Okay you guys, this is hilarious. Apparently the State Department tried to go woke recently by adding a pronoun feature to the employee email portal.

Here's how that turned out:

 

 

 

Seriously, they had to apologize.

For a computer misgendering employees in a random fashion!!!

Not only that, but they're flipping offering free therapy to those who were "triggered."

The State Department announced in an email to employees on Friday that they were offering free therapy to anyone who felt "hurt or upset" after a system glitch assigned random pronouns to staff members on Thursday. It encouraged employees to contact the State Department's Employee Consultation Service if they were upset about the mixup.

According to the Washington Free Beacon, the glitch randomly assigned pronouns to the "from" line in emails and often the pronouns were wrong, giving men female pronouns and women male pronouns.

Can you imagine being the one trans, or non-binary, or tree-person in the State Department who got the wrong gender just like everyone else and ended up getting "triggered" over it?

🤣🤣🤣

I mean, come on!

And for the State Department to offer free therapy is just a cherry on top of all of this.

According to the State Department's Chief information officer Kelly E. Fletcher, "the intent behind this feature is to make our systems more inclusive and provide employees with options. Not to make decisions for them."Fletcher said, "I recognize that this error had the opposite effect, and again, I am very sorry."

The organization is in the process of "testing a new feature that will provide users with the option to include their preferred pronouns in their Global Address List profile. The feature inadvertently went live, and a large number of employees had randomly assigned pronouns added to their profiles," Fletcher said.

"I deeply regret the confusion and distress this mistake caused our workforce," Fletcher concluded.

"The confusion and distress"!!!!!

Man, this stuff gets better every day.

Hey, at least they tried, right?

Gotta love it when going woke backfires! An update from the State Department:

Yup, better get on that before the mob comes for ya.