Someone reported him for not warning the room about suicidal ideation before saying it and not considering that it might be triggering. He was actually reprimanded.
Unfortunately typical of the place. I left soon after.
This whole language purity test, whether from the left or right, is just a load of performative bollocks.
It doesn't, this kind of language policing is all about control and power.
A friend of mine worked as consultant with a big bank in London. They would get weekly emails about what kind of "newspeak" is allowed or not.
They seriously banned terms such as an "all hands meeting".
Woke 1 was absolutely crazy.
Nothing about productivity or culture in there.
So invariably they spend far too much time and effort addressing the person who had an issue with handedness, without consideration of all the other people that's impacting.
You can't please everyone, but if you're HR, you try.
That feels like the covid amnesty thing to me. Say the previous "version" of x was insane and we should just blanket forgive and forget about it. Kind of a rejecting all responsibility.
(besides, i dont think there is a woke 1/2 in the first place IMO)
- the employee pulled off the impossible
- may be already burnt out or on the brink of emotional collapse
- the "jump out of window" would have been as much of a joke as it was a coping response
- the righteous language policewoman does not feel empathy to personally ask him, how he is doing
- instead, she goes to HR to report him
- this unexpected hostility breaks the camel's back and what might have been interpreted as a joke actually wasn't. Still emotionally drained and now backstabbed, the person commits.
In short: policing voice was more important than taking a potential signal seriously. How is it not a despicable behavior in this situation?
PS: I hereby permit the commenters to reprimand me for the stereotype-based guess.
I still don't understand what happened.