To report these supermarket workers?

[thetimeisnow]

As I walked past some supermarket workers, they were having a chat, one said
' i couldnt tell if it was a man or woman'
Then another said ' we have one of them where i live'

I think it was inappropriate.

But am I over thinking and being unreasonable?!

Where did she say that?

Then another said ' we have one of them where i live'

Disgusting, they should most definitely be reported for a crime against the English language, of course it should be 'one of those' not 'one of them'.

I can't believe that you are being serious.

Treating all customers the same isn't inclusive.

People not being on board with an ideology that challenges material reality does not herald the second coming of Nazi Germany for god's sake.

Calm down and have a cup of tea and a biscuit. 🙄

How does what they said fit into any of these?

It's like saying "I couldn't tell if they were a natural blonde, or dyed", or "I couldn't tell if they were French or Italian".
They were just saying they couldn't tell, not that there was anything wrong with that or that they treated them differently because of it.

And say what? You picked up two lines of a private conversation. They might have been talking about anyone in any context.

Even if they were talking about someone who was androgynous or ‘non conforming’ or whatever, gender critical views are protected by law so they have every right to have them.

Were they talking about you?

The thing about inclusion training is that it’s pointless. It doesn’t change people’s opinions. If someone is racist, bigoted or whatever, there’s no amount of training in the world that will make a difference. Even if they know not to voice that opinion, they still hold it.

You don’t know the context of the conversation and it wasn’t anything to do with you.

Exactly, I was watching Trooping the Colour and talking about the King’s Troop and the tragic accident recently involving a female soldier.

We were discussing what amazing horsemen and women they were.

I said something along the lines of ‘I can’t tell if that is a man or woman at the front’

What a busy body you are. Keep your beak out.

Have not read the full thread. But fragments of conversation can be misleading.

"Thought I saw someone. I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman. We need an outside light." "We've got one of those where I live."

Omg thank you, I thought I was going insane. The first person to mention tesco was a poster and not the OP.

I thought sock puppets were no longer able to post on the same thread?

This sums it up really!

Next time OP, just politely cut into the conversation and point out that they can be heard by customers, to keep opinions to themselves and tell them they can’t get hanged for their thoughts.

The terminally offended with bat ears listening out for any little comment. Beggars belief

"Someone nearly ran me over on a motorbike this morning. I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman."

"We've got one of those where I live. I think they're dangerous."

Etc.

You have no idea what these people were talking about, so probably best to keep your nose out of it and save the white-knighting for another time.

FFS. Mind your own business.

😂

You could report it to the store but what if they denied it and insisted you misheard or misunderstood. What are you going to do? Probably not worth the bother.In every job which deals with the public staff have a little moan. Its a coping mechanism. But it should be kept to the back room. If I was the store manager I would probably give them a verbal warning against discussing customers where they can be heard as its not professional behaviour.

I think the comments from the members of staff were inappropriate and offensive, @thetimeisnow. If a manager had heard them I would expect them to be told off.

I would probably not report them myself, but if it really bothers you, then there is no harm writing to the store manager and asking them to remind staff that they can be heard on the shop floor and they should not use language that anyone might find offensive on grounds of age, race, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or disability, etc.

I would probably give them a verbal warning against discussing customers

Oh gawd there's two of you jumping to conclusions based on nothing😮 Where does it say they were talking about a customer?

It takes a bit of fiddling.

What offensive language was used?

If they were talking about me I'd be raging.

if they were talking amongst themselves - not really you business but feel free to internally judge them as you feel is warranted.

I have noticed a bit of an upturn in chatty/bitchy staff in supermarkets of late, in fairness.

I heard male Aldi workers discussing a girl walking around the store on their internal headsets - where she was in the store, what she was wearing etc. They were going out of their way to perv on her. Gross.

I also saw a small gaggle of greasy, spotty, tragic looking teen workers in Tesco laughing at a really rather pretty girl because she was overweight, as if she'd look a million times, never mind twice, at their eternal virgin asses if they paid her to.

A percentage of people are twats, no matter the surroundings, but yes, unprofessional conduct can be annoying.

Oh there's loads of them. Lining up to report and make everyone's lives just a bit more miserable.
I'm absolutely sick of it.