So i work at a large tech company in HR, and we recently hired a new graduate who uses we/us/our pronouns. We have a very strict policy at work that you have to use whatever pronouns anyone has, but this particular set is very difficult for the english language to accomodate. When you are referring to this person, you have to say "we just got hired and we have a degree from columbia", even though you arent talking about yourself.

Needless to say, this can be very confusing and a lot of people have straight up refused to use our pronouns. This has resulted in verbal and written warnings being handed out and even someone quitting in one case.

Im just wondering if anyone has any advice on how we should approach this issue?

I woulda gotten fired

Just call them by their name when talking about them?

no u dont understand I have to quit this is intolerable

Lmfao reminds me when my supervisor got a s***change, didn’t tell anyone, then got mad when we all still called him by his original name damn America is complicated 😭

very likely its some conservatard thinking they are playing some funny joke

rage bait thread

You couldn’t tell they got a s***change?

Ngl I refer to myself as we pretty often. This person is cooking

that sucks, luckily never had to deal with that before

avoid talking about us as best as you can

epic troll

office social terrorism making niggas quit their job

i would just call them "so-and-so"

stay clear of them

just refer to our with the proper name

*our

wrong pronouns idiot

just refer to them with what they want to be referred to, correct yourself if you misspeak, correct others if they misspeak. not that hard

Crodie looked exactly the same with a deeper voice so when the change was official, we all were so confused cause we were told “not to talk about it” 😭 so how tf am I supposed to find out the right way to speak to you or what your name is now like I said, complicated

how does this person feel about "they/them?"

lmao

talking bout we a lot, oh you speak french now?

I feel like this is bullshit. I've never heard of we us pronouns

We are the world

if yall was really focused on the bag you'd already moved on, but yall too worried about pronouns and how it makes it confusing to do the same work u gotta do regardless