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To be incensed that a man cost council tax payers £63,000 for insisting he had a gender fluid Daschund?

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TorghunKhan · 17/09/2024 18:05

£63,000 could have paid for an awful lot of things for the poorest families in Cambridgeshire, instead, thousands of hours and a huge pile of cash has been paid out because of some dickhead, virtue signalling in a meeting

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/gender-neutral-daschund-social-worker-wins-63-000-discrimination-payout/

This brave woman did what we all need to do, stood up, called bullshit on something patently absurd, and instead of supporting her, her bosses called her "nasty" and excluded HER from meetings! She's a social worker!

WTF is going on? Is it the backwards decade where we all do the opposite of what's sensible?

Social worker wins £63,000 discrimination payout over 'offensive' comments about colleague’s ‘gender neutral’ daschund

A social worker has won a £63,000 payout over discriminating comments made about colleague’s ‘gender neutral’ daschund.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/gender-neutral-daschund-social-worker-wins-63-000-discrimination-payout

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nothingcomestonothing · 17/09/2024 20:16

OonaStubbs · 17/09/2024 20:11

Take it out of the salary of the chief of this council.

Hopefully the man with the "gender fluid" dog has already been sacked.

Why on earth do we accept such utter, utter bullshit from the people we pay to work for us? Someone needs to remind them that we are the masters and they are the servants.

He's a young people's social worker,and chair of the equality, diversity and inclusion panel. I can imagine how very equal, diverse and inclusive it is. It'd be a joke except it's so serious, the havoc this ideology causes.

And it'd be a cold day in hell before that bellend got near any young person I'm in charge of, with his sexist homophobic gender wank.

NewGreenDuck · 17/09/2024 20:20

@nothingcomestonothing well he would be wouldn't he? What a load of codswallop it all is. I sometimes think it's like the fall of the Roman empire.

FOJN · 17/09/2024 20:20

Pablo looks like a very good boy. 😁

Genevieva · 17/09/2024 20:25

TorghunKhan · 17/09/2024 18:05

£63,000 could have paid for an awful lot of things for the poorest families in Cambridgeshire, instead, thousands of hours and a huge pile of cash has been paid out because of some dickhead, virtue signalling in a meeting

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/gender-neutral-daschund-social-worker-wins-63-000-discrimination-payout/

This brave woman did what we all need to do, stood up, called bullshit on something patently absurd, and instead of supporting her, her bosses called her "nasty" and excluded HER from meetings! She's a social worker!

WTF is going on? Is it the backwards decade where we all do the opposite of what's sensible?

I agree. That’s over 30 houses worth of council tax spent on repairing damage done by an attention seeking dog owner.

GailBlancheViola · 17/09/2024 20:29

safetyfreak · 17/09/2024 20:15

I really wish it went to court, just for the laughs as it would have made the mainstream news.

As a fellow social worker, well done Lizzy.

Yes in some way I too wish it could have gone to Court it would have knocked the support dog, mother, uncle tom cobbley and all required for one witness to give evidence debacle at Allison Bailley's hearing out of the park.

Can you imagine being Lizz Pitt's lawyer and the ET Panel trying to keep a straight face as the horror of the misgendered dachshund unfolded. I wonder if Pablo would have attended Court and/or taken the Witness Stand.

MSM would have had a field day and CCC would have looked like the utter fools and laughing stock they are.

RickyGervaislovesdogs · 17/09/2024 20:29

Was anyone actually bloody working? Don’t they have bigger fish to fry than dogs and clothes and bastard gender.

I wonder how much time this took away from protecting service users.

ChishiyaBat · 17/09/2024 20:30

Genevieva · 17/09/2024 20:25

I agree. That’s over 30 houses worth of council tax spent on repairing damage done by an attention seeking dog owner.

Jesus! It's absolutely insane! It'd be hilarious if it wasn't so dangerous!

spannasaurus · 17/09/2024 20:30

All this talk of dogs reminds me of the Allison Bailey tribunal where a Stonewall witness wanted their mum, support person and support dog with them when they gave evidence.
https://4w.pub/stonewall-inquiry-paused-while-head-of-trans-inclusion-seeks-support-from-mom-and-dog/

To be incensed that a man cost council tax payers £63,000 for insisting he had a gender fluid Daschund?
MrsOvertonsWindow · 17/09/2024 20:53

spannasaurus · 17/09/2024 20:30

All this talk of dogs reminds me of the Allison Bailey tribunal where a Stonewall witness wanted their mum, support person and support dog with them when they gave evidence.
https://4w.pub/stonewall-inquiry-paused-while-head-of-trans-inclusion-seeks-support-from-mom-and-dog/

Every organisation that ends up in court trying to defend their intimidation and bullying of women in their workplace always showcases batshit employees like this. Didn't the OU case with Jo Phoenix expose some massively arrogant bullies displaying a complete disregard for women's rights and free speech?

Farmwifefarmlife · 17/09/2024 21:02

CanYouHearThatNoise · 17/09/2024 18:43

Absolute lunacy. The world has gone stark, raving mad

This! The world is crazy! And he’s a SW!

listsandbudgets · 17/09/2024 21:08

My dog reckons that it's pawful... she was misgendered earlier today but she didn't really mind that much as it was followed up with a cocktail sausage. In her opinion the dog as a legal case of its own against it's owner for humiliating it... dogs should wear fur and mud not dresses. On the other hand she does wonder if she were to refer to herself as "they" whether this would mean that the plural would result in an extra sausage????

