True Sweester wrote:
Sounds like ...
You have no concept what that simple two-word phase means.
True Sweester wrote:
Sounds like ...
You have no concept what that simple two-word phase means.
True Sweester wrote:
Flagpole wrote:
Actually, that was a pretty good and correct post by that person, but that person is NOT me if that's what you are insinuating.
WEJO, DO AN IP CHECK, AND IF I LIE, BAN ME FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sounds like you are BETTING me that it was not you.
Low class.
Time to give up flagpole. Each one of your arguments today have been soundly defeated by several (or the same) posters.
Retreat!
Omar wrote:
Retreat!
I retreated yesterday.
- DJT
Omar wrote:
True Sweester wrote:
Sounds like you are BETTING me that it was not you.
Low class.
Time to give up flagpole. Each one of your arguments today have been soundly defeated by several (or the same) posters.
Retreat!
NEVER!
‘Tis just a flesh wound.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmInkxbvlCsOmar wrote:
True Sweester wrote:
Sounds like you are BETTING me that it was not you.
Low class.
Time to give up flagpole. Each one of your arguments today have been soundly defeated by several (or the same) posters.
Retreat!
I bet this thread is not over. Wait I don't bet because that's low class. And its not a bet anyway, I predict this thread is not over, but I hope that it is over.
I bet that some people here feel a bit worried if in a business setting they are alone with a female. Now what if you drive a taxi or uber and a single female wants a ride? What should you do?
Conundrum wrote:
Omar wrote:
Time to give up flagpole. Each one of your arguments today have been soundly defeated by several (or the same) posters.
Retreat!
I bet this thread is not over. Wait I don't bet because that's low class. And its not a bet anyway, I predict this thread is not over, but I hope that it is over.
I bet that some people here feel a bit worried if in a business setting they are alone with a female. Now what if you drive a taxi or uber and a single female wants a ride? What should you do?
Easy.
You understand that those situations could happen and you don’t choose to drive a taxi or Uber.
E Z wrote:
You understand that those situations could happen and you don’t choose to drive a taxi or Uber.
Which is your profession; Taxi driver or Uber driver? IT has to be one of those two because you "understand" those situations.
sugar wrote:
Shrugger wrote:
This candidate would not allow this particular reporter to cover his campaign trip solely because she is a woman.
She may cover his campaign. However, she has to agree to his conditions.
Big Difference.
Only because she is a woman does she have these conditions to agree to.
The conditions do not apply to a man.
Shrugger wrote:
sugar wrote:
She may cover his campaign. However, she has to agree to his conditions.
Big Difference.
Only because she is a woman does she have these conditions to agree to.
The conditions do not apply to a man.
Has a man asked to travel with him in his truck alone for 15 hours?
Another record day for the stock market.
M-A-G-A!!!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/B7E8E660-A48D-11E9-9B9D-A4546EBBD081
Uber Taxi wrote:
E Z wrote:
You understand that those situations could happen and you don’t choose to drive a taxi or Uber.
Which is your profession; Taxi driver or Uber driver? IT has to be one of those two because you "understand" those situations.
So there should only be female taxi or Uber drivers because a male should want to avoid that job because he wouldn't want to be alone with a female. But can the male be a passenger alone with a female driver?
This still is something that strikes me (honestly not trying to offend) as being silly. I am talking a just an office meeting not a business trip or anything.
Ok let me have a little fun with this. What is one of the men is gay? Should he not meet alone with another male or does this just apply to females?
Conundrum wrote:
This still is something that strikes me (honestly not trying to offend) as being silly. I am talking a just an office meeting not a business trip or anything.
Ok let me have a little fun with this. What is one of the men is gay? Should he not meet alone with another male or does this just apply to females?
FWIW...I've been out of the Corporate world for about 10 years but I recall being told as I moved to a position with an office that it was in everyone's best interest to make sure that the door was either open or the blinds were open in my office when meeting one on one with women. This would have been early to mid-90's.
The interesting thing looking back with 20 years of perspective and change in social norms is that I don't recall the same being said of women who were at the same level as I was and there was a fair population of women in these positions.
TTH wrote:
Conundrum wrote:
This still is something that strikes me (honestly not trying to offend) as being silly. I am talking a just an office meeting not a business trip or anything.
Ok let me have a little fun with this. What is one of the men is gay? Should he not meet alone with another male or does this just apply to females?
FWIW...I've been out of the Corporate world for about 10 years but I recall being told as I moved to a position with an office that it was in everyone's best interest to make sure that the door was either open or the blinds were open in my office when meeting one on one with women. This would have been early to mid-90's.
The interesting thing looking back with 20 years of perspective and change in social norms is that I don't recall the same being said of women who were at the same level as I was and there was a fair population of women in these positions.
It probably depends on the history of the company. If they had a couple inappropriate behind closed doors activities it made sense.
I had an office with females under my supervision and it never came up. ( I am not sure whether or not that was an intended pun)
Conundrum wrote:
TTH wrote:
FWIW...I've been out of the Corporate world for about 10 years but I recall being told as I moved to a position with an office that it was in everyone's best interest to make sure that the door was either open or the blinds were open in my office when meeting one on one with women. This would have been early to mid-90's.
The interesting thing looking back with 20 years of perspective and change in social norms is that I don't recall the same being said of women who were at the same level as I was and there was a fair population of women in these positions.
This is one of the reasons glass offices are popular these days.
