Firms urged to crack down on office football chat

buckwheat

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51261999

Brilliant idea.

gimli2112

I agree it cuts into my time arguing with strangers on boards about it

Muahahaha

A welcome idea for supporters of Man U

JohnnyFlash

She sounds like a contrary auld cünt. Probably a Man United supporter.

Yakult

Hey, I've no interest in the weather, but my work collegues talk about it a lot. I feel left out. I think that talking about the weather should be banned.

nullzero

Let's moderate what people discuss amongst themselves, the modern world is a joke a minute. So when the women in my office are discussing bloody Love Island should I be able to tell them that they can only discuss it for a set amount of time?

Here's a shocker, men and women like broadly different things, not all men and women of course but there is a difference in interests broadly speaking, I'm sure this type of nonsense will become common place soon enough.

paulpd

I'll stop talking about football when others stop talking about the soaps, Love Island, shopping, their children, etc etc etc.

Tea Shock

Why nothing about banning women talking about the soaps, Love Island, or the kardashians?

Tea Shock

paulpd wrote: »

I'll stop talking about football when others stop talking about the soaps, Love Island, shopping, their children, etc etc etc.

Snap!

buried

L1011

Tea Shock wrote: »

Why nothing about banning women talking about the soaps, Love Island, or the kardashians?

Its far from just the women talking about Love Island here; and its none the less infuriating as a result.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

FFS. For. Fuck’s. Sake.

“Excludes women”. I, as a woman, felt excluded from office chat on an all-female team because I didn’t want to discuss inane celeb gossip and what beauty treatment such-and-such got that weekend and weddings. It was a VERY girly girl team. But I just got on with it. Co-workers aren’t obliged to discuss things that are only of interest to absolutely everyone there.

buried

Lets all go live in a bowl of grey soup and shut our mouths forever and ever and ever

EmmetSpiceland

Muahahaha wrote: »

A welcome idea for supporters of Man U

If you can find one. They’ve all gone quiet in my “place” and you don’t see the jerseys in the pubs during the week, or at the weekends, anymore.

Conversely, attendances at League of Ireland games, particularly Bohs and Rovers, have “sky rocketed” over the last few years.

Noticed the Dublin v Kerry game there at the weekend drew in an impressive attendance for a league game. Perhaps the, shameful, “glory hunters” have branched out?

Unearthly

This is funny as the loudest person on my floor about sport is a woman. I should tell her to stop bringing this laddish culture to the company. That will go down well

Oranage2

I can see why a rule like this might be introduced, Liverpool fans are unbearable at the moment, but they'll be put back into their box in no time and football talk in the office will be back to normal.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Oranage2 wrote: »

I can see why a rule like this might be introduced, Liverpool fans are unbearable at the moment, but they'll be put back into their box in no time and football talk in the office will be back to normal.

Oh god, is this thread going to devolve into the kind of sniping that lead to the Soccer forum being tightly controlled?

Zaph

L1011 wrote: »

Its far from just the women talking about Love Island here; and its none the less infuriating as a result.

I agree, the ones who talk most about it where I work are the lads. At least when they're talking about football I don't feel excluded. :pac:

D3V!L

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

Knex*

D3V!L wrote: »

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

By the sounds of it we need a similar formula to stay afloat amidst the tide of Love island conversation, and the such.

- Did you see that ludicrous display from Michaela last night?

- The problem with Danny is he always tries to talk his way in.

Probably helps if you have actual names of people in the show, but that will have to do for now.

eviltimeban

D3V!L wrote: »

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

The thing with Arsenal is that they always try to walk it in.

edit- poster above me kind of got there first.

Gatling

Does that mean no love island , celebrity get me ,xfactor and other TV ****e women constantly gab on about in work is outlawed too

buried

In fairness, its pretty frightening to actually see a head of a Corporate Management Entity, whose only basis for existence is to create power hungry money mad sociopaths to walk all over everybody else's face, come out on the likes of the BBC and try to claim she has the right to dictate to people what they can or cant say about their own hobbies.

Irish Guitarist

I have no interest in sport but I'd never try to stop anyone else from talking about it. Ann Francke sounds like a Nazi.

Raconteuse

buckwheat wrote: »

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51261999

Brilliant idea.

Companies stopping staff from chatting about something completely harmless?

No. Definitely not a brilliant idea.

She needs to check whether all women feel left out, or whether it's just her alone being insecure.

Arghus

First of all, I can't believe her name is Ann Francke

Second of all, she is just essentially a randomer whose opinion doesn't carry any weight. Head of the Chartered Management Institute, who the hell are they? It's not like someone important said it.

Thirdly, her opinions on the subject are daft.

suicide_circus

a pathetic suggestion

Deebles McBeebles

Back in the attic, Ann.


What? Too soon?

Kieran_M

Yes I feel excluded as a man when women talk about their pregnancies

Strikes me as "outrage bait"

CrankyHaus

To its credit the BBC article wasted no time switching over to people with real world experience, including a female manager, who rubbished the idea.

