My Job is Threatened!
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I don't care how hot the nurse is, when they is a 4 inch needle coming you way, I'm sure that last thing on your mind is her cleavage.. although a nice distraction .
I don't think it's a BS excuse. It's been trivialized by this article, and by her lawyer even, but I don't think it's BS for a person to say they have to stop working for someone for the sake of their marriage. If this was based on her attractiveness, she'd have never been hired, not fired ten years after the fact. This is based on emotion, not looks. And you can NOT force two people to work together when one no longer wants to. This is not a case where a fellow employee had her fired, or a manager had her fired. This is her employer, there is nowhere for him to 'go', he has no option to leave and let her keep her job. It's a pretty unique situation, and the only way to grant her 'rights' is to deny him his. Life doesn't work that way.
Does make a bit of a hash out of the ol' "Work hard and you'll get ahead." Maybe they should add "unless your employer is so deficient in the self-control normally expected of an adult that he sanctimoniously fires you in the worst job market since the Great Depression because he can't keep his d*ck in his drawers."
Who said he was going to take his **** out? More trivialization. If your wife or hubby came to you and said 'I've fallen for someone at work', would it be palatable to you, even if they didn't sleep with him, that they continue to work side by side every day? That's a huge level of stress on a marriage. It's also a huge potential to create a hostile work environment for the employee.
Well, I've worked side by side with ex-girlfriends. With no problems. I've also worked side by side with women I massively wanted to get with, for a weekend or a lifetime. With no problems. It's called professionalism.
I asked YOU for evidence. That means, do you have links to studies, stats, and whatnot?
Anyway, you seem to have a pretty limited POV on women's abilities if you think everything's about looks concerning women, so I can understand your apparent view that women can become prime ministers, CEOs, etc. based upon looks.
Which is great for you.
Hubby scoffed at the notion as well, that one couldn't simply brush off the feelings. But, some can't. Some just cave and have affairs, as the stats prove, time and time again. There are upsides for working directly for your employer, and there are downsides as well. This is a downside.
I don't have a problem with that decision... I do not think this had anything to do with looks.
Looks are only discernible for the first while in any relationship even that of a friendship. After that it becomes personality, energy flow and how we relate to that individual. If you ask a person about someone after they have known them for a year or so: they do not give an accurate assessment of the other individual's appearance because they can't. Even the least attractive of individuals becomes pleasant looking if we like them because their spirit shines through.
Looks are only discernible for the first while in any relationship even that of a friendship. After that it becomes personality, energy flow and how we relate to that individual. If you ask a person about someone after they have known them for a year or so: they do not give an accurate assessment of the other individual's appearance because they can't. Even the least attractive of individuals becomes pleasant looking if we like them because their spirit shines through.
Ah, so you think being more successful means that good-looking women have more opportunities. Interesting, but more opportunities and more financial success are not the same things.
Les, I'm not sure why you are debating that point. It's quite obvious that more attractive people get more opportunities. Check the entertainment business.
Ah so sales and celebrity means everything. No other careers mean anything. I see.
Gotta side with Kreskin on this on, Gil. The research is pretty overwhelming. The physically attractive have a distinct advantage in hiring and promotion.
http://www.businessinsider.com/attractive-people-are-more-successful-2012-9
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201109/good-looks-will-get-you-job-promotion-and-raise