http://mamavision.com/2009/03/15/makeup-required/ Love me or hate me I'm going to be here. Wed, 16 May 2012 04:46:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://mamavision.com/2009/03/15/makeup-required/#comment-18029 smudgeruk Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:13:46 +0000 http://mamavision.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/makeup-required/#comment-18029 Hey Pippa, you thinking of the modern cockney rhyming slang? "Merchant banker = ***k**" ;) Hey Pippa, you thinking of the modern cockney rhyming slang?
“Merchant banker = ***k**”

]]> http://mamavision.com/2009/03/15/makeup-required/#comment-18028 smudgeruk Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:05:20 +0000 http://mamavision.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/makeup-required/#comment-18028 S - white heels are regarded as being a bit, um, "white trash" I suppose is what you'd call it on your side of the pond... :oD What makes me sick is that I know women who went to work in the City and left because they found it impossible, as women, to be taken seriously. I'll post concrete examples when I have more time, but believe me, as a woman, you're seen as eye candy and little else by most of these suits... (It's also a well-known fact that the City boys are often the ones that take clients to lap-dancing clubs on their fat expense accounts...) S – white heels are regarded as being a bit, um, “white trash” I suppose is what you’d call it on your side of the pond… D
What makes me sick is that I know women who went to work in the City and left because they found it impossible, as women, to be taken seriously. I’ll post concrete examples when I have more time, but believe me, as a woman, you’re seen as eye candy and little else by most of these suits…
(It’s also a well-known fact that the City boys are often the ones that take clients to lap-dancing clubs on their fat expense accounts…)

]]> http://mamavision.com/2009/03/15/makeup-required/#comment-18027 Tanya Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:28:31 +0000 http://mamavision.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/makeup-required/#comment-18027 Many moons ago I worked in an office that required women to wear suit jackets or shirts with collars because apparently anything else would, and I quote, 'be too distracting for our male colleagues'. Although I said 'many moons ago' I'm talking late 1990s here, not 1950s. I love being self-employed! Many moons ago I worked in an office that required women to wear suit jackets or shirts with collars because apparently anything else would, and I quote, ‘be too distracting for our male colleagues’. Although I said ‘many moons ago’ I’m talking late 1990s here, not 1950s.
I love being self-employed!

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