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In reply to the discussion: There seems to be a lot of confusion about benevolent sexism. [View all]Lurker Deluxe
(1,041 posts)We have a security guard during the week. And the general rule is no one in the building by themselves. That does not mean it does not happen. I'm generally first here-last to leave, pretty much every day. I've driven up to someone waiting in the parking lot for me to show up before they get out of their car ... sometimes I think they are just being lazy about building opening/closing procedure.
I know, for a fact, that the HR/Finance girls have asked my boss if I was going to be around on some days during the weekend. They know that is how I am, they know that if they are leaving the building and are uncomfortable they can call me and I'll bring my doofus ass up there and walk them to their car. I can promise you that me wandering over to their office at the end of the day to check up on them doesn't bother them one bit, pretty much to a one when that happens the response is, "am about to leave, was just waiting for you".
I am sure the suits up there talk about this stuff all the time, there used to be a security guard here 24/7, obviously they thought that was not a cost benefit in whatever corporate gibberish they speak. I can imagine one or two of them said, "isn't there pretty much always a shop guy here seven days a week?"
It's not much different than closing down a bar at the end of an evening. If I end up being the last one there and the only other person is a female barmaid ... I leave when she does.
I do not self appoint anything, I am just saying that when presented with those scenarios I treat them differently depending on the gender of the other person.
Sorry ... that is just how it is.