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Crying! Shitting! Stripping! Please Share Your Most Undignified Day At The Office
Keeping up with the new Wall Street Journal "Journal Women" website has been kind of fun! First there was this story about doing business in Asia, where women often find it a little bit awkward when following about six hours of Crown Royal-soaked karaoke their hosts try to pair them up with "hostesses" as if they are horny businessmen. And then there was this story about how Microsoft CEO and on-again off-again Bill Gates BFF Steve Ballmer is known for crying at work, probably over all the lives Bill has saved quashing innovation, and hey! Maybe crying at work is okay! Okay so today they posted a Q&A with former Spice Channel executive Jackie Saril on the sticky situations she's encountered on the job. (No for real! I swear they used that term "sticky situations"!) It's all about how to handle an office jaunt to the strip club! (Key takeaways: sit through a few lap dances, but skip the champagne room.) More »
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Would Your Job Fire You For Having A Miscarriage?
Well this is uplifting: a female lawyer was laid off by the big law firm Paul Hastings days after suffering a miscarriage because they didn't want her to get pregnant again. This sort of shit happens all the time in a lot of industries, of course, but in a firm whose specialty is employment law it's kind of outrageous, and the way the associate describes it going down in her angry farewell letter to the staff — called into the office a week after she'd been assured she'd get to stay; fired unceremoniously while a female mentor (with kids of her own) watched her break into tears — seems unduly harsh, so she decided to forgo the three month's severance in exchange for signing a non-disparagement agreement and unleash the thing upon the blogs. "If this response seems particularly emotional, perhaps an associate's emotional vulnerability after a recent miscarriage is a factor you should consider the next time you fire or lay someone off," she writes. More »
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Women Work "Harder" Because They Take Their Dumb Jobs Way Too Seriously
A new study says women and men are different about something! (Think it's about time I programmed a series of command keys so I could type those eleven words with minimal effort? Yeah, only a dude would be that lazy. Or enterprising. Whatev.) Anyway, this study says that women work harder than men. Because they're perfectionists who set higher standards for themselves.She recently asked both a male and a female colleague for help on a project. The female colleague said that to do a good job, she would need to do three days of research first. The male colleague said he could finish the work in an afternoon.That's one of the conductors of the study, a sociology professor at the University of Virginia. And I think this gets to the crux of the issue, right? The colleague is being asked to help with a sociology project. She's not being asked to research, say, the evidence of nuclear proliferation in Iran. She's not mapping the human genome. She's helping a professor who supports her obvious assertion to a reporter by citing anecdotes. What the fuck does she need three days for? To be a better anecdote? More »
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Ever Had A Boss Who Made You Hate Men?
A story in today's Journal about a bunch of workplace sex discrimination lawsuits filed against EMC, a data storage company (fun fact: data storage = causing some problems for us today!) got us all a-body-spasming. We thought it was bad when one of those Wal-Mart managers had surreptitiously taken employees to a strip clubs! Well, at EMC, they got the strippers to paint "EMC" on their ass cheeks. In one lawsuit, filed by a longtime executive at the company, the boss man decides to perform some exotic tricks on a dancer hired to entertain a company event....a stripper was hired to come to the hotel where a company meeting was being held to celebrate the promotion of two managers. Ms. Nelson left the room and waited in the hallway, her lawsuit said. While waiting there, she heard male salesmen who left the room saying that her "boss licked whipped-cream off the strippers' breasts," her complaint said.WHY IS IT MALE BOSSES THINK THIS SHIT IS OKAY? We polled our friends. Interestingly, about half of them had no bad work stories whatsoever; the other half had mooore than enough to compensate. More »
