesome. I work the full 8 hours a day but I can start any time 6-930AM. I normally start at 730 but there's no stress if I sleep through my alarm or am running late because I know I'm not going to get in trouble as long as I put in my time. And before our super…

The Wendy's drive thru comment is actually perfectly applicable. It comes down to clearly defining what results are expected. The result in this case is that an order is taken from a customer who is in their car, entered into a system, filled, and delivered within a certain amount of time. That's not BS from The Man.…

Honestly, I think that's an abuse of the boss's power, not an example of an abuse of ROWE. A boss who understands the spirit of ROWE would have disciplined the single person who broke the rules, not the entire company - that's the definition of micromanaging, not to mention an overreaction.

The problem is that the expectations are unreasonable, which is where this system can collapse. If your requirements are "file these documents and book these meetings," that's different from "invent cold fusion and resurrect my cat."

Very true, but most of the late-nitpicking I've been subject to has been at salaried positions where five minutes here or there cannot matter especially when I'm expected to put in hundred-hour weeks while being paid for forty.

But does she have ROWE?