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I find work a good place to play out personality traits that don’t comport with being a modern women – being subserviant to my boss lets me score points at work and not bring it into my personal life as much.
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She’d pick vendors by who she wanted to drink with!! Not the quality of their RFP or work. Because the guy was ‘cute’.
i see nothing wrong in that.
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at March 29, 2010 4:43 PM
There’s definitely something wrong with that. Dick swinging is cool and all, but when you start f-kng up the company you’ve taken it too far. Bad decisions = failing company = no job = no money = no dick and no dick swinging. You become George Costanza. Or Rob.
Just to be clear: the guy from Google was a perfect gentleman. He was talking softly and holding off on the blatant swinging. I admire somone who does that – it shows a level of maturity. As ENY and Donatella said, fortune runs both ways, and this guy had been around enough to know it.
“The one’s who should have gotten the business with the quality RFP should have learned who to put on the account”
It was the owner of the business, and he was a real smart guy, and way more organized than the guy that got the job. I’d rather have drinks with a homely smart geek than a handsome idiot.
And the guy that ended up getting the work was about to get MARRIED but still had a sort of affair with….guess who! My boss!! It was pretty gross to watch. And he hired pretty bad/inexperienced project managers who I had to work with! What joy.
I’ll probably die penniless due to my inability to ignore this crap.
lemurs and loris! I love them. Thanks for the link legion.
You’re not Monique’s husband are you? :o)
Posted by: Kensingtonian at March 29, 2010 4:42 PM
I repeat: that’s I’m saying on that!
Regarding corporate d**k-swinging, life is short, play a different game. Karma rules too. In my universe, it is a big world but a little world too and I think there is one degree of separation from everyone, so you may be doing well this year, but in 2 years the person you insulted may be your companies client or your new boss, so being an asshole is ultimately career limiting.
I once told my office manager to stop hiring good looking part-time help. “Hire only nerds,” I said. Boys would ocme in and sit around flirting with them or being rude and then I’d have to throw them out.
Can we just get the job done, can people just be straight forward and friendly and not insecure asses that have to project how much power they have? ACK. I just hate the corporate world!!
Posted by: cobblehiller at March 29, 2010 4:31 PM
Of course not. Didn’t you go to high school?
I don’t mind the dick-swinging thing. If you’ve got it, swing it! The guy Benson describes could just as easily be laid off, or caught up in a scandal that brings him/his company down, or get hit by a subway train tomorrow. There are no guarantees, so enjoy it while it lasts. And, if you’re on the receiving end of the crap, you can always just quit.