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So some researchers decided to finally do "An empirical study of the proclivity to be offended and what it says about employees' attitudes and behaviors"...
Needless to say it isn't good for the perpetually offended. Not only are they worse performing themselves but they shit in the pool for everyone as it were.
The money shot from the conclusions/discussion:
"The most fundamental implication of this research is the finding that the current trend of taking offense to an array of events and traditions represents an nderlying phenomenon and not isolated reactions. Moreover, this state correlates with some of the most important work-related outcomes (see Kataria et al., 2012; Koys, 2001; Ostroff, 1992), and in ways one might not expect or predict. For example, one might assume those who display PTBO are the most helpful in the organization as their prescriptive morality dictates helping and providing for others (cf. Arnot, 2009; Janoff-Bulman & Carnes, 2014; Schwartz, 2002, 2010; Thomas & McGarty, 2009), but study results indicate a negative relationship between PTBO and two different forms of citizenship behavior. Moreover, PTBO negatively correlated with task performance and positively correlated with counterproductive work behaviors, suggesting not only that these individuals engage in fewer citizenship behaviors but also engage in behaviors managers and organizations want their employees to avoid."
SciHub link to paper: https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.05.040
I’ve been there. It just fucking sucks. Anyone with 3/8ths of a brain can tell that with these diversity initiatives the bar for promotion of someone like that is so low that merely lifting their feet will clear it, but these assholes won’t even do that and then will bitch about some -ism rather than just putting in a modicum of effort to actually to do their fucking job.
I'm convinced they don't actually realize how much work it takes to keep everything running. They literally believe white guys just walk into a room, sip a whiskey, get a promotion, and magically the new product ships itself.
"I worked all day"
"You were on Instagram for 4 hours and took a two hour lunch".
I knew I forgot something. I could have avoided 10 years of hard working smh.
I worked with a feminist intern who wasted a lot of time making sure anything she wrote was "inclusive" when nobody asked her to. When told to cut it out, she'd say shit like lack of inclusive writing is the reason girls stick to "female" jobs.
She herself had first gone to college in a female-dominated field, dropped out, then went back in another female-dominated field. But of course, it was easier to blame her lack of ambition or lack of interest for a field like finance or physics on the absence of inclusive writing in society... By that logic I guess it's also society's and my parents' fault that I'm not an astronaut, if only they had just told me little boys who don't pay attention in physics class can go to the moon like everyone else!
She was insufferable to work with for a variety of other reasons. Mainly because she had an attitude that everything had to be done the way that made things easier for her, and if anyone refused to accommodate her she'd take it as a personal attack and complain to the boss.
From what I know, Little Miss StrongWoman "It's sexist that women give up their career more often than men to raise their kids!" went on maternity leave during her internship two years ago and hasn't worked since.
My company hired a muslim girl recently who stated in her introduction that she was very into social justice. Of course she must bring social justice to the west and not her barbaric religion. Thankfully, she's not on my team. Not that that will save me from the inevitable struggles sessions.
Always report this abusive behavior. Insubordination and racism is not ok. Even if the company is woke, they have a bottom line they need to maintain. If she is harming productivity and being toxic, HR needs to know.
Things rarely happen on first instance, but if she treats all male employees with contempt, she'll be fired.