Well done Lizzy - it's nice to know there are still some sane people out there and to the PP who works with Lizzy it's OK we get why you didn't feel able to put your head above the parapet but it's good to know that you are yet another sane person in that department.

SquirrelSoShiny · 17/09/2024 21:12

SlightlyJaded · 17/09/2024 19:54

Thank fuck for the Lizzie Pitts of this world.

Honestly we are becoming a laughing stock. My European family genuinely cannot believe some of the nonsense being churned out here in the UK - it's embarrassing, but also dangerous.

Yes I agree.

If this dangerous lunacy was ever funny that day is long gone. We are weakening ourselves in the eyes of the world.

TealTraybake · 17/09/2024 21:16

SquirrelSoShiny · 17/09/2024 21:12

Yes I agree.

If this dangerous lunacy was ever funny that day is long gone. We are weakening ourselves in the eyes of the world.

The USA and Australia are much much worse.

Spain and Italy - just as bad if not worse.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/spanish-soldiers-have-exposed-the-flaw-in-the-countrys-gender-self-id-law

Spanish soldiers have exposed the flaw in gender self-ID

Dozens of male Spanish soldiers have legally changed their gender, allegedly to claim benefits intended for women

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/spanish-soldiers-have-exposed-the-flaw-in-the-countrys-gender-self-id-law

caringcarer · 17/09/2024 21:21

Darkflames · 17/09/2024 18:09

The thought of a gender fluid dog is absurd.

Well done to Elizabeth for standing up for common sense and to the judge for seeing it too.

Yep, it's no different to pretending males are female and vice versa.

Purplepeoniesdroppingpetals · 17/09/2024 21:22

Gymnopedie · 17/09/2024 19:29

Another quote from the Critic article:

She [Director of Human Resources] also complained that Pitt was not prepared to prioritise the “lived experience” of her colleagues and that she instead “focused on reciting facts and scientific data, including statistics about gender minorities.”

Well those damned facts and scientific data, huh. Don't they just get in the way.

Fuck me! Chastising her for using dastardly facts. Well done to her - this emperor’s new clothes bullshit is absolutely insane.

RedHotChilliPreppers · 17/09/2024 21:22

I live in Cambridge and it is the epicentre of this lunacy.

Dartwarbler · 17/09/2024 21:25

In truth, the title “ To be incensed that a man cost council tax payers £63,000 for insisting he had a gender fluid Daschund?“ is misleading* *and not accurate

it is the COUNCIL that has cost itself £63k. At time of complaints they could have told the complainant that whilst he was entitled to his views, she was to hers, and to shut up and get back to work at job he was paid to do (not perhaps literally like that). The COUNCIL has allowed the culture of “authentic self to work” and extend this to craziness of gender woo dogs . All in name of diversity .

If the culture was “ be yourself at home (including dressing up and pretending) , but leave it at the door and act professionally and get on with your job” the complainant would not have tried this on. He was being enabled by the council.

i hope the bloody council, and all others take heed . Their circus and their monkey they’ve created.

Bodeganights · 17/09/2024 21:26

SlightlyJaded · 17/09/2024 19:54

Thank fuck for the Lizzie Pitts of this world.

Honestly we are becoming a laughing stock. My European family genuinely cannot believe some of the nonsense being churned out here in the UK - it's embarrassing, but also dangerous.

Why? This is in most countries.
If we are a laughing stock, so is almost all of the world. Including vast parts of Europe.

Bookgrrrl · 17/09/2024 21:30

The people at the top of organisations that allow this kind of nonsense to prevail should be fined, personally, when money is wasted as a result. That would put a swift stop to it.

FoxtrotOscarFoxtrotOscar · 17/09/2024 21:34

This is the wurst thing I've ever read.

TorghunKhan · 17/09/2024 21:37

RickyGervaislovesdogs · 17/09/2024 20:29

Was anyone actually bloody working? Don’t they have bigger fish to fry than dogs and clothes and bastard gender.

I wonder how much time this took away from protecting service users.

Trannie dogs are more important than the kids who die under their watch. It’s utterly shameful.

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TorghunKhan · 17/09/2024 21:40

MrsOvertonsWindow · 17/09/2024 20:53

Every organisation that ends up in court trying to defend their intimidation and bullying of women in their workplace always showcases batshit employees like this. Didn't the OU case with Jo Phoenix expose some massively arrogant bullies displaying a complete disregard for women's rights and free speech?

Espoused it - but nothing seems to have changed. Who do we write to who do we get to change? keir gives zero fucks it seems

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YankSplaining · 17/09/2024 21:41

(Haven’t read the whole thread) It’s like that Eminem lyric! “My transgender cat's Siamese, identifies as black, but acts Chinese.”

BellaBlythe · 17/09/2024 21:48

It's Cambridgeshire County Council. I think they and Cambridge City have form for being weird like this.
One cut working hours to a 4 day week, same salary.