I saw a garbagewoman today! Er…female sanitation worker?
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by Dawn Summers on Thursday, May 1st, 2008 at 9:29 am and is filed under Personal.
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May 1st, 2008 at 11:11 am
Was she sitting on her ass while the guys did all the work? I could say something else, but it would be construed as racist and insensitive. Ah what the hell, if the foo shits, Mexicans haul all of my trash away, and as a rule, they pick the dumpster clean. However, they occasionally leave shards of glass in the alley. Maybe it’s time to call La Migra.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Uh, that’s not exactly breaking the proverbial glass ceiling. Interesting to see? Definitely. Progress, hmm, I’m not so sure.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:52 pm
No casca, she was hauling the bags into the compressor thing and then when they were done she hopped in the front and drove the truck to the next pick up point while her partner held on in back.
May 1st, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Hmmmm, sounds like she has low self-esteem. Was she doable? You know, women are naturally suited to this sort of work. Female neurobiological mechanisms of olfactory processing don’t notice objectionable smells like the more finely tuned amongst us. That’s why they like to change diapers so much.
May 1st, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Woooo equality!
May 1st, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Oh wait, she was driving? Never mind what I said!
May 1st, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Wait, I don’t get it. Is she a garbage lady or a Maxi pad? Female sanitation worker sounds dirty!
May 1st, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Did she have a unicorn?
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:05 am
I didn’t say female sanitary napkin worker.
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:22 am
Heh, when I get a napkin, I hope to hell that it’s sanitary.
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Funny, I was in an interview not long ago where the partner interviewing me called his firm “the garbagemen of law firms.” Then he stopped and said, “well, I guess it’s not ok to say garbageman now. What would the right word be?” And I said, “I’m not sure that’s one the feminists are fighting over, really.”
But then we both agreed that sanitation worker was probably the current appropriate name.
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Then it’s settled. Garbage-tart it is.