Letters to the Editor
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Yep
And you just KNOW she uses the word "like" 4 times in every sentence (see my post on yesterday's column)! I agree a good slapping is in order.
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Bam!
Oh damn, why does Cary just put it down so well? Up top on this response Carey, as I sit at my shithole job, watching my boss NOT do his job. Ah, life, and naivity.
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So...
... if in the opinion of LW said tee shirt is enough to provoke a husband to violence, and that violence spills over into the work place, is that not enough to argue that she is not appropriately dressed for the workplace? Maybe the husband works at the same place?
Is there actually any attire short of an incitation to kill the President that could ever be inappropriate?
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Cary is right
About everything. And despite his feeling naive when he was in his 20's, he was absolutely correct.
Working IS a waste of a human life in most situations. Especially in offices. Why do you think sitcoms like "The Office" are so successful?
I resent that, despite my creativity and talents, I cannot express that side of myself except in the tiny periods of time I squeeze between working, commuting, food shopping and the laundry. And not to mention sleep. It sucks. There's really no other way around it.
And it IS awful that democracy is completely absent from all working situations. I personally have yet to have a boss that wasn't either a complete sexist or a complete homophobe. FUN TIMES!
There are a lot of reasons why we allow ourselves to be this kind of slave. We have to have credit cards and plasma tvs and SUV's, right? To be happy, right? To be successful, right? To be good Americans, right? Enough already.
Basically, unless you're self employed or lucky enough to have a job where you CAN be creative and have control and democracy (one in a million) you're probably going to work for an autocratic dickhead. It sucks and we need to change it. I don't know how yet-probably one person at a time in our own ways- but it MUST change.
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she's asking for it, right?
Perhaps the writer would like for the women in his office to wear habits or hijabs so as not to interfere with his productive misogyny.
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Er...
>But if the office has a dress code,<
Apparently not--or the T-shirt simply wasn't bad enough to make the supervisor LW snitched to come down hard on the wearer.
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I have a T-shirt
I have a t-shirt that says "Math is Hard." I mostly bought it because my last name is Mathews. However, most of the people that have commented on it just say "Yeah, math is hard!"
Hey, I'm just practicing my art.
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Slogan T-Shirts and Boobies
I have purchased exactly one slogan t-shirt since I passed from pre-pubescence into adulthood. I rarely wear it, although I find it amusing (one of those happy bunny characters, pink on black, with the slogan "It's all about me, deal with it").
The reason? Boobies. Big ones.
Personally, and without desiring to make judgements on others, I dislike inviting further stares by splashing news items across them. I come by this innocently enough. When someone else is wearing a t-shirt with something written on it, I look until I can figure out what it says. Add some boobies into the mix and certain letters become distorted and difficult to read. I want to know who to give dirty looks to for staring at my chest. I can hardly do so while inviting these looks.
So I feel, in a way, that women who wear these shirts are inviting (perhaps unwanted) sexual attention, as would attire that is very short or has very plunging necklines. Yes, we are all free to wear what we want outside of work, and mr. dirty mind not-with-standing, there is an inherent invitation in splashing colorful slogans across a woman's chest. It says "feel free to linger a glance at my chest."
Apparently that is exactly what LW did and he did not feel comfortable with what he saw. Once he made his opinion known to both the woman and her supervisor, he should have stopped there.
Oh - and this? This just cracked me up - what a perfect response!
"...but there was an obvious double-entendre (double meaning). She responded by telling me that I was really sexy when I spoke French."
Mind your own beeswax, LW. Avoid her when she is wearing the shirt.
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They can both be wrong.
It's clear this guy is an a-hole (No, slapping a woman is not a figure of speech. Slapping some sense into a world leader like George Bush, and slapping a young woman who is showing disobedience or improper subordination to her husband are NOT the same things). It also seems clear that he is a little resentful of this young woman's sexuality (does pointing out she's attractive add anything to his point, or just inflate his ego a little?).
But it's also clear this woman is behaving in an unprofessional matter. The t-shirt bothers me a lot less than the public announcement that her marriage is on the rocks. Her personality reminds me kind of like Kelly on 'The Office', a young, somewhat immature woman who doesn't know how to seperate work from her personal life. The maanager should probably pull her aside and tell her to keep her personal issues out of the workplace as much as possible.
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Working IS a waste of a human life in most situations.
And just how is 'democracy' in the workplace supposed to change that, if true?
Suppose your job is to punch holes in paper. Now we have 'democracy' in the workplace. Doesn't somebody still have to punch the holes in the paper? Won't it be you? Will you like it better then?
If it's the democratic vote of the workplace that says you have to punch holes in paper, why is that better then getting your orders from a boss? At least you can bitch to your fellow workers about your boss. But who do you bitch to when it's your fellow workers who are your boss?
Neither you or Cary is thinking this thing through. A job is not about doing what YOU want to do, it's about doing what OTHER people need or want done. Getting adequately paid for it is probably the best most people can ever hope for. And even that's not necessarily a given.