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Lunch Invitation from the Boss.

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  • Alpha58 wrote: »
    The $64 question is whether you are male or female. It would be massively inappropriate for a male boss to invite a female staff member to lunch out of the office...

    Why?
    Who set that rule?
  • Alpha58 wrote: »
    The $64 question is whether you are male or female. It would be massively inappropriate for a male boss to invite a female staff member to lunch out of the office...

    Why?



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  • Claree__x
    Claree__x Posts: 1,186 Forumite
    Alpha58 wrote: »
    The $64 question is whether you are male or female. It would be massively inappropriate for a male boss to invite a female staff member to lunch out of the office...

    Completely disagree.
  • rachbc
    rachbc Posts: 4,461 Forumite
    Why?
    Who set that rule?

    Surely yo know that females are only considered worth taking for lunch if there is a sexual intent? Heavens forfend that a male boss should be considering poaching a female to their team based on their intellect/ ability at their job/ knowledge they might have about a competitor....
    People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • maman
    maman Posts: 30,507 Forumite
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    Alpha58 wrote: »
    The $64 question is whether you are male or female. It would be massively inappropriate for a male boss to invite a female staff member to lunch out of the office...

    Cheapskate, I wouldn't be going for lunch with you!;):rotfl:
  • Bazey
    Bazey Posts: 8,230 Forumite
    Is your boss or are you gay? I'd let him get me drunk and hope he tries to take advantage as I need a payrise.
  • Cotta
    Cotta Posts: 3,667 Forumite
    Bazey wrote: »
    Is your boss or are you gay? I'd let him get me drunk and hope he tries to take advantage as I need a payrise.

    No neither of us are, well I'm not anyway and I think he's married.

    I've heard no more about this and I saw him outside of the office an hour ago - we just exchanged hellos. I think it could have been just a fleeting comment and nothing more to it.
  • thorsoak
    thorsoak Posts: 7,166 Forumite
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    rachbc wrote: »
    Surely yo know that females are only considered worth taking for lunch if there is a sexual intent? Heavens forfend that a male boss should be considering poaching a female to their team based on their intellect/ ability at their job/ knowledge they might have about a competitor....

    What claptrap rubbish!

    I've been invited out to lunch on many occasions by bosses - and there has never been any sexual innuendo nor any interrogation about colleagues/departments. Discussion about ongoing projects, yes, but on a colleague to colleague basis.

    If that's what happens today - then I despair!
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    thorsoak wrote: »
    What claptrap rubbish!

    I've been invited out to lunch on many occasions by bosses - and there has never been any sexual innuendo nor any interrogation about colleagues/departments. Discussion about ongoing projects, yes, but on a colleague to colleague basis.

    If that's what happens today - then I despair!

    I think that was rather rach's point.....
  • thorsoak wrote: »
    What claptrap rubbish!

    I've been invited out to lunch on many occasions by bosses - and there has never been any sexual innuendo nor any interrogation about colleagues/departments. Discussion about ongoing projects, yes, but on a colleague to colleague basis.

    If that's what happens today - then I despair!


    Ummm that was a sarcastic retort to Alpha58's comment (which was claptrap).
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