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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
11/02/09

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What are they mad about? Did she menstruate all over an important stone or something? What a bunch of dicks, living in the dark ages. #moiracameron
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LaComtesse
11/02/09

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HOLY FUCK! SHE WAS MY TOUR GUIDE AT THE TOWER!!! #moiracameron
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Kivrin
11/02/09

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Yeah, I mean, that uniform was clearly designed for men. A woman in puffed sleeves? Ridiculous! /sarcasm
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CurtCole
11/02/09

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Yeo-man, that's not cool. #moiracameron
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ItchykooParker
11/02/09

@CurtCole: Nice! #moiracameron
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Ailatan
11/02/09

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what's their beef? #moiracameron
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Diziet_Sma
11/02/09

@Ailatan: Win! #moiracameron
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Sanfo
10/30/09

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This makes me very happy, especially since the president of my post-secondary institution doesn't believe women can be CEOs:
[www.edmontonjournal.com]

While some observers suggest the shift is no big deal, others say they are worried about what U of A president Indira Samarasekera calls a "demographic bomb" working its way through the system. The problem is no one seems entirely sure what to do about it.

"The presidents of the major universities are very concerned we are not attracting young men in the numbers we should," Samarasekera says.

"I got asked recently about special programs to get more women CEOs, and my response was let’s not worry about that because that will come in due course. The bigger worry is that we’ll wake up in 20 years and we will not have the benefit of enough male talent at the heads of companies and elsewhere." #indranooyi
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morninggloria
10/30/09

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You got the right one, baby- UH-HUH! #indranooyi
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Ipomoea
10/30/09

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I thought that women wanted to be viewed as aspiring actresses, married, sorority sisters, womens' studies majors, or any of the 24 types in the Amp app.... and I don't think executive was one of those types. #indranooyi
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
10/30/09

@Ipomoea: Look at it this way ... if you're an executive, then you're safe from one of those types hitting on you, since they don't have an Amp script to work with.

(♪♫"Always look on the bright side of life ..."♫♪♫) #indranooyi
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andBegorrah
10/30/09

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But if roughly 70% of what she's speaking about has to do with women's issues, doesn't that mean that 100% of what a man speaks about would be on the topic with the same talking points for the same length of discussion? Or does the gap not work that way....? #indranooyi
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egg cream
10/30/09

@andBegorrah: Eh?

I'm at work, so I can't watch the video, but I read this as 70% of the times she's brought in as a speaker, she's being asked to speak about being A Woman In Business, whereas a man would be asked to speak about...business.
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andBegorrah
10/30/09

@egg cream: It was a failed joke about the wage gap percentage. #indranooyi
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egg cream
10/30/09

@andBegorrah: Ohhh. Sorry. I saw math happening, so my brain turned off. #indranooyi
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theKP
10/30/09

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She's pretty awesome. How on earth did a company run by this woman end up putting out that horrible iPhone app? #indranooyi
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msmoneypenny
10/30/09

@theKP: Inquiring minds want to know. If they made an app for tips for young professional women, like how to ask for a raise, I'd totally buy some Pepsi. #indranooyi
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7states
10/30/09

@theKP: To be fair to her, she doesn't have time to micromanage iphone apps!

But I agree that that was a stupid thing for the company to have done. #indranooyi
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CurtCole
10/30/09

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It is nice to see a woman in power speaking on this issue and it's even better to have a corporation that encourages her to do so. #indranooyi
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Maritsa
10/30/09

@CurtCole: I want to go to there. #indranooyi
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CurtCole
10/30/09

@Maritsa: There should hire me to talk mad shit about Coke, and you could work as their general counsel. #indranooyi
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Maritsa
10/30/09

@CurtCole: Did you hear Coke lowers your sperm count? It also makes you grow a tail if you eat it with fast food. I read it on the Internets.

I just checked and the only legal job in the entire multinational company is in Egypt and requires fluency in Arabic. Damn it. #indranooyi
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Clarissima
08/04/09

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Although I admit to stocking up on $5 fake pashminas from the street, just to keep warm at the office during summer, I prefer that the office stays cold. For three reasons:
1) Unprofessional skimpy outfits are significantly reduced.
2) I don't smell the B.O. of that sales guy who spends his lunch pumping weights at the gym and ...
3) the putrid smell of his tuna sandwhich doesn't linger around as long when the office is an ice box.
Who cares if I can't feel my feet?
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LolaP
08/04/09

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I have a theory: air conditioning should be set based on the outside temperature. When we keep it really really cold, we never have a chance for our bodies to adjust to the warm weather. What matters, I think, is the differential between inside and out. So on a 90 degree day, you could cool to, say, 78, and on a 100 degree day, you could cool to, say 85 or something. This would spare us from freezing to death, make the air conditioning people happy, and save money and the environment as well!
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whynotshesaid
08/04/09

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I need to share this with my office managers. They keep the building so cold that I have to rub my hands together and blow on them, like I'm standing outside in the Arctic in winter.

What I find most frustrating about the use of A/C is that I live in Florida, and for some reason, almost every public building seems to feel the need to crank the A/C down to 68 to compensate for the fact that it is hot and muggy outside. I'm like, hello, it's FLORIDA, if you don't like the heat, then kindly GET OUT OF HERE and move back to Michigan, or wherever it was you came from.

Seriously, A/C is woefully abused in states with warm climates.
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whynotshesaid
08/04/09

@whynotshesaid: Besides, from an energy stand-point, climate control is one of the biggest energy suckers out there. I understand needing the heat when it's 32 outside, but I think there are different, more efficient ways to use things instead of trying to recreate our own private temperature-paradise inside every building we go into, regardless of climate outside.
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AlphonsoMango
08/04/09

@whynotshesaid: But at least you can wear a sweater or shawl when it gets cold. I used to work for a place that clearly had too many older ladies because in winter it was UNBEARABLY hot. I could not wear a sweater because it was always 85+ in there. I would have to wear several layers throughout the winter (since I walked/rode bike there) and strip it all off to summer clothes when I got to the office. And to make it worse, there was no water cooler, so I almost died from dehydration/ heat exhaustion.
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whynotshesaid
08/04/09

@AlphonsoMango: Yikes! Well, that's no good either. Surely there has to be a middle ground. I personally like to keep my home at 75-78 degrees - any higher and I feel like I'm starting to bake from the inside out.
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wrapped in plastic
08/04/09

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I wonder if it's due to muscle mass? The guys I've known who dealt worst with heat were always muscular guys who went to the gym a lot or did physical jobs. My less muscly male friends don't seem nearly as bothered by hot weather.
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EmpressZombie
08/04/09

@wrapped in plastic: possibly, I do have lots of muscle for a female, and I'm generally the one who's always walking around in a tank top while everyone is wrapped up but paradoxically I have very cold feet and hands. I think I can ignore the cold more easily doesn't mean my body doesn't get cold.
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whynotshesaid
08/04/09

@EmpressZombie: I'm the same way. My entire body can be fine, to the point where I can wear tank tops, but my hands will feel like they've been chiseled from blocks of ice.
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