Posted on 10/27/2015 7:58:31 AM PDT by PROCON
Employees in District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Office of Community Affairs are apparently required to stand every time the mayor enters the room.
Staff members in the office were ordered to stand up and greet Bowser when she entered the room for a meeting, according to an email obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation via the D.C. government’s Freedom of Information Act online reading room.
In the email dated Feb. 5, Bowser’s director of community affairs, Charon P.W. Hines directs Bernedia Long, an employee of the agency, to make sure all staff members stood up when they saw Bowser.
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This is Washington DC. A tug on the weave or dreadlock is culturally sensitive. ;>)
Very good. Thanks.
;>)
Oh, I am SO SORRY!
How gauche of me!
I was thinking about being taught to stand when a lady enters as well as calling to attention when the Commanding Officer enters a room, etc.
If it is to correct a lack of discipline in the staff I see no issues here - I think the staff is up in arms about it and complained to the paper. Probably using it as a sample of the other things they are being required to do....like work.
Then again it’s DC .... so yeah she likely things she’s due.
Who cares? Close D.C. and move federal government to North Dakota. You’d find a much better quality of people working for the government there and crime rate would plummet. Fargo would be a good choice.
Not this great grandmother. I appreciate having the door opened and I open it for others. Just common courtesy
I still hold open any door for my lovely wife of many years. As a child we were taught to stand whenever a woman entered the room(in a residence). We also were taught to address people by their last names: i.e. Mr. Smith. However, such days in “our present culture” seem to be long gone as I have witnessed many times. (I still have trouble addressing recently introduced people by their given names.)
My great granddaughters call me Gigi and now nearly everyone calls me that. Love it. My mil is still living and when people call me by my last name, I look around for her. Most of the children call me Gigi, too. They are like family members anyway. I never did that growing up but it is fine with me. My nieces say I will never grow old although I am 71. I have never pretended to be something I am not.
Our culture now apes the ways of primitive 3rd worlders.
That’s what happens when you promote the least able to lead society.
What’s next, cannibalism? Shrunken heads of our enemies?
Agreed. Our culture as lowered itself. Our culture has not elevated its lower demographics.
Neither are army officers, or judges, or priests in their own environments. They are servants also, and rising in deference to them is not being obsequious.
I see that you don't understand at all the idea of respect for the highest authority of a very large, premiere metropolis.
Actually, when a platoon of soldiers or construction crew are at work, their NCO or straw boss is the one showing deference to arriving officials. And the Mayor here ought to be commanding respect, not demanding it. But we're only seeing this through the eyes of the reporter, whose view itself might be jaundiced.
I wasn’t there to assess the situation, and neither were you. If it was out of order, I know how I would react. Honor where honor is due, and vice versa. As a subordinate on any job, deference to a superior is in order. Otherwise you might have a little something extra in your paycheck: a pink slip. But at least you would have your integrity, wouldn’t you?
Testing for security blockage of thread.
Lev 19:32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.
My husband stands when a woman enters the room. He stands in a restaurant if a woman in our party rises from the table. He holds the door for us, too. But not at the office. The rules are different in a social setting.
He is a gentleman but he’s not going to open himself up to any rude comments.
And yes, if you'll lose your job by not complying, then most people will comply. But it still doesn't mean the person deserves that respect.
Respect is earned, not demanded.
You're lecturing on this?
Respect is a response not defined by the method through which it is obtained.
Yeah. It assumes an intimacy one has no right to claim, and dismisses the right to individual privacy one ought to observe. Discarding this habit of personal regard is a dehumanizing trend.
Or does everyone have to fall in line with what you "lecture"?
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