"When Mike Bloomberg's friends and admiring colleagues compiled a small booklet of his "wit and wisdom" nearly 30 years ago, they opened it with this one-liner: "Make the customer think he’s getting laid when he’s getting [expletive]."
From there, the crude language continued: "What do I want?" it says on page six. "I want an exclusive, 10-year contract, an automatic extension, and I want you to pay me. And I want [oral sex] from Jane Fonda. Have you seen Jane Fonda? Not bad for fifty."
(MORE: Bloomberg's sexist remarks fostered company culture that degraded women, lawsuits allege)
And sexist: "If women wanted to be appreciated for their brains, they’d go to the library instead of to Bloomingdales."
Glad to see that Bloomberg has a sense of humor.
Since the quote was commenting on CORP environment (bolded).....you should assume my
comment was corporate directed....17years worth.
EXAMPLE....probably TMI, but at a managers good bye party ( he really was an ok guy) the
drinks were flowing freely and the subject of female co workers (some present and having
a good time) floated around. A manager is commenting to me...."You didn't know you had a reputation at Lakewood, did you"? I was STUNNED.....then he says to me..."you were voted
best buns at Lakewood."
The really stunning part about that comment was, I had always tried to have a low profile at work.
Just before I left corp america.....the corp slogan was ''take every opportunity to delight your customer''.....which was,of course,an asinine thought, because they were slicing and dicing
departments/personnel/MJR'S......
I’ve been working in corporate America for over 30 years and have never run into that kind of behavior - even when it was supposedly cool. I still say the comment was sexist.
YOUR level within the corp is perhaps the reason....My position sr.operations clerk and my
immediate co workers were comm teks and 1st level and 2 level mgmt.......
Ladies, am I left to assume that the appellation, "best buns" could only be ascribed to a woman at the level of clerk and not Senior Vice-President?
I love that comment " I had always tried to have a low profile at work". Does that mean you did wear a form fitting skirt/pants?
How's that for being sexist. Not quite Bloomberg's level but then I do not have billions of dollars to pay for lawsuits.
Go Dems!
ramage wrote: Ladies, am I left to assume that the appellation, "best buns" could only be ascribed to a woman at the level of clerk and not Senior Vice-President?
I love that comment " I had always tried to have a low profile at work". Does that mean you did wear a form fitting skirt/pants?
How's that for being sexist. Not quite Bloomberg's level but then I do not have billions of dollars to pay for lawsuits.
Go Dems!
LOL!
It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy
ramage wrote: Ladies, am I left to assume that the appellation, "best buns" could only be ascribed to a woman at the level of clerk and not Senior Vice-President?
I love that comment " I had always tried to have a low profile at work". Does that mean you did wear a form fitting skirt/pants?
How's that for being sexist. Not quite Bloomberg's level but then I do not have billions of dollars to pay for lawsuits.
Go Dems!
KNEW I would get rations of roaring laughter......but let me explain, I that time I worked in "plant:"
that office was on the outer edge of westside of Lakewood....it was an installation facility NOT
a downtown office (worked there also, with the usual yuppie attire).....in "plant," jeans were the
norm,because of the nature of work.(this was well before the present day causal attire)....so
it was a dressed down atmosphere.
The example I gave was one of the more innocuous incidents....there were MANY MORE
thru out the years.....
