English has many nouns that have both gender neutral and gender specific uses; demanding that we stop using terms that are in no way derogatory is linguistic fascism.
OTOH, there are words that really derogatory, and we should refrain from using those. ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2023 9:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Userid schemes On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 06:43:49 -0400, David Spiegel wrote: > >EEOC is an American thing. In Canada, we have an equivalent. > Just remarking that "man number" is conspicuously gender-specific. >Please explain: "... Five digits isn't enough. ..." Enough for what? > IBM has over 300,000 employees. Are the numbers required to be unique? >(I think you're confusing employee number with SIN (equivalent to >American SSN). >On 2023-07-13 22:53, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 21:56:55 -0400, David Spiegel wrote: >>> When I worked at IBM Canada full time (1994-2002), our TSO Userids were >>> XXnnnnn, where nnnnn was a person's "man number" (aka employee number). -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
