Posted on 07/08/2008 7:50:56 AM PDT by flowerplough
"Sometimes, a term of endearment can be anything but endearing.
"I had this manager who … started referring to me as 'honey,'" recalls May Snowden, former chief diversity officer for both Starbucks and Eastman Kodak Co. (one of DiversityInc's 25 Noteworthy Companies), who is now a consultant for Creative Wealth Alliance. "[It was] when I took my first director position. I was in a male-dominated job in the telecommunications industry and I did not want to embarrass him in front of his peers, so I invited him to my office and indicated that 'I won't call you sweetie if you won't call me honey.' We had that little conversation and he stopped. He was really embarrassed, [and because] he calls his wife, his daughters and other women 'honey', he did not even think about it."
"We all come to the table with biases and histories and upbringings in life that give us a perspective that may have 20, 30 years behind it," says Sherry Nolan, vice president of diversity and organizational capabilities at Pepsi Bottling Group..."
(The List:
Any kind of sexual comment
"You don't really want that promotion. You'll never see your kids."
"You'll get the job because you're a woman" or "You must be the token woman"
"What's the matter, is it that time of the month?"
"You're very attractive [or pretty, or beautiful, etc.]"
"You look great for your age" or "Do you use Botox?"
"You do that so well … for a girl."
"When are you due?")
(Excerpt) Read more at diversityinc.com ...
- Inspector Clouseau
“You know, if you’d go to the gym more, lose some weight and wear shorter skirts, you might have VP potential.”
"Relax."
I guess that leaves out, “Nice rack?”.....
Also:
“When are you due?”
I had to learn that one the hard way.
Wonderful, a speech code. I’m told that diversity efforts are all about giving qualified minorities a shot at promotion...but then they give us lists of things we can’t say for fear of upsetting the token employees. Sounds like fragile flowers to me.
What the hell kind of an organization is “DiversityInc”?
Michelle Obama is handed over $270,000 per year to be “diversity coordinator” for University of Chicago Hospitals. (I have recently read that she actually gets over $360,000.) Her husband “earmarks” the taxpayers’ money and she grabs the “commission”. Nice arrangement.
I think the author watches to much “Office”-these are all Michael Scott lines-but she seems to have forgotten his go to line-”That’s what she said”
You act so cute in our meetings.
“You don’t really want that promotion. You’ll never see your kids.”
....this whole Kids thing is a bone of contention....my wife and I don’t have kids....yet at work she often got crappy assignments because other women would say “I can’t do it because my daughter has her dance recital”...or...”I can’t do it because my son has his swim meet”....I think that sometimes they were just using the kid to get out of stuff....has anybody else experianced this?
“Come here and sit on my lap and tell me all about it, sweetheart.”
“Your tits hang like Spanish moss.”
“Hey — nice [body part(s)]!”
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What the hell kind of an organization is “DiversityInc”?...
I assume it teaches us ignoramuses how to be P.C. You see, we don’t have enough common sense to know what’s offensive to someone....
It’s hilarious how the diversity and sexual harassment crowds have tried to legislate a “comfortable working environment” where no one would get mocked, belittled or discouraged, with the most crude and heavy-handed tactics. It’s the adult equivalent of a babysitter teacher.
Now we have a female auto-racing pit worker who claims the conversation in the pit - among a bunch of expert car jocks in a competitive industry - was ribald and unhinged. Stop the presses.
This is not a joke, though - anyone with a “non-diverse” characteristic (white women, men of any color) had better take this stuff to heart and play the politics if they want to stay on the ladder.
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