It probably depends on the history of the company. If they had a couple inappropriate behind closed doors activities it made sense.
I had an office with females under my supervision and it never came up. ( I am not sure whether or not that was an intended pun)
Conundrum wrote:
TTH wrote:
FWIW...I've been out of the Corporate world for about 10 years but I recall being told as I moved to a position with an office that it was in everyone's best interest to make sure that the door was either open or the blinds were open in my office when meeting one on one with women. This would have been early to mid-90's.
The interesting thing looking back with 20 years of perspective and change in social norms is that I don't recall the same being said of women who were at the same level as I was and there was a fair population of women in these positions.
It probably depends on the history of the company. If they had a couple inappropriate behind closed doors activities it made sense.
I had an office with females under my supervision and it never came up. ( I am not sure whether or not that was an intended pun)
Try again.
This is one of the reasons glass offices are popular these days.
Fat hurts wrote:
Conundrum wrote:
It probably depends on the history of the company. If they had a couple inappropriate behind closed doors activities it made sense.
I had an office with females under my supervision and it never came up. ( I am not sure whether or not that was an intended pun)
Try again.
This is one of the reasons glass offices are popular these days.
Just think of the peep show co-workers could have witnessed if Matt Lauer had a glass-walled office.
Conundrum wrote:
Uber Taxi wrote:
Which is your profession; Taxi driver or Uber driver? IT has to be one of those two because you "understand" those situations.
So there should only be female taxi or Uber drivers because a male should want to avoid that job because he wouldn't want to be alone with a female. But can the male be a passenger alone with a female driver?
This still is something that strikes me (honestly not trying to offend) as being silly. I am talking a just an office meeting not a business trip or anything.
Ok let me have a little fun with this. What is one of the men is gay? Should he not meet alone with another male or does this just apply to females?
0/10
Conundrum wrote:
TTH wrote:
FWIW...I've been out of the Corporate world for about 10 years but I recall being told as I moved to a position with an office that it was in everyone's best interest to make sure that the door was either open or the blinds were open in my office when meeting one on one with women. This would have been early to mid-90's.
The interesting thing looking back with 20 years of perspective and change in social norms is that I don't recall the same being said of women who were at the same level as I was and there was a fair population of women in these positions.
It probably depends on the history of the company. If they had a couple inappropriate behind closed doors activities it made sense.
I had an office with females under my supervision and it never came up. ( I am not sure whether or not that was an intended pun)
It wasn't a history of the company situation. The firm I was with was pretty large. Thinking back on it, it was introduced at a "corporate etiquette" type of meeting in which the firm brought in an outside firm to run through a host of issues which management needed to deal with. So this particular outside vendor was likely offering the same advice on how to handle these situations to a variety of corporate entities. The meeting was run by a woman as well. Whether this would happen today is anyone's guess.
Conundrum wrote:
Uber Taxi wrote:
Which is your profession; Taxi driver or Uber driver? IT has to be one of those two because you "understand" those situations.
So there should only be female taxi or Uber drivers because a male should want to avoid that job because he wouldn't want to be alone with a female. But can the male be a passenger alone with a female driver?
This still is something that strikes me (honestly not trying to offend) as being silly. I am talking a just an office meeting not a business trip or anything.
Ok let me have a little fun with this. What is one of the men is gay? Should he not meet alone with another male or does this just apply to females?
The whole notion of a man not wanting to be alone with a woman in any setting in the US is ridiculous. It’s 20 fkn 19 folks. There are countless combinations of circumstances which can potentially give the appearance of inappropriateness no matter how limited your exposure to women is, so it’s a real poor excuse to say you don’t want to give off the appearance of doing something wrong.
We are talking about a professional setting here and in this case a reporter, it would be truly retarded for anyone to misconstrue that as an inappropriate relationship. And don’t give me that corporate environment BS, of course they all have policies and norms, one thing is for sure, they have mostly evolved away from gender segregation.
We are talking about a politician openly practicing discrimination and offering a ridiculous reason to justify it. The assumption is either that he can’t control his body or behavior or that any woman he meets with might come on to him. So what if the reporter is male but gay? Somehow he would feel better about it? Again, in a professional relationship it would be completely unreasonable for anyone to believe this meeting would be somehow inappropriate. Now if he is meeting a random escort for a chat I get why he might want to consider the optics.
Do you people really think there is nothing wrong with here in this particular case? Should chaperones be deployed by companies across America to ensure no man feels uncomfortable meeting with female professionals alone? This is beyond absurd and nobody should find this acceptable in our society. Make America Intolerant Again, wtf.
Btw - this is just another example of really odd and extreme male anxiety. If this guy or his wife can’t feel ok with him meeting a reporter alone to speak professionally something is off with their values, whether it’s rooted in religion or not.
Conundrum wrote:
TTH wrote:
FWIW...I've been out of the Corporate world for about 10 years but I recall being told as I moved to a position with an office that it was in everyone's best interest to make sure that the door was either open or the blinds were open in my office when meeting one on one with women. This would have been early to mid-90's.
The interesting thing looking back with 20 years of perspective and change in social norms is that I don't recall the same being said of women who were at the same level as I was and there was a fair population of women in these positions.
It probably depends on the history of the company. If they had a couple inappropriate behind closed doors activities it made sense.
I had an office with females under my supervision and it never came up. ( I am not sure whether or not that was an intended pun)
You sound like a guy who starts off his closed door one-on-ones with “do you like massages?”