On 2013\08\27 15:31, eastender wrote:

In the 1980s I joined a media company. I'd been there a month or so, and
one day I went to the gents and the CEO was in there. He turned to me
and said, 'Who the f**k are you?'

Are you male or female?

On 2013-08-27 14:34:17 +0000, Basil Jet said:

On 2013\08\27 15:31, eastender wrote:

In the 1980s I joined a media company. I'd been there a month or so, and
one day I went to the gents and the CEO was in there. He turned to me
and said, 'Who the f**k are you?'

Are you male or female?

In those days the gents weren't unisex.

In message , at 07:29:10
on Tue, 27 Aug 2013, remarked:

There are CEOs who are happy to mix with their staff.

Of course (and I include myself in various previous CEO roles) however
others end up in a culture where they like to keep the staff at arms
length. It's not a modern thing - iirc ICI used to have three different
'staff canteens' for different grades of staff (a generation ago).
--
Roland Perry

On Tuesday, August 27, 2013 5:20:51 PM UTC+1, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 07:29:10

on Tue, 27 Aug 2013, remarked:



There are CEOs who are happy to mix with their staff.



Of course (and I include myself in various previous CEO roles) however

others end up in a culture where they like to keep the staff at arms

length. It's not a modern thing - iirc ICI used to have three different

'staff canteens' for different grades of staff (a generation ago).

--

Roland Perry

And then there were the famous lavatories at London Transport (55 Broadway) for the three sexes ... Men, Women and Officers.

DRH

In message , at
10:46:16 on Tue, 27 Aug 2013, DRH remarked:
keep the staff at arms
length. It's not a modern thing - iirc ICI used to have three different
'staff canteens' for different grades of staff (a generation ago).

And then there were the famous lavatories at London Transport (55 Broadway) for the three sexes ... Men, Women and Officers.

It's ingrained from an early age. Most schools have different toilets
for staff and pupils, and even some FE colleges I've been to.
--
Roland Perry

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 07:29:10
on Tue, 27 Aug 2013, remarked:

There are CEOs who are happy to mix with their staff.

Of course (and I include myself in various previous CEO roles) however
others end up in a culture where they like to keep the staff at arms
length. It's not a modern thing - iirc ICI used to have three different
'staff canteens' for different grades of staff (a generation ago).

My first job was at a company with four staff canteen levels, three of
which shared a common kitchen: blue collar self-service, with hard floors;
non-managerial white collar self-service with carpet tiles; and managerial
with waitress service and licensed (this was 40 years ago). There was a
separate, much smarter executive restaurant with a different menu, in a
different building, popularly known as the 'golden trough'; I think this
was free for those executives who qualified. I visited other manufacturing
companies with at least five grades of canteen/restaurant.

"Basil Jet" wrote in message
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On 2013\08\27 15:31, eastender wrote:

In the 1980s I joined a media company. I'd been there a month or so, and
one day I went to the gents and the CEO was in there. He turned to me
and said, 'Who the f**k are you?'

Are you male or female?

With a name like Basil Jet, I'd say you had more right to be there than him.

--
Brian
"Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman."

On 2013-08-28 14:31:19 +0000, Brian Watson said:

"Basil Jet" wrote in message
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On 2013\08\27 15:31, eastender wrote:

In the 1980s I joined a media company. I'd been there a month or so, and
one day I went to the gents and the CEO was in there. He turned to me
and said, 'Who the f**k are you?'

Are you male or female?

With a name like Basil Jet, I'd say you had more right to be there than him.

My real name is Percy Porcelain.

set the following eddies spiralling through the
space-time continuum:

This also reminds me of some apartment buildings where one or two
residents might have access to the lift, literally within their own flat.

I've experienced that in a hotel in Cottbus in the former DDR. The second
floor was not open to the public, the lifts by-passed it completely.
Probably a Stasi station.
--
ξ: ) Proud to be curly

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In uk.transport.london message a9e50890-a4c3-452a-8cd3-689c9e913712@goo
glegroups.com, Tue, 27 Aug 2013 10:46:16, DRH
posted:



And then there were the famous lavatories at London Transport (55
Broadway) for the three sexes ... Men, Women and Officers.

When in Norway, we saw a Church in the middle of a field. Nearby was a
hut with three labelled doors, which were translated to me as indicating
Ladies, Gentlemen, and Clergy.

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