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Old 07-06-2005, 08:45 PM   #16 (permalink)
maleficent
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Originally Posted by Seige
Or as my old French teacher says "I hate it when people refer to a group of people as guys. It bugs me when i'm with a bunch of ladies, and someone comes up and says hey guys!"
I am the only female in my office, and the rest are all men who are slightly to bunches older than I am... They tell me I violate the sexual harrassment policy on a daily basis because I refer to them collectively as the boys... (I do it so often that the customers refer to the engineering staff as the boys) They all get a kick out of it...

They are also pretty well mannered group of boys -- when I am in th eoffice, if there is a meeting, it's always hey Guys and Mal.. That irks me... I wanna belong..
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