Politically Incorrect
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:41 pm
Totally agree that political correctness should be lampooned and brought out into the open wherever possible.
British Seagull were never politically correct, and I'll repost that advert here when I get a mminute, together with the one about women starting outboards when I dig it out.
British Seagull did try to take ladies' needs into account in a manner that was quite enlighted for the time.
One charming woman who I visited as part of my research for the ongoing project was full of praise for the management style of the 1960s when she was the only female machine operator in the factory - she was drilling holes in gearbox castings).
She was expecting a baby, and in those days there were no allowances made for this sort of thing. She reckoned the firm were being really kind to her when, with one week to go before the expected date the foreman told her that as a special dispensation she was going to be allowed to sit down at her machine, and a chair had been specially procured. By the time she got back after the birth the chair had vanished.
There were no canteen facilities. During the lunch break you would sit at your workbench and eat your sandwiches with a large mug of tea. I have a photograph of the lads doing just that, filthy hands, lunch box resting next to open cans of paint, muck and grime all over the place. The Health and Safety people would have had a fit. The ladies were reckoned to have finer sensibilities, and were allowed to eat their lunch in the ladies toilets. They thought they were being treated very well.
Let us have your Political Incorrectness thoughts, even if not connected to outboards. I am keen to dicover what sort of people we have here, although from those I have actually met I think there will be no surprises.
British Seagull were never politically correct, and I'll repost that advert here when I get a mminute, together with the one about women starting outboards when I dig it out.
British Seagull did try to take ladies' needs into account in a manner that was quite enlighted for the time.
One charming woman who I visited as part of my research for the ongoing project was full of praise for the management style of the 1960s when she was the only female machine operator in the factory - she was drilling holes in gearbox castings).
She was expecting a baby, and in those days there were no allowances made for this sort of thing. She reckoned the firm were being really kind to her when, with one week to go before the expected date the foreman told her that as a special dispensation she was going to be allowed to sit down at her machine, and a chair had been specially procured. By the time she got back after the birth the chair had vanished.
There were no canteen facilities. During the lunch break you would sit at your workbench and eat your sandwiches with a large mug of tea. I have a photograph of the lads doing just that, filthy hands, lunch box resting next to open cans of paint, muck and grime all over the place. The Health and Safety people would have had a fit. The ladies were reckoned to have finer sensibilities, and were allowed to eat their lunch in the ladies toilets. They thought they were being treated very well.
Let us have your Political Incorrectness thoughts, even if not connected to outboards. I am keen to dicover what sort of people we have here, although from those I have actually met I think there will be no surprises.
whoops ..now I hope no-one mis-reads that bit ... 
