Happy Birthday Goosedragon

[Evy]

A big bird whispered that today was the Goosedragon's birthday. Have a good one, Bob.

[Angela]

Birthday? Hmmmmm.......
Well, hope you have a great one. It definately calls for Marqueritas!!!

[Mary]

Happy Birth day Goosedragon. And many more happy and well ones.

[Altair]

Happy birthday! Did a Showgirl jump out of a cake?

[goosedragon]

Thanks folks this is a big surprise. Too bad that you are wrong on the day and the month!~gd

[Evy]

Arrrgh! I'm going to have to speak to my source. Meanwhile, hold that thought!

[Angela]

Oh Heck!
Does that mean "No Showgirl"?

[goosedragon]

Oh Heck!
Does that mean "No Showgirl"?

Nope no Showgirls were spotted. I can't guess EVY'S source but I have always been pretty closed mouth about my birth date and have even been known to fib a bit if I didn't think it was amyone's business.

[Angela]

Well fine, no birthday candles for you!!!

[goosedragon]

Thats fine! I started this years ago when I managed a group of females some of their gifts were not appropiate [though a few were well gifted] After my first Christmas I extended it to that holiday also for the same reason, with a little cheer in me I tended to respond and that was not a good thing! When I was charged with sexual hassment a few years later they all defended me and I beat the rap.

[Evy]

Tmi !!!

[Oregon Swedes]

If it is not your birthday, you have a birthday sometime. So happy birthday and store the well wishes away and bring them out at the appropriate time.

[Angela]

Forget the birthday!! GD, who've you been harrassing, other then us?

U R just wayyyyy to funny.

[Evy]

OMG ! His name isn't Bob, it's Herman, the pizza man!

[Angela]

Thank you for the laugh!!!!

[Mary]

LOL, there you guys and gals go again making me laugh. Yes, happy birthday when ever it comes.

I worked someplace that had a chaplain. He was single, handsome and a real sweet gentleman. All of us girls hugged him at odd times. We all loved him like a brother. Some of us were old enough to be his mother, I was one in that age bracket. Someone not even in our department observed one of the hugs and he got in trouble. We learned about it and not to be beat by some evil gossip we would stand guard outside his office and take turns hugging him and giving group hugs. BTW, he was not anyone's supervisor. I thought for it to be sexual harassment one had to be subjected to the other as in a boss and underling. Guess it works every direction.

[goosedragon]

LOL, there you guys and gals go again making me laugh. Yes, happy birthday when ever it comes.

I worked someplace that had a chaplain. He was single, handsome and a real sweet gentleman. All of us girls hugged him at odd times. We all loved him like a brother. Some of us were old enough to be his mother, I was one in that age bracket. Someone not even in our department observed one of the hugs and he got in trouble. We learned about it and not to be beat by some evil gossip we would stand guard outside his office and take turns hugging him and giving group hugs. BTW, he was not anyone's supervisor. I thought for it to be sexual harassment one had to be subjected to the other as in a boss and underling. Guess it works every direction.

There are at least two parts to that rule/law/regulation. The part where a superior (of either gender) can not force attention on subordinates makes the most sense. They tried to get me on 'hostile enviroment' after a outside female scared the crap out me by shooting me with a blank gun while I was eating lunch and paying no attention to her sales pitch for tear gas for personal protection. Both the gun and the tear gas was against published work rules. With the dragon in full flame I threathened to place her pistol in a private location and that was a hostile enviroment.
Hostile enviroment scares management out of good sense. My girls posted a poster of a beach vollyball player in their locker room. Someone came to me about it and I just told them that I didn't know I didn't go in female locker rooms. They told them to take it down it was causing a hostile enviroment against men. They did but monday morning it was posted on private land across from the plant entrance. You should not mess with goslingdragonetts either.

[Mary]

LOL, Smart bunch of goslingdragonetts and well trained. No doubt they learned well from you. I suspect I would have had a similar reaction to you had someone treated me that way. Especially if the hot wax had hit me. Then again if I was angry enough I might have practiced a little karate and claimed temporary insanity. All of this PC is a bunch of BS. Used to a woman would slap a guy who offended her and walk away. Situation usually solved. If not she would get one of the men, brother, father, uncle who cared about her to straighten the guy out. If a woman was doing the offending the guy would either enjoy or rebuff her sternly. Usually the end of it. It is just like the PC stupidity in our schools. Two kids can't have a decent fight to settle things. They end up in all kinds of trouble. Even off the school grounds they can face school punishment. I say the world has gone crazy. And I was born 100 years to late.

[Oregon Swedes]

Oh yes. Slapping the boss always worked well, as did getting your brothers to beat him up.

At one place I worked,the owner's father would come through every day and groped all the women. I very politely told him I would prefer not to be "hugged", which is what he claimed he was doing: a friendly hug. I got fired the next morning. Maybe that would have worked better for me if I'd hauled off and slapped him across the face?

They wouldn't be so blatant about it today, but I would bet that objecting to being handled in a "friendly" way can still get a woman fired at a lot of places.

[Angela]

Things have really changed....A lot of the younger people out there have never had to deal with the issues with which we older women in the work place were forced to contend.

In 1991, I was forced to quit the absolutely best job that I have ever had....due to sexual harrassment. I can't tell you how many times a certain gentleman put his hands on me. When I complained to the owner's of the company, I was told not to go to war over it, as I would lose. This guy was physically removed from my office one day when he proceeded to take off his close and take liberties with himself. It all started over a pair of rose colored boots that I used to wear.....Just one of many examples that come to mind.

Back then, most of us just suffered in silence....as there was little to be done. There were no laws to support the victim. Now, the pendulum of power has swung in the opposite direction. Just the whisper of impropriaty can cause shockwaves in a company. The burden of proof (defense) has shifted now to the company. It's no longer a game of character assasination...which is what it used to be for the victim. This is a good thing in some cases, but is certainly open to abuse.

But, it's kinda like posting the 10 commandments in the school. It's all about money and controversy.