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Never Hire a Powerskirt
TheZMan ^ | 07-19-2016 | TheZMan

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.


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KEYWORDS: ailes; feminism; foxnews; workplace
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To: NRx

I was working for a Fortune 70 when the Clarence Thomas thing blew up. Immediately, we were all sent to sexual harassment re-education camp. Then Bill Clinton got elected and the re-education camp was scrapped.

So now another sexual harassment narrative spins up just in time for Bill Clinton’s wife to get nominated


21 posted on 07/20/2016 7:45:02 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: Jim Pelosi
Woe onto him that has a female boss. I’ve cut job interviews short when I found out the engineering manager was a female.

I've had two female engineering managers during my career. One was the worst micro-managing chasing-your-tail directive giving boss I've ever had the displeasure to work for. The other was just about the best manager I've ever known. Just sayin'...

22 posted on 07/20/2016 7:47:00 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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To: DJ Taylor
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.

Of course - they're beautiful so they are used to being kowtowed to.

23 posted on 07/20/2016 7:48:11 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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To: NRx

It has been my experience that some supervisor will want to get rid of a middle-manager, so he will find the biggest train wreck in the office and (presumably) offer to not fire her if she will take down the middle manager, after which he fires her anyway.

While this may or may not be what happened here, my guess is there is a puppet master somewhere. Whether or not that is Megyn? I have my doubts, she makes her living in a fish bowl and can’t seem to restrain herself from doing things like interviewing Malik Shabazz. She’s more of your train wreck type I think.


24 posted on 07/20/2016 7:48:49 AM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: NRx

I'd be curious to see how she would be to work for.

25 posted on 07/20/2016 7:49:35 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: mountn man
I'd love to work under her.
26 posted on 07/20/2016 7:55:35 AM PDT by Bratch (w)
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To: NRx

Don’t get married except to an exceptional woman, and for the same reason.

Otherwise, you will have a spiritual and financial vampire in your midst. And you will be blinded to this fact by the emotional bond that is maintained through frequent sexual intercourse.


27 posted on 07/20/2016 7:55:57 AM PDT by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I would never work for another company with a female HR manager!

Their brains don’t work right. It might be OK in some fields, but in manufacturing they are too stupid to understand how things work.


28 posted on 07/20/2016 7:58:45 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Giggles the pig for POTUS - 2016)
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To: 9YearLurker

OOOH! I think that we hit a feminist.


29 posted on 07/20/2016 8:00:06 AM PDT by wjr123
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To: mountn man

I don’t know who that is, but okay...


30 posted on 07/20/2016 8:00:36 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: 9YearLurker
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.


LOL. I was on an interview panel a while back, and one of our candidates was a black guy who admitted during the interview that he was currently suing his most recent employer for racial discrimination. We said, hey thanks for coming by and promptly threw that resume in the dumpster. Even if he had been a fairly qualified candidate (he wasn't) he wouldn't have been hired in a thousand years. The protected classes are basically loaded guns waiting to go off. That said, I would still hire a black man if he were good at his job, but I'd really hesitate to hire a woman. They are trouble x 100 and rarely worth a damn (I was in computer tech). That's real talk. Deal with it.
31 posted on 07/20/2016 8:01:57 AM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Beagle8U

Maybe off topic, but have heard from some women who don’t want to work for another woman. They prefer a male boss.

And among their reasons, are that some women are such back biting two faced people, when put in positions of authority. They go on power trips and it goes to their head, when they are placed in charge of other people.

Of course there are difficult male bosses and male employees too. But just thought it’s intersting that I’ve heard more than one woman talk of this, and that they prefer to have a man for a boss.


32 posted on 07/20/2016 8:02:01 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Blennos

If she sits down, well, let’s just say that there will be some views of things she didn’t mean to show off. A little modesty goes a long way.


33 posted on 07/20/2016 8:03:01 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: NRx

Absolute garbage. I hope you’re not in charge of hiring anyone.


34 posted on 07/20/2016 8:08:35 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: Dilbert San Diego
there will be some views of things she didn’t mean to show off.

you have no idea what her intentions are.

35 posted on 07/20/2016 8:10:11 AM PDT by bankwalker (Does a fish know that it's wet?)
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To: fr_freak
promptly threw that resume in the dumpster

Smart move.

Resumes with degrees in "(anything) Studies", especially "Social Justice", don't even make it to my desk.

Maybe there are some good people in that pile, but I don't bother. It's for the same reason I don't dig through manure piles looking for diamonds....I probably won't find one, and I'm more likely to just get splattered with crap.

36 posted on 07/20/2016 8:10:43 AM PDT by wbill
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To: 9YearLurker
So the 9 years of lurking have expired and this is your post?

Perhaps you need to go back to being a lurker, or is it troll?

37 posted on 07/20/2016 8:13:22 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: dinodino

If he is, it won’t be for long.


38 posted on 07/20/2016 8:13:50 AM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It’s been my experience that women bosses have something to “prove.” Therefore, they tend to work their underlings harder and make their lives more miserable. It’s not always true...I’ve had good and bad bosses of both genders...but it’s often true.


39 posted on 07/20/2016 8:19:25 AM PDT by Nea Wood
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To: Dilbert San Diego

In Mfg they are just too stupid. They don’t understand that you have to fire people for coming in 5 min late.

Their mis-wired brain worries about feelings, not production.


40 posted on 07/20/2016 8:19:44 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Giggles the pig for POTUS - 2016)
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