With all the wedding talk, I thought I would share something ridiculous that was actually said to me by a former boss. This was at my first job out of college and I'd been called in for a 'discussion' about the way I dressed for work. The concern was that even though I wore a suit everyday to work, sometimes my shirts were ever so slightly wrinkled.... ok, they were pretty much always wrinkled and badly. OTOH, I NEVER dealt with customers, vendors or was even seen outside the immediate 10' radius around my desk... and if I did, I always had on my suit jacket.
At any rate, I promised to start ironing my clothes regularly. To which my boss responded (and mind you this was said in 1994...not 1894):
"Or you could just hurry up and marry your girlfriend. Then she could iron your clothes for you."
So much stupid is so few words:
1) What does marriage have to do with ironing?
2) Even if marriage did have something to do with it, it still begs the question of why SHE should iron MY clothes.
3) My co-workers and boss knew that my GF at the time was applying to PhD programs. I think that she'd have other things on her mind (like a career) than worrying about whether my clothes are wrinkle-free.
4) The inappropriateness of the comment to even begin with. My marital status is none of my boss's business.
All of this and we are talking about a slightly more than minimum wage job... I was there for another 2 years after that, much to my chagrin.
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