![]() In a strange way, Amy was honest about herself in this running gag, and people responded. And it obviously didn't bother the suits at Cloud 9 at all as she kept getting promoted. She even continued this practice once she became the store's manager. That's pretty impressive when examined from a distance. While a couple of names did get repeated, she only wore a name tag that read "Amy" on three occasions across the 102 episodes her character appeared in. All that mattered was that Amy could not be identified by the people who shopped at the store. In some cases, they were just random names that belonged to no one at Cloud 9. They belonged to former employees or to employees who weren't on shift at the same time as Amy. While some complaints are valid, there are also a lot of "Karens" who have no issues using an employee's identity to get what they want, no matter how unreasonable.Īs such, Amy wore a different name tag in almost every Superstore episode. It becomes a tool in threats to contact managers and bully employees in the store. ![]() Change will always be hard, but the results can be important and meaningful.But one aspect of the minimum wage service industry that Amy correctly identified is that some customers will weaponize an employee's name against them to get what they want. Maybe we need to be concentrating more on the effect and benefits of the change, rather than the change itself. The journey we took to the point in time we were asked to make the change, and the journey we make through the change, and the effect the change has on our lives. Whether the change is something deeply and inherently personal, like gender indicators, or something work and technology related, like making a post instead of sending an email.Ĭhange is not just about the new behavior, but also about the journey. Any level of change can represent a leap of faith, a change of practice, a departure from acceptable and comfortable norms. “It’s no big deal, just wear the name tag.”Īny amount of change can be difficult. Instead of keeping work to yourself and your small team, do your work in an open collaborative platform where others can be informed by your work, where others can contribute, and where you can save time and be more effective.Īnd then I heard a little voice in my head. Instead of sending an email, just make a post in your Yammer network. It really should be no big deal, I thought to myself. As I looked around the room, some people looked eager and interested while others looked upset, hostile and closed down. We would have gotten through it.Ĭhanging behaviors is hard, and I was recently thinking about my experiences at the conference when I was talking to a board of directors about using Yammer as a collaboration space for their work. Any discomfort I may have felt by the experience was probably shared by others. The unisex bathrooms, I should have reminded myself, were in fact being used by everyone. The tier-1 and tier-2 assessments have been renamed Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA) (tier-1) and Occupationally Specific Physical Fitness Assessment (OSPFA) (tier-2). If I had worn the ribbon, maybe they would have thought that there was another person at the conference who was friendly, supportive and empathetic. (Exception: Table 3.1, Walk Standards will remain as is with the age group of 10 years). For those people who identify as something other than their birth gender, the pronoun ribbon was an act of support and community. The gender pronoun ribbon was not for me to feel comfortable, but rather for other people to feel comfortable. This discomfort was completely self-imposed. I found myself uncomfortable at the prospect of sharing a bathroom with members of the opposite sex. The conference also made several of the facility bathrooms unisex. The prospect of wearing the ribbon made me feel uncomfortable, and I was not worried that someone may identify me as anything other than the middle-aged, short, bald man that I am. With my bald head and gray beard, I reasoned there could no confusion as to what gender pronoun I preferred. As our society has become more aware of and sensitive to people who identify with a gender that is not exclusively masculine or feminine, simple methods like a name tag ribbon help to provide a comfortable and safe space for everyone. I didn’t want to do it.įirst, I was asked to attach a ribbon to my conference name tag that indicated my preferred gender pronoun. But the change I was being asked to make was hard. I knew I should change my behavior, and I knew that if I made the changes I was being asked to make, positive things would happen as a result. I recently attended a conference, and they asked me to change my behavior.
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