Juno News - November 27, 2022Socializing after work is not inclusive enough？
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Summary
After-work drinks are supposed to be a place for employees and their bosses to bond and chat, but for women and other marginalized groups, this common social practice is not always inclusive. In this episode, we talk about why.
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Because we work remotely, we don't have the benefit of getting together for after work drinks.
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I mean, I guess we do, but we're just all drinking alone in our respective homes generally.
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But there was a Globe and Mail piece that after work drinks are not inclusive enough.
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The act of gathering at a bar to consume alcohol is seen as a way for employees and their bosses
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to bond, to chat, to get to know one each other.
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But for women and other marginalized groups, this common social practice is not always
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inclusive. And they quote a Calgary-based millennial in the public sector, Tala Abu Hayyana.
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So she says the social pressure to conform has been troublesome to her because she,
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So therefore, she is not included in after work drinks.
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Look, I'm not a big drinker, but I often went out just to, you know, connect and to be social.
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I mean, I think some of the suggestions that she made that they should go bowling together
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But I mean, that's what people do to wind down after a day.
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We used to, you know, have these sort of events when I was at Post Media.
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But I would sometimes go just, like I said, to connect.
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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,
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we say in Yiddish, and you wanted some, it's called a broigus.
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And, you know, she's trying to create a broigus.
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And I mean, even, like, let's go through some of the alternatives.
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Well, potlucks are not good to people with dietary needs or people with food allergies
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Bowling and outdoor sports, they're not inclusive of people with physical disabilities.
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Comedy shows, if they're good, might not be inclusive of anybody.
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Escape rooms, they are tremendously, tremendously offensive to people with claustrophobia.
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So how dare you try to marginalize your co-workers with claustrophobia?
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Like, not everything is going to be of interest to everyone.
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It's that, like, you can go to a bar and not drink.
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But, you know, I'll go there if I'm with people.
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And maybe I'm driving or maybe I just have an early morning.
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And, you know, you grab a coffee or you grab a soft drink or something.
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So I'm going to look that up to make sure I'm saying it right.
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Two of them I know from the opening credits to Laverne and Shirley, though.
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Well, you know, I think this would fit into that category.
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Schlemiel, Schlemazel, and Bloigel, is that it?
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We should do a Fake News Friday Yiddish edition because I think that's often what the media
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I'll leave you all with one final thought here from Chloe Tsi, a third-generation Chinese
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Canadian dedicated to dismantling the kind of unequal systems upheld by after-work drinks
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So if you invite your employees out to after-work drinks, you are contributing to unequal systems