Tuesday, July 14, 2009
"What's The Real Deal"
Hey when you have a situation like this it’s hard to pin point the real deal. A lady in her late 20’s early 30’s works for a law firm that happens to be all males and all white. Now she never really put that much effort in to her appearance, now she was always nice looking but she never put that extra on it to send her over the top. Now she has been working here for about a year and a half now. Well about a month ago she started to dress a little more sexy for work she started to go all out with the appearance and wearing things that she said before was to much for work. Well her husband noticed this and started to pay more attention to what she was wearing and asked what brought about the change. She told him nothing what are you talking about I always dress this way. Well they went to the mall on one Saturday and ran into this guy. He walked up to her and spoke and then turned to the husband and introduced himself as the new lawyer at the firm she was working at. O *&^*. Now he also said that he was the first black male to ever work for this firm and he was glad to have her to help him and they couldn’t have chose a better assistant for him. While all this is going on his wife is standing there looking like somebody just knocked the breath out of her. She usually tells him whenever somebody new starts there and what goes on but he didn’t hear about this guy. The husband didn’t say anything and hasn’t mentioned a word since. Now how should he handle this one? Is it something more to it or is he just going over board?
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Shaquana said.
ReplyDeleteI don't know buddy. Sounds a little suspicious to me. I know when you're in an environment & you're comfortable you can get lax on your appearance. & sometimes you just wanna pick it up a bit. But the timing of this is questionable. It may be that if he's her assistant, & he comes to work correct, she may feel she needs to rise to his level. & who knows, if they're the only two blacks, maybe he made her realize she was slippin & that she shouldn't be complacent. It may be totally innocent. I don't think he needs to be too worried about what she's wearing. But if she starts to have 10 extra business meetings a month & she has to work later hours than usual, he might have a problem on his hands.
I agree with Shaquana, it is not enough there to warrant him getting suspicious. I'll make the point that he said SHE is working for HIM. And the scenario is that she WORKS for not represents a law firm which means she's likely a paralegal or an admin assisttant. With that said, what the husband perceives as "sexy" may just be her way of wanting to impress the new boss and dress better. If I was to dress well at work, it would involve a skirt, heels, makeup, etc. To a man, that may be "sexy" but to me and other women, it is just someone who is well put together.
ReplyDeleteIf this is the only thing that's made him suspicious, he should go back to the drawing board. Also, if he felt she was not sexy enough before, he should have brought it to her attention. Perhaps her lack of attire was not so much due to her work environment, but that the hubby never showed an interst in her appearence, so there was no need to go above and beyond. Some women take heed to their man telling them they like them natural or without much makeup or whatever. I don't, but some do.
Umph...that's a mess. He doesn't need to anything but sit back...just like this came to him on a humbug, if there is anything else that he needs to know, it will surely come to light. Homegirl needs to slow her roll. I bet he's like, "oh, so that's why she done got all jazzy all of a sudden". I'm sure he's suspicious, just chill...I promise you, if it's something more, you'll find out with little to NO effort. She's gonna tell on her damn self.
ReplyDeleteDebra said.
ReplyDeleteI think that he does have something to worry about. If this situation was reversed and your man, who usually tells you whats going on in the office fails to inform you that a nice looking woman has started working in your office as your assistant and she is black , you would be thinking why is he withholding information like that and then you start thinking OOOOHHHHHH that's why he he's been stepping up his attire. You would go off because for one: when you start changing your appearance when you get around a certain person, You are fond of that person and two: they already are bonding because they are the only blacks. I definitely don't think that its innocent and even when he comes up and introduces himself, she's standing on the side looking stupid, Why! if you don't have a likeness for the person. She is dressing up because she likes what she sees and the first time she dressed up her new colleague told her she looked nice and guess what she liked the compliment and now she is seeking what she may not get at home and that's attention. Give them three months and a big case, things are going to get nasty-really quick!