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In reply to the discussion: There seems to be a lot of confusion about benevolent sexism. [View all]Lurker Deluxe
(1,036 posts)If there is one thing I do, I treat people based on just a couple of factors. The biggest one, and I tell this to just about everyone I know, is there are basically two kinds of people. You either do what you say you will, or you don't.
If I were tasked with hiring anyone, I would consider that person on qualification alone. Period.
We get interns here every year, most of the time they are in the office but every now and again we get one in the shop. It was three, or four, years ago that we got a student out of MITAGS (marine school) who was a 19 year old female about 5'2" and 130 pounds. No one would put her to work, everyone else was giving her bullshit work labeling things and writing reports. She went up the food chain here and complained that she was not getting the experience she was after coming to intern in our shop. My boss called me in and told me to, "watch the language, but treat her like you would any other new hire". Next day she was tearing down some pumps and working just like anyone else. At the end of her internship she thanked me for treating her like a peer.
I couldn't put the name tags on those people because I don't know their names. I don't go up there unless there is a need for me to do so, which is never. If I see someone signed in when I leave I go up to the area where they would be speak with them, at that point I know their name because I just read it on a piece of paper. There are 450 people in this office, over half of them are female. Even if I wanted to know their names my memory is simply not that good.