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srsly this is like a "mean girls" at work post For men: being late is a status symbol For women: OMG lets gossip about her

• coldtea 12y ago
  >For men: being late is a status symbol Really? For who exactly is being late a "status symbol"? Maybe for someone who doesn't need the deals and everybody else is dependent upon him. But even those kind of people are frequenty marked as "arseholes" if they are constantly and arrogantly late.
  • dllthomas 12y ago
    The idea is that being late is a credible signal that you have high enough status to show up late and get away with it. It only works if you get away with it, of course. It's disrespectful in any event.
    • jmromer 12y ago
      The thing about being fashionably late is you have to be fashionable about it. Meyer apparently disclosed to someone that she was late because she had "fallen asleep." She wasn't late because she had, say, decided to take an impromptu meeting with some power player, something you could plausibly write off as benefitting the company. And ultimately, that's what this piece was about -- an executive's performance as an executive: >"If it were an investor meeting, a board meeting or a potential acquisition, I am sure she or someone from her team would have woken her up,” said one top executive in attendance. > “It is another instance where she demonstrated that she doesn’t understand the value of clients, ad revenue or agencies,” the person added"
      • dllthomas 12y ago
        Certainly.