Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day
Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day
Employees at multiple federal agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by Friday afternoon, according to internal memos obtained by ABC News.
Summary
Federal employees at multiple agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from email signatures by Friday, following executive orders signed by Donald Trump to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.
Agencies including the CDC, Department of Transportation, and Department of Energy issued directives citing the new policy.
Some employees expressed frustration, with one CDC worker calling it unprecedented.
The Office of Personnel Management also instructed agencies to disable pronoun prompts in email systems, marking another step in Trump’s broader rollback of DEI initiatives.
Imagine using "He" or "She" like a typical American...
I just use 他 (pronounced tā), gender neutral, unlike English lolol
One pronoun to rule them all!
他 is “he.” Iirc it was the only pronoun until the 20th century, but now there is 她 for “she” and 它 for “it.” They are all pronounced the same though, so your joke works when pronounced out loud.
Because western influence added culture wars 😭
他 (he/she), 它 (it), 祂 (for deities). Long ago, three pronouns existed togerther in Harmony. Then, everything changed when the Eight Nation Alliance attacked.
We have gender neutral terms too. "They/them". English or no English, Trump would force you to pick one.
So much for ending emails with a simple “thank you” at the end. Damn offensive pronouns.
Maybe they'll finally pick something important to work on tomorrow. Probably not, but maybe. We still have other issues right? I heard a couple of planes fell out of the sky and eggs are $10 and the ice caps are gonna melt.
Comply but include unicode: ♀ ♂ ⚧
I think everyone here knew Trump would be doing a lot of stupid evil shit during his second term, but is anyone else surprised at the sheer magnitude of stupidity coming from the white house these past ten days?
But it's not stupidity. I mean, I agree, it's all stupid (as in: there are more important issues), but they're not stupid. They planned all this. It's exactly what they wanted and it's definitely not 'stupid' - It's insidious and malicious and cruel, but not stupid. This sounds like a dumb, tiny thing to do, I mean, it's just about words in an e-mail signature, right? It's not that big a deal? But a lot of things they're doing are -in a vacuum- not that big a deal. However, if you add it all up, it's all part of the wider persecution entire groups of people are falling victim to. In this case it's just another way to silence a minority and their allies.
Plus, don't forget: they'll use anyone who doesn't comply with the 'stupid' little stuff as an excuse for punishments and retaliation and even worse legislation.
Not stupid. Not ignorant. Not dumb. Incredibly fucking evil. And we should treat it like that. Don't minimize any of it, however insignificant it may seem. Put in context this is another drop in what will become a fucking ocean of suffering.
Edit: grammar.
Fuck no. Project 2025 was about making the shitshow far more efficient this time around.
They had PLANS. They published them. Now that donvict is in there, they plan on getting as much rammed through as possible. It's doubtful stuff like this matters very much other than as ragebait for their stupid base. The REAL agenda is the kind of looting and pillaging Felon plans on carrying out with his purchase of donvict....
there's one advantage to Project 2025 being published. It catalogs the stuff for this year to undo, once (if ever) republicans get booted.
It's a gish gallop of petty insecurity, coming out so fast and furious that it takes people off guard.
Two years from now, when Trump doesn't have any more low-hanging fruit to pick at, this will seem quaint. But by then, we're going to see the real damage these opening days inflicted on civil society. It won't be "lolz, haha, guess we'll be using a lot of proper nouns going forward" and a lot more "fuck, another airline accident that you can only learn about on Rednote and the forums of Pornhub, because every major journalist has been doing wall-to-wall coverage of the Trial of the Transgender Eleven caught providing underground abortion drugs to serially raped immigrant middle schoolers held in the prison camps of the hurricane blasted ruins of Miami."
The time has come for all federal employees to cease using pronouns entirely in communications. Here is a list of English pronouns to stop using.
Also pretty much any noun can be used as a form of neo pronoun, so to be safe all Federal employees should only use verbs.
First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language.
Next they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.
All who?
Wait, fuck
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This should be what people do.
The party of Freezed Peach! Can't you just smell the freedom?
Also, I'm sure it's THIS that will give us cheap groceries.
Please use my full, christian, and satanic name when referring to me.
Anything to distract from the plane crash they caused and plans to indefinitely hold citizens and people who missed a court date in an expanded Cuban military black site the public never wanted built on the first place
Is this so he can attack the dwarves?
You mean to tell me the US government doesn't have a system that controls employee signatures? Are they running Windows NT still????
-Luci (She/Her)
Federal employee here. We have to make our own email signatures. I have not been told to remove pronouns by an official channel, but I have already removed pronouns and switched to having Ms. infront of my name, cause it has the same effect and the administration is too stupid to know that.
Oh, no. No, no no. It's much worse than that.
Hell if they were still on NT we'd be safer.
I wouldn't be surprised if there are still a few Novell Netware boxes out there.
OH GOD
I'll have you know that I am an official paper CNE.
Pronouns should be used at the discretion of the individual. They should be able to choose who receives them, how it’s relayed, and what the pronouns will be. They should be able to change them whenever they want.
Putting this into a database such as active directory isn’t simple when it has requirements that I’ve stated.
It’s sometimes easier to just let the individual maintain their own signature.
We use a third party tool and a custom schema. Users can use a simple agent to update pronouns or make other adjustments like display their direct line. Works great, AD is still the source of truth.
Move from signature to from line lol
The federal agency I work with does put them next to your name if you have them registered. Curious how long that lasts.
Fuck pronouns, I just use names.
This is so they can build in an excuse to fire everyone in IT.
That'll bring down the cost of living fs