We had a diet coke moment in work today

yvonne13_2

On Monday we had a new starter (Male) and all of the women in the office including myself started fanning themselves and one even asked if they could open the window ect ect. He was the talk of the office and it was all done light heartedly.

The big boss (Male)witnessed all of this and asked why doesn't any of us do that when he walks in the room, and his reply was because you don't look like him.

Anyway today was the big bosses birthday and at 11am we were all in fits of laughter. He only walks in the office wearing a wig to appear a lot younger than he actually is, so we just pretended we didn't notice until someone rolled a can of diet coke across the room :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I must admit this had to be the most funniest office day of the year so far.

tea_lover

Maybe you had to be there.

Takeaway_Addict

tea_lover wrote: »

Maybe you had to be there.

lol!

I'm presuming the big boss was taking the mick out of himself and not wearing the wig in seriousness

neneromanova

That sounds like a really good place to work Wish I worked there with some eye candy. Makes the day just that little bit more enjoyable :rotfl:

meritaten

awwww - you could have 'humoured' the boss and wolf whistled, or at least fainted at his approach!

daisiegg

And if an office full of men reacted in that way about a new female colleague they would be branded sexist pigs...

yvonne13_2

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

lol!

I'm presuming the big boss was taking the mick out of himself and not wearing the wig in seriousness

Yeah he was pretending to be the new starter but he looked more like Elvis :rotfl:

marywooyeah

tea_lover wrote: »

Maybe you had to be there.

Hahahaha!:rotfl:

nickj_2

daisiegg wrote: »

And if an office full of men reacted in that way about a new female colleague they would be branded sexist pigs...

i've always thought that the diet coke grass cutting ad is sexist , you can imagine the uproar if a load of builders were hanging of scaffolding whilst ogling a woman passing by, it does work both ways

valk_scot

I wonder what the new starter feels like when he's leered at every time he goes in a room? If it was a young woman being leered at by the male workforce we'd be rightfully indignant on her behalf. Saying it's light hearted doesn't necessarily mean that he likes it, that's just another way of saying "Oh, can't you take a joke?" when a young woman gets annoyed at some creepy comment made by a male co-worker.


You're quite possibly making him feel really uncomfortable, you know, and as a "joke" it's going to get very old very fast. Or you could all end up on the wrong side of a harassment complaint?

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Sorry to be a spoil sport but I worked in the admin office of a magistrates court. There was an older bloke there. The office had no ventilation, heat wave hit and I went to work in what seemed to me to be a perfectly decent thin stapped summer dress (not short). Nothing was showing that shouldn't, my shoulders were relatively bare, that's all.

All day this bloke made comments about my 'flesh'. It was so intimidating, the office was full of people, no one said anything. In the end I asked him to stop because he made me feel like I was on a butchers block but it completely ruined the atmosphere in that office for me. I left within a couple of weeks. I've never forgotten it.

That young man might feel the same way. It might not be a joke to him. If there's a majority of you making the same comments, I would imagine it could be a nightmare for him. It took a lot for me to speak up in that office full of people, and I only did so when the pressure felt unbearable and I couldn't stand it anymore.