One thing I've noticed is that this mental stuff usually comes from sectors that had historical issues with poor female representation if not outright misogyny. It's like they're so desperate to paper over the memory of things like this (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/24/women-groped-and-sexually-harassed-at-london-charity-gala)
that they'll adopt the most lunatic positions on the opposite side of the spectrum. I suspect it's insincere brandwashing rather than these sectors going overnight from arse groping to 4th wave feminism.

buried

Arghus wrote: »

First of all, I can't believe her name is Ann Francke

Second of all, she is just essentially a randomer whose opinion doesn't carry any weight. Head of the Chartered Management Institute, who the hell are they? It's not like someone important said it.

Thirdly, her opinions on the subject are daft.

I don't know about that Arghus, shes the head of a entity that basically is in the game of training/brainwashing people how to get to the apex head of corporate management. Corporations rule the entire Western hemisphere. Business, advertising, everything. What else has this lunatic got up her sleeve that she and her like are training their apprentices to adhere to? Of course the likes of you and me will never have to directly listen to this wan's ridiculous noise, but she is in a position to shape the mindset of others who desperately want to climb to the top of the money making entities that want to influence the vast majority of the people that we have to live and exist with now and in the future.

Yester

buried wrote: »

Lets all go live in a bowl of grey soup and shut our mouths forever and ever and ever

Excellent idea. I shall begin work on our new national anthem. I'm thinking something like, "We all live in a bowl of grey soup, a bowl of grey soup, a bowel of grey soup"

Sephiroth_dude

What a load of Ballony!

Huntergonzo

Nah I wouldn't ban people talking about football, but I would ban Irish people referring to foreign football teams as 'we' :-)

buried

Yester wrote: »

Excellent idea. I shall begin work on our new national anthem. I'm thinking something like, "We all live in a bowl of grey soup, a bowl of grey soup, a bowel of grey soup"

I think singing may also be a hobby too Y so I'd hold off on penning anything what may resemble a song or else we'll be kicked out of the bowl!

take everything

What about me. I've always felt excluded from both male and female conversations.

Nobody likes to discuss why we are here, the true nature of human beings and the meaninglessness of existence.

kowloon

A fairer rule is to prohibit talking about anything not related to work. If the workers talk to each other they may rise up in solidarity and seize the means of production!

Sober Crappy Chemis

Will this help shut up those Liverpool eejits who have never won the premiership?

TuringBot47

A 61 year old woman wants to regulate mens conversation... as CEO I'd say her staff probably don't talk to her much either.

I'm absolutely not a football fan but they say football was invented to get men who have nothing in common to talk to each other.

Like minded people of both sexes will end up talking to each other, shouldn't be ridiculous corporate policies for it.

JohnnyFlash

Sober Crappy Chemis wrote: »

Will this help shut up those Liverpool eejits who have never won the premiership?

Nah, dude, I plan to be insufferable and gloating around United fans for a good few years to be honest.

Feisar

The fact that this inanity got air time is the most worrying element of the whole thing.

Sober Crappy Chemis

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Nah, dude, I plan to be insufferable and gloating around United fans for a good few years to be honest.

Gloating about what exactly?
What part of Liverpool are you from?

I ask this as a Blackburn Rovers fan who currently have more premiership titles than Liverpool.

Weird.

Ps. I’m from Blackburn.

joebloggs32

Reminds of a bridezilla I heard about who provided suggestions for conversations on the tables at her wedding.....and a list of topics NOT to be discussed!

Quantum Erasure

old firms, was it?

Deebles McBeebles

Sober Crappy Chemis wrote: »

Ps. I’m from Blackburn.

Sorry to hear that. My deepest sympathies.

Sober Crappy Chemis

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Sorry to hear that. My deepest sympathies.

Haters gonna hate.



(Still more premierships than Liverpool though)

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Sober Crappy Chemis wrote: »

Will this help shut up those Liverpool eejits who have never won the premiership?

I’d imagine it would be a statistically non-existent number of office workers that have won the Premiership. Most ex-footballers don’t head into a 9-5 afterwards, ya know?

PsychoPete

In work the first 3 hours of the day are for talking about the football that was on the night before

buried

If we follow this wan's argument or logic she can do a lot more censoring and banning for the sake of peoples general well being.

How about banning Adverts and advertising.

I "feel" left out when I see these things plastered all over the side of the roads, on the radio and on the TV.

I don't follow any of these things and don't like to be forced looking at these things when stuck at traffic lights distracting me when driving, walking, cycling or relaxing

I have to pay a licence for public service broadcasting and at the same time I have to listen to corporate advertising on it.

I didn't ask to see or hear any of this $hite anywhere.

I don't want to hear or see it.

I have nothing against advertising enthusiasts.

But my issue is many people aren't advertising enthusiasts.

So will this wan want to ban that noise too?

Will she F**K

Mr Meanor

In this age of 24 hours news, streaming video and social media, every piece of lunatic drivel will eventually get airtime.
Just goes to show even the BBC has descended into clickbait territory.

Deebles McBeebles

Could the women not talk about women's football if what this woman is saying has any truth to it***? Since she's trying to divide the sexes, might as well go the whole hog like.

joebloggs32 wrote: »

Reminds of a bridezilla I heard about who provided suggestions for conversations on the tables at her wedding.....and a list of topics NOT to be discussed!

1. Football
2. How much of a total c*nt the bride is
3. The war



*** It definitely doesn't