Juno News - November 27, 2022


Socializing after work is not inclusive enough？


Episode Stats

Length

4 minutes

Words per Minute

158.47112

Word Count

738

Sentence Count

94

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Because we work remotely, we don't have the benefit of getting together for after work drinks.
00:00:05.140 I mean, I guess we do, but we're just all drinking alone in our respective homes generally.
00:00:09.400 But there was a Globe and Mail piece that after work drinks are not inclusive enough.
00:00:15.940 The act of gathering at a bar to consume alcohol is seen as a way for employees and their bosses
00:00:20.840 to bond, to chat, to get to know one each other.
00:00:23.480 But for women and other marginalized groups, this common social practice is not always
00:00:28.540 inclusive. And they quote a Calgary-based millennial in the public sector, Tala Abu Hayyana.
00:00:34.800 And she is a Muslim woman.
00:00:37.060 So she says the social pressure to conform has been troublesome to her because she,
00:00:42.120 like other observant Muslims, do not drink.
00:00:44.900 So therefore, she is not included in after work drinks.
00:00:49.320 I don't know about she's not included.
00:00:51.360 She's chosen not to participate, I would say.
00:00:55.620 I mean, talk about twisting things around.
00:00:57.260 Look, I'm not a big drinker, but I often went out just to, you know, connect and to be social.
00:01:05.840 And that is what people do.
00:01:08.980 I mean, I think some of the suggestions that she made that they should go bowling together
00:01:13.660 or have picnics together in her op-ed.
00:01:18.580 I mean, that's crazy.
00:01:21.280 You could go on a retreat together, I suppose.
00:01:24.040 But I mean, that's what people do to wind down after a day.
00:01:28.260 It's an age-old tradition.
00:01:30.020 I'm not a big drinker.
00:01:31.660 We used to, you know, have these sort of events when I was at Post Media.
00:01:36.620 But I would sometimes go just, like I said, to connect.
00:01:40.320 But so, I mean, I think there are a lot of people in this world right now who are in search of some sort of,
00:01:49.100 we say in Yiddish, and you wanted some, it's called a broigus.
00:01:52.760 They're looking for a broigus.
00:01:54.540 They're looking for trouble.
00:01:55.800 And, you know, she's trying to create a broigus.
00:02:00.520 You know, they're complaining about nothing.
00:02:07.600 Absolutely nothing.
00:02:09.060 Yeah.
00:02:09.620 And I mean, even, like, let's go through some of the alternatives.
00:02:12.980 Well, potlucks are not good to people with dietary needs or people with food allergies
00:02:16.940 or people with religious restrictions.
00:02:19.720 Bowling and outdoor sports, they're not inclusive of people with physical disabilities.
00:02:23.740 Comedy shows, if they're good, might not be inclusive of anybody.
00:02:27.920 Escape rooms, they are tremendously, tremendously offensive to people with claustrophobia.
00:02:33.180 So how dare you try to marginalize your co-workers with claustrophobia?
00:02:37.820 Like, not everything is going to be of interest to everyone.
00:02:41.900 That's not the point of this.
00:02:43.280 It's that, like, you can go to a bar and not drink.
00:02:45.920 And I have done that many, many times.
00:02:47.840 I'm sure the servers love me.
00:02:48.980 But, you know, I'll go there if I'm with people.
00:02:51.380 And maybe I'm driving or maybe I just have an early morning.
00:02:53.740 And, you know, you grab a coffee or you grab a soft drink or something.
00:02:57.300 Dry Coke or whatever.
00:02:58.280 Yeah.
00:02:58.520 Like, who cares?
00:03:00.380 I know.
00:03:01.240 Like I said, a brogis.
00:03:03.080 Stop making trouble where it doesn't exist.
00:03:05.960 You know?
00:03:06.720 That's what my grandmother would say.
00:03:09.480 Don't make a brogis.
00:03:11.360 Yeah.
00:03:11.760 I'm going to...
00:03:12.140 I only know, like, seven Yiddish words.
00:03:14.420 But I think I can add it to eight now.
00:03:16.040 So I'm going to look that up to make sure I'm saying it right.
00:03:19.340 Two of them I know from the opening credits to Laverne and Shirley, though.
00:03:22.740 Schlemiel and Schlemazel.
00:03:23.560 I don't know what they mean.
00:03:24.720 But I know Schlemiel and Schlemazel.
00:03:26.820 Well, you know, I think this would fit into that category.
00:03:30.340 Schlemiel and Schlemazel.
00:03:32.040 Schlemiel, Schlemazel, and Bloigel, is that it?
00:03:34.940 Brogis.
00:03:35.480 Brogis.
00:03:35.900 Brogis.
00:03:36.820 Brogis means making something out of nothing.
00:03:39.860 Okay.
00:03:40.940 Well, that is that.
00:03:41.920 We should rename...
00:03:42.840 We should do a Fake News Friday Yiddish edition because I think that's often what the media
00:03:46.900 is doing here.
00:03:48.880 I'll leave you all with one final thought here from Chloe Tsi, a third-generation Chinese
00:03:53.620 Canadian dedicated to dismantling the kind of unequal systems upheld by after-work drinks
00:04:00.200 culture.
00:04:00.700 So if you invite your employees out to after-work drinks, you are contributing to unequal systems
00:04:06.060 in need of dismantling.
00:04:07.260 So take from that what you will.
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