A women only office, what could go wrong?

April 8, 2009
By shoutingatco.ws

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.

via the Daily Mail. Don’t click it, for god’s sake

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