Comments | ruby55: whatever it is, I'm his

ruby55

whatever it is, I'm his

Sep 17, 2007 21:41

At work today, I noticed similarities between bosses and their employees. Specifically, I noticed striking similarities between bosses and the assistants or interns that work directly under them and with them ( Read more... )

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miss_meadows September 18 2007, 03:13:33 UTC

My boss is a short black man... what do you think?

ruby55 September 18 2007, 11:34:31 UTC

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Well, as with everything there are exceptions to every rule, though I am far from stating this as a strict rule. Just something that happens sometimes.

tropicalwahini September 19 2007, 01:01:35 UTC

i've totally noticed this at my work.

in the classroom for the 3/4 year old - the coordinator is Asian. I've noticed that many of the new teachers she has hired are also Asian.

tropicalwahini September 19 2007, 01:02:02 UTC

don't know if its purposeful or not.

prog_squirrel September 19 2007, 08:35:27 UTC

Pay attention to dogs and their owners. In most cases I find striking similarities!

ruby55 September 19 2007, 11:13:06 UTC

Yep. I started noticing that after I heard it mentioned in 101 Dalmatians many years ago.

eurotrasher September 19 2007, 17:56:59 UTC

I noticed some time back that all of my friends (not acquaintances, but rather the folks I actually pick up the phone and call when I want to hang out, get drunk, etc.) are of about the same height, weight, and race.

A few months ago one of my clone friends and I were chatting about this.

"Do you have any black friends?" I asked him, though I already knew the answer (since I know most of his friends).

"No," Seth replied.

"Me neither. Why don't we have any black friends?"

"I don't know. I just never seem to meet black people."

"But Atlanta is full of black people!" I said.

Then I came up with a great idea.

"You know what we should do?" I said. "We should go to one of the cool downtown clubs where the majority of the patrons are black and try to make new, black friends!"

Seth was like, "That's terrible! You're saying we go into a club with the sole purpose of making black friends? That we go up to someone and say, 'Will you please be my black friend?' Forget it!"

So I told him he was racist.

qiezi February 14 2008, 04:20:15 UTC

I've never had a "boss" who was or looked vaguely like me. They were all old, balding, ugly, and bearded. I think your comparison between women bosses and their female hires alludes a little to the efforts the older women put into looking younger. You know, maybe it's the reverse! The older women hire younger women to look younger. In my physics department, there are no women, so this isn't really an issue ;P

ruby55 February 18 2008, 22:18:15 UTC

Mmmm. The demographic trends in my field may make it seem that I am making a judgment on female bosses, however this is not the case. (Public health classes are mainly composed of women these days.) I was not trying to make a statement, judgment or rule and I don't think that older women hire younger women to appear younger. It would seem to me that hiring someone younger makes you appear older by comparison. Also, my boss is maybe 10 years older than me. Certainly not "older".

This all reminds me of a high school teacher I had (and hated) who made her classes hell for the pretty girls and rarely gave them As, no matter how hard they worked.