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Bosses should crack down on football banter.
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:56 am
by Bergen
There is too much of it in the workplace.
"discussing football and, for example, the merits of video assistant refereeing (VAR) can disproportionately exclude women and divide offices". 
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51261999
Re: Bosses should crack down on football banter.
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:03 am
by Omygawd
It needs to be encouraged on here........
Re: Bosses should crack down on football banter.
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:11 am
by EliotNes
OMG haven't the BBC got anything better to report about.
Re: Bosses should crack down on football banter.
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:22 am
by spen666
EliotNes wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:11 am
OMG haven't the BBC got anything better to report about.
Why blame the BBC for reporting the news?
Why not blame the idiotic report from the Chartered Management Institute?
isn't report sexist? Ban football / cricket chat, but not talk re Love Island or shopping
Re: Bosses should crack down on football banter.
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:27 am
by LittleMate
What else would we talk about at work. FFS this island is almost becoming too pc at times.
Re: Bosses should crack down on football banter.
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 10:13 am
by JimbO
As has been said somewhere else you’d ban every topic in the workplace if you had to include stuff everyone liked. What about the vacuous pap that is Love island.
Re: Bosses should crack down on football banter.
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 10:22 am
by Dunners
It's the perfect news story to get everyone ranting and outraged.
Re: Bosses should crack down on football banter.
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 10:24 am
by BoniO
Dunners wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 10:22 am
It's the perfect news story to get everyone ranting and outraged.
NO IT ISN'T!!!!!
Re: Bosses should crack down on football banter.
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:06 am
by Rich Tea Wellin
My team talks about football a lot, and about a year ago, a couple of the girls and one of the guys mentioned that they felt bored by it/excluded so i told them to wind it in a bit, which obviously helped. I get it though, but it's hard to tell people what they can and cant talk about if its not offensive.
Re: Bosses should crack down on football banter.
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:09 am
by Thor
Bosses should get a life!
Re: Bosses should crack down on football banter.
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:11 am
by Max B Gold
This is just the bosses trying to squeeze more productive activity from workers by banning chat in the office.
They've started with fitba bantz but soon they will be demanding work only chat.
Re: Bosses should crack down on football banter.
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:56 am
by slacker
Liverpool fans should be banned from gushing over their side this season, whilst Man U and Arsenal fans should be free to moan about how it’s the end of the world because they’ve been a bit poo poo, because that’s quite funny.
Re: Bosses should crack down on football banter.
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 1:39 pm
by bobo66
BoniO wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 10:24 am
Dunners wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 10:22 am
It's the perfect news story to get everyone ranting and outraged.
NO IT ISN'T!!!!!
YES IT IS!!!!!
Re: Bosses should crack down on football banter.
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 2:21 pm
by Ronnie Hotdogs
Max B Gold wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:11 am
This is just the bosses trying to squeeze more productive activity from workers by banning chat in the office.
They've started with fitba bantz but soon they will be demanding work only chat.
First they came for the Ladz but I did not speak out because I was not a Ladz etc
Re: Bosses should crack down on football banter.
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 3:26 pm
by Howling Mad Murdock
No problem in my workplace.They are all staring at their phones.
