Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Office feminist managed to get the big stapler jammed. Spent 10 minutes banging on it, couldn’t figure out how to use the needle-nose pliers to get the retaining clip off the hinge pin so she could remove the staple head to clear it. Had to ask one of the men in the office to do it: took him two minutes, works like a charm.
Good thing that’s not sexist at all. Wouldn’t want anybody to be oppressed by any patriarchal stereotypes. Might have to spend the next month in diversity training.
Joe Doakes
Heads will no doubt roll.
FWIW Joe, I’ve met plenty of men wouldn’t know how to fix a stapler jam either.
Heads will roll. Who was the idiot who hired the feminist? :^)
(sorry, Joe, couldn’t resist)
Seriously, if this was in a college you’d have a valid Title IX complaint about disparate impact that requiring female employees to fix equipment like that rather than replacing any jammed stapler.