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Nathan Blakeley lodged claim after comment made by boss when female colleague won award at the company party

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/feb/05/male-marketing-executive-loses-sex-discrimination-claim-over-company-awards


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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If you read the article you would have seen that she said "sorry boys" after inadvertently revealing the winner was female during the build up to announcing the winner. A bit lame and infantilising, probably, but it was a marketing exec saying it so what can you expect?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure, but she didn't use it for the same reason you're using "she" and "her" instead of "they" and "their" - she knew the winner's gender.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She absolutely could have used "they" until the winner's identity was revealed to maintain the mystery.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

...she was actively revealing the winners identity. Please fucking think for a moment before arguing back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I don't think you understand how sentences work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

No, before arguing back. Think first, then argue. Or, in this case, don't argue if you can't actually articulate an argument.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

~~Unless the dude was complaining about his boss being a misogynist weirdo for making that comment, both suck.~~

Nevermind, boss is a woman this guy can eat shit. (Also yes I am aware of the irony of me making the assumption boss was a dude)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

95% of the employees are women. I would say the comment could be construed as bad taste but not something to sue over.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Yes, it's as dumb as the title makes it sound.