Avant Mutual's woke scolds and corporate harridans
Corporate communications and human resources staff will pre-emptively fire you from jobs you don't even have in the space of just days
I decided to test the waters earlier this year on exactly how Orwellian and insane woke human resources and communications personnel have become. The results were nothing short of incredible. Both hilarious and terrifying at the same time. In the space of several days, agitation by anonymous accounts on Twitter was enough to get me pre-emptively fired from a role I didn’t even have at Avant Mutual by their Chief People Officer, Rachael Williams.
I’m cancelled and blacklisted globally for employment in polite society, so I’ve given up and decided to fully embrace that freedom and honestly can’t recommend it highly enough. It reminds me what it’s like to be a normal person again and no longer live in fear. It’s like life used to be like in the 80s, except all the music now is terrible.
I genuinely feel sorry for the rest of you, but to a large extent your acquiescence has created the problem and the goofball politicians you keep voting into office won’t stand up for themselves, let alone you or your family – the travails of Angus Taylor and Christian Porter come to mind. Please stop voting for these people.
With cancellation comes an absence of downside consequences. I’m free to flag issues of public importance and snipe back at the leftoid bullies. While convalescing earlier this year I found myself with too much time on my hands and started pushing back hard on Twitter cry‑bullies.
In order to gauge the implications of having opinions online for normal people, I altered my Twitter profile to include a job title at Avant Mutual – Lead Pricing Analyst. It probably doesn’t’ exist and I’ve never worked there but if people want to assume that’s how I derive a livelihood that’s largely their issue, it’s just a job title.
The eyes of the bullies light up when they think they’ve pinned down where you work and think they can get you fired for something you’ve said. Naturally, this is the first response of these people and because they’re losers, they have nothing better to do with their time than attempt to destroy people’s careers and get them fired over trivia. Because they’re losers they also get off on it, until of course they don’t – more on that at a later date.
Sadly, the folks in communications and human resources at Avant Mutual seem to be largely in the same camp as these failed human beings and are only too happy to service the whims of the self-radicalized woke jihadists on Twitter. Amazingly, in the space of just several days after chumming the waters with these pinheads, I received the following email from Rachael Williams the Chief People Officer at Avant Mutual.
Good Morning Burchell, it has come to Avant’s attention that your online profile identifies that you hold, or have held the role of Lead Pricing Analyst at Avant Mutual.
You do not hold the role of Lead Pricing Analyst at Avant Mutual.
We have relatedly checked our records and do not have any record of you having been employed by Avant in any capacity.
We ask, therefore, that you remove the reference to Avant Mutual from your profile as it is untrue and misleading.
Thank you for your prompt attention.
regards,
Rachael Williams
I thought that was a bit weird (how did she even get my email as well?) so I left the following review for Avant Mutual and Rachael Williams on Google.
I was contacted this morning by the Chief People Officer at Avant Mutual, Rachael Williams, apparently trying to fire me from a role I didn't even have at Avant. I don't recommend this experience at all and rate it 1/5 stars. I have never used Avant and am unlikely to either use or recommend their services after this experience. I actually have very little understanding of what they do beyond providing some form of medical insurance.
I asked Rachael to explain how this was brought to her attention, by whom and for what reason but she was non-responsive besides screenshotting my Twitter profile and underlining the role I had specified. I immediately clarified my position, adding “Aspiring” to the position just to be clear.
Rachael, thank you for your response. I see the potential point of confusion. Naturally, I aspire to the role specified but may have not made that sufficiently clear in my Twitter profile that I have never worked for Avant. Any advice about securing my dream role with Avant would be greatly appreciated!
As a threshold issue, I am a Nietzschean and a Stoic (have you read Marcus Aurelius or Seneca - I can send you links if you're interested?). I consider myself both based and red-pilled. Is there scope to be based and red-pilled while working at Avant? I am happy to be based and red-pilled on my own time but worried about being doxxed. What is Avant's approach when its employees are doxxed?
If you would like to discuss this in person when I am next in Sydney that would be wonderful! I'm still not sure why you have reached out to me, but it as been great to hear from you in relation to this misunderstanding. I have made the following change to my Twitter profile to help clarify the situation. Please let me know what you think. Have a great day - Burchell
I thought that reply was too cursory and thoughtless in light of the gravity of Avant’s conduct, so I dropped Rachael another email when she didn’t reply. The initial reply also didn’t match the ridiculousness of situation, or my level of utter contempt for the fact that this is how a supposedly professional women employed in a senior management position at a medical insurer spends their time as an urgent priority.
Rachael,
Thanks for all your emails.
