Laurie Ruettimann is at the SHRM conference. For British readers, that’s the US equivalent of the CIPD. That woman has natural comic talent; she can even make an HR conference sound funny.
The party culture of HR is weird. Get a group of middle-aged women together and offer them free drinks, and any sort of boundaries that existed around compliance, business-appropriate behavior, and workplace harassment concerns disappear.
I can just picture the scene.
This bit is funny too, although I really don’t get all this fashion jargon Laurie uses. I had to go and look up ‘gaucho pants’. Do people really wear flip-flops to a business conference? Ugh!!
And what’s with this talking-like-you-are-from-Wisconsin thing? Americans do accent snobbery just as well as the British, it seems.
1 Comment
24 June, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Oh my god, you’re killing me with the gaucho pants.
I’m actually born & raised in Chicago but I make fun of the Wisconsin accent so much that it’s become part of my speech. Ugh. Serves me right!
Thanks for the link.