Gender pronouns in the workplace

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Why not just put Mr. or Ms. or Miss or Mrs. in front of the first name in the signature block? I guess that is what I don’t get. If Jim wants to be considered a her, I am completely fine with that. If he wants to make sure everyone knows, why not just make his signature block “Ms. Jim Smith, Accountant”. Not much matters beyond that. I just think the whole thing is awkward to put “Jim Smith (her)”. I would say “her what?” Very confusing.
 
margaret42 said:
It’s bats!! If someone asked me at work, “what do you want to be called?” I’d be like , “you see what’s written on my application?”. “There’s your answer”.
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This!! All this. I totally agree.
 
QwertyGirl said:
If Jim wants to be considered a her, I am completely fine with that.
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Ahh, but jim might consider himself a “zim”, or “zem”, or “sem”, or “thdpt”, or even a “zit”, and be offended by the others. (I wish I was making this up; that offense exists).

Oh, and heaven forbid that when second grade Betty comes back to school on monday, that you forget to call her “Billy” (another recent national news case).

It’s not about hm/her . . .

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I am still OK with it. I will call someone whatever they wish to be called. But, gramatically, it just makes more sense to put the descriptor before the name. (Zem) Jim Smith, is even OK with me. But to put it after the name…well it just appears as if it is a dangler at that point. Like an explanation, of some sort, should follow. I guess I think this because it isn’t a generally accepted practice, but the people who do it expect the reader to know what it means. Communicaiton, people. Communication!!!
 
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margaret42 said:
Don’t people know what a stigma they are putting on themselves? Any on-looker knows that there’s something odd about three different bathrooms. I think the only reason I’d use on is in a downright emergency!
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Oops. I didn’t explain that very well.

I’ll use Chipotle here in Tacoma. There are two single toilet bathrooms with independent doors in self-contained rooms (like “family restrooms” are in Target, for example). They’re not gendered - one isn’t for women and one isn’t for men. Either can use them.

It actually makes it easier to use the bathroom. LOL.
 
margaret42 said:
U mean unisex?
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Yes. And it’s just one toilet with a locking door. Just like a family bathroom in Target. Obviously not feasible everywhere, but that arrangement doesn’t bug me.
 
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That would’ve been a better way of explaining it. LOL sorry. 🙂 I was picturing it while I was trying to explain it and didn’t think of “like you have at home but without the shower”. 😆😆
 
Pup7 said:
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mrsdizzyd:
I once knew a woman named Robert Lee…
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I can’t with this. I don’t know whether to laugh or shake my head.

That poor girl. Who does this stuff to their kids???
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Apparently she was named after some important relative. Her sister’s name was Alberta also named after some important relative, but at least they made her name feminine.

Sister Robert Lee was a mean woman. I know that much! I used to be afraid of her.
 
I had an aunt named Billie and another named Edna Earl.

Guess I should mind my own glass house. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
 
Lord have Mercy. It’s like it’s a big joke that is being played on everyone. Except it’s not a joke.
 
And I have an aunt named Willie Emma! 🤣🤣

I don’t know how these women ever survived without gendered pronoun email signatures! :roll_eyes:
 
The irony of all this is that the economy is getting better, but now you have to look online to see which companies a still traditional!
 
I’d say “We,” as in “We are not amused.”

Or “Herself.” That works, too.

Whatever you do, be sure to capitalize it.
 
Unfortunately the trade off I’ve seen in Asia is they don’t really believe in toilets. You get two foot pads and a hole, unless you can find the toilet labeled “western”.
 
kill051 said:
I find it hilarious and tragic simultaneously that a university employee in what could be considered a high position has misspelled the word ‘pronouns’,
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Hey don’t judge, you can spell things whatever way you want! Not to mention the pronoun or additional name of your choice!

YOU get your own pronoun . . . YOU get your own pronoun . . .everyone gets “their” own pronoun!
 
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