I work for a multi national giant technology company with more than 80,000 employee worldwide and more than 4000 in Australia where I am. We have an internal magazine that gets published and emailed to all of us. Last Friday 19 Nov I was waiting to see what will be published and as you may guess nothing about International Men's day.

I felt that I have to do something so I talked to my direct Manager (Best boss ever by the way). He agreed and gave me the green light and I wrote an email to our National Human Resource Director (right to the top). I ,efectively, said that this is a feedback about our internal publications and I see this as a missed opportunity that our company could utilise to talk about men's achievements, stories and also several physical and mental health issues that men are struggling with these days.

I just received an answer from HR director today thanking me for my feedback acknowledging the overlook and missed opportunity. Also promised that this will never happen again and they will make sure that this day will be celebrated within our organisation in coming years. Also included several relevent eployees of the matter to the email chain.

Just wanted to share this with you guys to say that we need to be positive and progressive in our attempts and pay as less attention to opposition as possible. We need to do brainstorming rather than blame-storming like the opposite side does all the time.

My wife congratulated me and bought me a nice plant for my office (something that i was after for a while).