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I'm not a sexist in any manner. I try really hard to treat everyone the same regardless of gender.
So,,,, why are you supposed to treat them like they are something special??? Isn't that promoting the very response that you are opposed to???
I worked for a woman after she had filed a discrimination complaint against her boss, feeling that she had been passed over for a promotion because of what she called "The good old boy system."
She lost which wasn't surprising, as he was way more qualified than her.
At the same time she wanted "All new people hired by me"... starting with the two guys who just happened to be drinking buddies with her husband and her. They would go out at night and decide who was going to do what, and inevitably I was left holding the short stick when I got to work the next morning.
Big Barn
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She IS special.
To her credit she did eventually see how things were, and told me that she regretted filing a complaint; and even admitted that she had gotten where she was because "the boss was sexist." She was just young and green so didn't realise what she didn't know.
Molalla1
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I'm not a sexist in any manner. I try really hard to treat everyone the same regardless of gender.
So,,,, why are you supposed to treat them like they are something special??? Isn't that promoting the very response that you are opposed to???
what gets me is the way a lot of these youngsters dress and they don't want anybody to notice? :laughing:You're dead if you're done working my friend . . .
goeduck
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Agree. A lot of the stuff you see in the news (think of that family so famous for nothing) is just plain obscene. They should put some clothes on.
I'm not sure, but I think that family you are referring to is the one which I mistakenly believed was from a Star Trek movie.
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bunyip
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I'm not a sexist in any manner. I try really hard to treat everyone the same regardless of gender.
So,,,, why are you supposed to treat them like they are something special??? Isn't that promoting the very response that you are opposed to???
I treat everyone with equal contempt
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Congrats. Sounds as though you're set up for it. I was set up for mine at 55 but stayed another year because the discount rate was going to record low then. It did and increased the lump sum I took away. Could have drawn a pension but took the lump sum instead. Had the option back then.
The Company called me back a couple times asking whether I wanted to go to #1 and then #2 for an assignment. Told them "no". Second time, there were a bunch of them on the telephone line. They asked me whether I missed working: "no".
I enjoyed my work and had a good career but have enjoyed retirement just as much or more.
Ralph: happily retired in central Virginia. Love Aus and NZ. Been to Aus about 6 times and NZ twice. Tassy is very nice.
The Company called me back a couple times asking whether I wanted to go to #1 and then #2 for an assignment. Told them "no". Second time, there were a bunch of them on the telephone line. They asked me whether I missed working: "no".
I enjoyed my work and had a good career but have enjoyed retirement just as much or more.
Ralph: happily retired in central Virginia. Love Aus and NZ. Been to Aus about 6 times and NZ twice. Tassy is very nice.
