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Mermaids getting eaten from the inside out

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feelingcadoubleledlove · 31/01/2023 18:43

Simping fools

mermaidsuk.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/EDI-Audit_-Recommendations-and-Next-Steps.pdf

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Boiledbeetle · 31/01/2023 21:41

Mermaid solition

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Datun · 31/01/2023 21:34

I hope that even a fraction of that document makes it's way to a newspaper.

GrabbyGabby · 31/01/2023 21:33

They have just sent out a bat signal to every arsehole to go and work there. Free reign to be a total arsehole at all times, just so long as the arseholery is directed correctly according to the pyramid of oppression. And you get to tell the bosses what to do.

Oh, to be a fly on the wall.

Birdsweepsin · 31/01/2023 21:25

Jenny, I want to see your intersectional approach to the design and delivery of work, services and projects.

Well I don't know. Work is what you do here. Services are the helpful, er, things you provide to people because of the work you do. And projects is the names of different bits of services that you do.

No of course they aren't all the same thing.

Design is when you think about what you do. Delivery is when you actually do it. Yes they are very similar aren't they?

Intersectional? Well, it's, it's... When you help someone with a problem they are having and it also helps them with something else. Yes? Clear? Excellent.

Now about my annual bonus....

Boiledbeetle · 31/01/2023 21:23

I'm convinced they use a shit font so it's hard to screen shot!

hryllilegur · 31/01/2023 21:23

A very public display of EDI self flagellation at that.

FrancescaContini · 31/01/2023 21:21

hryllilegur · 31/01/2023 19:26

Tbh, I think it’s an act of EDI self flagellation in an attempt to distract from their safeguarding failures and overly dangerous practices.

“EDI self flagellation” 😂

Boiledbeetle · 31/01/2023 21:21

Next steps

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Boiledbeetle · 31/01/2023 21:20

Progression

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Boiledbeetle · 31/01/2023 21:19

Awareness and learning

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Boiledbeetle · 31/01/2023 21:18

Processes

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Birdsweepsin · 31/01/2023 21:18

Joking aside, I am getting two themes coming through the flim flam.

  1. That they need to prepare everyone- Board, staff, service users - for what to do in the case of 'oppressive incidents'

And

  1. That staff need to feel they can feed back when the smt are being shitty (reflective praxis, difficult conversations, 360 feedback and so on)

Both these points suggest that the previous senior management - ie Susie - was an awful boss and a poor strategic leader.

lechiffre55 · 31/01/2023 21:17

Sorry if I'm wrong, but I don't think that's the full report. I think it is the recommendations section from the report. I don't think Mermaids wants anyone reading the full report. I assume it will detail what was found wrong and doubt they want to allow people to see that.
Also I don't think we know if it's all the recommendations from the report. It may have been sanitized for public consumption.

Boiledbeetle · 31/01/2023 21:15

Introduction

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Boiledbeetle · 31/01/2023 21:14

I'm going to stick it all here for posterity

Foreward

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BornBlonde · 31/01/2023 21:03

Came on to say word salad but a PP beat me to it

PastMyBestBeforeDate · 31/01/2023 20:53

It is a bit of a word salad Boiled. Perhaps SOGIbottom has it right that paying them enough eases the burden and makes it a privilege.

NicolaSturgeonsSOGIbottom · 31/01/2023 20:52

AlisonDonut · 31/01/2023 20:46

Reverse mentoring.

😆

Aka young trans identified adults lecturing the ‘boomers’ while the boomers do all the actual work, admin, accountancy, payroll etc.

NicolaSturgeonsSOGIbottom · 31/01/2023 20:50

PastMyBestBeforeDate · 31/01/2023 20:43

Aren't points 3 & 6 directly in contravention of each other?

Sort of.

Maybe if you pay them enough a la no.6 it overrides no.3?

I can’t see how deliberate protected characteristic hires can be legally justified if the reason for hiring within a group, their lived experience, is then placed off limits within the workplace?

Seems a bit… grifty.

Boiledbeetle · 31/01/2023 20:47

PastMyBestBeforeDate · 31/01/2023 20:43

Aren't points 3 & 6 directly in contravention of each other?

It looks like it. But the language is like trying t o understand Esperanto.

AlisonDonut · 31/01/2023 20:46

Reverse mentoring.

😆

PastMyBestBeforeDate · 31/01/2023 20:43

Aren't points 3 & 6 directly in contravention of each other?

Boiledbeetle · 31/01/2023 20:41

NicolaSturgeonsSOGIbottom · 31/01/2023 20:39

paraphrasing:

  1. replace all senior staff and trustees with new people from higher up the oppression pyramid
  2. implement regular struggle sessions
  3. let young trans people make all the important decisions
  4. clearly define who Mermaids exists to help (implication: trans teenagers and young adults, not snotty GNC kiddies and their middle class mummies.

I think that’s a reasonable summary. Anyone got any additions?

Yeah...

Whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine whiiiiiiiiiiiinge whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine.

Tears.

EmpressaurusOfWitchesBackFromTheDead · 31/01/2023 20:41

Does this report come with its own trigger warnings?

NicolaSturgeonsSOGIbottom · 31/01/2023 20:39

paraphrasing:

  1. replace all senior staff and trustees with new people from higher up the oppression pyramid
  2. implement regular struggle sessions
  3. let young trans people make all the important decisions
  4. clearly define who Mermaids exists to help (implication: trans teenagers and young adults, not snotty GNC kiddies and their middle class mummies.

I think that’s a reasonable summary. Anyone got any additions?

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