Posted on 10/17/2004 10:06:29 AM PDT by Tamar1973
NEW YORK - The Yale Club
CHICAGO - Mesirow Financial
PHILADELPHIA - The Inn at Penn
BOSTON - Harvard Business School
LOS ANGELES - UCLA Anderson
LONDON - The Real Greek Souvlaki & Bar
DENVER - The Warwick Denver Hotel
SAN FRANCISCO - The Westin St. Francis
I am NOT a member of this organization but I believe that true equality in the workplace is a worthwhile thing to fight for.
And just what will be the message to whom,
when 19 Oct comes and goes, and
nothing happened?
Entirely apart from the merits of the advocacy
in play here, was it smart to schedule this
during the peak of election frenzy?
Or, looking at some of the sponsors, is this
actually a political stunt? And if so, for
the benefit of which candidate?
I believe in earning it, not obtaining it via publicity stunts.
Hmmm! This is silly! I wasn't planning on shopping that day anyhow. My shopping gets done on Saturday.
Another group looking for equality of outcome, rather than equality of opportunity.
Perhaps if these women want more representation in the upper echilons of business, they should consider doing the following:
1. Start at the bottom rungs of the corporation and work hard. Take chances and be innovative.
2. Be willing to work 60-80 hours per week, including weekends.
3. Don't take time off from work to have and rear children.
Everyone has choices to make in life. For every benefit, there is a cost. I find it completely understandable why women would want to take time off to have children, work normal hours to be with those children, and not take chances in the workplace. They want the stability and joy of a family. But nobody can have it all.
Me too. So we agree affirmative action should be ended now?
ROTFLOL! Yeah, no one seperates me from my credit card without a loaded gun.
I have no idea, but people on FR try to organize boycotts or advertise the boycotts started by others all the time. Before I posted this info, I did a search to try to make sure this hadn't been posted before, I found boycotts encouraged against such groups as CBS, Norwegians, French, Bruce Springsteen, Yahoo, Blockbuster, USA Today, etc. Most of these have had little to no sucess yet it gives the allusion of power and activism.
It's also as American as the Boston Tea Party.
Worthless posturing. Every day, millions of people don't do any shopping, but make up for it the next day. If another ten thousand or so don't shop this particular day, I seriously doubt anyone will notice.
There's acutally a group organizing a boycott stores open on Sundays.
Boycott Sunday Shopping
A Money & Investing tribe
Stand up against retail stores being open seven days a week. Boycott and they will close.
*Give the clerks one reliable day off, when they work short hours anyway.
*Gain awareness of your own consumerism.
*Protect the environment, by letting it rest and reducing the total cars on the road.
*Make one day of the week quieter and smell better for those who live near shopping centers.
I personally do my shopping on Sunday or on other days during the week because Saturday is Shabbat and I don't shop on Shabbat, but that's just me, : )
Good. Maybe on that day it won't take me 15 minutes to get out of my driveway, and get to work without leaving half-an-hour early.
FMCDH(BITS)
>> And just what will be the message to whom, when
>> 19 Oct comes and goes, and nothing happened?
> I have no idea, but people on FR try to organize boycotts
> or advertise the boycotts started by others all the time.
They do indeed, and occasionally have some success.
The problem with this one is the timing. Any effect it
has is going to be lost in noise of all the other
election-driven activity going on.
Unless, of course, this is an election-related stunt.
From their site:
"On October 19th, we will contribute $12,000 to Room
To Read to build a new 85 Broads school in Vietnam ..."
Vietnam? That bastion of nascent kerry kapitalism, whose
only shortcoming is an insufficiency of female MBAs? Not.
Had they been proposing efforts in Afghanistan or Iraq,
I might be quite a bit less suspicious.
The Room_to_Read org, by the way, lists as one of its
partners: Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organization,
and it refuses to name it's investors.
:-) Sunday's my Sabbath, so that's when I don't shop. *L*
Not just ended. Nuked.
CBS not broadcasting the hit piece on Reagan was not successful? Getting Whoopie removed as Slim-Fast spokes-ho wasn't successful? Getting Garafa-ho's TV show pulled? The all but end of Sarandon's career?
These things work -- if the cause is worthy enough.
Not exactly sure what the boycott is about, but it sounds like a great day to avoid crowds and go shopping.
These are the same people who think marriage is slavery and all sex is rape
I see nothing about equality. I see them using stats and stuff. They want quotas and affirmative action
Please God, let this happen!
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