A lot of supervisors might be unhappy about being put in charge of untrained temporary workers and let that show because they're bad leaders, not because they're sexist. I remember the contempt we had towards territorial soldiers - 'you belong in the reserves' was a grave insult. I can imagine a regular NCO dismissing even a territorial soldier's good ideas out of hand simply because most of what they said and did was amateur or just stupid.
Elections Canada is very smart in some ways and incredibly stupid in others. One of the stupidities is that they provided ZERO written instructions on what to say to the people who phoned in, looking for answers to various problems. Rattling off a bunch of verbal points on a list isn't good enough, especially for people who are visually oriented rather than aurally oriented.
A two-hour training session plus a huge manual to study for working at the polling station? Fine, no problems. Training session plus a manual for revising the voter's list? Helps, but it didn't cover some situations, nor were we told what to say when people got overly hostile (honestly, folks: election workers and census takers interview so many people per day that we don't remember 99.9% of the information past the next 2 minutes, but give attitude or threats, and you've guaranteed you'll be remembered - and reported). Answering the phones, dealing with people who have a wide variety of concerns with getting on the voters' list, where to vote, when to vote, eligibility to vote, riding boundaries, and so on... 3-minute spiel from one of the permanent office workers, who was annoyed when asked to repeat something.
Would a female Returning Officer have been more patient? I have no idea. But this guy was a jerk.
Neither do most of the male members.
I would be very surprised to hear that their reason was because of the tendency of the female OT regulars (all
one of us; there used to be more, but they're more like 'barely occasional' now, rather than regular) to dismiss them as unworthy of being taken seriously ("You can't be a man! Men don't play Civ! Men don't play computer games! Men don't watch/read science fiction! Why do you think you have a valid opinion on men's fashions - mind your own business!").
You're pleading victimisation because of a hyphen?????
Take a look. Note the circled username. Compare that to the version you keep posting. It's not that hard to spell; most others here can do it, and if they find it difficult to recall what gets capitalized or where the apostrophe goes, they are free to call me 'Valka'. It's disrespectful to deliberately misspell
anyone's username. Once can be a typo. Twice, especially when accompanied by a dismissive put-down, is deliberate.
If you have trouble with my username, try highlighting it, then use copy/paste. That's what I do with people here whose usernames I tend to have trouble with. That way I don't insult them by consistently getting it wrong.
It's a simple thing called "courtesy."
Anecdotes =/= evidence is not a crack. It's a common meme used to remind people that use of personal experience has little place in a quality debate.
This thread is a discussion, not a debate.
Please stop calling me misogynist and begging victimisation just because i'm holding you to the same standard as I would and often do hold those who claims to 'know' that mind reading works, or to have 'experienced' god.
You should see my comments in the "Ask an Atlanteologist" thread...
I and others here pointed out that you are being rude and dismissive about my posts. Senethro stated that you, a man, are being dismissive of a woman's posts in a thread about misogyny. Nobody actually called you a misogynist.
attitude from a male supervisor during that time. It was the Returning Officer for the federal riding of Red Deer, and that election, I had actually been hired as a Revising Agent (ie. going door to door, revising the voter's list) and my partner and I were required to also put in time in the office answering the phones. We got a 3-minute "training" speech for that (no written instructions) so I was a bit lost at first. I very soon came to loathe our male boss for how he talked - very impatient and dismissive.
