Seeing red
December 1st 2010 02:43
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Vyoos news
In Norway, only local articles may be thrown into toilets.
Just when you thought Norway was a civilised country comes news about a culture of "tyrannical" employer toilet rules.
A newspaper report today says there is a corporate obession in Norway with loss of productivity due to toilet absences.
The report, in Britain's Daily Mail, claims two-thirds of Norwegian companies make staff ask managers for electronic key cards for loo breaks, one-third expect workers to sign in and out of toilets, and about one in three have toilets under video surveillance.
That's all water under the cistern, however, compared to the latest idea: a boss has ordered all female employees to wear red bracelets during their periods. This, apparently, will explain why they are using the toilet more often than usual.
The bracelet procedure, however, may be too much even for Norway. ``Women quite justifiably feel humiliated by being tagged in this way, so all their colleagues are aware of this intimate detail of their private life,'' said a Norwegian union spokesman.
Not that that sounds quite the fighting, outraged reaction the women of Norway might expect. One suspects British or Australian unions would be far more descriptive in their challenge to the Norwegian way of thinking.
I'd also like to see an Australian boss try to order an Australian woman to wear a red bracelet every time she has a period. I think we would quickly see said boss hiding in cubicle two and refusing ever to come out again.
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