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Jul. 22nd, 2004 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantryslutYesterday at yet another temp agency interview, I had to watch a little instructional video on workplace safety. It was called "The Case of the Perilous Office" and involved a time-travelling, invisible Sherlock Holmes.
Pity the poor actors who must be in these videos. It wasn't half-bad, and picking Holmes as the narrator conveniently excuses the condescending tone that all these sorts of videos exude. But who wants to be the clod who tried to lift a heavy box while standing on a precarious office chair?
Or, worse, the blonde girl (of course she was blonde -- with frizzy hair, too much makeup, and bright, loud clothes) who is constantly tripping on her too-high heels, getting things caught in her dangly earrings, and generally being a ditz.
On the other hand, the box guy was trying to impress his curvy (yet impeccably professionally dressed) black female boss, so maybe in the stereotype department, it's a wash.
Pity the poor actors who must be in these videos. It wasn't half-bad, and picking Holmes as the narrator conveniently excuses the condescending tone that all these sorts of videos exude. But who wants to be the clod who tried to lift a heavy box while standing on a precarious office chair?
Or, worse, the blonde girl (of course she was blonde -- with frizzy hair, too much makeup, and bright, loud clothes) who is constantly tripping on her too-high heels, getting things caught in her dangly earrings, and generally being a ditz.
On the other hand, the box guy was trying to impress his curvy (yet impeccably professionally dressed) black female boss, so maybe in the stereotype department, it's a wash.
