from the Spectator
Coles sacked the last of its unvaccinated staff at the beginning of this year, long after state mandates fell and other industries began allowing the so-called mavericks of the workforce back into the office. The move, along with other supermarket giants, saw thousands of Australians unceremoniously dumped, many of them single mothers or from struggling households.
‘Shop safe at Coles’ is something that looks good printed in big letters across double-page ads to those still suffering from anxiety hangovers. Just don’t ask too many questions about the health logic, given unvaccinated people can shop in the store, but not stand behind the counter.
Speaking of corporate virtue signalling.
The same company turned around this week and announced it would be offering its trans and gender-diverse employees ten extra days of paid leave for the purpose of ‘gender affirmation’. ‘Affirmation’ is a hazy term that Coles describes as ‘any process’ that relates to the act of gender affirmation including surgical, social, legal, or medical action. Leave could be granted for anything from an appointment with a lawyer through to full surgery.
Gender Affirmation Leave was timed to coincide with the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism, and Transphobia – one of the dozens of days and months dedicated to a sexual preference or pronouns.
Coles Chief Legal and Safety Officer, David Brewster, (who also serves as the Chairman of the Pride Steering Committee), released a statement.
‘We know that we have at least 900 team members who identify as transgender or gender diverse. We need to have proper policy and education in this area so there is clear guidance around taking leave for this important transition in their life.’
Coles attached a long and bizarre ‘gender affirming’ statement that seems a little over the top for employment that largely involves stacking shelves and pushing trolleys. Its headings include ‘encouraging you to be your authentic self’ and ‘developing our Pride Team member network’ – which doesn’t sound like something employers should concern themselves with.
This move, described as ‘way ahead of politicians’ (add to that logic, reason, and fairness) is meant to be an action against ‘trans hate’. 2022 has transitioned into a world where an employer who is not constantly, publicly, and (preferably financially) ‘affirming’ an employee they must, by default, hate them. For most of human history, workers preferred their employers to keep their noses out of any private medical business.
‘You’ll be supported as the gender with which you identify, wear the clothes or uniform of your affirmed gender, use the toilets and change rooms of your affirmed gender and be referred to by the name of your affirmed gender too,’ read a statement, issued by Coles.
The statement leans heavily toward sentiments of anti-discrimination and equity – which is fine, one is simply left to wonder where this emotionally sensitive Coles hurt-feelings committee was when it was ruthlessly sacking unvaccinated staff who simply wanted to keep their jobs and their body autonomy at the same time. Coles went one step further, attempting to impose its vaccination policies on unrelated suppliers, contractors, partners, and anyone working onsite.
And no. If you’re an employee with a non-gender related medical or emotional issue, you’ll have to plan ahead and sacrifice some of your holiday leave when you run out of the standard state-sanctioned medical allotment. No one is going to give you a Woke Virtue point for a hip replacement.
Not sure what the big supermarkets do in other areas, but here in cairns, they have a shell lock type of thing so the trolley can’t be taken from the carpark…. Or so they say… there are still some around the streets but nowhere as many, it used to annoy the heck out of me when I would see them dumped in the canals etc.
Plus, I’m quite happy using a $2 coin..
More of what COLES potentially has planned. A form of Digital ID, cashless payments?
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/coles-trials-new-app-and-coinless-shopping-trolleys/news-story/a6b2e3147518de2e134649c47e34aa8b
Well..Coles will have a lot of compensation payments to make for forcing employees to have a jab of something that coagulates entire veins into massive clots unheard of. Disbelievers and insurance companies want yo start reading all the new data coming out. We’re watching an epidemic of vaccinated people dying young from clotted blood.This is not a vaccine. It neither prevents covid nor transmission. Discrimination action is an offence. Used to like shopping at Coles. On principle not any more
We will find where the scumbags executives of coles live and we will act accordingly.
BUT: Do not resign, do not accept to be fired. Do not go.
Because what they do is illegal therefore you have the law with you.
yes, you will lose your jonb at the end BUT, you will win a case and make them pay for it.
A year salary while being at home? How do that sounds?
