Well, as Binkley from Bloom County might say, "I am completely, flippin', big-time, gonzo confused."This morning as I was driving, I heard on the radio that in New York there are male businessmen that take their customers (presumably male also) to strip clubs for business meetings and write it off as a business expense. New York apparently has realized this might be sexism (Gee! Ya think?) at it's worst and is considering passing a law that would restrict where you can take your clients.
Come again? This is happening in the year 2006? In New York? I guess I was wrong about women achieving equality in the workplace. I had thought that overall we had.
Where is the EEOC in all of this? Why has nothing been done before? Women are only now complaining that this is costing them clients because they do not feel comfortable entertaining them in such an establishment.
And what of the few women that do feel comfortable there? Why do they need to be subjected to such an obviously sexist and sexual environment? And do they get hit on more by both colleagues and clients? How awkward would that be?
And how do these women respond to the strippers? Do they go up and stick dollar bills in their g-strings? Do they wolf whistle, or turn conspiratorially to a male colleague and say "Hey, Bob, how 'bout the tits on that one?" After all, it's rather difficult to bond with a client and make him feel relaxed if you sit in the middle of a strip club looking as if you'd just eaten a grubworm.
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Maybe since you work from home you could just install a dancing pole in your home office so you entice male clients to.. um.. sign contracts with you???
I worked for this idiot for a while that took all the store mgrs. (not me) to the local Hooters. He prayed very loudly over the food and then started ogling and whistling at the waitresses. He lasted a little over 4 months before he was replaced by another idiot...
men are pigs. most of them anyway.
Awe hell, now I have to make alternate plans when you come up to New York! ;) I was gonna put it on my expense accnt. Gotta ruin everything, dontchya'???
Let's see... in reality of things, I think these guys maybe feel neglected at home and need a little excitement in their lives. But for the love of God---do it with your own money fricken cheap asses.
Sorry. Just venting.
So when you cruising up to New YawK??? hehe!
P.S. That picture of the girl on the bottom looks like she's struggling with a massive "B.M."
I think it's just one more way of keeping the "good ole boys" network alive and well.
In the 80's it was taking a client out for dinner and a lot of drinks. In the last 15 years, if you don't golf, don't bother coming to work 'cause that's where the deals are being made.
Living in Portland (which has the largest amount of strip clubs per capita in the US) I know guys who take their customers to lunch at the clubs. I'm not really sure how million dollar deals are being worked with Tatas being waived in their face but I have yet to meet a woman who takes any of her clients there.
Maybe once the corporations start denying reimbursement on those expense reports they will learn it's not acceptable. Then again, probably not.
This reminds me of this video by Pink that I really like...
Stupid Girl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vxEu5JPCBs
Nice picture, about sums up the gawping vulgarity of it all.
Uncle Joe: I like your comment, it is full of all the hypocrisy that makes me so cross, have a prayer and then get lustful.
If there is equal opportunity groping, I don't see any prolem, bud.
I think you and I would both feel about as equally uncomfortable in one of those! ;)
I'd hate to be the CPA in any company that had to explain to the IRS audit agents reciepts from a strip club. Good thing I'm mathmatically challenged already.
What happened to the first picture?
Yep, gotta love the good ole'boy butt slappin, crotch grabbin, lip lickin business meetings. I have yet to hear about those meetings here, but give us a few years.
Legislate? I don't think I would go for more legislation. And, for business meetings? Sigh!
Maybe one shrewd business lady should take'm goakers to a MALE strip club.
Equal-opportunity discomfort... now you're talking.
Just joking. Who wants to work for a strip-club fanatic anyway? Says a lot about how educated these "business men" are. Or about their sense of decency.
Good greif!
It really is gross, isn't it? On just about every level I can think of. It manages to degrade all women everywhere all at once.
Saur,
Excellent post. I've gone to many all boy events over the years and never got in trouble. Then a few years ago they invited women on the rafting trip. Who would have thought the ladies would have believed me when I said that a bikini top would stay on even in the white water. I honestly thought that I shouldn't have been let go just because of gullable women.
I'm sure there's a LOT of business going on in these meetings.
Just pass the cost along to the consumer!
Pretty sad that this goes on. If I were boss, I would flip out if people did something like this. You want to seem like a professional dont you?
Ick.
Like Kathleen, I'm curious why you changed the first picture.
Hmm. Huge amounts of business money spent in strip clubs? I sense an auditing opportunity. Someone call the IRS and get onto those tax-dodging strippers.
Men....they just don't get it.
I just don't get it... maybe I am in the wrong line of business or too far in the Bible belt, but I can't imagine taking a client to a strip club to talk business. I lose my train of thought when my cell phone rings, I can't imagine having any train of thought if there were women traipsing around with nothing on - nor would I want to be surrounded by a bunch of co-workers or people I didn't know in such a place.
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