You should have said yes and opened with something like. "Afternoon girls. From the number of you here I can see that there's a lot of housework not getting done today."
That'd get a laugh.
I made a similar remark about two years ago at a management meeting. Someone asked, quite innocently, what went on at the women's conference and got a series of jokey responses from the women about make up, housework etc. Twenty minutes later we were discussing the kitchen facilities in the offices and the fact that people kept leaving them in a dreadful mess. When the Chair asked what we should do about it I suggested referring it To the women's conference for further discussion.
I was still dealing with the fall out from that joke about 3 months later......
Not kewl when trying to get a reference. "Nope, sorry, none of the two previous employers you cited have any record of you working there."
I probably should be spending half my time on GDPR quite soon. Will probably claim 'legitimate interests' for most processing and hope for the best.
:nod: and fulfillment of a contract and all that. But the theory stands, etc.
Yes, the reference part will be interesting. We will have to purge our systems of information on the 7th anniversary of someone leaving employment.
Will be interesting to see what happens when our customers and regulatory bodies come to audit us and want to see reports and evidence of stuff and staff don't provide consent. Oh well...