Amity Shales - Just Say No (why does she have a job? Really?)

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Shes got an article up on Bloomberg where she basically sez. "If your workplace discriminates, its basically being 'creative' and 'promoting growth'"
Check out these gems
Over the years, creative rebels have often behaved poorly in their creative workplaces. Do most of us approve? Hardly. Nobody likes, say, the way the great creator of Apple Inc. (AAPL),Steve Jobs, treated many colleagues.
Riiight.  So if Apple instituted a policy saying "Front-office jobs to be done only by the Swedish Bikini Team", thats OK right?  They're just being "creative rebels"?

Her action may reduce the very kind of access she enjoyed for those who followed her. Setting Kleiner Perkins aside, consider the rest of the sector. Human-resources specialists aren’t idiots. They see how much Pao, still merely alleging, is costing a firm such as Kleiner Perkins: time, image and distraction from its main work, finding value. Other businesses will work harder to avoid a litigious hire
 Or, and I'm going out on a limb here, They might actually decide to not allow workplace harassment?
Hmmmm?  Maybe, given a choice between
  1. Hiring a Certified Genius from MIT who doesn't like his/her co-workers watching pr0n in the office, and
  2. Hiring a super-model to walk around looking good
a company might decide to go with the "no workplace pr0n" system?
Maybe?  Just maybe?

Theres more, much more in the article, but its making me throw up in my mouth.
Come to think of it, avoid the troll-bait.  Don't read the article.
(Though, I still wonder, why is Bloomberg posting troll-bait?)

Amity Shlaes - Just Say No...

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