A lady, sick of being in a male dominated TV production environment, sets up her own female only company. Let’s see how that went down.
…employees I had headhunted to achieve my utopian dream – a female- only company with happy, harmonious workers benefiting from an absence of men.
Another time, when two members of staff bought the same jeans, one proclaimed: ‘They’ll look better on me, because I’m a size eight and she’s a ten.’
Employees considered it acceptable to take time off for beauty treatments – and not out of their holiday allowance. One girl regularly came in late because she was getting her hair coloured, and when I mentioned this she blew up in outrage.
Soon, arguments became a daily occurrence. It would start with snide comments between two people then, as others joined in, emotion and anger would grow until an eruption – shouting, screaming, swearing – which always left someone in tears.
And while I stand by my initial reason for excluding male employees – because they have an easy ride in TV – if I were to do it again, I’d definitely employ men. In fact, I’d probably employ only men.
Oh, er, hmm… whoops.
