Being in Human Resources can’t be getting easier given the way the Left has waterboarded the culture. Finding good help was never easy. Keeping them a challenge. But now they demand days off after US Supreme Court decisions to mourn?
Michael Lopez, a production coordinator at Universal Music Enterprises, blasted the company as “anti-gay” for terminating a “queer brown person” during Pride Month for “speaking up in defense of abortion rights,” according to a lengthy note on LinkedIn that went viral last week.
“Last Friday, like countless other folks, I was devastated by the news of the supreme court’s [sic] attack on abortion rights,” Lopez wrote.
So, the not-so-center-right Universal Music Group (UMG) gave him what he wanted – time and space to mourn – and he’s pissed. Okay, it’s a permanent vacation, but someone with his self-defined skills, being brown and gay, should have no trouble finding work.
You can’t refuse to hire someone because they are brown or gay or both. And that’s an important point. Anyone capable of doing the job should be considered. But once you’ve been hired you’ve signed a contract.
They will pay you if you do the work. You need to show up on time, stay for the duration required, and complete the tasks assigned. You can do more but less if frowned upon. Some tasks deemed critical cannot be ignored. Lopez had a critical task to complete that day, and he refused.
“…each Friday “one of my tasks was to process reports for upcoming releases” and then to email his work to 275 people. But instead of doing the usual process reports, he wrote an email that read: “I didn’t do them today.”
“I’m in mourning due to the attack on people with uteruses in the US. Federally guaranteed access to abortion is gone,” the email continued.”
I’m not sure where this office was located, but UMG is a massive #woke global presence. They’re all about social responsibility.
“UMG has a long record of support for women’s issues,” the spokesperson said.
“As we wrote to our US employees, UMG views reproductive health care as essential.”
“In the wake of the recent US Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v Wade, the company has extended its efforts to assure that these important healthcare services remain accessible to employees.”
I take that to mean they might be willing to help employees find services even if they need to go to another state though I doubt that’s necessary, which brings us back to Lopez. “A brown queer person terminated during Pride month speaking in support of abortion rights. Seems like that’s exactly what America is all about right now.”
America is in the wrong place, but not for any reason Lopez cites. We’ve become a nation where entitled victim-class whiners behave as if whatever is in their headspace is more important than everything else around them.
According to UMG, 275 co-workers could not do their job effectively because Lopez wouldn’t do his.
Michael Lopez isn’t just tangled up with the BS inside his head, he’s convinced you should be too, and if you are not, you must be a bigot. It’s discrimination.
That’s the real problem with where America is today, and it is not a problem that goes away overnight or perhaps even in a generation but it’s one HR departments, and fellow employees have to address, and in some cases tolerate, even when it makes their jobs more difficult, and there’s nothing fair or equal about that.
