More Deets: Conde Nast Fires Four Entitled Wokesters Including a Formerly-Untouchable Transgender

This isn't entirely a repeat. On Friday, I posted about this, but only had the video and a quick recap from someone on Twitter.

I also failed to say something very obvious. I know it's obvious and you probably all thought of it yourself, but it feels to me like I left a golf ball right on the edge of the cup and never tapped it in:

Five years ago, all left-wing wokesters, and especially minority wokesters, and especially especially trans wokesters, could hold executives in left-wing media operations hostage and demand firings of executives and other personnel for failing to zealously appease their every demand.

Now, it seems like even the most left of left-wing media corporations have had enough of entitled, barely-working woke political agitators on their payrolls, and are now firing them. They are using the difficult economy and rise of AI content "creation" as an excuse to fire the wokesters, but as Clownfish TV and many other people have observed, they have long wanted to fire these people anyway, but were politically/culturally cowed from doing so. Now they feel they have sufficient justification to fire barely-working workplace political terrorists.

And yes, this even means that the most protected identity of all, "trans," is now eligible for firing as well, and no, the highly-protected, highly-entitled "trans" identity will not give you sanction to harass, blockade, surround, and virgually "kidnap" executives (as they literally do in France) so you can berate them into keeping your non-binary sex-friend on the payroll, as seems to have happened at Conde Nast.

I know that's obvious enough but it's like a scratch I didn't itch on Friday and it's bugged me ever since.

So once again, a repeat from Friday: the video so you know what the hell I'm even babbling about. Conde Nast, mega-corporation with a dozen major media brands under its control, fired and/or reassigned personnel from various media outlets, including "Teen" Vogue, which now specializes in such fare as "The Teen Vogue Guide to Anal Sex," infinite stories on the best prosthetics and "tucking" underwear to simulate either having or not having a penis, and endless agitation for full-on communist revolution. Some of these sexual-extremist and Marxist people were fired, others will reassigned from Teen Vogue to regular Vogue. Conde Nast apparently wants Teen Vogue less about hard-core Marxist politics and LGBT issues and more about, you know, make up and cute outfits.

One of the people fired was a "non-binary journalist," and a group of left-wing activists surrounded and heckled the head of HR -- which I think makes him as senior executive -- and made demands of him even after he repeatedly told them to go back to their actual assigned jobs.

Oh: The other thing they're angry about is the new Conde Nast rule that they have to actually come to the office four (not five) days per week. Prior to that they were allowed to mostly, or entirely, "work" from home.

The entitlement here, and the arrogance here, is off the charts. So is the whiny, cloying, feminine gayvoice.

Now on to the new-ish reporting:

Video footage shows Condé Nast employees confronting the company's head of human resources -- part of an incident that management characterized as "extreme misconduct" leading to four unionized staffers' firings, a framing which their union rejects.

The clips, filmed Wednesday outside HR chief Stan Duncan's 34th-floor office at One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, show about 20 editorial staffers asking to discuss layoffs tied to Teen Vogue's merger with Vogue.com.

Hours later, Condé Nast fired four union members who participated in the confrontation -- Jasper Lo of the New Yorker, Jake Lahut of Wired, Alma Avalle of Bon Appétit and Ben Dewey of Condé Nast Entertainment -- citing "gross misconduct and policy violations."

Condé Nast also filed a federal labor complaint against the NewsGuild of New York.

One clip shows Duncan asking the employees to stop "congregating" outside his office before telling them to leave.

"What counts as congregating?" Lahut asks. "What's your definition of congregating?"

"We'd appreciate if you would go back to the workplace, to your workplace assignments," Duncan replies.

"Is there a place that you'd be able to speak to us?" Avalle asks Duncan. "Do you think we're not worth speaking to, Sam?"

"Those are your words, not mine," Duncan replies, saying he could not speak to them on Wednesday due to "other things going on."

"But they might be your beliefs!" Avalle says. "They're not my beliefs," Duncan replies.

The exec is then seen walking down the hallway before pointing to another part of the floor, telling the group he was in a meeting and could not meet with them.

"Well, we have some quick questions," Avalle says. "If you answered them, we'd be happy to go back to our desks."

"All right, leave," Duncan said before walking back toward his office.

After Avalle presses him on his refusal to answer questions, Duncan insists: "I've directed you back to your workplace."

"We're concerned about our colleagues!" an employee says off camera.

They'll do their jobs, but only if you satisfy their demands.

Another clip shows Duncan standing outside his office, asking the angry employees to "move forward" toward the other side of the floor before entering his office and closing the door.

"We'd like you to answer questions," Avalle says. "We'd love to move forward."

As mentioned on Friday: One of the most aggressive of the workplace disruptors was a "trans" employee who was angry that his "non-binary lover" had been fired from Teen Vogue.

Anna Wintour's gilded offices descended into chaos after a 'aggressive' transgender journalist confronted a HR executive for firing her non-binary ex-lover.

Alma Avalle was among four journalists fired by publisher Conde Nast after confronting head of human resources Stan Duncan about her former beau Lex McMenamin's layoff from Teen Vogue on Wednesday.

Avalle, a digital producer at food website Bon Appétit, was given the boot alongside Wired senior reporter Jake Lahut, Conde Nast entertainment videographer Ben Dewey and Jasper Lo, a fact checker at The New Yorker magazine.

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The foursome took it upon themselves to gather outside Duncan's offices at Conde Nast's One World Trade Center headquarters in Manhattan, where they demanded to speak to him about cuts at Teen Vogue comprising half its 12 staff.

Semafor reported that Duncan ordered the troublemakers to return to work, only to be asked if he was 'running away'.

