973beachbum
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Post by 973beachbum on Mar 30, 2016 22:35:42 GMT -5
There are only 12 people working there all the time. When things get busy with some project types a couple of others come in to work for a few weeks at a time. Of the twelve people other than the receptionist, who is a woman, had a baby there are six people who have all had/have life threatening illnesses that they have been out on disability for. One man was in the military and his issues are more physical and from that.
DH and I are by far the healthiest people in the place other than the receptionist who is basically young enough to be our daughter.
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Post by Miss Tequila on Mar 31, 2016 4:43:29 GMT -5
There are only 12 people working there all the time. When things get busy with some project types a couple of others come in to work for a few weeks at a time. Of the twelve people other than the receptionist, who is a woman, had a baby there are six people who have all had/have life threatening illnesses that they have been out on disability for. One man was in the military and his issues are more physical and from that. DH and I are by far the healthiest people in the place other than the receptionist who is basically young enough to be our daughter. Are the majority of people working there men?
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Post by 973beachbum on Mar 31, 2016 7:23:00 GMT -5
There are only 12 people working there all the time. When things get busy with some project types a couple of others come in to work for a few weeks at a time. Of the twelve people other than the receptionist, who is a woman, had a baby there are six people who have all had/have life threatening illnesses that they have been out on disability for. One man was in the military and his issues are more physical and from that. DH and I are by far the healthiest people in the place other than the receptionist who is basically young enough to be our daughter. Are the majority of people working there men? Yes. There are only 11, I miscounted, and three are women. Of the men there is only 1 man without any medical issue, my other half being that one. He's red not white though. I think the biggest factor is that they are all middle aged or older. We actually bring the age down. As people get older medical issues become an issue. It would still be wrong for us to only hire young people because we believe older people are more prone to medical problems.
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Post by Miss Tequila on Mar 31, 2016 7:29:50 GMT -5
Are the majority of people working there men? Yes. There are only 11, I miscounted, and three are women. Of the men there is only 1 man without any medical issue, my other half being that one. He's red not white though. I think the biggest factor is that they are all middle aged or older. We actually bring the age down. As people get older medical issues become an issue. It would still be wrong for us to only hire young people because we believe older people are more prone to medical problems. I kind of think it is funny that you are focusin on the health issues of the men over the fact that is sounds like there are very few women employed there...and almost none in a professional capacity. Isn't that fact more in line with the subject of this thread??
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Post by 973beachbum on Mar 31, 2016 7:37:11 GMT -5
Yes. There are only 11, I miscounted, and three are women. Of the men there is only 1 man without any medical issue, my other half being that one. He's red not white though. I think the biggest factor is that they are all middle aged or older. We actually bring the age down. As people get older medical issues become an issue. It would still be wrong for us to only hire young people because we believe older people are more prone to medical problems. I kind of think it is funny that you are focusin on the health issues of the men over the fact that is sounds like there are very few women employed there...and almost none in a professional capacity. Isn't that fact more in line with the subject of this thread?? There are very few people employed there. Two out of the three women are above most of the men. Two out of three sounds like a decent amount to me. When the the ad for an engineer goes out we will see what comes in from women engineers. But past experience says not many women are out there and then the amount that is willing to work for a company that does what we do is even smaller, way smaller. So even getting one female applying would surprise me. To be fair there aren't many men who are engineers who do or want to do what we do.
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Post by Miss Tequila on Mar 31, 2016 8:16:19 GMT -5
I kind of think it is funny that you are focusin on the health issues of the men over the fact that is sounds like there are very few women employed there...and almost none in a professional capacity. Isn't that fact more in line with the subject of this thread?? There are very few people employed there. Two out of the three women are above most of the men. Two out of three sounds like a decent amount to me. When the the ad for an engineer goes out we will see what comes in from women engineers. But past experience says not many women are out there and then the amount that is willing to work for a company that does what we do is even smaller, way smaller. So even getting one female applying would surprise me. To be fair there aren't many men who are engineers who do or want to do what we do. I misunderstood. I thought you were one of the 3 women and I know you aren't an engineer.
To be fair, none of our engineers are women, either. In fact, in all of our plants we only have one women working there and she is in QC. We don't discriminate, women just don't apply for those jobs. I've been on the floor for various reasons and I can see why a woman wouldn't want to work out there
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