Granted, it’s been years since I sold my old law firm and opted to stay home raising my son — and now homeschooling him. It’s been even longer since I’ve worked for someone else. (What can I say, except that in addition to not playing well with others, I also run with scissors and swallow my gum?)
Even so, I recall having enough crappy jobs and even crappier bosses before that to know how much a cheerful ‘Good Morning!’ from one’s supervisor is worth. And, frankly, it ain’t ten million dollars.
A New York based investment banker is suing her firm after, she alleges, her boss greeted her each day with a cheerful ‘good morning’.
The banker, who cannot be named for legal reasons, enjoyed a 20 year career on Wall Street, but claims she was forced to leave her last role working for a major international investment bank as she was unable to cope when her boss behaved in a civilized way toward her.
According to the suit, filed Monday in the Court for the Southern District of New York, the 44 year old banker claims that her male boss ‘often came in smiling and had the audacity to utter the words ‘Good Morning’ as he passed by my desk’. She continued, ‘I have worked on Wall Street for almost two decades and my bosses have always totally ignored me. I felt intimidated. My boss’s behaviour was completely inappropriate, and his attitude was totally over-familiar. Even my husband, who I have known for 23 years, doesn’t speak to me in this manner. In fact, he doesn’t speak to me at all’.
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April 18, 2007 at 6:49 pm
OMG – ROFLMAO!!!
That’s hilarious. …even her husband doesn’t speak to her…
April 18, 2007 at 6:52 pm
BTW – I didn’t see a byline… it wasn’t written by Scott Ott or Iowahawk was it…
hehehehehehe…
April 18, 2007 at 8:38 pm
April Fool 17 days late, Kate? It cannot possibly be for real.
April 19, 2007 at 8:07 am
No…it isn’t real.
April 19, 2007 at 9:45 am
Well, I poked around the web site trying to find out if it’s a parody place. Seems not.
Found the story via Digg yesterday.
April 19, 2007 at 10:42 am
I think the bit about her swallowing her blackberry every day so they couldn’t stop her from taking it home to work gives away the fact its a parody.
April 19, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Read the the rest of the story. the “Good Morning” part is just the teaser. It gets stranger and stranger. If it’s true then the woman is clearly wacko, psyc. hospital material.
“She refused to take time off, and at one stage remained in the office working for a full 5 days.”
&
“Mrs X refused to leave the building after another 36-hour work stretch, and chained herself to her desk.”
The white straightjacket would be a stunning ensemble in court :/