Duncan was then grilled by the unionized group about how he planned on standing up to the Trump administration.

...

Avalle and McMenamin were in a relationship until recently and even protested together outside of the skyscraper that houses their former employer last year.

You don't say.

The two were pictured together at the LGBTQ+ 'Them Now Awards' in New York City last June.

McMenamin gushed on X about their 'beautiful girlfriend' who 'valiantly won Conde Nast's FIRST EVER union contract' in June 2024.

You don't say.

Two formerly-Untouchable Adult Toddlers
are now quite touchable

More: One of the effeminate Adult Toddlers is begging for rent money.

One of four journalists recently fired by Condé Nast for confronting the company's head of human resources is asking internet users for help covering his rent.

Ex-senior writer for Wired Jake Lahut was seen in a Wednesday video clip standing feet away from HR boss Stan Duncan as angry employees confronted to exec over layoffs tied to Condé's downsizing of Teen Vogue. The layoffs of Lahut and three others came just hours later.

Lahut wrote on Spotfund that he's seeking short-term help in the wake of his firing.

"After getting terminated as one of the Fired Four at Condé Nast, I need to shore up a couple months of rent as I get on my feet," he wrote.

"Any amount helps," Lahut added. "Plus, New York is expensive!"

These people had been working from home. Until recently, there was no reason they had to be in the first or second most expensive real estate market in the world.

As of Friday afternoon, the scribe had received more than $5,000 from dozens of donors. He was aiming to raise a total of $8,800 through the Spotfund campaign.

...

He noted that he worked as a live-in super before landing the Wired gig, "and my finances were barely making it work at the time."

What do you think the odds are that this highly-effeminate man is a nepo baby whose expenses are mostly covered by his parents and he "works" mostly just to cover disco money?

I think the odds are even. And by "even," I mean 98%. Which is an even number..

The union backing these Adult Toddlers say that they did nothing wrong.

NewsGuild of New York, the union representing company employees, said the video disproves management's claims that the terminated workers engaged in "extreme misconduct."

"The video footage shared by the union captures only a portion of the incident," a company spokesperson told The Post.

"Several additional minutes are missing from their version."

Note this video was released by the Adult Toddler Workplace Disruptors themselves, in the belief that this shows them in a good light and will rally the world to their cause.

Obviously, the workplace disruptors will edit the video to conceal their worst behavior.

Conde Nast hired noted internet investigator Candace Owens to find this missing video.

Note that "a dozen" employees took part in this harassment and refusal to work, but Conde Nast only fired four of them. Presumably the most aggressive or the ringleaders.

Or maybe they're just super-homophobic:

It turns out that, get this, "nearly all" of the people fired are LGBT:

From the Independent (UK):

"Management plans to lay off six of our members, most of whom are BIPOC women or trans, including Teen Vogue's Politics Editor -- continuing the trend of layoffs at Condé disproportionately impacting marginalized employees," the guild said in a statement on Monday, adding: "Teen Vogue now has no writers or editors explicitly covering politics."

CLARIFICATION: There are two batches of firings. The first, the purge of six wokesters from Teen Vogue, the second, the firing of the most aggressive workplace disruptors complaining about the first batch of firings.

I believe when they say "most of the people fired were LGBT," they are referring to the six fired earlier.

As to the second group of four: it sounds like at least one is gay, or at least deeply, deeply feminized, and then there's the transgender. I don't know about the other two. At least 50% I would say.

Horrors!

The transgender badgering the HR guy, "Alma" Avalle, wrote on Twitter -- which I can't link, as he is limiting who can see his posts -- that calling him and his other LGBT agitators "aggressive" is a transphobic "dog whistle."

While I can't see the tweet, I can see this much from a search for the tweet. Calling him "aggressive," he says...

..."when I was calmly asking questions is a transphobic dog whistle.

From Semafor:

THE SCOOP

Condé Nast abruptly fired four staffers who were among a group of more than a dozen employees who confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday, an unsubtle message to its employee union that the publisher was taking a harder line in its dealings with employees.

According to two people familiar with the situation, the company told the four staffers, including a senior fact checker at The New Yorker, a politics reporter for WIRED, a digital staffer at Bon Appétit, and a video staffer, that they were being fired for violating company policies.

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In response, Condé Nast filed a charge with the National Labor Relations Board against the NewsGuild of New York citing the organization's "repeated and egregious disregard of our collective bargaining agreement."

"Extreme misconduct is unacceptable in any professional setting. This includes aggressive, disruptive, and threatening behavior of any kind," a spokesperson said in a statement to Semafor.

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Condé's decision to take a hard line with unionized staff comes amid a broader post-pandemic attempt by bosses to claw back power they feel was ceded to employees during the internal upheavals within white collar workplaces following the #MeToo movement, the 2020 racial reckoning, and flexible COVID-era work arrangements. The confluence of pro-employee cultural forces and shaky economics in the media business inspired many employees to form unions or deploy more aggressive union tactics.

But years of challenging media economics and changing cultural sentiments have emboldened bosses to adopt a more confrontational approach with employees. X, once a powerful social media platform on which staff could gin up support against company management, has waned in importance. And many journalists have simply become desensitized to frequent cuts and layoffs, which have become a normal part of the modern media business.

Well, yes, like I said: They're firing the wokesters and all I can say is "Finally."

This is going on all over the media, including in entertainment/Hollywood. Economics are the justification, but the real reason is: people are tired of being bullied by no-talent layabouts who just want to take over companies and turn them into left-wing political propaganda outfits.

They went along with this for years, but the absolute bottom has fallen out of the media and they just can't afford this any longer.

posted by Ace at 01:27 PM

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