Date: May 26th, 2025 12:16 AM
Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (You = Privy to The Great Becumming™ & Yet You Recognize Nothing)
Opinion | Evan39
“I Used to Manage a Store. Now I Manage My Tone.”
SeaTTTle, WA — It started with hummu$. It always does.
I asked Kalisha—politely, professionally—if she could rotate breakroom seating with Keisha. Something about airflow.
Something about basic spatial equity. Her response: “Naw.” Then she waddled away mid-chip, activating her federally protected “restroom accommodation” while maintaining full eye contact.
Five minutes later, I was in HR.
Tabitha met me there. Tabitha, whose Big Gulp now doubles as both beverage and gavel. Mid-bite of a double cheeseburger, she gestured toward the “complaint packet” with her pinky. “Evan, do you have any idea how this looks?” she said, crumbs flecking the affidavit.
I do. It looks like judgment from a woman whose Fitbit has defaulted to “Emergency Mode” since 2021.
They’ve accused me of fostering an “anti-thicc culture.”
Not harassment. Not retaliation. Just vibes.
Tabitha called it “emotional profiling of larger bodies.”
When I tried to explain the fire hazard of them occupying the entire breakroom couch, she raised a greasy palm and whispered, “Friend... tread lightly. These are women of density.” Her eyes flicked toward the ADA manual like a priest clutching the Torah mid-crucifixion.
So I went back to work.
A Karen returned kale. Keisha loudly accused me of microaggressing her Ziploc. Kalisha asked if the store had “plus-sized carts.” I nodded. I said, “Yes, friend. This is fine.”
I spent the rest of the shift alphabetizing almond milks and fantasizing about filing a motion to dismiss the entire store.
But I won’t.
Because I know what happens to men like me.
Not in court.
In HR.
You don’t win. You adjust.
You lower your voice.
You become “Of Counsel” to a breakroom tribunal that already passed judgment.
And when Tabitha glares, lips glistening with nacho dust and vengeance, you smile.
Because the Mahchine™ doesn’t fire you.
It promotes you.
To Witness.
To Ghost.
To Safety Risk, Tier 3.
Everything is fine.
Just fine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/opinion/evan39-safeway-dei.html
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