[H-GEN] SFD

[Anthony Irwin]

McBofh wrote:

> Sandra Mansell wrote:
> ...
> > Let me know
>
>> if you'll be needing me and I'll arrange to get there to 'man' the 
>> stand for a while. (Incidentally, the non-gender-specific verb I was 
>> taught to use when working in a govt dept is 'staff'.)
>
>
> And now it's time for a brief (and silly) digression ....
>
> (you) can "staff" a position/post
> (you) can "chair" a committee but you can't "sofa" a committee. Still 
> less
> can you "person" a position!

We need a few people to staff a stand?  That doesn't  really sound right 
to me hey I am all for gender neutral terms but wouldn't operate,  
manage or run a stand be better suited term? Maybe in the corporate the 
words operate, manage and run could be used by people to ask for more 
money and some kind of crappy title because they can use it to say its a 
bigger task then what it is so they use the word staff to avoid conflict 
or is it just me that thinks staff a stand sounds wierd?

I don't really think that adopting every little thing the government 
does is a good thing as they have so much crap it ain't funny like the 
not using the word mate thing that happened a while back. Yeah that 
didn't last long but the mere fact that it was put in place for a short 
time or suggested to be put in place shows how silly some of the 
politically correct people can be.

Anyway that is an interesting point and I certainly will phase the word 
man this or that to something else but I won't be staffing this or that 
I think it's a silly way to put it but maybe thats just me.

Anyway just my thoughts

Anthony