*me watching trans women in their 1st year of transition jump straight to surgery*
Me: How...how are you rich
@msk believe me that #inequality is high on my list to #smash
the market is sure not fixing it
Technically, I'm in my first year of transition (one-year HRTniversary this Friday), though technically my SRS will be in my second year since it's next week.
Ironically, I actually could have afforded to SRS pretty soon after discovering GD if I hadn't lost my job soon after -- but it was nothing to do with either being trans or with my performance. HQ abruptly fired *all* the contractors for unstated reasons. #ThanksCapitalism
There had been warning signals for at least a couple of weeks, so it wasn't *unexpected*, but the people above me had absolutely no say in the matter and no timetable was given until it happened. We were in the middle of at least one or two projects, too.
The up-side is that this leaves rather a lot of room for someone (us rebels?) to run a business much more sensibly, and out-compete the old guard. Not the only example either.
@woozle @amphetamine Yeah, still sucks that happened tho :/ oh btw, you mentioned putting up an audio hosting website earlier? lemme know when you're going to that, i'll put up all the things ;p
Okay, that's a priority then.
I probably won't get to it until after SRS. I'm hoping I'll be coherent enough to do coding and such by the end of the first week...
@woozle @amphetamine oh, well focus on the SRS then that's important ^^
My productivity squirrels will probably be chomping at the bit soon enough. >.>
@amphetamine @msk Now that I think about it, I think the unofficial reason had something to do with sales being below expectations, so they had to do *something* to meet quarterly profit expectations -- or Wall Street would be unhappy.
That disconnect between (a) productivity and (b) metrics actually used to define "success"...
@woozle @amphetamine well I've said before if a business can't afford to even pay for their employee's labor fairly, like in a sustainable liveable way, they shouldn't even be in business
but also leaving people without jobs under capitalism is bad, so it's like this double-edged sword of shit that needs to be replaced x_x
@woozle @msk "double-edged sword of shit"
now *that* is #capitalism
@woozle @amphetamine yeah "unstated" >.> that's terrible