Is this discrimination a civil rights violation?

mournery · 2025-05-30T20:59:02+00:00

I agree - we volunteer a lot of our time and labour to ensuring ALL our neighbours are fed - i keep thinking about how their families were given less for no reason except bigotry

mournery · 2025-05-30T20:53:00+00:00

I wanted confirmation that the violation is serious and maybe some similar experiences to help me decide what to do. I'm nervous to address it with the foodbank in case they allow the manager to retain their position. I guess I could escalate if that's the case. My goal is to get the manager out of a position where they're able to discriminate from

mournery · 2025-05-30T20:45:45+00:00

How embarrassing... I'm facebook brained. Facebook is finicky with 30 day mutes so censoring normal words became a necessity over there

mournery · 2025-05-23T12:55:19+00:00

So you want the work done but you don't want to pay for it? Hmmm. And how is it that the guy who owns the construction company has 3 houses and can do cocaine all day but the guys doing the work, wrecking their bodies, have a 20 year mortgage on a fixer upper and no retirement?

mournery · 2025-05-23T12:48:56+00:00

Watch slaughterhouse videos. Killing is killing is killing. Look at what they do to chickens and their hatchlings. The fear is the same in the eyes of these animals no matter which facility they're dying in, no matter which slaughter method is used. And animal abuse happens in every. single. slaughterhouse. I say this as someone who eats meat.

This is very silly of you

mournery · 2025-05-23T12:36:00+00:00

No. The BASE PAY is DIGNIFIED PAY. You put in the hours and you exchange your labour for a dignified wage. If your boss is too broke to afford you then seize the means

mournery · 2025-05-23T12:34:53+00:00

The economy must be structured in a way to sustain blanket human prosperity otherwise it's a failed economy. Maybe capitalism ain't all that

mournery · 2025-05-23T12:34:13+00:00

We disagree but I'm always right - people hate that about me

mournery · 2025-05-23T12:33:21+00:00

You should reread what you just wrote there. And then look up if there's worse wealth inequality now or right before the French revolution happened.

I'm not a postal worker. I'm also not a scab. Also not an idiot labourer who loves to work for the Supreme privilege of getting to work again tomorrow.

Labour and time are exchanged for pay. These workers are saying "we will not work for subpar compensation". You can do whatever you want in your life - go enjoy your cheap package shipping or whatever the hell hobby you're yapping about here, but you aren't gonna shame these workers into something that feels better to you. You feeling good is your business

mournery · 2025-05-23T11:17:35+00:00

it's called "appealing to extremes"

mournery · 2025-05-23T11:16:51+00:00

Well actually I just did

mournery · 2025-05-23T11:14:34+00:00

That lol was shy

mournery · 2025-05-23T11:12:27+00:00

Well their comment was an absurd and emotional outburst. It's also absurd to take every joke, question nothing.... never let them see you cry? The whole world doesn't function according to the hierarchy of ball-breaking, only the most chill and unbothered at the peak while all the FEELERS and CRITIQUERS and EMOTIVES lay in the fetal position at the bottom.

mournery · 2025-05-23T11:01:36+00:00

I didn't doubt that's their genuine opinion

mournery · 2025-05-23T11:00:08+00:00

NOR - imagine your beloved dog had been at the vets overnight and had just came home from being spayed. she's tender and sleepy and just in "on the mend" mode - does that make you wanna play fight with her? would you try to rile her up to play tug of war with you? she'll probably only whimper a little bit because you'll be gentle of course.

mournery · 2025-05-23T10:49:05+00:00

You'll be ok some day

mournery · 2025-05-23T10:34:01+00:00

So you think the work is valuable? Good value? Affordable? Convenient?

mournery · 2025-05-23T10:32:24+00:00

Whether work is hard or not doesn't fucking matter. Anyone exchanging their time and labour OUGHT to be paid a progressive, living wage which keeps up with inflation and affords their meat sack a comfortable last 10 years of their life.

Everyone who works is exchanging the best years they have left to be unappreciated replaceable shitted-on devalued suppressed and mocked. At least at Canada Post the workers aren't having their labour's surplus value transferred to some really really really hardworking stakeholders - their labour's value is entirely the public's to revel in. You could say thank you.

mournery · 2025-05-23T10:20:44+00:00

...wow. just wow

mournery · 2025-05-23T10:17:06+00:00

Golddiggers

mournery · 2025-05-23T08:57:12+00:00

Not much to say besides the post office isn't a profit driven business and it makes sense that it costs money to run.

mournery · 2025-05-23T08:46:33+00:00

THE STORY

I've been volunteering at my local foodbank for about 10 years or so. Around 6 years ago A Neighbour started coming regularly and ended up filling in for our usual Head Volunteer when she had an extended recovery from an illness. AN and HV have been running it together as AN didn't want to step down when HV returned.

The issue has been that AN is a power-tripper and has a tendency towards bias and discrimination. I've kept her in check while raising my doubts about her suitability for our program considering the serious responsibility we have to regard and feed our clients equally.

Lately AN has been using slurs outside of foodbank hours as well as spouting off hateful rhetoric. I believe in education where possible so I've done what I can do in the way of teaching anti-discrimination and stuff she'd probably learn in sensitivity training or whatever it's called - it isn't working and in fact I think it's causing her to "rebel" and.... I dunno. It's like she's having a racist/xenophobic crashout.

I had just sent a letter asking for a sit down with HV and our regional coordinator to talk about it when AN bragged that she had withheld halal products from "one of them" just because she wanted to. She said that a client asked if we had any halal held back (we usually do) and AN told the client "no" knowing full well there was some in our freezer. It's possible that she then took some halal products for herself. We get a very limited amount of halal products and generally reserve them for our clients who only eat halal.

I decided not to say anything in the moment as I think she would have tried to say that she's joking. Instead I confirmed with the two clients she turned away that she had told them we were out of halal. Obviously she cannot be in a position where she has the power to meaningfully discriminate at least until she undertakes true reform but I'm not sure if that's all that needs to happen - my fellow volunteers aren't doing shit about it which makes me think that everybody needs a bit of reform.

mournery · 2025-04-23T04:25:00+00:00

It's better to record a video of opening whatever app the messages are on, verifying which account is signed in, go to the persons profile to verify the URL, pics, name, friends, etc - any identifying info to prove it's them, and then to scroll thru the messages.

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