Please tell me you gave him a good smack for that.Originally Posted by papayahed
ugh! How in this day and age can a man ever think it's ok to call a female coworker "baby"????
Please tell me you gave him a good smack for that.ugh! How in this day and age can a man ever think it's ok to call a female coworker "baby"????
I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
Waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
In all that I could never overcome?
I'm not a feminist or anything but that general disrespect especially in the work place is uncalled for. Its just too familiar a term.ugh! How in this day and age can a man ever think it's ok to call a female coworker "baby"????
AGHHH god I'm so tired and spacy right now. Shame I don't like coffee...so instead I'm loading up on redbull and getting jittery
Next time that person says something like that, give him something back!
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
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This was part of an email I recieved today and I thought it was pretty funny!
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Since Venus is normally associated with women, what does this tell you ?
That women are going the 'right' direction...?
"Oh the clever
Things I should say to you
They got stuck somewhere
Stuck between me and you"
eh, I just told him he can't call me that.
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
I figure this was the best thing for you to do papaya.
Cause any type of retort would probably give him more gratification; it would show that he has control over your emotions [in this case anger] and it would probably encourage him in future to try it again.
But being calm about it, and saying it plainly as you did, shows him 3 things:
1. that he can't speak to you like that
2. that he can't control your emotions [even though you might be cussin' blue in your mind - like I would be]
3. that if he is to ever try it again, that you will be mature and sensible enough to report him! - which he definitely would not want!
"My warm hands have made the paper limp,
So that its feel reminds me of slept-in sheets: comfortable and safe"
"All these things I say... I say them because I want you to know, I don't ever want to regret afterwards that I didn't say enough, I would rather say too much." ~ Samuel Selvon
cute :P
Because dear girl, they are watching those old black and whites where every woman was a'baby' sounds like a part time pedaphile to me, and they even like those John Wayne movies where the girl slaps the guy and then he, well over two hundred pounds , socks her in the jaw. so proper, right?
Of course..this is what they are socialised into thinking is manly/macho behaviour.
"My warm hands have made the paper limp,
So that its feel reminds me of slept-in sheets: comfortable and safe"
"All these things I say... I say them because I want you to know, I don't ever want to regret afterwards that I didn't say enough, I would rather say too much." ~ Samuel Selvon
Respect - I would have gone into a fit and made a fool of myself. Or just ignored him for a week, with him not understanding why on earth I would do so. Wonderful how you kept calm and just told him you do not appreciate him calling you that wayI know that is the mature thing to do, I just never keep my cool long enough to do it.
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I have to say though: it is all in the way people say it. I can take a lot of crap (and talk crap back) from the people I work with or study with. I know people who I do not mind calling me honey and I know people whom I would scratch their eyes out if they would. I know that me being inconsistent about that does not really help guys (or girls for that manner) to know what they can and cannot say - but I just do not notice it from the people I accept while I hear alarm bells ringing when people use words like that in a demeaning manner.
I am not making much sense, am I?!I think I need coffee
It is not too late, to be wild for roundabouts - to be wild for life
Wolfsheim - It is not too late
eh I noticed the guy at work called me chuck saterday ( and realised this was where I had picked up the habit) turned around with a Ta love and that stopped him in his tracks and made him realsie what he'd said. and he didnt say it again all day, mind I dont doubt it will happen aagain and I won't notice it,, after 3 years withj all the customers pet-ing and duck-ing and love-ing and chuck-ing me Ive more or less come to terms with teh fact I am just going to have to accept it and live with it.
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Is "chuck" a pet name, Nightie? I've never heard it before.eh I noticed the guy at work called me chuck saterday ( and realised this was where I had picked up the habit) turned around with a Ta love and that stopped him in his tracks and made him realsie what he'd said. and he didnt say it again all day, mind I dont doubt it will happen aagain and I won't notice it,, after 3 years withj all the customers pet-ing and duck-ing and love-ing and chuck-ing me Ive more or less come to terms with teh fact I am just going to have to accept it and live with it.
I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
Waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
In all that I could never overcome?
It is the same as chick, but non genedre specific, though Ive never heard a man call a man chuck, wait tell a lie... I hsould say I have never heard two adult hetrosexual men use the word to each other. But pretty much everyone else , yeah
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yeah... you have been saing love duck and chuck a lot lately! I think Manchester is starting to seep into your veins!
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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yuppsie I told you Ive been here too long need to shift now.
My mission in life is to make YOU smile
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"The time has come," the Walrus said,"To talk of many things:
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