Discrimination Is Stupid, So Quit It!

Date: April 16th, 2025

I worked at subway for 3 years. The assistant manager was a lesbian named who called out 45% of the month (literally) and forced me to endlessly come in on days off. Despite this, the owner never elevated me to manager for bigoted reasons-- because he was too old, bigoted and stupid to realize we were both LGBT and it wasn't just me.

Then a Jamaican guy pulled him aside and told him I had made "the best goddamn fucking salad" he ever tasted.

I was told "don't get a big head" and my hours were docked. When I got a second job to make up for the money he was screwing me out of, he unscrewed the walk-in door so it fell off during my shift and then used the footage of me putting it back up to prove I "ripped it off the hinges." That's how a three year chapter of my life ended.

Anyway, his name was Ed and him & his wife lost their business because they finally failed a shitload of inspections for not operating Subway the way the company demands you to. We used to call it "Ed's Sub Shack" because of how much he went against HIS bosses wishes.

My sandwiches were perfect. My thin lines of zig-zagging sauces got constant praise and compliments from customers, as did my ability to "stay calm no matter how busy and stressful it got." But, because I'm transfemme, the boss never gave me props for being as good as I was-- even when employees he LIKED would pull him aside and try to put me over.

Despite this-- I don't think I've ever had more fun in a work environment ever. Even Domino's, which was a constant party atmosphere with early-20s people (even my boss was younger than me and he would sometimes dip out the back to make out with his girlfriend in his car.) Ironically, that's the job that motherfucked me on two months of pay and ultimately led to me becoming homeless. But I had to leave because there was a 4chan incel in a management position who I reported for trying to show me lolicon images during my shifts & wouldn't stop looking up women who ordered foods names on social media so he could stalk them. Not kidding.

But if I had stayed, it wouldn't have mattered. My roommate was trans, and going down a mental health spiral that honestly despite my past aggressive rage towards what happened, it isn't her fault... sort of. I mean it is, and it isn't.

She developed a karmic flesh eating disease that doctors couldn't fathom because of her tendency to be abusive towards me, say awful and horrible shit to me, even occasionally start violent altercations and then right when she forced me to fight back she'd intentionally go limp and not fight back in the fight she started so she could try to gaslight me into thinking I'm violent. Literal psychopath shit.

She went down the rabbithole of binging like TheQuartering and Fox News, and became convinced that there was a war on trans people coming and that we needed to go underground like the Foot Clan in Ninja Turtles. Honestly I think it was just 60% her LARPing fantasy. I'm pretty sure the van she decided to go live in, she calls like the Turtle Van or some shit. To this day I've never seen anyone who can simultaneously forget their trans and call me the F-slur, queer, etc. for anything I did that resembled an actual Woman's Sexuality while talking about themselves like they're a ciswoman, but simultaneously hold themselves to extreme masculinity standards and see themselves as Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z.

Like-- sorry I said I didn't want to do "iron fist training" and learn to be a badass fighter like they do up in Boston-- I'm femme. I want to wear cute dresses and makeup, not be a sweaty UFC fighter you violent shithead.

Anyway. The point of this was-- I have been a victim of discrimination, so I understand the lyrics in NWA songs.