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[ruggercsc]

 Gasoline and dry cleaning expenses are down but our coffee expenses are up.

 

[JayKay PE]

Filled up my car for under $10 this past week.

On one hand, yay!  My changing jobs/moving is paying off in more ways than one (used to pay minimum $175/mo on just gas).  On the other...oil prices this low does not make me comfortable.

 

[Platypus Engineer]

I will probably put shorts on soon sun hasn't hit side of house I'm working from.

I basically wear a uniform to work. I get a clothing allowance, so I wear work issued shirts from uniform catalog. Since I can be called into filed at a moment's notice,  I use that to wear jeans to work everyday.

Most times when I have worn a suit to work it has been Tyvek or Nomex.

 

[txjennah PE]

Overheard on a call this morning:

"Alright fellas...and by fellas...I mean...everyone on this call, I mean...mankind..."

There were at least 4 or 5 women on the call so I don't even know what was going on there.  

 

[JayKay PE]

Overheard on a call this morning:

"Alright fellas...and by fellas...I mean...everyone on this call, I mean...mankind..."

There were at least 4 or 5 women on the call so I don't even know what was going on there.  

When you work at home, maybe alone, you don't see them womenfolk, so you assume everyone is fellas.  I would check in on whoever was holding the call.  They might be forgetting about there usually being more than one sex in the job force. 

Whereas if someone started a call with, 'hey youse guys' I would not be worried.

 

[Tiger15]

Guys are dumb. I'm glad God gave us women. 

I probably would have killed or maimed myself dozens of time if my wife hadn't stopped me.

 

[ChebyshevII PE PMP]

Guys are dumb. I'm glad God gave us women. 

Amen to that!

 

[ChebyshevII PE PMP]

Overheard on a call this morning:

"Alright fellas...and by fellas...I mean...everyone on this call, I mean...mankind..."

There were at least 4 or 5 women on the call so I don't even know what was going on there.  

I have a habit of saying "guys" when addressing multiple people, regardless of sex, probably just because it's shorter than saying "everyone". I'm not sure if this counts as sexist or not, but I have noticed myself being more self-conscious about it lately.

 

[Tiger15]

I have a habit of saying "guys" when addressing multiple people, regardless of sex, probably just because it's shorter than saying "everyone". I'm not sure if this counts as sexist or not, but I have noticed myself being more self-conscious about it lately.

"Y'all" for the win

 

[ChebyshevII PE PMP]

"Y'all" for the win

It's funny, because of my self-consciousness, I sometimes go with this. I have a friend from Texas, I guess their mannerisms are starting to rub off on me.

Sure draws a lot of strange looks from the general public of WA state, though...

 

[txjennah PE]

I have a habit of saying "guys" when addressing multiple people, regardless of sex, probably just because it's shorter than saying "everyone". I'm not sure if this counts as sexist or not, but I have noticed myself being more self-conscious about it lately.

Honestly it doesn't bother me when people say "guys" and I find myself saying it a lot too!  But something about saying "fellas" and then tripping over himself to correct it was pretty funny.

 

[Tiger15]

It's funny, because of my self-consciousness, I sometimes go with this. I have a friend from Texas, I guess their mannerisms are starting to rub off on me.

Sure draws a lot of strange looks from the general public of WA state, though...

Is "you all" a thing there?

 

[ChebyshevII PE PMP]

Is "you all" a thing there?

Not really, at least not that I've noticed (I've lived on both sides of the state).

 

[aog]

"Y'all" for the win

I thought you had to use "All y'all" for the plural.

 

[JayKay PE]

*still claps my hands in glee whenever someone says y'all un-ironically*

It's the simple things that make me happy.

 

[Supe]

Y'all is about the one thing I've picked up in my normal speech having now spent 12 years in the south.

 

[LyceeFruit PE]

I run social media for an area marathon and I go with "everyone", "folks", or "friends" to avoid gendered salutations 

 

[RBHeadge PE]

I've been using "guys" as gender neutral most of my life. I can't recall which American dictionary it was, but a major one declared it could be used for either sex back in 1998.

Dictionary.com defines "guys" as gender neutral https://www.dictionary.com/browse/guy?s=t

The two most common form of plural "you" where I grew up both includes "guys":  used in "you guys" and "yous guys"

 

[MadamPirate PE]

YAY SPAM

 

[MadamPirate PE]

Also, dude is gender neutral. I grew up in California - RB is dude, tj is dude, the cat is dude, my laptop not working correctly is dude.