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Michael Bloomberg is the greatest manager ever which is why pundits always want him to run for president. He's sooo great that he left an abusive tyrant in charge of his financial news company, and also that company gets sued every so often for being a hostile work environment for women. Last September, four women were suing Bloomberg LP for wrongful discrimination. Now, it's 58! It seems that whenever a lady employee became pregnant at Bloomberg, they were denied promotions and then received pay cuts. Mayor Mike always claims to have nothing to do at all with his company anymore, but the women filing the suit say he still calls the shots and "contributes to a culture of sexual discrimination." As there have been almost 500 women who've taken maternity leave from Bloomberg since 2002, the number of plaintiffs is expected to grow. And Mike himself is now writing a book about how to be as great a manager as he is. Like his last book, it will probably be ghost-written by his asshole-in-chief Winkler. [NYP]
Dozens of Women Suing Bloomberg
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11:40 AM on Fri May 2 2008
By Pareene
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This is the problem with allowing women into the workplace.
The Bloomberg sales model is kind of an open secret in the financial world. Hire attractive women right out of college to visit trading floors and sell the product, as it will appeal to the young machismo still dominant in such places (free trials!). Unfortunately, this means that older / less attractive / washed up sales women have to be forced out, and what's really a better break point than that first maternity leave?
@TheHonJudgeSmails: This is what happens when YOU use Titanic steel for our oven chains.
@the_marquee_de_lafayette: Uh, see also:
- Pharmaceutical Sales
- Management Consulting
- Every other business in the world
@TheHonJudgeSmails: Except magazine ad sales marketing, where 9 out of 10 of my bosses have been women.
And, um, I really like it?
@TheHonJudgeSmails: Also, "management consulting." Hah!
Maybe if you guys actually read the stuff you post on here instead of making smarmy comments about it first, you might have learned that the new book will not be written by Winkler, as the NYT reported:
"Do The Hard Things First," which will be published in the fall by Vanguard Press, a member of the Perseus Book Group, will be written in collaboration with Margaret Carlson, a columnist for Bloomberg News.
[www.theweeklydonut.com]
@Dolomite:
Regardless, that doesn't make the Borg Collective any less of a miserable place to work at; run by a bunch of total douches.
because he's short? is that why?
When is he going away?
Can we find someone better, like Giuliani!?
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