Today At Work

[matapule]

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Dress like a girl (being a guy) and the awkward glance is okay.

Craig, reminds of the trip we took with our yougest daughter to a small mid-western liberal arts college several years ago. We were visitinng schools she might like to attend. We were escorted around campus by a very genial female student. We broke for lunch with her and sat down in the student cafeteria. In walks a male student iin a flowery dress with his cafeteria tray! I said what the H! Our escort gave him a nonchalant glance and said, "He does that all the time. He's just trying to get in touch with his feminine side." Okie dokie!

My daughter decided to attend an Ivy League school, but for other reasons.

[salmoned]

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Two keys? I guess your workplace is as old fashioned as apartheid. Berkeley dorms had coed restrooms/showers decades ago.

[craigwatanabe]

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Two keys? I guess your workplace is as old fashioned as apartheid. Berkeley dorms had coed restrooms/showers decades ago.

I guess "Berkeley" couldn't afford two bathrooms then.

Once I was using the bathroom at work standing at the urinal talking to the new janitor. SHE told me to have a good day as I washed up and left. Like I said before, dress like a guy...get treated like one.

[matapule]

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Berkeley dorms had coed restrooms/showers decades ago.

Au contraire! When I attended Berkeley, each 8 story dorm building was segregated by gender. And it wasn't that long ago either, whippersnapper!

[craigwatanabe]

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Au contraire! When I attended Berkeley, each 8 story dorm building was segregated by gender. And it wasn't that long ago either, whippersnapper!

Yeah now they gotta deal with the lids up or down issue

[Bobinator]

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Someone walked into my office, wearing a pull over sweater, jeans, athletic shoes and a backpack. I honestly thought she was a man, except something was a little 'off'. I kept sneaking peaks and eavesdropping, and for the life of me, I couldn't tell, but I decided it must be a man. Later, I was near the exit as she was leaving, and she asked me for the restroom key. I just stood there like a dummy. Thank goodness, my coworker came up behind me and handed her the ladies key.

What would you have said or done? My mind was struggling with the best way to ask, “do you want the men’s or women’s key?” This reminds me of that SNL skit, where store clerks, etc., can’t figure out the gender of ‘Pat’.

...and so, what happened at work today?

Next time, do the Crocodile Dundee thing.

[craigwatanabe]

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Next time, do the Crocodile Dundee thing.

Just don't do that in the workplace...that would be a definate no no

[surlygirly]

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Today I talked to someone I thought had mutiple personalities. A young man called and I was talking to him, then bam! An old woman starts answering my questions. No phone hand off or anything. Then back to young man. Then old woman. I finally figured out they were two different people on two extentions at their house, but it threw me for a minute or two! (It was early).

[Sharilyn]

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Two keys? I guess your workplace is as old fashioned as apartheid. Berkeley dorms had coed restrooms/showers decades ago.

I work in a commercial building, and the restroom facilities are down the hall. I've never seen a commercial or public building with coed restrooms, unless the facility has only one toilet and meant for one person at a time. ??

[Kaonohi]

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I think this thread got hijacked into gender confusion.

[craigwatanabe]

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I think this thread got hijacked into gender confusion.

Then there's the issue of donkey's in the kangaroo feeding room...HUH?

[matapule]

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Then there's the issue of donkey's in the kangaroo feeding room...HUH?

You're getting that confused with the bar in Tijuana, but it's closed now.

[surlygirly]

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I think this thread got hijacked into gender confusion.

Yeah...I'm digging on hearing about other people's work stories. Maybe we could start a new threat for gender confusion, since there seems to be a lot of interest on the topic?

[anapuni808]

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You're getting that confused with the bar in Tijuana, but it's closed now.

hangout of yours?

[salmoned]

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Au contraire! When I attended Berkeley, each 8 story dorm building was segregated by gender. And it wasn't that long ago either, whippersnapper!

Two steps forward, one step back, eh? Aren't we all familiar with that dance?