Firms urged to crack down on office football chat
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51261999
I don't like football so it's no loss to me, but if men are going to have to cut down on football chat shouldn't women stop banging on about babies?
TL;DR different people like to talk about different things.
I don't like football so it's no loss to me, but if men are going to have to cut down on football chat shouldn't women stop banging on about babies?
TL;DR different people like to talk about different things.
Who comes out with this guff. I've never cared about football so it all goes over my head, luckily being a straight white male I don't get patronized by do-gooders.
Hey what next, tell all the Albanian decorators on the site I'm on this week they're not allowed to converse in their native language? Think about it!
Hey what next, tell all the Albanian decorators on the site I'm on this week they're not allowed to converse in their native language? Think about it!
Don't like football either and as much as I cannot stand over hearing my loud and boring Chelsea supporter colleague telling anyone who will listen; numerous times over the course of a Monday morning, about "his teams" weekend football exploits, I cannot see how this is at all workable.
Having actually read the article, I've never heard so much b
ks in my life, I'm sure many a man who has worked in a predominantly female environment can confirm that women can be pretty graphic and "laddish", the girls in my admin dept will make many a mans eyes water with the stuff that they talk about!!
Having actually read the article, I've never heard so much b
ks in my life, I'm sure many a man who has worked in a predominantly female environment can confirm that women can be pretty graphic and "laddish", the girls in my admin dept will make many a mans eyes water with the stuff that they talk about!!Edited by HTP99 on Monday 27th January 13:12
HTP99 said:
Don't like football either and as much as I cannot stand over hearing my loud and boring Chelsea supporter colleague telling anyone who will listen; numerous times over the course of a Monday morning, about "his teams" weekend football exploits, I cannot see how this is at all workable.
Having actually read the article, I've never heard so much bks in my life, I'm sure many a man who has worked in a predominantly female environment can confirm that women can be pretty graphic and "laddish", the girls in my admin dept will make many a mans eyes water with the stuff that they talk about!!
Read most BBC articles on gender pay gaps, equality generally, the environment etc etc and enjoy. Having actually read the article, I've never heard so much b
ks in my life, I'm sure many a man who has worked in a predominantly female environment can confirm that women can be pretty graphic and "laddish", the girls in my admin dept will make many a mans eyes water with the stuff that they talk about!!Edited by HTP99 on Monday 27th January 13:12
You are lucky to find much of substance with little in the way of huge holes.
HTP99 said:
Don't like football either and as much as I cannot stand over hearing my loud and boring Chelsea supporter colleague telling anyone who will listen; numerous times over the course of a Monday morning, about "his teams" weekend football exploits,
Sorry, I'll try and be a bit more thoughtful in future. The Fembots really are becoming the new social conservatives aka moral socialists.
"It's a gateway to more laddish behaviour and - if it just goes unchecked - it's a signal of a more laddish culture,"
Oh no first gateway drugs now gateway conversations! She gets an extra neo-liberal dullard point for chucking the word 'culture' in there as well.
"It's a gateway to more laddish behaviour and - if it just goes unchecked - it's a signal of a more laddish culture,"
Oh no first gateway drugs now gateway conversations! She gets an extra neo-liberal dullard point for chucking the word 'culture' in there as well.
I've worked with plenty of women who've talked about football. And plenty of blokes who have no interest in it.
If I was a member of the Chartered Management Institute I'd be pretty pissed that my membership fee was going towards someone like this who clearly has nothing better to do with her time.
If I was a member of the Chartered Management Institute I'd be pretty pissed that my membership fee was going towards someone like this who clearly has nothing better to do with her time.
Jesus wept. 
WinstonWolf said:
I don't like football so it's no loss to me, but if men are going to have to cut down on football chat shouldn't women stop banging on about babies?
Our female employees are past that now, it's ALL menopause chat. Johnnytheboy said:
What a bizarrely sexist attitude to think only men go on about football!
Indeed. Somewhat ironically demonstrating her own inherent sexist beliefs. JagLover said:
A few years back the office I was working in was virtually all women and they started talking about Childbirth!
Trust me that talking about football is nowhere near as bad as that.
There's a joke about there being more see you next Tuesday's on a football pitch than in the maternity ward, but I can't sort out the words.Trust me that talking about football is nowhere near as bad as that.
JagLover said:
A few years back the office I was working in was virtually all women and they started talking about Childbirth!
Trust me that talking about football is nowhere near as bad as that.
I detest Football and would crawl through broken glass to avoid being in a chat about it, they way they talk! They use "we" like they were on the pitch!Trust me that talking about football is nowhere near as bad as that.
Anyway, rant over, I know more about childbirth than I do football, and frankly it might ease my slight PTSD from looking at the wrong end during my Daughters birth to talk to someone about it.
P.S. When a group of women start talking about Childbirth, Periods or the like, it's because they want you to go away so they can gossip about something else.
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