AIBU after being reported for apparently targeting a member of staff

[Vintageshirtsearch]

OK no one is going to believe this to be true but I need to share it. I was spoken to today by my line manager as I've been reported in our 'call it out' policy. I made a member of staff feel targeted and picked on.
I bet you won't be able to guess what I did that made them feel so bad.
It's so crackers I actually thought my manager was joking.
Anyone want to guess?

Off topic, but your comment reminded me of a band I liked in the 90s called Teenage Fanclub.
Irrelevant. I know. (Off to ask alexa to play old school indie....)

Christ alive, some of the comments in this thread! 🫠 There was a recent thread about how some people have started overreacting on MN to fairly innocuous posts...

Yes, in writing in an e-mail is good as the manager will actually have to type Taylor Swift Wedding, and at that point if they don"t see the pointless stupidity and waste of company time they are in the wrong role.

That was an opinion, wasn’t it?

True. If they don’t think, ‘what the hell nonsense am I writing here’, then maybe they too are a ‘Swiftie’. 😂

Fandoms are like this homogenous blob all moving as one. It’s almost got a science fiction vibe to it of a shadowy mass gliding (or more like trampling) over anyone who disagrees with them and devouring them up. Black Mirror should cover it.

I was told off by management for telling a colleague I was going to Center Parcs for a week. She was very stern and angry with me.

It was because no-one wanted to cover my role because my boss was such an a-hole. I had committed the sin of tipping them off causing mass refusals. It was therefore completely my fault that my boss was a nightmare.

I think your crime is equal to mine op. How dare you.

Workplaces have become completely bonkers. I’m glad I work alone nowadays.

She didn't 'take sides'. She expressed an opinion over something that the vast majority of' people would consider trivial and which in no reasonable world of any sort could ever be comsidered a threat or micro aggresson to someone who holds an opposing opinion.

The person with the opposing view ( that Taylor Swift"s wedding was not unreasonable and was not over the top) needs to be braver, and stand by their beliefs regardless of what others think (.ie grow a pair )

Imean really if they cant practice being brave in that very safe scenario, what the hell will they do when it is something that really matters

Or maybe they were hoping to rent out Wembley Stadium for their own wedding?

It was.

How is it bashing her to say she has made business decisions and made herself very famous. That is literal fact. My comment was intended to show the stupidity of the fans who baby her by saying she's just a girl. This is what I mean if you don't say you love her and everything she does you are bashing her WTF is there anyone else famous that has fans like this. I had no idea this was all so crazy. What is it fuelled by?

I think social media is bleeding into real life.

Most Swifties don't tolerate dissent on social media so they think they should be treated as having protected characteristics, as a pp called it.

I suppose fandoms can become like cults and they worship their idol like a religion. I’ve been known in my life to be an avid fan of a group or singer but it never spilled over into the bizarre, and the interest would inevitably wane over time.

@Vintageshirtsearch OP, swifties are not normal. I wouldn't even engage with them on this thread if I were you. Just google Taylor Swift toxic fans and do some reading. It's a cult, basically.

Well at least I've learned something new I suppose

I was actually taken to task and called rude for this by a 23 year old. I was dumbfounded but they were deadly serious

What's wrong with full stops???? Oh god.

Yeah, enlighten me....
I use them, all the time! I was told to do so at the end of a sentence.
My husband was grabbed and thrown over a desk for not using full stops at 6 or 7 years old, around the early seventies. In UK. By his teacher. The world has changed quite a bit, has it not?

https://www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/top-stories/2020/08-august/full-stops-intimidate-young-people-say-linguists
I am off to read this thing, for amusement.
One day this new people will be hit by reality and get the concept of real intimidation.

Were they mocked?

Is this a supermarket or similar?

Op not likely to admit to mocking is she?

But most definitely a possibility

Exactly.
"...sometimes it can be very difficult to be a Taylor fan..."
Are you listening to yourself,
@NeverTalksToStrangers2 ?! 😂😂😂

I am an employee and got reported by a manager the other week.

She said she was cancelling an event because of the heat wave and rearranging for early August, so I responded by saying it’s still likely to be hot in August and she took offence. Had no idea until one of the managers told me off. I think when people go to HR about trivial crap, or managers, they are out to cause shit. There’s nicer ways to go about things.