Erin Condren (Planner lady) Under Attack

Her version of how the co-worker treated her. Her version.
We don't have any idea what actually transpired.
And if she is viewing that interaction through the lens of her white privilege, there may simply be more to the story.
She acknowledges she won't complain herself.
She assumes or has the perception that nothing will be done because she believes her manager is afraid  to address something with an employee who is a POC.
She uses an awful lot of loaded words and phrases to describe the interaction.
Now, perhaps things happened exactly  as described.
But we don't know that.

Racism is a public health emergency.
Covid is a public health emergency.
Since protests and marches have started, there are a lot of people watching Minnesota and other states where people are marching for black lives matter.
From what I’ve seen, and I’m in Phoenix where we opened up the city too early and Covid is exponentially rising and filling hospital beds and ICUs. We’ve had BLM marches downtown for a couple of weeks and haven’t seen a substantial increase in Covid patients due to March gatherings. Many of the marchers wear masks and try to social distance when marching.

The data I have seen shows that the protesters and marchers are not adding Covid cases and are not being hospitalized. They are maintaining social distancing and wearing masks.

That’s different from a no or minimal mask wearing group hugging and taking group selfies on the beach.

One seems like risking one public health emergency and minimizing risk with distance and mask to combat another public health emergency.
The other seems like taking advantage of people who are speaking out about racism and saying graduation is just as important while neglecting to minimize the Covid risk.

My two cents. It’s not hypocrisy. It’s more like stealing the momentum an energy of a movement against racism and using it for a fun party. The graduation stunt is more comparable to having a wedding or a bridal shower at a plantation house. Totally misses the historical significance and blows off the people who are marching for their rights and their families‘ safety.

Well- the people I know in AZ certainly aren’t protesting but they are posting everywhere about:
- the made up virus and that the blue states have it because “they deserve it”
- it is hot there so the heat will kill it.
- my daughter and her friends are teenagers - try telling a teenager they can’t see their friends

I can’t imagine why it is spreading like wildfire there (sarcasm).
And yes, those people are now blocked on Facebook because I can’t deal with it anymore.

Arizona opened almost everything up abruptly on May 15th while cases were still rising.  
Since then, we’ve seen a steady increase in cases, up to current critical levels.  

On Thursday (two days ago), our governor held a press conference to tell us how things were worsening, said we “should” wear masks and socially distance, and said that local leaders can now decide if they want to mandate mask wearing in public.  
Since then, many cities and Maricopa County (where Phoenix is located and I saw somewhere it’s the fourth largest county in the US) have mandated mask wearing in public spaces.  

We were seeing an increase in cases before the protests downtown. Other states that were improving continue to improve even with protesting occurring in large cities.  

The Arizona Covid situation is not looking good, but it seems like we would’ve been on this trajectory whether or not there were marches.  

Memorial Day weekend?  

Unfortunately, many people around here think that, which is why we are in the situation we are in.  

You quoted the CEO's response instead of EC's response, so I'm a bit unclear..... are you "yeah no-ing" EC's or the CEO's response? Because I think the CEO's response was quite impressive and seems genuine to me. I'm sure there will be plenty of people who say "yeah but she's just trying to save the brand." But I think her response was very good.

I am yeah-noing both. Her "apology" is pretty much the mea culpa of the day that I have seen repeatedly recently. The CEO's "hand slappy" is not showing that they are serious, IMHO. To me, I see these both as blowover apologies. Say ooh, I sorry, and go away for a tad bit til either something else comes along to take the headline or til people are sad because they need new stickers and planner covers. Follow the money.

I get that, but they already had a school sanctioned event that was going to give them the closure of graduating. Safely.

Each graduate was allowed to go on stage in alphabetical order and get their named called and handed a diploma. The event was going to be broadcast so loved ones could see and celebrate.

EC and friends did not think that was enough, so they asked the LA County Health Department for permission to march from pier to pier. Our Covid numbers are terrible, and we're the last county to be granted any loosening of restrictions. There was a health risk and she knew it. 

The pier to pier thing is a class tradition from the beginning of time . There are two beach communities -- Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach -- that share a border and Hermosa Beach is so small that it does not have a high school. Kids in Hermosa Beach often attend the local high school in Manhattan Beach as a result, hence the marching back and forth). 

So for EC and crew to just flaunt their march after explicitly being told "no" by the health department, that's just bad taste. It smacks of entitlement.

To be fair to her it's an affluent community and I'm sure the kids would have been up to something similar, regardless ... but that does not give her the right to be part of the problem or excuse the behavior.

As an adult she had to know this was in poor taste, but instead she helped coordinate it. Bad decision making.

And as I’ve already replied, the parent graduation committee didn’t plan *this* event.

I just caught up on all of this and all I can say is.... wow. I'm not even going to get into the fact that certain Peas are defending her actions and choosing to twist and understand what it means to have privilege. There's just no time for that right now.

Erin's apology, to me, absolutely stinks of "I'm sorry I made this mistake, and I'm sorry because I was called out on how stupid and selfish I was being." It does not sound genuine at all, it's an "I need to cover my ass and say something" statement. Hopefully I'm wrong and she's actually practicing some reflection and learning, but I doubt it. It seemed like a lot of planning went into this event and the gross commandeering of a civil rights movement to fit her narrative. Planning is her thing. It's literally what her company is based on. She knew exactly what she was doing.

Her handling of this makes her seem to suck even harder than her initial support of the kids' stupidity.

And if you want to be taken seriously, Erin, start responding to the asses on your IG posting things like I mentioned above: Some  woman w/IG melissacpereira was defending EC on IG saying a poster's "Black Privilege" was showing.

You need to shut that shit down HARD and FAST if you're serious, Erin!