OMG I live around there. I am beyond grateful I chose not to attend Weberās Criminal Justice program.
Guys,he rescinded his resignation and I am physically sick by the amount of support Iāve seen in my community (I live in Utah) that he is receiving because a man āshouldnāt be fired over having an opinion.ā
āHe was just emotionalā¦ā¦Havenāt you said things in angerā¦.Freedom of speechā¦..what he said was wrong but you shouldnāt be fired over an opinionā¦ā¦Hes a great teacher.ā
Heās a damn criminal justice professor! How is any minority supposed to feel safe going into his class?
I justā¦Ahhhh! My screams arenāt loud enough to convey how angry I get being a BLM supporter in a state that has an extremely small black population outside of Salt Lake City (still really small). I have had to bear so many āAll Lives Matterā speeches and pro-police from my husbands family and ugh. My mental health is being taxed.
Cannot stress how bad this is. I live in Utah as well and if people are protecting a man like this, we are in an extensively bad position.
Hey can u guys start reblogging this version and the other ones where they say they TOOK BACK his resignation and hes WORKING again. OUR WORK HERE ISNT OVER YET WE GOTTA MAKE THIS COLLEGE EAT SHIT FOR PUTTING SO MANY STUDENTS AT RISK.
now that doesn’t mean they did it consistently or correctly (you still see the occasional nose sticking out) but it’s only 11% of people who are actually saying no to masks
You can still fill up any given public space with only a fraction of that population, and I’m gonna be real curious to see how this weekend plays out, but I want to emphasize that the vast majority of Americans are listening to science and trying to do right by others
personally it helps me a lot because otherwise if I see too many Dipshits Hate Facts headlines I start feeling like the whole country’s a death cult and that’s no good for the old equilibrium
I love how all these reblogs from ableds are like āboxes of paper are 20 pounds GOTCHAā as if every single person in a 60-person workplace needs to be able to lift a box of paper.
āWhatās that, James? You tore your rotator cuff? Sorry, we have to let you go. What if the printer needed to be refilled and the other 200 people in this building were home sick? It just wouldnāt be fair.ā
I deserve more intellectually challenging low-effort justifications for bigotry. Please try harder next time. 1/10.
hi! iām a secretary with a lifelong congenital back issue that i had fixed via surgery.
the first thing i want to point out is that the box of paper that @bransrathā posted is not the weight of the box. the 20 lb in that description is the paper weight, which is the amount of force a piece of paper can take before tearing. i know this because itās described as copy paper, and copy paper is by default 20 lb weight. so posting that picture as aĀ āgotchaā in response to this post is ignorant at best and intentionally ableist at worst. in reality, that box probably weighs no more than 15 lbs.Ā
secondly, i have never had to actually pick up one of these boxes ever. and i have to deal with them a lot, given that iām a secretary who, prior to the pandemic, was printing off 1000+ pages of booklets per week. iāve never had to pick these up because you can literally just open them, grab a ream of paper, and take it to the printer to load it in. thereās no fucking reason why you would need the whole box. most places, like my office, also store them on or near the ground because theyāre heavy, so what i do is a just drag the boxes to their designated corner until they need to be used.Ā
soĀ āmust be able to lift 20 lbsā is a tactic of discrimination, and thereās no excuse for it in office jobs like mine. i canāt actually lift more than 15 lbs and chances are, iāll never be able to lift more than 20 lbs. i can still do all the duties of my secretary job, though, and itās really easy to find work arounds for things like heavy boxes of paper. even i can, and my office literally employs 3 people including me. a weight limit is not a reason to deny someone a job.Ā
a separate issue is when the weight is followed by ācontinuouslyā
if you get a job where the job description says āmust be able to lift 50 pounds continuouslyā chances are you will BECOME injured on this job and theyre going to try and hide behind āit was in the job descriptionā and pin it on you for failing to lift properly when they saw it okay to use their employees as machinery as forklifts are too slow and they dont want to pay a second employee to team lift
This is why I have this. Even if they can get the lock opened they canāt push the door open. Got it at Lowes for $20.
reblog for that last bit to save a life
If youāre like me and have a large gap under your front door (someone could take a stick and just poke the leaning stick style door jam out), I recommend the Addalock. Itās small, perfect for traveling, and this lock is CRAZY. Itās so simple but the door does not move.
You canāt see it from the other side, either. It also cost about $20, and I canāt recommend it enough. Easy to travel with, too! Great for Air BnBs!
Thatās why I have these on my doors. They get drilled into the side and once its flipped over the door nothing is getting it open. Not the door being unlocked nothing, Iāve unlocked the door and pulled and pushed as hard as I could and it didnāt budge. When I go on a trip this is what I use and when Iām home I leave it on too. No one is getting in here.
Okay I know that it is necessary for many but what do you do if you need medical attention and youāre not able to open the door from the inside? Can the fire department get through these at least?Ā Ā
Yes. The fire department can and will break down your door if necessary, itās one of the reasons they have axes; itās entirely possible for door frames to melt/expand/seize or otherwise become unopenable during a house fire but the door itself can be hacked down. Or the window. In rare cases, the wall. Firefighters donāt fuck around with collateral damage when lives are at stake.
