It gets worse. When I worked for a nonprofit ARC (Association for Retarded Citizens - yes they use that word in the name) I was tasked with conducting “time studies” of disabled workers to determine their hourly wage.
Basically the way a time study worked is an “able-bodied” worker was timed doing a task. This became the standard. Then disable workers would be timed doing the same task. If they performed 60% as fast as the set standard, they’d only be paid 60% of the hourly wage set for the task.
Which sucks.
But, it gets even worse.
I was tasked with conducting the time studies so I head out and start doing them. The majority of the disabled workers were performing to 85% or better of the “able-bodied” times.
I turned the reports in and was told, “that’s not possible. Do them again.”
So I did them again. We’re talking a few hundred time studies.
The results were the same. In fact at least a dozen of the workers actually improved their previous times.
I turned them in and was told, “This can’t be right. They can’t be doing that well.”
I told them results spoke for themselves. They (the head of the client services department [at this ARC disabled workers were called clients]) said it wasn’t possible for the workers to be performing above 65% at the highest. So I must be doing something wrong or falsely reporting to try and get the clients more money.
I vehemently denied this.
So they sent me to do the studies a third time. This time with a supervisor to ensure no funny business on my part.
Once again, the disabled workers performed to an average of 85% of the standard.
With the supervisor’s approval I turned in the third set of reports.
I was told that the standard time must be out of date. Go and time one of the abled workers and use the new time as the standard and conduct all of the hundreds of studies a fourth time.
So, I went and timed an abled worker. Their time was slower than the existing standard. Not wanting to get yelled at, I decided to time 10 Abled workers and average their times to get the new standard.
The new standard was only 6 seconds faster, but it was faster.
So, using the new time standard, I did all of the time studies again.
And again, the disabled workers times averaged out to about 85% of standard. With a good number of them performing at 100%.
I girded my loins and turned the studies in.
I feel like I should mention that these studies are reviewed by ADA and the State Labor Board for compliance with the “sub minimum wage” rules. So they’re a big deal. Because if an ARC or similar organization is found in violation of the rules it could be the end of that organization.
I was already pretty nervous about the fact that we’d conducted so many studies and how that would look. But I was just a 22 yr old worker bee also earning just minimum wage ($8.25/hr) and didn’t want to lose my job.
So yeah, turned in the studies. And was told by the DIRECTOR OF CLIENT SERVICES - the person who was supposed to be the TOP advocate for the disabled workers at this ARC - that if we paid the disabled workers at their reported rates that it would impact her annual bonus.
She then told me to go back and falsify the reports to average 65% performance.
I refused.
So she fired me for “violating dress code”.
I couldn’t afford a lawyer, so I couldn’t file a lawsuit for illegal dismissal.
We’re all gonna end up jailed as child sex abusers for using the bathroom
For those wondering, the bill passed but with an amendment that trans people would only be charged if they entered “with the purpose of sexual gratification”.
So, in other words, only if they have intent to commit a sex crime. However, there is needless to say a strong bias to view trans women as sexual predators that will put the odds against them to prove their innocence in court. And even if they are found innocent, the fact they’ve been tried for a sex crime will jeopardize their housing and employment prospects.
Even in its more toned-down form, it’s just another avenue for transphobes to make our lives a living hell.
The vagueness of “for the purpose of sexual gratification” alarms me.
Transphobes already think we transition for sexual gratification and fetish/kink reasons. There’s nothing stopping them from saying *every* trans woman who exists in public is doing so for sexual gratification.
So if a trans woman only exists in public as a form of sexual gratification, if she uses the restroom (notice they didn’t specify *which* bathroom, this could be men’s or women’s) she is doing so for the purpose of sexual gratification. So it doesn’t change the law even a little.
This was 100% a cop out for them. A way to show they “listened” to the outrage that outpoured over this while maintaining both the spirit and the intent of the law with some very vague weasel words.
Don’t let them off the hook for that.
Spicy nuclear take but: this is why you should support human rights for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated registrants/sex offenders.
Because of shit like this.
It’s already illegal to commit a sex crime in public bathrooms. All this bill does is make it easier to falsely convict trans people as sex offenders.
Which is the point.
What happened to ‘innocent until proven guilty’?
Oh, that never applied to anyone who wasn’t white, straight, male, and cis.
what the anti-ageing 30 step skincare preemptive botox girlies haven’t worked out yet is that youthfulness is an inner glow that comes from playing and laughing and losing yourself to the present moment
you can be in a perfectly preserved skin sack but if you don’t smile or play in the sunshine then you’re ageing yourself faster than any of us with our laugh lines and full lives
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