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Does anyone remember a thread about a work colleague called Ginny?

22 replies

GretaGip · 07/06/2024 16:45

It was possibly about a year ago and the OP had a colleague who was TW and there was some sort of female focussed celebration (?) Day and Ginny made it all about they're lived experience as a woman ab how she was cat called constantly and how life was so hard for her.

The OP was really struggling wirhGinny's take over of many elements of working life.

I've tried a fair bit of Advanced Search to no avail, just wanted to catch up on how the OP was doing, if there were any improvements.

OP posts:
gailforce2 · 07/06/2024 16:48

Y. Yes, I remember that thread and have wondered what happened - the OP was looking for a new job I think.

Battytwatty · 07/06/2024 16:50

Me too. Often wondered how it panned out.

Noshowlomo · 07/06/2024 16:51

Hope op is ok

Noshferatu · 07/06/2024 16:51

I remember that. Princess Ginny & the boss who was very strangely so compliant with PGs demands.

FictionalCharacter · 07/06/2024 16:52

Yes, it actually went on to 2 threads. The OP supposedly went on holiday but never came back to her threads.
The story had become more and more outlandish and I strongly suspect it was fiction.

GretaGip · 07/06/2024 16:52

Gosh I've just remembered some more details.

Ginny had a massive tantrum and locked out all the other staff. They all went and sat in a coffee shop??

I think Ginny was friends with the boss?

I wonder if it's been deleted?

Hope OP's work life has improved. 💐

OP posts:
FictionalCharacter · 07/06/2024 16:56

GretaGip · 07/06/2024 16:52

Gosh I've just remembered some more details.

Ginny had a massive tantrum and locked out all the other staff. They all went and sat in a coffee shop??

I think Ginny was friends with the boss?

I wonder if it's been deleted?

Hope OP's work life has improved. 💐

The locking out was unlikely, the boss making everyone publicly apologise to Ginny was unlikely, the revelation that the boss was having an affair with Ginny was highly unlikely. I reckon it was a tall tale.

Boiledbeetle · 07/06/2024 16:56

Written using the details the poster gave us

DECISION TIME

Work was great, a happy horde,
the other staff thought so too.
But then a new face came aboard,
and followed me into the loo.

She overstepped that invisible line,
the one that makes life good.
She acted as though she was so benign,
yet talked of sex whilst showing wood.

She treated us poorly in her fantasy,
ignored the uneasy interaction,
whilst she overstepped so absently.
(Only Mumsnet brought distraction.)

Then she threw an epic strop,
screwed the mainframe at the office.
So, we all sloped off to the shop,
as all locked out by the Apophis.

The woman seems to be Teflon coated,
the boss oblivious to the unrest.
The woman’s self-image so overly bloated,
the rest of us so bloody stressed.

We have to put up with all this shit,
we dare not voice our growing dissent,
and so, our teeth we’re forced to grit,
our freedoms lost without consent.

Our boundaries have been obliterated,
our feelings given not a thought.
Our toilet trips are now dictated,
by an edict the boss has brought.

We have been admonished, in front of all,
for our bad behaviour in these matters,
because the boss is so in thrall,
whilst our mental health is in tatters.

All of us are being bullied,
by this woman, and our boss.
If we speak out, we will be sullied,
not that the woman gives a toss.

We have been forced into silence,
so as not to be labelled a transphobe,
scared of if this ramps up to violence,
we’ve had to have the patience of Job.

It’s not the fact this woman’s a man
that has us all in pieces.
It’s the fact that since she began
we’ve been treated worse than faeces.

So now I have a choice,
do I stay or do I go?
Do I speak out and be the voice,
or jump ship for better dough?

Boiledbeetle 14th July 2023

GretaGip · 07/06/2024 16:56

misscockerspaniel · 07/06/2024 16:52

Is this the thread?????

Page 9 | Ginny - an update | Mumsnet

Yes! Thank you.

But no further updates, sadly.

To my shame I realise why I wasn't finding it in Advanced Search. Looked for "Ginny" in March to September last year. But last year is 2023 NOT 2022 which is how I searched 🙄😂

OP posts:
GretaGip · 07/06/2024 16:58

FictionalCharacter · 07/06/2024 16:52

Yes, it actually went on to 2 threads. The OP supposedly went on holiday but never came back to her threads.
The story had become more and more outlandish and I strongly suspect it was fiction.

Yes I I guess with hindsight it seemed far fetched but I was utterly absorbed at the time and thought it credible Sad

OP posts:
GretaGip · 07/06/2024 16:59

Boiledbeetle · 07/06/2024 16:56

Written using the details the poster gave us

DECISION TIME

Work was great, a happy horde,
the other staff thought so too.
But then a new face came aboard,
and followed me into the loo.

She overstepped that invisible line,
the one that makes life good.
She acted as though she was so benign,
yet talked of sex whilst showing wood.

She treated us poorly in her fantasy,
ignored the uneasy interaction,
whilst she overstepped so absently.
(Only Mumsnet brought distraction.)

Then she threw an epic strop,
screwed the mainframe at the office.
So, we all sloped off to the shop,
as all locked out by the Apophis.

The woman seems to be Teflon coated,
the boss oblivious to the unrest.
The woman’s self-image so overly bloated,
the rest of us so bloody stressed.

We have to put up with all this shit,
we dare not voice our growing dissent,
and so, our teeth we’re forced to grit,
our freedoms lost without consent.

