it's really irritating
if they want more women/people from different backgrounds to be promoted, they don't shove existing good people out of the way. they change the system so that the under-represented can actually stand a chance of getting the jobs. eg the massive barking elephant in the corner of the room, that not one person will discuss, is that women's careers tend to stall when they have kids.

so don't set up "female mentoring" schemes that are just a load of lip-service. set up a creche. or actually allow women to work from home part-time. or try giving them a job if they've had 2 years off. grrr.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 10:02, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

in fact as i have no sprogs, the current system actually benefits me hugely
but i hate it so much that it irritates me non-stop
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 10:02, Reply)

Agreed.
Actually, I would say I'm far more productive at work now that I've had a kid because I'm fucking desperate to do something that doesn't involve reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar to a bolshy toddler.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 10:08, Reply)

...and the baby isn't much help either!

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 10:09, Reply)

Trufax.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 10:18, Reply)

one of my colleagues overheard two guys at the photocopier
dissing another colleague because apparently she now has "baby brain". she thought about smashing their heads onto the copier but decided that it would just slow up her own productivity.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 10:09, Reply)