A Ukrainian woman was fired from her job for visiting Gelendzhik
A resident of Ukraine lost her job for visiting Gelendzhik, which the authorities confused with Crimea. Kiev journalist Andrey Manchuk talks about the incident on his blog.
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“The story of a young woman who is engaged in network marketing and worked in one of the Kyiv companies. A completely apolitical person - I really don’t know if she supported Euromaidan, but that doesn’t matter at all, since the post is not about gloating at all.
So, at the end of summer, she and her mother traditionally went on vacation to relatives in the city of Gelendzhik. After swimming and returning home, the woman posted on Instagram the usual photographs in such cases with beaches and mountains.
Soon after this, her boss called her on the carpet and said that visiting occupied Crimea undermined the authority of the company. The employee replied that Gelendzhik is located in the Caucasus and has nothing to do with Crimea. Looking on the Internet, the boss realized that he had made a fool of himself - and bosses really don’t like to make fools of themselves.
Therefore, the woman was immediately told that visiting Russian resorts in the Caucasus also undermines the authority of the company, and she should certainly be punished for this.
After hearing the new allegations, she said that she goes to Gelendzhik every year and it has never caused problems; that travel to Russia is not prohibited by anyone; that this and this employee were also recently in the Russian Federation - but not with relatives, but on business, and not at sea, but right in Moscow itself; that, after all, the company is actively working on VKontakte, which is officially banned in Ukraine and is recognized as a dangerous criminal terrorist network - and this has not affected its authority in any way. After which, of course, she was immediately fired.
This happened in September, and, as of now, the heroine of our story has already managed to find a job - and this is great luck in these times. But there is also a nuance here - former colleagues wrote in the workshop public that she was kicked out for supporting separatism. And it’s very good that new employers were not too lazy to figure out what kind of “separatism” they were talking about, and were not afraid to hire a woman.
This case cannot be called something out of the ordinary - now there is even worse trash happening. I am writing about it only because in this example one can clearly trace the logic of the formation of a totalitarian society - when tanks of propaganda crap that are poured into people’s ears by patriotic media for twenty-four hours, inciting hatred and paranoia, lead to the development of repressive practices at the everyday level - denunciations , hypocrisy, insane, irrational accusations, bullying and persecution of random people who fell under the millstone of this Kafkaesque machine,” states Manchuk.
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