Firms urged to crack down on office football chat ..

scrumhalf

"sports banter can exclude women and lead to laddish behaviour such as chat about sexual conquests."

I'd like to know the scientific basis for "can lead to".

I suspect it's from that well-known journal "Talking Bollocks Monthly".

Nunogilberto

I can imagine a great many women resenting that suggestion if I'm honest - I've known a few women on work who are into their sport.

thecolourbox

Octafish said:

thecolourbox said:

 Or should we all just shut the hell up and never speak "you are here to work not to enjoy yourselves!"

That is kind of the point of the vast majority of jobs.

Yes, but some employers do tend to care if their staff actually enjoy being there, or absolutely loathe it.

fields5069

Octafish said:

fields5069 said:

And anal intercourse. I'm fed up with bants about anal. FFS.

What in a 'less chat, more action' kind of way?

Well, not by the water cooler. Ew.

Kittyfrisk

fields5069 said:

And anal intercourse. I'm fed up with bants about anal. FFS.

I think that might have actually been "banal"...

Nitefly

I knew it was a mistake, giving them the vote...

skunkwerx

Depends where you work. 

We had a good chat about a bukkake party today, started by a bird. 

LuttiS

At last year's appraisal I got marked down as having a  bad attitude for not joining in office 'conversations'...
I work in an office full of women, as I didn't give a flying fuck about love island it was apparently an issue... 

So I joined in the conversations and gave my full opinion on the subject matter..  next appraisal is on Wednesday! 

Freebird

Why have the BBC integrated mens and womens football on their website, and feature the ladies game prominently if the female half of the population hate it so much?

phil_b

Lewy

As the BBC reports, almost everyone male and female has responded saying it’s a load of shit so it’s not the world going mad blah blah blah. It’s one person talking bollocks and everyone else saying it’s bollocks.

ftumch

MrSwanson said:

tony99 said:

you see that ludicrous display last night?

Problem is Arsenal always try and walk it in...

What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early!!

Bellycaster

LuttiS said:

At last year's appraisal I got marked down as having a  bad attitude for not joining in office 'conversations'...
I work in an office full of women, as I didn't give a flying fuck about love island it was apparently an issue... 

So I joined in the conversations and gave my full opinion on the subject matter..  next appraisal is on Wednesday! 

Sounds like your Management need to go Fuck themselves really hard.

mudslide73

I love joining in with the live episode of Loose Women that is our admin office. Such earth shattering convo around Amanda Holden and Holly Willoughby's hairdos... very educational. They didn't seem remotely interested in Rick Beato's string comparison video when I mentioned it either.  

Bellycaster

mudslide73 said:

I love joining in with the live episode of Loose Women that is our admin office. Such earth shattering convo around Amanda Holden and Holly Willoughby's hairdos... very educational. They didn't seem remotely interested in Rick Beato's string comparison video when I mentioned it either.  

For God Sake.....Do not try the "Does Wood Matter" debate

Sassafras

Maybe if Ann Francke didn't boast about her sexual conquests every time football is mentioned...

munckee

I can see how the link happens, when watching liverpool against shrewsbury at the weekend it reminded me of this time I met a girl from  Rhyl who had no gag reflex...

ICBM

LuttiS said:

At last year's appraisal I got marked down as having a  bad attitude for not joining in office 'conversations'...
I work in an office full of women, as I didn't give a flying fuck about love island it was apparently an issue... 

So I joined in the conversations and gave my full opinion on the subject matter..  next appraisal is on Wednesday! 

Did it contain the words ‘waste’ and ‘oxygen’?

And if so, did it apply to Love Island or the management...

EricTheWeary

I like to give over my office chit chat time to looking at The Fretboard instead. That seems to work okay. 
It's a mostly female team and they talk a lot about rugby which I know nothing about. 

DefaultM

MrSwanson said:

tony99 said:

you see that ludicrous display last night?

Problem is Arsenal always try and walk it in...

I actually tried this, but no one got it and they all started telling me they used to do that but don't anymore.