This comment of the day is from Joseph, on the post “It’s Time to Stop Discriminating Against Men (and Women)“
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I was briefly working for Portsmouth City Council as a finance officer in their IT department. During one of my appraisals they asked me if there was anything they could do to make my job easier, I asked for assertiveness training.
“Would that help?” I was asked.
“Sure, I’ve got to go round every week and ask for everyone’s timesheets. Everyone hates having to do their timesheets because it gets in the way of doing their job, but I can’t do my job until I have their timesheets, but all I feel when I ask for their timesheets is that I’m bugging them, and they give me excuses and then I feel sheepish about asking for them again, and I don’t feel taken seriously.”
My male manager had a think and then said thoughtfully, “I’ve asked for assertiveness training too. But the thing is the council only have an assertiveness training course for women.”
“So you just said ‘okay, sorry I bothered you’ then”, I responded with a grin.
“Yeah” he said and we laughed at the irony.
Why did being male make us less in need of assertiveness training?
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