Why am I even doing this? An hour later, I was rolling out a few more orders, and that guy came back to tell me he loved it and to ask when would I be there serving food again.Īfter that, service was smoother. He took a bite once per minute, and I thought this guy is just choking the meal down: He hates it. He took a few bites of the burger and set it down to mind his iPhone. The caramelization of the beef was the only thing holding the patty together. It stuck to the grill press and nearly fell apart. I placed the first beef ball on the griddle and smashed it with the grill press. I felt out of place, like everyone knew I was some fraud, and thought, This guy can’t be serious. I rolled the flattop into the corner, hyperaware that everyone could see me dragging in several coolers and drawing up a sign on some cardboard right there on the spot. I must’ve run eight or nine pop-ups over two months. He was willing to do anything to make sure his employees kept their income. This made my situation sort of funny: David was allowing me to serve food without proper licensing so he could keep the bar open. So bar owners got smart, and they started requesting food trucks to post up in their parking lots so they could continue business. Bars were closed-unless they served food. Or two, make them your own.At that point, in September, there were partial shutdowns around the city. One, stop using these expressions and encourage others to do the same. Whatever the context, when we use them we’re diminishing the person in question by comparing her or him with a woman.
You should instead be like Jack, George, Johnny, or Steven.” These phrases are injected into business meetings, collaboration sessions, office gossip, and performance conversations.
Simply put, we are associating negative behavior with female characters, and we are saying that when you act like Kathy, Nancy, Nellie, Debbie, Susan or Felicia, “You are no good. When we choose (and revive) phrases like these, we are maintaining an environment that minimizes women and propagating caricatures that diminish our female colleagues. It has the ability to perpetuate discrimination, bias, and assumptions.
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And let’s be honest, from the movie Dodgeball and overall perception that average (for men) is acceptable, even good (read: dad bod), Average Joe isn’t even an insult.īesides being lame descriptors and uncreative insults, what’s the real problem with these expressions? Language is powerful. The most negative one I could find was Average Joe. But as I dove deeper, I found the complete opposite: Jack of All Trades, Curious George, Johnny on the Spot, Even Steven. Not.Īs I noticed this trend, I thought there must be negative phrases like these for men. What’s even more disturbing is how accepted and widely used these are in the work setting, implying that women are talkative and gossipy (Chatty Kathy), pessimistic naysayers (Negative Nancy and Debbie Downer), afraid to take risks (Nervous Nellie), lack ambition (Lazy Susan), and are simply dismissible (Bye Felicia). These common colloquialisms, used to dismiss both women and men who act a certain way, sneak into our everyday vernacular inside and outside the workplace: Chatty Kathy, Negative Nancy, Nervous Nellie, Debbie Downer, Lazy Susan, and the most recent, Bye Felicia. We are inundated with phrases that associate negative behaviors with women. We know there are threats, but when don’t those exist in our business?” Knowing the significant risks involved, your co-worker John speaks up against the proposal and gets this feedback: “Quit being such a Negative Nancy, John. Picture this. Your team is sitting around the conference room discussing the feasibility of switching to a new website platform.
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