Find a good lawyer and fight
If they escort you off Michelle please send us the video or pictures. Ed
I have yet to be sacked from Coles bc s as ktnoug. I’m still receiving emails and texts be about my u vaccinated status. Tgey tell me I’m unfit for work, not terminated m, but I haven’t worked since Feb 24 this year. Waiting for Xmas day action . 14 years working for coles and threatened to have the police escort me off the property. All recorded on video
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It”s a sad state of affairs. Have a niece, only one (apart from me) in this whole extended family that refused to take a medical experiment, refused to take the jab, she lost jobs, got a job at Coles maybe 6 months back, now this. Too many people have had this happen to them for way too long
For my few months to 6 months plus shop, I bypass the Coles&Woolies, go to an IGA, have for decades. Even in the little town closer to home has an IGA, so they’re not going to lose business from me, but it’s good to know so I can pass the word around. Guaranteed this ‘virtue signalling’, ‘bend over Charlie McCoy’, decision of Coles wouldn’t give any slack or leeway to a Dad, a father, who identifies as a male, to have a day off to fight the family court for the right to be with his kids, because of an unjust fraudulent statement from a feline that identifies as a ‘bitch’. Nah, they’d dock him. Same as they’d do for a Mum, a mother, that identifies as a woman fighting in the same court against a dog that identifies as a ‘rat’, (seen both scenarios many times in my lifetime folks). Nope, big business wouldn’t give a rat’s about something so meaningless for their self banter, which is so important, they much prefer this sh#t. Don’t give ’em your money people. When you think of it they’re sexist, nasty thing to be these days apparently, they’re sexist & discriminatory, very bad apparently. Sexist & discriminatory against a man that identifies as male & a woman that identifies as female, they’re never screaming out about injustices & society’s judgement imposed on them
A quick read of the comments makes me hopeful that you lot will be sticking to your guns and not shopping at ColesWorth. Go back to the commune.
The Australian Human Rights Commission refers to the Sex Discrimination Act on their website. https://humanrights.gov.au/complaints/complaint-guides/information-people-making-complaints/complaints-under-sex-discrimination-act#what_sex
It’s worth browsing to understand current Australian law concerning discrimination. I’m no lawyer, but It looks to me that Coles is breaking the law.
If you make a complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission they are obliged to follow it up and engage in legal action. It’s a free service!
This is clearly discrimination NO more shopping at rat store Coles.
Want be shopping coles no more
Go woke go broke
Want be shopping coles no more
Go woke go broke
Woolworths fired me, 17/04/2022, Breach of Covid Policy. I would expect Woolworths to go them same way.
Yep, I can say after reading this, I have been discriminated against for being a healthy, capable, woman with a work ethic and family responsibility intake.
I didn’t, “loose,” my job/position, it was taken off me. Yet I have, health concerns, family commitments, bills to pay.
After reading this I feel displaced.
I will not shop at either of these retail giants outlets again.
Coles and Woolworths, working for satan, selling they’re souls to the devil. Never thought i would see the day, an icon of supermarkets such as both of these as pure evil. Such a disgrace, and one the people will never forget. Shame on you both.
An absolute disgrace. You won’t get another cent from me, you evil bastards.
The corporate world is being increasingly occupied by woke idiots that cant count, pandering to a very small minority at the expense of the vast majority looks just plain dopey to me, they have been naïve enough to believe all governments bullshit about 95% fully vaxed when it is really about 65%, why don’t the fools ban unvaccinated customers too, tell your superfund to drop Coles and Woolworths shares or transfer to a more sensible fund .
These idiots make me sick. We try to stay away from all wesfarmers and woolworths owned businesses. Doing their best to help destroy this country. Bastards.
It wont be hard to not go back to Coles. My local IGA has everything I need and at comparable prices.
It’s the Antichrist.
The beast system.
Even most Christians don’t realize that. The jab is the mark of the beast. Changes your DNA making you a genetically modified human. No longer born in the image of God. Owned by the patent owner. Wavering your sovereignty. People have no idea what they have done.
Revelations foretells of a One World Government. The beast system.
All cooporate governments are satanists now. Am im just sitting here chewing gum waiting for Jesus to return. But not before all the saints (Christians) are persecuted.
All those who won’t worship the beast. Prepare. Shit is about to get real.
And so it goes…..another step towards the end of a civilised society. Just like the ancients who gave in to all kinds of debauchery with the result of total collapse. They disappeared into oblivion…and so it goes…..
So the agenda of the plandemic goes on and on
@ Coles … What a sad story
I prefer to support IGA from now on
So the agenda of the plandemic goes on and on
What a sad story
I prefer to support IGA from now on
Bye Bye Coles. You will NEVER get me to return. Body Nazis.
Two more heads to decorate the spikes.
So if you can shop elsewhere and send an email to Coles telling them why you are not shopping with them anymore. This is blatant discrimination. The powers that are controlling this are throwing anything and everything at us to wear us down so we give up fighting. Let this make us stronger.
A nice little vaccine trap for certain groups.
At least one can sleep at night, knowing their staff are fully committed to the finishing touches of their genetic suicide.
Another taste of Corporate Communism!
There’s probably not that many unjabbed coles or Woolies workers in cairns I understood after talking to sue if them they had to get the jab or lose their job when we were in the middle of the ‘pandemic’…
What a disgrace!