I feel as though I've been let go from Avant Mutual before even having been given the opportunity of being employed at Avant Mutual. I have mixed emotions about this situation - shock, dismay and surprise. Obviously, there are others who may have lost out in this process. For instance, anyone trying to get me fired from a job I don't have at Avant Mutual is a clear loser. Whatever thrill they were seeking from "taking me down" is no longer achievable for them and whichever woke Jihadist it was presumably feels bitterly disappointed. Similarly, the junior employee at Avant who brought this to your attention is similarly dismayed and disadvantaged for much the same reason. How will she fill her hours at work now? Possibly even a journalist was involved. Have any journalists rung through for a scalp and a story? They might have to go and report on something boring like economic policy, or some other such nonsense that will lead to a long-run increase in living standards. Was it the Star Observer? I accused one of their reporters of defamation on Twitter recently and he may have been cranky about that. He'll be even crankier if writs get issued - LOL!
Or maybe I just got pinged by a web-scraping algorithm? I have no idea how algos feel when their purposes are frustrated. I saw this one documentary once where the algos take over - they send machines back in time to kill the mom of the leader of the human resistance - her name was Sarah Connor and she was a very empowered and determined women, definitely too neo-reactionary to be a feminist but certainly an ideal role model for female employees at Avant. Does Avant offer advanced weapons training to its female employees to secure civilization against the robot menace? Personally, I think that is the only socially responsible course of action and it has additional safety benefits for female allies ahead of the collapse. I may be evil but at least I'm not sending machines back in time to kill nice waitresses that haven't yet discovered the power and resilience that lies dormant within them.
Anyway, I thought a fair compromise for everyone would involve me securing a role at Avant Mutual first and then having the activists come after me and using human resources personnel and social media policies to have me fired. This seems like the more traditional approach to destroying someone's career, along with their professional reputation, as opposed to your pioneering pre-emptive firing technique. I admire your attempt at innovation but I'm a stickler for protocol. Under the scenario I propose: the activists win - they get their scalp, the journalists win - they get their crappy click-baitey smear piece, human resources win - they get to feel like heros and, most importantly for me, I win - I get to pick up a few weeks salary before I'm fired and whatever payout I can squeeze from a deed of settlement for unfair dismissal. Meanwhile, you preside over the entire affair like the God-queen girl boss that you are and arbitrarily determine people's fates by interpreting Avant's social media policy with very little oversight and enormous discretion. We wrap this all up with drinks at the Blue Horizon with the lawyers - they win too, legal fees dude - and then we see where the night takes us.
I'll start applying for suitable roles immediately, you see how this makes more sense than putting the cart before the horse under your initial proposed model.
All the best,
Burchell
I still have no idea what I said on Twitter that piqued Avant’s attention – something horrible and true no doubt, probably about trans issues or the utterly useless Aboriginal bureaucracy our idiot political class are about to embed in the Constitution. Presumably some loser in communications took “the issue” to human resources to find my “manager” at Avant and get me fired. That this is how they spend their time is an indictment on Avant Mutual and whatever ridiculous internal policies they have in place that animates this behavior.
I have a mate in human resources who reckons that someone (or a group of people) must be keeping tabs on where I work, and then contacting those employers. He couldn’t imagine any company would be actively searching the web to see who lists themself as an employee in their Twitter profiles. Given they also searched their systems to verify my (non-)employment he thinks they'd only put resources into doing if they had a real worry (such as a journalist contacting them perhaps).
These are the front lines of Australia’s most important civil rights issues - the politics of personal destruction, inanely known as cancel culture. Communications and human resources policies are weaponized by activists and used as an excuse by low-level foot soldiers in corporate bureaucracies to attempt to destroy people’s careers while spineless senior managers preside over their disgusting charade – either tacitly complicit or indifferent, too afraid to adopt an ethical or principled position. We were given insights into the mindset of these people when they posted their thoughts online last year for the world to see.
You can and will be fired for speech. You have to live in fear about what you say or do in any context, particularly if there’s someone there with a phone around to record you in unguarded moments. Even where firing you is illegal, immoral and unethical, companies like Avant Mutual will simply pay the toll of a couple months wages and strong-arm you into a deed of settlement that includes a non-disparagement clause after they have behaved appallingly.
If you object and take the matter to the Federal Court, the process instantly becomes the punishment. Even if you win, you lose in light of the cost of the litigation and, in all likelihood, the precedent you’re looking to establish has already been set – it’s just that employers ignore the law and it’s far too easy for them to behave unethically and pay people off to make inconveniences go away while torching someone’s career.
The present situation is intolerable. The balance between an employee’s right to civic engagement and ability to meaningfully engage in free speech (or even have a sense of humor) is now severely and unacceptably curtailed. The unreasonable behavior of bloated and hectoring human resource departments of large companies needs to be subject to review and reform.
Severe penalties need to be introduced into industrial relations legislation to restore the balance in favor of the individual, with additional scope provide for exemplary damages to be awarded against the worst of the malefactors. Modern corporate slavery has to end if free speech is to have any meaning.
Burchell Wilson is a Based Economist on Twitter and over 10,000 times vaxxed