Our boundaries have been obliterated,
our feelings given not a thought.
Our toilet trips are now dictated,
by an edict the boss has brought.

We have been admonished, in front of all,
for our bad behaviour in these matters,
because the boss is so in thrall,
whilst our mental health is in tatters.

All of us are being bullied,
by this woman, and our boss.
If we speak out, we will be sullied,
not that the woman gives a toss.

We have been forced into silence,
so as not to be labelled a transphobe,
scared of if this ramps up to violence,
we’ve had to have the patience of Job.

It’s not the fact this woman’s a man
that has us all in pieces.
It’s the fact that since she began
we’ve been treated worse than faeces.

So now I have a choice,
do I stay or do I go?
Do I speak out and be the voice,
or jump ship for better dough?

Boiledbeetle 14th July 2023

Bloddy heck that's excellent.

Brava 💐

OP posts:
Boiledbeetle · 07/06/2024 17:10

At least it's quicker to read than a whole thread!

IwantToRetire · 07/06/2024 17:43

There was in fact a third thread which someone (and I felt like this) when we tried to entice the OP back on FWR to let us know what happened.

But go not response.

So can only hope OP has by now moved on to bigger and better things than her ridiculous boss and his protege Ginny.

IwantToRetire · 07/06/2024 17:52

Have just seen that I posted (though have no memory of it) that the original thread was deleted at OP's request (too identifying?)

Then the update thread https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4845145-ginny-an-update

And then attempts to find out what then ...

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4842470-whatever-happened-about-ginny

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4914184-the-work-transwoman-shituation-poster

Just a reminder that for whatever reason the mumsnet search function just doesn't seem to work anymore.

But based on advice received on FWR if you search via google (or whoever) prefixing your search with mumsnet FWR you usually get better results.

DuesToTheDirt · 07/06/2024 20:59

Seemed like fiction to me.

Boiledbeetle · 07/06/2024 22:23

DuesToTheDirt · 07/06/2024 20:59

Seemed like fiction to me.

Who knows! Maybe completely fiction. Maybe partly truth. hopefully not fully the truth as that would be a nightmare job!

But most of us have probably worked somewhere where one member of staff manages to get away with shit and makes everyone's life harder! I know I have.

Cazpar · 08/06/2024 08:08

FictionalCharacter · 07/06/2024 16:52

Yes, it actually went on to 2 threads. The OP supposedly went on holiday but never came back to her threads.
The story had become more and more outlandish and I strongly suspect it was fiction.

It was obviously fiction. A perfect monster of a trans woman for everyone on here to hate and then in future go "oh remember Ginny, aren't they all awful".

Ofcourseshecan · 08/06/2024 08:11

Cazpar · 08/06/2024 08:08

It was obviously fiction. A perfect monster of a trans woman for everyone on here to hate and then in future go "oh remember Ginny, aren't they all awful".

It doesn’t matter in the least whether they are awful or wonderful. They are males and should not use women’s single-sex spaces or services.

popebishop · 08/06/2024 08:13

Yes I I guess with hindsight it seemed far fetched
It seemed far- fetched at the time. But you're not allowed to accuse someone of making things up on a thread.

ThreeWordHarpy · 08/06/2024 10:51

I’m afraid too much happened in a short space of time in those threads for me to believe them.

You see it all the time in AIBU and Chat. Maybe there’s a kernel of truth in the situation in the original post, such as a colleague called Ginny who is a bit self-centred, but then it grabs the imagination of many other posters and it takes a life of its own and the OPs updates get more and more extreme to keep the momentum going. At some point you have to say - hang on does that sound likely to happen in that situation? And the Ginny posts failed that fairly early on for me.

IrnBruLolly · 10/06/2024 00:38

Boiledbeetle · 07/06/2024 16:56

Written using the details the poster gave us

DECISION TIME

Work was great, a happy horde,
the other staff thought so too.
But then a new face came aboard,
and followed me into the loo.

She overstepped that invisible line,
the one that makes life good.
She acted as though she was so benign,
yet talked of sex whilst showing wood.

She treated us poorly in her fantasy,
ignored the uneasy interaction,
whilst she overstepped so absently.
(Only Mumsnet brought distraction.)

Then she threw an epic strop,
screwed the mainframe at the office.
So, we all sloped off to the shop,
as all locked out by the Apophis.

The woman seems to be Teflon coated,
the boss oblivious to the unrest.
The woman’s self-image so overly bloated,
the rest of us so bloody stressed.

We have to put up with all this shit,
we dare not voice our growing dissent,
and so, our teeth we’re forced to grit,
our freedoms lost without consent.

Our boundaries have been obliterated,
our feelings given not a thought.
Our toilet trips are now dictated,
by an edict the boss has brought.

We have been admonished, in front of all,
for our bad behaviour in these matters,
because the boss is so in thrall,
whilst our mental health is in tatters.

All of us are being bullied,
by this woman, and our boss.
If we speak out, we will be sullied,
not that the woman gives a toss.

We have been forced into silence,
so as not to be labelled a transphobe,
scared of if this ramps up to violence,
we’ve had to have the patience of Job.

It’s not the fact this woman’s a man
that has us all in pieces.
It’s the fact that since she began
we’ve been treated worse than faeces.

So now I have a choice,
do I stay or do I go?
Do I speak out and be the voice,
or jump ship for better dough?

Boiledbeetle 14th July 2023

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