Posted on 02/15/2020 8:45:43 PM PST by bitt
As Mike Bloomberg celebrated his 48th birthday in 1990, a top aide at the company he founded presented him with a booklet of profane, sexist quotes she attributed to him.
A good salesperson is like a man who tries to pick up women at a bar by saying, “Do you want to f---? He gets turned down a lot — but he gets f----- a lot, too!” Bloomberg was quoted in the booklet as saying. Bloomberg also allegedly said that his company’s financial information computers “will do everything, including give you [oral sex]. I guess that puts a lot of you girls out of business.”
At the time, some Bloomberg staffers said, they laughed off the comments in the 32-page booklet, “The Wit and Wisdom of Michael Bloomberg,” as a macho side of one of the nerdiest men on Wall Street.
But others viewed them more darkly, seeing them as blunt examples of what they considered to be a hostile environment, artifacts of a workplace employees said was saturated with degrading comments.
Several lawsuits have been filed over the years alleging that women were discriminated against at Bloomberg’s business-information company, including a case brought by a federal agency and one filed by a former employee, who blamed Bloomberg for creating a culture of sexual harassment and degradation.
The most high-profile case was from a former saleswoman. She sued Bloomberg personally as well as his company, alleging workplace discrimination. She alleged Bloomberg told her to “kill it” when he learned she was pregnant. Bloomberg has denied her allegation under oath, and he reached a confidential settlement with the saleswoman.
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This is bush league nonsense. Where are the Bloomie quotes where he says global warming is BS? This will really get the loony left spinning.
The biggest problem with the press is a lack of diversity of thougnt AND publisher buying the BS that newspapers are a ‘cause’ rather than a business.
That mistaken idea allows newspapers to ignore their customers...
If a tech company felt their job was to convince computer users that “pink” was the ONLY color computers should be - they would fail. As they should.
If McDonald’s felt their customers should ‘give up meat’ they would fail.
He oozes creepiness.
Some of those women will come forward... if for no other reason to see if Mike will offer them a “payday” to go away and drop any allegations.
I suspect there are loads of them.....he pissed off lots of women who worked for him.
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