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> Become female and learn how to sit on a desk. Are you fucking kidding me? I don't have enough karma to downvote you, someone please do the honors.

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• michaelochurch 13y ago
  I realized that it was horrible as written and I apologize. In that vein, I fixed it (replaced with "executive's gender of interest"). It was reverse-pattern-matched off of a certain company where the desk ornament happened to be female, but I've seen male desk ornament dynamics as well. That said, if you don't think 95+% of workplace favoritism is based on sexual desire, you're misled. That's especially true in the non-technical/subjective roles where ability is so hard to evaluate. Most corporate executives did their 20s wrong and want to Feel Like A (Wo)Man now that they're older. Which means that for non-tech/subjective proteges they tap either (a) young, attractive people of the opposite sex who give them a "hip" image, or (b) unscrupulous young men ~20 years their junior through whom they live vicariously.
  • jasonlotito 13y ago
    > That said, if you don't think 95+% of workplace favoritism is based on sexual desire, you're misled. Yeah, that's bullshit. Maybe in certain sectors, but unless you have something to back that up, I'm calling bullshit.
    • michaelochurch 13y ago
      Maybe in certain sectors, but unless you have something to back that up Experience. Larger companies tend not to be that way, though. I saw a ton of that stuff in VC-istan, but none at Google or in the banks.