Posted on 07/20/2016 7:21:31 AM PDT by NRx
Looking back, we had, in the person of Teddy Roosevelt, the finest President in the history of this country. He had the spirit and determination that matched the times and the land. Then the women got the vote, and everything went to hell. While our boys was overseas fighting the Kaiser, the women got Prohibition put in. Drinking and gambling and whoring were declared unlawful. All those things which come natural to men became crimes.
–Judge Roy Bean
A quarter century ago, I was sent to my first reeducation camp. The company I was with at the time had been infected with the virus so everyone in a management position was sent off-site to be hectored about the importance of tolerance in the workplace. We did not yet have the word “diversity” to throw around as we were still in the “tolerance” stage of multicultural lunacy outbreak. At least that was the case in my part of the world so they called it “sensitivity training,” which everyone said using air quotes.
The people responsible for starting the sensitivity training were the women in the human resources department. They had changed the name of it to something stupid like “people and relationships” but it was an HR department. For reasons I’ll never understand, the men in charge of the company decided to pack the HR departments with women who immediately started making mischief. Talking to friends at the time, this was happening all over the business world. HR departments full of hens were morphing into sensitivity department full of bitter shrews.
Not long after I had returned from the reeducation camp, I was informed by HR that one of my charges had been making one of the women uncomfortable. She did not like the way he was looking at her. This woman dressed like a street walker and had to be told multiple times to stop showing off her smoking hot body at work. That made no difference. I was told I had to write him up, which I refused to do. That got me in some trouble and forever on the HR hit list, but it was the shape of things to come. My policy was going to be zero tolerance for this sort of terrorism.
That was a long time ago and things have only grown worse. The implosion of Fox News is a great example of why you should avoid hiring women.
Blogger Matt Drudge put up a headline at the top of his popular aggregation website The Drudge Report this afternoon that Ailes will exit the company with a “$40+ million parachute.” There is no link to a story, but a source subsequently told Deadline that Ailes is in exit talks, saying terms of the settlement are being hammered out tonight.
“With internal allegations mounting, it was deemed time for him to go,” the well-placed source said.
21st Century Fox, however, said in a statement: “Roger is at work The review is ongoing. And the only agreement that is in place is his existing employment agreement.”
Ailes’ ouster comes after Fox News hostGretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against him on July 6 after her contract was not renewed.
Ailes, the architect of the Fox News as a ratings behemoth and political force, in of June 2015, signed a multi-year contract to continue running Fox News, Fox Business Network, and Fox Television Stations.
Earlier this morning, Drudge linked a headline to today’s New York Magazine story,alleging Fox News star Megyn Kelly had told 21st Century Fox’s investigators that she had been the recipient of unwanted sexual advances from Ailes about a decade ago when she was a correspondent in the Washington bureau. But Drudge used a headline saying Kelly was twisting the knife into her boss. That post, and headline, from the wildly popular and influential conservative blogger got media reporters to sit up and take notice.
Perhaps I am more cynical than most, but how did Ailes not see that Megyn Kelly was trouble? There’s nothing wrong with hiring bimbos to read the news on TV, just as long as the bimbos are fine with being bimbos trading on their looks. Women like Kelly trade on their looks, but they are forever bitter about it. That bitterness curdles into a viscous nastiness that almost always leads to claims of discrimination or sexual harassment, when they don’t get what they want. Once again, the facts of life are turning out to be Trumpian.
The lesson here, of course, is to never hire women like Megyn Kelly. It’s like inviting Dracula into your house. No matter how much garlic you have around your neck, you still have a bloodthirsty vampire in your midst. A good rule of thumb is to hire homely women for positions of responsibility, preferably older women. They have no illusions about how males view them. For entry level work like clerks and paralegals, hire mothers as they need the job more than they need to strike a blow for the sisterhood. They are too practical to be feminists.
Otherwise, never hire a powerskirt.
Interesting read.
The same concept could apply to anyone, who is trying to push some political or social agenda.
Maybe some fields are more prone to this than others? I’ve worked in the accounting and financial area for decades, with many women colleagues over the years. I never had any problems working for or with any of them. Maybe the discipline of an area like finance, precludes pushing the agenda????
I don't know about that. Remember Andrea Dworkin? Remember the SJW prof who needed "some muscle" to stifle free speech on campus? I've seen some homely feminists.
I liked the assessment of the modern HR department - very accurate!
What a pathetic “vanity”.
So you shouldn’t hire a competent woman if she’s attractive because PC HR is out of control?
By that standard, you shouldn’t hire black blacks, Hispanic Hispanics, or gay gays either.
Why don’t you go crawl back into whatever hole you slithered your way out of?
This is almost the exact (though, of course, unspoken) policy my former employer followed. We never had any feminist political outbursts, and men and women got along well at our office.
I don’t think this gal would be able to sit down in that outfit.
But I’d like to see her try.
Sorry, this is not a vanity and I am not the author. But thanks for playing.
I suspect you are righrt about the discipline of the fields. The more touchy-feely fields have even more of this. Read, teaching. Don’t get me started.
Woe onto him that has a female boss. I’ve cut job interviews short when I found out the engineering manager was a female. Been down that road a couple of times. Never again.
"If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, never make a pretty woman your wife."
That notion could be applied just as well to the workplace: If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, never let a pretty woman into your life.
In my long life, I've found beautiful women to be spoiled, accustomed to having their way, vindictive, and easily offended if things don't go exactly to their liking.
I know I'm right about beautiful women because I've been married to one for the last forty-eight years.
GTMA.
The exit money will include the $40 million of the parachute plus all of Megyn’s money that will be won in the law suit
What is wrong with a little skirt.
With the last wacko phb-ette from a few years ago, I am very wary of female supervisors.
I have run into some very good female boss types but they tend to be rare.
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