I’m training to be an amazon driver lmfao, but I’m actually sorta looking forward to it cause it means I don’t have to spend all day interfacing with customers. I never actually stated my gender identity anywhere but I still pretty much look like a dude and everyone just defaulted to he/him for me and I don’t bother correcting them.

Thing is, even though we’re in Los Angeles, about as Progressive as you can get, and I literally did a module about inclusion and respecting transgender coworkers as part of my training, I’m an at will employee and therefore all the assurances that it would be illegal to fire me because of protected status means nothing because my contract explicitly says I can be fired at any time for any or no reason.

The other thing is though, I’m a big softy and tomorrow and Thursday I’m gonna be riding along with someone all day so they could show me how it works, and in general all the people I’ve met with like the dispatchers have been super friendly and nice, and dammit I just like Making Friends rather than just doing the bare minimum socially but staying otherwise distant. Also it’s just a bit sad every time I get misgendered

So yeah. Should I follow the cynical instincts instilled in me by this site and stay closeted?

  • Terkrockerfeller [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    They’re all really young and mostly nonwhite so the Actual Chud possibilities are low; my main worry is just being let go from the job entirely rather than mixed reactions from coworkers since I’ll be spending all day driving alone anyway

    • cynesthesia
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      11 months ago

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      • Terkrockerfeller [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Amazon

        Edit: technically not even amazon but a third party logistics company that works only for amazon, so both amazon and a small business tyrant lol

        • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]M
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          3 years ago

          off topic, but this brings up a very good vocabulary word

          In economics, a monopsony is a market structure in which a single buyer substantially controls the market as the major purchaser of goods and services offered by many would-be sellers.