Have you experienced gender, racial, or ethnic discrimmination? How much has it cost you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was once declined a job after a third interview at a firm - I was specifically told (by my head hunter) that she was told that the reason I was passed over was that I wore a pants suit instead of a skirt suit on that last interview (I ran out of skirt suits!). I always thought that smacked of discrimination.

That was a blessing in disguise. Very few women under 50 wear skirt suits anymore. Do they even sell them? I haven't owned one in years. Yuck!!! That's DC for you. So used to government workers with pantyhose, block colors and quarter-inch heels.

I'm the pants suit person -- you want to hear the ironic part? The head of the firm who didn't like the fact that I wore a plants suit -- was a woman! It was one of the biggest law firms Louisville, KY by the way...

[Anonymous]

Not too surprising, PP. The Queen Bees can be just as awful -if not more- than some men.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not too surprising, PP. The Queen Bees can be just as awful -if not more- than some men.

Amen!!!

[Anonymous]

"The head of the firm who didn't like the fact that I wore a plants suit -- was a woman!"

Was she an 'ol Southern bitty?

[Anonymous]

I know a judge like that. Never lets her female clerks wear pants. All of the male judges in the same courthouse did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know a judge like that. Never lets her female clerks wear pants. All of the male judges in the same courthouse did.

She probably likes looking at their legs.

[Anonymous]

This is Ms. Pants Suit again -- to all the PP's in response to my post -- I love you guys!!

[Anonymous]

I'm a guy and I'm discriminated against because I have to wear a tie and the women don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a guy and I'm discriminated against because I have to wear a tie and the women don't.

Poor baby. If you worked for me, I'd let you skip the tie.

As long as you wore makeup, earrings, high heels, and pantyhose.

And agreed to work for $0.78 on the dollar that you get now.

Deal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a guy and I'm discriminated against because I have to wear a tie and the women don't.

Poor baby. If you worked for me, I'd let you skip the tie.

As long as you wore makeup, earrings, high heels, and pantyhose.

And agreed to work for $0.78 on the dollar that you get now.

Deal?

can I tell the women poor baby too?
BTW most women really need the makeup, you would not want to scare the cilents.

[Anonymous]

It's not gender discrimination to expect both men and women to dress in business appropriate attire. That means men wear ties and suits. If you don't want to wear a tie, work in a more casual environment.

As a woman, I have sympathy for men for having to wear ties, but I lose sympathy for you, male poster, when you take potshots at women for make-up, panty hose, and high heels. This is no picnic.