Last Updated on 2020-01-22 , 9:11 pm
I know what you’re thinking when you see the headline: Are you freaking kidding me?
Then you must be one who’s not worked in enough companies, my friend. Because out there in the real world, there are crazy bosses, bosses who think with the wrong head and bosses who are sexists.
Case in point: Tatprof, an aluminium manufacturer in Russia.
Campaign for “Femininity Marathon”
This image won’t have caused any alarm because we all don’t understand Russian:
But if you know Russian, then you’d go apeshit whether you’re a guy or a gal.
Basically, in a month, female staff in Tatprof are encouraged to wear a dress or skirt. If they wear one that’s “no longer than five centimetres from the knee,” they’ll get an additional 100 roubles (about SGD$2.09) a day.
That might not sound a lot, but given that the average monthly pay there is about SGD$887, wearing a short skirt every working day in June 2019 would provide you with an additional SGD$42—about 5% more that month.
To receive the bonus, the staff would have to send an image to the company.
And over in the company, 70% of them are male.
While no one in the company has spoken up, netizens have been criticising the company no end, describing it as a “horrible treatment of women”.
But the company doesn’t think they’ve done anything wrong, and even defended the policy.
Company Thinks It’s Perfectly Fine
For a start, here’s the interesting part: 60 women have taken part in the “campaign”, according to the company.
They did not think they’re sexism in any way even after the social media backlash. In an interview with a local media, a spokesperson for the company says, “We wanted to brighten up our workdays.
“Our team is 70% male. These kinds of campaigns help us switch off, rest. This is a great way to unite the team.
“Many women automatically wear trousers to work, which is why we hope that our campaign will raise our ladies’ awareness, allowing them to feel their femininity and charm when they make the choice of wearing a skirt or dress.”
The campaign is supposedly a brainchild of their CEO.
The world’s a weird place, indeed.
In another interview, the company’s department of corporate culture and internal communications explained their CEO’s decision. She said, “He is very concerned about this issue – mixing gender roles…And he really wants to maintain the female essence in every female employee of the company, so that young women do not have male haircuts, do not change into trousers, so that they engage themselves in handicraft, project all their warmth into raising children.”
But before you go bash the company, know this: they’ve been doing other “campaigns”, too.
Last week, they got the guys to come for a pull-up competition. In addition, they’re also planning a dumpling-making competition for the gals.
A creative idea to bond the staff went wrong, or have we all become SJWs?
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