An insurance company now wishes to lecture us

Give it up Tom.

Whatever's up with Katie, my first basic expectation of any insurance company is that they're not pissed.

I’ve written, I’m spitting feathers

"What’s a Tom?"

I think it's a very small particle that together make up molecules and chemicals.

Bless a ‘Tom’ is apparently a social media sensation... with all of 28 followers. A piece of toast would have more followers.

Do we know him/her?

I'm so going to say I'm a woman if I ever get an annuity from Aviva.

Bet they won't be so inclusive then.

As for trans in sport. FTM, fine it's IOC ratified as far as I'm aware.

MTF however, no. I could call myself a woman, have all the surgery etc but I will never ever have the musculature or skeletal setup of a woman. My body will never severely dislike me once a month.

At what point in this brave new world would a trans woman be considered eligible to compete in womens sport anyway? Self identification or full reassignment surgery?

Would there be something in place to stop someone competing as a woman, winning everything in sight, then magically reverting to being a man about two days after retirement?

What’s a Tom?

Oh dear, a twitterer named Tom really doesn’t like Mumsnetters.

twitter.com/tom8251/status/1200123101549346816?s=21

I can't quite believe any of this. 'Our employee was drunk, ha ha'? But even so we stand by what she said? What?

Before you cancel (if you want to - I wont yet at least because I expect insurance companies to be comprehensively awful) check there is someone else you can actually insure with. I was told there were only 2 feasible companies for one particular type of insurance I wanted. Aviva have hoovered up so many other companies.

I work for a massive corporate. I promise you, the Stonewall thing was months in the planning, amply funded, and there was a senior sign off on the communications strategy. Stonewall would have prepped them on likely negative reactions as part of that. No way they would not have expected some noise on Twitter.

Doubtless Katie went a bit off piste.

It’s a HR matter for a colleague to publicly imply that you were drinking on work time in order to smooth over an ill thought out, badly prepared and poorly executed comms plan

Seriously - you think the weans had a plan?

Ooooohhhhhh look at they pretty colours!

Presumably the strategy was agreed when they launched the campaign? Am I the only one wondering if poor Katie will learn anything from how quickly the men threw her under the bus on a public forum?

Kids, huh...? 🤷‍♀️

I can only see a few replies not the screen grabs on here. But wow would love to see their social media policy, presume it reads "entitled millennials post whatever they want whilst pissed"

Incidentally I am supposed to be cancelling a policy with them today.

Furthermore I work in a similar field and yesterday had to stop a millennial posting a slang word for paedophile in totally the wrong context. Despair.

Missed a trick there

Well, at least they didn't "ok boomer" anyone. Although that wouldn't have surprised me

It wasn’t just Katie, though. There were several Aviva people merrily tweeting away.

We’ve had our household insurance with them pretty much forever. It’s up for renewal soon and for the first time ever I’ll be shopping around and they definitely won’t be in the running.

hungover teens (possibly still drunk)

Is insurance something run by teens on work experience now? I've paid aviva a good chunk for years. I won't be recommending and I won't be renewing.

"Hi Aviva, I've had a major crisis, can you help me sort out my insurance claim?

"Oh. Really sorry. I've checked and our employee was pissed at the time they took your call and didn't sort your policy properly. So you're not covered. Whoops. On the plus side, did you know how great we are at campaigning to erase women's sport? We have rainbow laces!"

Wow. Just wow.

I will have to look and see if I have any Aviva's products. I dont think so. But if I do I will be cancelling.
Cannot quite believe they implied 'Katie' was still drunk or so hungover she tweets shite. It's not a good optic. If I dared to go to work drunk I'd be sacked, if I went in hungover so badly, I'd be in trouble in some major way.
So can all their staff wander in drunk and make a bellend of themself at company expense.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. But I do have an aviva home insurance policy to cancel.

Still shaking my head that some utter twit thought 'we're not really that politically compromised and women hating, we're just pissed in charge of your insurance policies' is going to save their brand.