Man loses sex discrimination claim after boss says ‘sorry boys’ at awards do
www.theguardian.com
Nathan Blakeley lodged claim after comment made by boss when female colleague won award at the company party
  • moonking@lemy.lol
    33·
    5 hours ago

    The director Megan Robertson told the tribunal: “When I read out the results for one of the award categories, I introduced it by referring to ‘she’ and then went on to say ‘sorry boys’. Given that approximately 95% of the workforce is female, this was not statistically surprising.”

    So if men only make up 5% of the workforce, why single them out at the awards ceremony🤔 did she apologise to the other women who didn’t win? After all it’s not statistically surprising that only one person wins.

    Sounds like the boss needlessly injected gender into the contest.

    • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.net
      41·
      5 hours ago

      Gender was needlessly injected by the English language, which requires gendered pronouns. The boss had no choice about referring to the winner as “she”, she just chose to comment on it.

      • Ixoid@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        50 minutes ago

        Did she not have the gender-neutral pronoun ‘they’ in her lexicon?