important! please help some beloved queers in portland!
Dear Tumblr,
If any of you know people or jobs or people who have jobs etc in Portland, could you send them my way? I really, really want to work, especially because working beats not being able to pay rent and having absolutely no place for my partner and I to live, but, unfortunately, sending in 30 applications and having 5 interviews a week {each, not combined} isn’t enough to secure a paycheck. If we can’t find work now, we’re going to be in a very, very dire place, and I have absolutely no idea of where we can go once this month ends except for the streets.
At this point, if you even know places people can live temporarily for no money, something that can help with rent, etc let me know.
Thanks, A Trans Woman and Her Girlfriend
reblogging and tagging the hell out of this on the hope that someone helpful will find it
please reblog, retag, and reply to 3xosc if you have *anything* useful!
also: both these kids are smart and stylish and hard-working and charming as fuck; 3xosc has worked her ass off in restaurants and libraries and activist orgs, and her partner is a kickass artist, designer, and barista
i <3 you both
eta: here’s a link to the job openings listing on idealist.org for portland - here are the listings for seattle and oly, too, if you’ve any thought of looking for other stuff in the northwest
from vivid-eris3xosc: Denied a Job for Being Trans
Last week I had a very good interview with the owner of a shop right next to my house, he asked me to have a second interview-
He called today, offering me a job without a second interview, on the condition that I go to work as a guy- “I think it’s great what you’re doing, but some of our customers might be uncomfortable with it”, so, naturally, I refused the job.
I called him back, saying “I just wanted you to know that your business is in one of the central queer areas of Atlanta, and that what you’ve done is not only dehumanizing but will likely very shortly be federally illegal”
Here is the info, if you want to know:
Smoothie King
1572 Piedmont Ave NE, Atlanta
(404) 685-3520eta: mistake in original post, the corrected number is (404) 751-8909The owner’s name and info:
Greg Emrich
404-751-8909
emrichjg@aol.com
Dear god:
Please, please, please let ENDA happen. PLEASE.
:C
<3
i’m so sorry this happened
i’ll see you in a while and buy you a nice beer, hon
fuck the real or ostensible ‘discomfort’ of ansley mall clones and douches who would value it over letting one of my besties have a fucking job
eta: you can also go here to let smoothie king corporate know that people don’t like it when their franchise managers are jerks
very much not the same
Ok, so that was me telling you. But yeah, what’s being written about and who gets jobs are very much NOT THE SAME in academia.
yup yup
