On my libertarian list today I shared a horror story from a woke corporation.

 

Here's another one. The author prefers to remain anonymous.

 

You need to read this.

 

"If I may, I’d like to share a bit about me and my near 20 years of experience working in HR, specifically recruiting. In December 2020, I left Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) after 10.5 years there. Those were the best years (except for the months beginning in March 2020) in all of my recruiting experience. Despite being the outlier in terms of my political views, I had great colleagues whom I respected and with whom I worked well.

 

"As a recruiting professional, I developed the most while working at HBP. Starting as a contract recruiter in Jul 2010, I progressed to the level of Associate Director, leading all of domestic and international recruiting for the organization. I managed a team of four and reported directly to the SVP of HR who reported directly to the CEO.

"I would send you to my LinkedIn profile except LinkedIn banned me permanently last December. I had an international network of millions and dozens and dozens of recommendations. All gone. I broke LinkedIn’s professional 'whatevers' as I call them one too many times.

 

"The final straw came when I posted an article with an imbedded video featuring Stefan Oelrich, the VP of Bayer Europe. Mr. Oelrich told us that these 'mRNA vaccines' are good examples for (his word) 'cell and gene therapy.' That post didn’t make it 24 hours before LinkedIn took it down and suspended my account, ultimately banning me permanently. I was an inaugural year member and one of the earliest and longest-standing paying members, as well. Poof.

"I knew out of the gate that this 'COVID' hysteria had a sinister motive. By March, I was calling it an 'operation.' I told the senior recruiter on my team that and that it was a crime in progress…

 

"In April 2020, I posted to LinkedIn John Ioannides’ piece essentially telling everyone – paraphrasing in layman’s terms – to calm the hell down. Someone in Germany saw the post. She went through her connections to get to one of my colleagues in the U.K. She had some very nasty things to say about me, including that I was a disgrace to Harvard University and should be fired because 'people are dying.'

"My U.K. colleague went to his U.S. boss (a person I’d recruited for his position). He got a hold of me to give me the heads up that this was already on its way to our CEO. He forwarded me the email chain with this woman’s rant. (She worked at one of HBP’s prospects.) Sure enough, my boss hears about it from our CEO, which meant me getting hauled in front of her (virtually) for a conversation. While I’m entitled to post to LinkedIn (within professional guidelines) whatever I want, I must let people know that my comments and posts do not represent Harvard Business Publishing or Harvard University.

 

"OK…. So I changed my profile 'blurb' to: 'This is my personal profile. All opinions expressed are mine. And have been mine. Always. Because I have my own mind.' I was safe. For a while.

"But the writing was on the wall. Then that loser in the corner office on Beacon Hill, Charlie 'Parker' Baker, ('Brandon' called Charlie Baker 'Charlie Parker' once, so now that’s what I call him) issued his mask mandate. I thought to myself that if people tolerate this blatantly unlawful and useless crap, the next thing will be a mandatory needle. I’ve never worn a mask; never will.

"When talk started over the summer of 2020 about returning to the office, our CEO gave a presentation on how our building would operate with the new 'safety' standards. Via photos of the lobby (arrows and stanchions), the mask not at your desk, but walking around, the floor arrows directing everyone in a counterclockwise-only direction, I knew my days were numbered.

 

"Not wearing a mask, not waiting outside in line six feet apart to be called in one by one, not walking only counterclockwise, but the final, 'OK, I have to quit' decision came as a result the elevators. The three elevators would be limited to two people only. Those two people would have to stand on the elevator floor’s newly painted-on white shoes. One pair faced the front corner by the panel and the other faced the diagonal corner.

"As I continued to listen to my CEO and look at the white shoes, I kept tilting my head, thinking, 'This can’t be. Is my CEO actually telling me that I have to stand on white shoes and face the corner with my back to whomever to get to my desk??' Leaving the presentation running, I got up from my at-home desk and shouted for my husband. 'Honey? Honey, I’ll have to quit, honey.' When I told him, he said, 'Oh, yeah. You can’t do that.' Yeah, because I won’t do that.

"I figured I’d wait until leadership confirmed our return-to-the-office date to give my notice. Leaving my job, colleagues (they left me…), income, health insurance – all of it with nothing in the offing. Did not care. I simply refused to cooperate and lend respect to this degradation – all based on absurdities in support of a global crime. Sorry. No can do. As it was, I felt as if I’d already cooperated too much.

"Ironically, shortly after the CEO’s presentation, Harvard University announced an early retirement offer. I just qualified, and while it was not full retirement for me based on my tenure, it was a means for me to leave and give the organization more than enough time to find my replacement. I negotiated with my SVP to continue to work from home until my last day, December 31, 2020.

"While I have a ton of experience I could leverage on my own, I cannot work for most companies in the U.S. I cannot and will not work for any company that requires a medical intervention for all of its employees. I cannot and will not tell candidates that a medical intervention is a condition of employment. (As I knew, Harvard required the needle as a condition of ongoing employment.)

 

"Thank you for all you do, Tom."

 

Note that this tale of lunacy doesn't even include all the fact-free woke stuff, which is yet another kind of nightmare.

 

What are people supposed to do?

 

In how many areas of life are terrible people supposed to make us miserable before we band together to improve our condition?

 

As someone who has written plenty of articles in his day, it has to be said: writing more articles about the superiority of libertarianism isn't going to help these people.

 

We all know something needs to be done. People are just waiting for someone to hoist a flag and say: I'm doing something about this, and if you want to join, here's where I am.

 

I raised that flag in February of this year with the launch of the Tom Woods School of Life, which has developed far beyond anything I originally envisioned.

 

No more whining, no more spinning our wheels. Time for action.

 

We reopen in eleven days.

 

Watch this space.

 

Tom Woods

 

 

 

 

 

 

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