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Post by Big Blue on Mar 8, 2022 9:48:25 GMT
So, this is today apparently. A Soviet public holiday, albeit with origins elsewhere, it was never heard of when I grew up. W2.1 refused to celebrate it after the collapse of the Soviet Union as she felt it was just a horrible reminder of the few sops given to the populace during the Soviet era. She just asked me where her flowers were and I replied that she told me it reminded her of communism so I didn’t bother but reminded her I buy flowers every week as part of the weekly shop - the fact that I like flowers in the house as well is neither here nor there, they’re for her  Anyone else celebrating? |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Mar 8, 2022 11:08:47 GMT
As I pointed out to Mrs Sacamano this morning; every day she's married to me is a cause for her celebration.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2022 12:03:38 GMT
Wot? No MENS day?
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Post by Ben on Mar 8, 2022 12:46:11 GMT
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Post by Big Blue on Mar 8, 2022 13:08:12 GMT
I can’t actually tell if that’s a piss take or not but I’m looking forward to reading Twitter posts with the hashtag #InternationalMensDay in November. I reckon my phone will catch fire. |
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Post by Blarno on Mar 8, 2022 15:01:49 GMT
I don't know why anyone needs a special day, we're all just meatbags stood atop a spinning, dying rock, hurtling towards an inevitable fiery doom.
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Post by ChrisM on Mar 8, 2022 17:46:01 GMT
I don't know why anyone needs a special day Card makers/sellers: They use it to try to boost sales: Grandparents' day, world peace day, world pet day...... whatever, they will find an "excuse" to try to get us to buy cards. Personally, the only thing I think I can celebrate today is a nice, shiny new MoT Certificate (?) for the Kuga |
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Post by Stuntman on Mar 8, 2022 20:51:50 GMT
The company I work for is led by a female Managing Director who is very big on IWD, so we have 'celebrated' it every year for the last 3 years.
Our gender split for employed colleagues is over 90% female and under 10% male.
We have "Inspiring Women of [company name]" awards, where women in the company are nominated in line with each of our four company values and then a winner in each category is chosen. All nominees receive an M&S voucher or similar.
There is no similar set of awards for "Inspiring Men" or even "Inspiring People" at this company.
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Post by Stuntman on Mar 8, 2022 21:23:22 GMT
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Post by Alex on Mar 9, 2022 5:05:33 GMT
There was someone on Twitter my wife showed me who was putting the published gender pay gaps in a tweet directly below each company who out out an IWD tweet.
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Post by johnc on Mar 9, 2022 8:16:15 GMT
The company I work for is led by a female Managing Director who is very big on IWD, so we have 'celebrated' it every year for the last 3 years. Our gender split for employed colleagues is over 90% female and under 10% male. We have "Inspiring Women of [company name]" awards, where women in the company are nominated in line with each of our four company values and then a winner in each category is chosen. All nominees receive an M&S voucher or similar. There is no similar set of awards for "Inspiring Men" or even "Inspiring People" at this company. This is surely discriminatory. Although it would be a brave man who would bring that allegation to the table! Yesterday was my wife's birthday so it was all about a particular woman yesterday in our house. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2022 9:04:26 GMT
Sounds standard to me. It's only discriminatory of minority or popular activists say it is. Not the only example of that. I still believe we should be past this kind of bovine but logic gets trumped and not a thing can be done about it.
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Post by PetrolEd on Mar 9, 2022 9:20:14 GMT
The company I work for is led by a female Managing Director who is very big on IWD, so we have 'celebrated' it every year for the last 3 years. Our gender split for employed colleagues is over 90% female and under 10% male. We have "Inspiring Women of [company name]" awards, where women in the company are nominated in line with each of our four company values and then a winner in each category is chosen. All nominees receive an M&S voucher or similar. There is no similar set of awards for "Inspiring Men" or even "Inspiring People" at this company. I've no issue with promoting/awarding those in a minority to create a more diverse culture but to have awards specifically for woman only in a woman dominated environment seems a little much. Still I'm sure the environment you work in has its advantages! |
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Post by Stuntman on Mar 9, 2022 19:42:44 GMT
Ed -it really doesn't.
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Post by bryan on Mar 10, 2022 10:16:23 GMT
Are they all in sync?😂
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Post by Tim on Mar 10, 2022 11:54:05 GMT
The company I work for is led by a female Managing Director who is very big on IWD, so we have 'celebrated' it every year for the last 3 years. Our gender split for employed colleagues is over 90% female and under 10% male. We have "Inspiring Women of [company name]" awards, where women in the company are nominated in line with each of our four company values and then a winner in each category is chosen. All nominees receive an M&S voucher or similar. There is no similar set of awards for "Inspiring Men" or even "Inspiring People" at this company. Stuntman and colleague at work, yesterday  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2022 12:26:15 GMT
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Post by PG on Mar 10, 2022 13:48:00 GMT
The biggest issue with IWD seems to be that nobody dares to actually define what a woman is any more. Two Labour front benchers tied themselves in knots avoiding answering the "what is a woman" question.
Which means that Dan's solution is simply to identity as a woman and then he can win all the awards. And if he doesn't, just scream "trans-phobia" and you'll get the MD arrested sharpish.
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Post by Alex on Mar 10, 2022 19:29:03 GMT
Ed would be cancelled by morning break at your place! |
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Post by Stuntman on Mar 14, 2022 20:54:24 GMT
One of my (male) peers in a different department was recently given a haranguing by our MD about some comments that she thought some of his team members had made which she perceived to be sexist, only that it wasn't actually his team members who had made these comments (it was people in someone else's team, and this was somebody who actually reported to her). I suggested to my peer that he told her that (a) it wasn't any of his team members, and (b) calm down, dear... Unfortunately, he lacked the balls. |
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Post by racingteatray on Mar 15, 2022 9:36:20 GMT
So, this is today apparently. A Soviet public holiday, albeit with origins elsewhere, it was never heard of when I grew up. W2.1 refused to celebrate it after the collapse of the Soviet Union as she felt it was just a horrible reminder of the few sops given to the populace during the Soviet era. She just asked me where her flowers were and I replied that she told me it reminded her of communism so I didn’t bother but reminded her I buy flowers every week as part of the weekly shop - the fact that I like flowers in the house as well is neither here nor there, they’re for her  Anyone else celebrating? As someone who lived in Russia for several years, I am well aware of IWD, and always wish my wife IWD, not least because Italians are also reasonably keen on it. She doesn't necessarily get special flowers for the same reason as W2.1, as she gets them regularly enough anyway and often as part of the weekly shop! In Russia, IWD is accompanied by "Defenders of the Fatherland Day", which occurs around the same time of the year and is effectively Russia's "men's day". In the office in Moscow, on IWD all the women in the office would receive vast bunches of flowers on their desks, and on DFD, we men would also receive something. Once it was some fairly evil Armenian cognac. On another occasion, it was a Russian Railways glass and silver gilt tea mug adorned with the double-headed eagle of imperial Russia, which I still have. |
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