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Guru exclusively refers to his female colleagues as “hot stuff”, “sweet cheeks”, “good-loooking” and “toots” and all manner of other affectionate business terms. Consequently, he was horrified to read that bus drivers for the Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company have been warned that referring to customers as “babe” or “love” or “darling” may be considered sexist.
Honestly, women want it all. They don’t want to be called “babe” or “darling”, but they do want to get on buses and have jobs.
Guru agrees with The Argus‘ anonymous bus driver who says that “It’s just the height of political correctness” and that people do not want their buses driven by “robots”. Both of these things are undeniably true, except the second thing. Automated processes are often highly efficient, meaning that most people would probably quite like their buses to be driven by robots. However, even in the high-tech robot-driven-buses future Guru hopes that female passengers will be treated to a morale-boosting, electronic “good morning babe” to kick-start another hard day’s secretarial work.
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