mathematics Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 4 hours ago, scottsdad said: Someone got in touch with me as I am apparently leading three themes of our Athena Swan - two related to student recruitment and one to do with maternity. I got back to them saying I knew about the student recruitment ones, but maternity? Me? I think they got the wrong person. Nope, I'm told, the spreadsheet says it is you. So now I am to set up a maternity working group. Me. A middle aged man leading our maternity activity for our Athena Swan, which promotes gender equality in higher education. Something is wrong with this picture! I’ll disagree with you here. The maternity working group doesn’t necessarily have to be all women. The People with Disabilities working group doesn’t necessarily have to be lead by someone with a disability. Nor the Gay Rights Group, or the BAME group (if your place still uses that term) etc. Also, why is it maternity? Why are the fathers excluded? It should be a Parental Leave working group. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiscoStu Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 9 hours ago, RuMoore said: We have this work chat thing where it's meant for folk basically letting off steam or chatting about non work related stuff, generally just filled with people asking what's for dinner or moaning about their jobs, there's this one girl who's been off with anxiety for about 6 months who is chatting away on it all day, recently someone was moaning about being back to back workloads and she posted a massive spiel about how reading this stuff heightens her anxiety and if people don't stop moaning she won't be able to return to work. This chat is on a work laptop that she's choosing to look at to wind herself up. It's almost impressive. She sounds like an attention seeker and is just using the situation as an excuse to go on about her anxiety. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 2 hours ago, mathematics said: I’ll disagree with you here. The maternity working group doesn’t necessarily have to be all women. The People with Disabilities working group doesn’t necessarily have to be lead by someone with a disability. Nor the Gay Rights Group, or the BAME group (if your place still uses that term) etc. Also, why is it maternity? Why are the fathers excluded? It should be a Parental Leave working group. It is maternity, and I really feel under qualified on this one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH33 Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 Who's Athena Swan? Is she a wid? Pics or gtf. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 45 minutes ago, scottsdad said: It is maternity, and I really feel under qualified on this one. Maybe you just look pregnant, fatty 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 29 minutes ago, RH33 said: Who's Athena Swan? Is she a wid? Pics or gtf. I don't know but she can break a man's arm you know 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 32 minutes ago, tamthebam said: I don't know but she can break a man's arm you know The poster child for strong women everywhere. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 8 hours ago, scottsdad said: It is maternity, and I really feel under qualified on this one. Then I call shenanigans. Where’s the equality? Justice for fathers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 17 hours ago, scottsdad said: Someone got in touch with me as I am apparently leading three themes of our Athena Swan - two related to student recruitment and one to do with maternity. I got back to them saying I knew about the student recruitment ones, but maternity? Me? I think they got the wrong person. Nope, I'm told, the spreadsheet says it is you. So now I am to set up a maternity working group. Me. A middle aged man leading our maternity activity for our Athena Swan, which promotes gender equality in higher education. Something is wrong with this picture! Facilitate maternity by putting it about unsheathed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 1 hour ago, coprolite said: Facilitate maternity by putting it about unsheathed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moomintroll Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 12 hours ago, scottsdad said: It is maternity, and I really feel under qualified on this one. The Prof really is at a different level with his wind ups. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 (edited) On 06/07/2023 at 20:02, BTFD said: I think you need a picture of the woman in question to sell along with the item. According to a mate. As if anybody is going to check if it's the right woman. According to someone itk... Edited July 8, 2023 by Jacksgranda Typo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 13 hours ago, RH33 said: Who's Athena Swan? Is she a wid? Pics or gtf. If Athena Swan was a woman, well, she’d probably still have testicles. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 16 hours ago, RuMoore said: Aye we've had similar drama, I don't really need to be careful as I have absolutely zero desire to spend any time speaking to these people. I actually left the group and got added back in by a manger. Bit of a donkey, was he? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btb Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 Apparently historians have unearthed a sicknote from the Father of English Literature Geoffrey Chaucer! Quote Geoffrey Chaucer note asking for time off work identified as his handwriting 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 On the subject of phone messages and Whatapps groups. I started where I am during lockdown and was WFH full time. Knew it would be handy having a phone number, but bugger giving them mine, I'm a buyer and would have been on emails to colleagues, suppliers and clients. Had an old phone in a cupboard, £10.00 a month sim from EE and had a new number. More than two years later probably the best tenner a month I ever spent, and now less a month. The phone has all my work contacts, suppliers, clients colleagues and works whatapps teams & groups etc. Soon as leaving office that phone in bag and ignored till morning, if at home, it never leaves my desk and can ring or bleep as much as it wants, It will be ignored. My boss and one colleague have my real number for emergencies and that's it. The idea of having a combined personal and work phone is madness, I have clients in different countries and time zones, 7pm on a Friday in the pub is not a good time to ask me about your tooling problems. I work my hours, and if honest a bit more, but f**k the idea of 24/7 thoughts of work or the folk I have to work with and deal with. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Wilkos Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 On 07/07/2023 at 14:54, Richey Edwards said: Back in 2017 I was off sick for eight months with depression and suicidal ideation and the very last thing I wanted to do was go on a work-related chat and read about work-related activities. I left all work group chats because they were nothing to do with me at that time (I did not even know if I would ever be back), and deleted my social media. There is a lass at our work who started fairly recently - she is the one I previously alluded to who does not shut up about her kids. She joined our daily team Teams call while she was in the hospital the other week. It was one of the most awkward five minutes of my life, I had to look down at my notepad and pretend to write. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 3 minutes ago, Steve_Wilkos said: She joined our daily team Teams call while she was in the hospital the other week. It was one of the most awkward five minutes of my life, I had to look down at my notepad and pretend to write. I don't get people who do things like that. Surely if you're in the hospital then you'd realise that no one would expect you to join a daily Teams call? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbaxters Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 18 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said: I don't get people who do things like that. Surely if you're in the hospital then you'd realise that no one would expect you to join a daily Teams call? Seems to be only one reason for it; one which is at the route of so many of the world's problems IMO. Attention seeking. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 4 minutes ago, jimbaxters said: Seems to be only one reason for it; one which is at the route of so many of the world's problems IMO. Attention seeking. Pretty much. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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