Inappropriate behaviour - is it ever appropriate?. Inappropriate as a word is really inappropriate when you're trying to type, it's one of the few words that moves the typing speed restriction from the physical i.e. the actual typing of the keys to the mental i.e. thinking about how you spell a word as you are typing it. I have this problem with efficiency, although I'm getting better at it. More efficient in fact. Anyway, to get back to the appropriate thing - I read that in the 'old days' (and I have to assume these things are usually written by people in their 50s so they must be referring to the 70s or thereabouts) touching members of the opposite sex and what is often called 'groping' was a fact of life. Well, I'm not sure I concur with that. I think what they are trying to say is that in their profession (journalism) that might have been the case, but in other walks of life it's never been acceptable. In fact, my definition of 'groping' would surely not have been acceptable anywhere in any profession. Would it? Maybe I have had a restricted view on the working environment which I suppose I did in the 70s because my early working life was surrounded by butch men. One of them had a favourite line of "girls are alright, but you can't beat the real thing" which I have often stolen and used in appropriate circumstances. I think he was joking. An article on the subject in today's Guardian comes (eventually) to the conclusion that touching is 'best avoided' after various discussions about the degrees of touching. Wow, that's worth knowing.
Fitted a new loft ladder at my mother's last night and up in the loft found an old lump of metal I had cut out for me circa 1976 to resemble a weight that went on a bit of round bar. Coincidentally, the guy who cut it out in the welding shop for me is now our managing director 37 years later. Small world.
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