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www.tcmgroup.com Probably thebest debt collection network worldwide Moneyknows no borders—neither do we Advancing the credit profession / www.cicm.com / March 2020 / PAGE 52
IT’S A FUNNY OLD WORLD… NOT SO FRIENDLY AMIGOS An occasional look at the more absurd side of life from the credit industry and beyond. AS press people, we find ourselves on the receiving end of a large number of press releases of various degrees of quality. Those that ‘announce’ news as though they are announcing the birth of a child are particularly irritating, as is the over-use of words such as ‘unique’ or ‘revolutionary’. As my first editor 35 years ago once said to me, only people are unique, Feast, and the only revolutionary I know is Che Guevara. A recent press release concerning Amigo Loans has topped anything we have received previously and is a perfect illustration of why you should DAFT person of the month who must surely be regretting her recent Radio 4 interview is Ann Francke, the CEO of the Chartered Management Institute. Long story short, dear Ann said out loud that employers should crack down on sports chat in the workplace because it excludes women and encourages laddish behaviour. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear what were you saying Ann and where was your PR advisor at the time? She said, I kid you not: ‘A lot of women, in particular, feel left out. They don’t follow those sports and they don’t like either being forced to talk about them or not being included. I have nothing against sports enthusiasts or cricket fans – that’s AUTHOR – Sean Feast FCICM Leave your tackle out of it great. But the issue is many people aren’t cricket fans’. She added: ‘It’s very easy for it to escalate from VAR talk and chat to slapping each other on the back and talking about their conquests at the weekend. It’s a gateway to more laddish behaviour and – if it just goes unchecked – it’s a signal of a more laddish culture’. Blimey. Clearly Ann is the only person in the country not to have registered the huge attention given to our splendid women’s world cup football team, cricket team, and the massively successful women’s rugby team? Has she not heard any of the debate viz equal pay for women tennis players and golfers? Does ‘A lot of women, in particular, feel left out. They don’t follow those sports and they don’t like either being forced to talk about them or not being included’. never let either your legal department or compliance team in on the PR act. Emblazoned across the top of said release it says: ‘NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IN, INTO OR FROM ANY JURISDICTION WHERE TO DO SO WOULD CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF THE RELEVANT LAWS OF SUCH JURISDICTION’ I have absolutely no idea what it means, but there was no way I was risking what looked like a threat of certain death by using a release in our news. So sorry about that. It could have been important. she never listen to the radio or turn on the sport at any stage to hear and see the multitude of female presenters and commentators, these ladies who she thinks are ‘excluded’ or ‘forced to talk about sport’? Red card Ann. Sport is not the sole reserve of men, and not all men enjoy sport either. (Some of them go running or cycling for example, and neither can be classed as ‘sport’.) Your comments are bizarrely out of touch with the real world. Get down to your local park at the weekend and see how many girls are playing football. You’ll find they are just as passionate about sport as the blokes. Advancing the credit profession / www.cicm.com / March 2020 / PAGE 53
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