BATON ROUGE, LA – Just days after a former employee claimed he was fired for refusing to use a coworker’s preferred pronouns, the East Baton Rouge Parish Library has reportedly terminated a second staff member, this time for refusing to refer to a colleague by his chosen workplace identity: Dungeon Master of Reference Materials.
The fired employee said the situation escalated after he called his coworker “Jason” instead of his preferred fantasy designation. “He said I broke character and disrupted the narrative flow of the staff campaign,” the man recalled. “Next thing I know, HR’s handing me a scroll and asking me to sign in blood, or blue ink.”
Library officials confirmed the employee is no longer with the system but called the man’s version of events “wildly misleading.” In a statement, the library wrote: “At no point have we ever required one employee to refer to another as something they are clearly not. That would be completely insane.”
No appeal is expected. The Dungeon Master could not be reached for comment, as he is currently “in campaign.”
