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Canadian author Lynn Coady has an opinion. This is her edgy but hilarious online advice column exclusive to DearAnyone.com.
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Coady of Conduct:OK, the other day I got in really big trouble at work. I almost got fired (I gave a friend of mine a discount when I shouldn't have). So, I was working the other day and my boss told me to come to his office to discuss my mistake. I got to his office and he told me the only way to keep my job was if I slept with him. But, it gets worse... my boss is 28 and I am 16. The thing is, I got this job to pay for my new car, and I don't want to lose it. But, I also don't want the fact that I slept with my much older boss to keep my job to be on my conscience forever. Please, I really need advice!!!Almost UnemployedYou kids today! With your iPods and your pierced jugulars and your sexual extortionist employers. When I was your age I was. . . well, I was getting propositioned by sleazebags, come to think of it. Thus it was, is and ever shall be for the sixteen-year-old female of the human species, I'm sorry to say.Sweet headbanging Jesus, kid, screw the car. There will be other jobs. I repeat: screw the car, not your boss. You have the law and the hard-won battles of feminism on your side. Anita Hill crucified herself in front of TV cameras in the early 90s so that young women like you wouldn't be afraid to kick dirtbags like this to the curb. This scuz is gambling he can intimidate you into keeping your mouth shut about this highly illegal proposition. Don't get yourself embroiled in some sort of legal quagmire--feminism hasn't won *that* many battles unfortunately--but do quit. And do write a letter to this man's immediate supervisor stating your reasons for quitting, and do cc that letter to the aforementioned scumsucker. ____________________________
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