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255347 Gye Greene <gyegreene@g...> 2015‑07‑07 Re: Lapping chisels at work
LOL!


Well -- I admit, there *were* two sessions where I was sharpening a
colleague's kitchen knives.  So maybe it was one of the "knife days" that
freaked someone out.

Dunno.


FWIW -- our building actually has a "breast pump room", on another floor.
(It's called something more innocuous, though:  "Family Room", maybe.)


--TWAB

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Mark Pfeifer 
wrote:

> SNIP:
> On Jul 6, 2015, at 4:50 AM, Gye Greene  wrote:
>
> my manager said that someone had made "a comment" to
> her.  So I guess I'll have to stop.
>
>
> >>>> I’d sue for gender discrimination. I once had a female co worker who
> came back to work immediately after childbirth. She was in the loo using a
> noisy breast pump every day and nobody said a word. She was really
> distraught because she didn’t want to leave her baby in a child care, but
> had no choice (as she saw it) because she needed the money. Nobody said
> anything because we sympathized with her. But I can’t see how lapping
> chisel backs would be more of a distraction than occasionally flashing
> D-sized breasts around the office . . . . this is another example of the
> Man trying to hold the Man . . . . oh wait a minute . . . .
>
>
>

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