Previously, on Corporette…
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Travel back in the Corporette time capsule… Here's what was on our minds oh so many moons ago. |
One year ago…
- The Most Comfortable Brands for Heels
- Are Your Evenings Productive?
- How to Take Vacation (and Keep Your Sanity)
- Changing Your Beauty Routine With the Seasons
- How to Use Your Flex Spending Plan
- The Best Accessories — For Metal Detectors
Two years ago…
- We revisited some of my all-time favorite posts: what toiletries to keep in your office, what clothes to keep in your office, what food to keep in your office, and what technology to keep in your office.
- DIY Fixes for Gaping Blouses (by guest poster Kathryn Rubino)
- Tips for Traveling with Coworkers (by guest poster RoadWarriorette)
- The Easy Way to Save $10K (by guest poster @suziedonuts)
- Natural, Kinky Hair at the Office (by guest poster Patrice of Afrobella)
Three years ago…
- How to Steer a Professional Conversation
- Staying Warm in a Freezing Office
- Livening Up Your Office Walls
- How I Use Remember The Milk
- Curly and Wavy Hair in the Winter
Four years ago…*
- Braces and Interviews – Will Your Chances Be Hurt?
- The Many Office Uses for the Wrap
- Thoughts on Tights: Which are Opaque? Are Colored Tights Ever Conservative Enough?
- How to Wear Jeans to the Office
- Emergency Reader Mail: I Was Just Invited to a Black-Tie Dinner… TONIGHT
Five years ago…*
- Napping at the Office — Do YOU do it?
- Tattoos and the Office – The Poll and Results
- The Shuella: Our Review of the “Shoe Umbrella”
* N.B. Before March 2010, Kat was still anonymous — please excuse the royal “we” in the older posts! :)
Did you see this?
http://blog.sfgate.com/chronstyle/2013/10/29/ceos-sexist-comment-redux-are-heels-appropriate-at-work/
Tech CEO about how those high heels don’t belong at a tech conference.
WE CAN’T WIN!
Hmmmm… that shoe designer is every bit as ridiculous as the CEO. Seriously? His contention that “Unsexy shoes are anything under 2.75 inches. A 2-inch heel is a little dowdy. Too classical” is every bit as sexist and idiotic.
Sad that his view on what is sexy is just regurgitated from the braindead, plastic nonsense that is Maxim.
Help me help someone else …
Our brand-new associate is driving me crazy. She’s juvenile on purpose because she thinks it’s cute, she’s a serious creaky-voice offender, her response to criticism has been “well it’s my first time so sorry that I did a bad job” instead of “thanks, I’ll do that next time.”
She worked for us in a law clerk capacity and none of this was there! How can I explain to her that these new mannerisms are not only annoying, but also doing her a serious disservice when it comes to being taken seriously?
Try to approach it by being helpful, which seems like what you’re trying for – google Lauren Rikleen’s site. She’s doing some interesting stuff on generational differences in law firms. Maybe she has an article that says what you want to so you don’t have to. Good luck!
Drop the phrase “sexy baby.” Multiple times. Make it clear you’re talking about her without coming out and saying it. If that doesn’t work, come out and say it.
Ha that “sexy baby” 30 Rock ep is a favorite.
With luck, her “sexy baby” nonsense will attract her a tacky boiler room trader and she’ll quit to live the leisurely SAHM lifestyle that will make E llen jealous. Win Win!
Like the vacation topic, think we discussed earlier this year too because I remember mentioning the buffer day approach (http://travelmoreroads.com/vacationbufferday/). Tough to use all the vacation days sometimes!
Random question: Any winter tips now that it’s getting cold? For example, I need some sort of moisturizing gloves already, my hands hate winter – anyone have gloves they like?
Interesting to read back two years on the post about saving $10,000. A lot of people commenting on how unrealistic the 7% return on index funds is and suggesting that the woman keeping her down payment savings in a savings account instead of mutual funds. The only index fund mentioned in the article (SWTSX) closed at 22.04 on 10/12/11 and was at 32.84 today, up about 49% in the past two years.