The gateway to joining the ranks is in my pants, baby
Posted on 10/05/2005 by not that kind of girl
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About 10 years back my sleezy gross boss with a god complex asked me (asked is a nice word)to sleep with him and told me that it was "no big deal" and that I "wouldn't be the first or the last" and said that if I did, he "could promise" me that it would be the best career decision I ever made. He told me that it was "gateway to joining the ranks"...whatever that means. He then asked me if I knew how women of power got their power...and told me WITH A STRAIGHT FACE that they got their power by sleeping with men powerful me. Did you ever hear something so completely asinine and neanderthal? I was younger then and it was my first job so I didn't react the way I should have. I told him I would think about it and then just quit the next week without reporting him or anything. I didn't really like the job so for me, it was just disposing of the whole situation. Now? If someone ever spoke to me that way they'd get drop kicked to next Wednesday.
POST A COMMENTgranularity(10/05/2005)
UGH! What is wrong with these types?! Yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck! Good for you for exiting! But better if you had reported him.
Walk the Planks(10/06/2005)
My mother used to be a secretary years ago. She had one boss that wanted to "keep her," put her up in an apartment and give her money etc., etc. He wanted her to leave my father, instead, she left his company. My mom and dad were married for 46 years.
MeToooo(10/07/2005)
Okay, so I'm not alone. I went on an interview when I was 24, and the guy who interviewed me was a sleek kind of good looking 45ish year old guy. Anyway, in the interview he talked all about himself, his divorce, the indoor basketball court at his house, how I should come see it sometime... fresh out of college I was pretty axious for a job, he called me in for a 2nd interview and I went. At the 2nd interview he told me he wanted to hire me, that I would have to travel with him and we would be spending "lots of close time together".. that the job I was interviewing for had been filled, but he has opened a new position just for me... and that I could eat/drink anything in his private fridge as long as I promised "not to get fat, you know, just stay the way you are now"...and he said "I hope you aren't in a relationship because I think we could really take our professional relationship to new heights", "have you ever done it on a desk", and he moved his eyebrows up and down... ewwwwwww! Because I was young I just said "no" and then when he said he'd get back to me on a start date I never returned his calls! Now, I realize that was totally illegal!
sotia(10/07/2005)
MeToo, that's CRAZY! How awful for you. And not to mention what a time waster. Seems like this stuff, while illegal and unacceptable still persists because Oprah had featured it earlier this week. The lady on there got cornered in the man's office!
What???(10/23/2005)
I was one of the first few women engineers in my specific field. A couple of weeks after I got to the site of my first job, the big manager invited me over for supper with his family. Except that the family was out of town - and I was supposed to be the entertainment for the evening. I had to dodge him a couple more times, but finally he accepted a 'no'. (Maybe I was lucky - as one of the three single women in town, it was fairly easy for me to go out and get a big, strapping boyfriend/bodyguard. Still, it ticks me off that I had to do that in pure self-defense.)
Dharmadee(03/23/2006)
How about this one-I was asked to come back for a second interview for the position of assistant to the H.R. manager of a very large drugstore chain. After going over my resume, this idiot starts asking me "personal" questions...such as "how close are you with your husband?" and "Do you have a problem going out of town and staying with me overnight in a hotel room...to do paperwork?". I told him that my husband would probably not appreciate that, so he abruptly stood up and thanked me for coming in. Needless to say, I did not hear from him again.
Embarrassed(03/23/2006)
The harrasser was not male. Does this ever happen to anybody else?
tiredofbeingyourmomma (10/05/2005)
Oh, my: "rank" has more than one meaning here, doesn't it? Sounds like this fella likes skanks and congratulations on refusing to lower yourself to that rank. You go, Girl!
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