Ogee Oglethorpe
01-01-2010, 04:34 PM
What a great country!!
Earlier this week, me and the boss are out at a local casino for Monday Night Football and we end up "recruiting" one of the cocktail staff to work for us as a Document Control/Admin Asst, whatever you want to call it. Haven't seen the resume yet but our potential new hire happens to be an extremely attractive young lady by the name of Charity (true story) with wonderfully augmented hardware.
Are there more qualified candidates out there running around unemployed right now? I'm sure of it. Matter of fact, there are a few internal employees that could use work right now that have been suggested to us but none have the assets that Charity brings to the table either.
Some may call that chauvinistic, some may call that just not right or not "PC" but let's face the facts, sex sells, particularly in an industry dominated by men folk (construction). If Charity helps us land a $2M contract or even a $200K contract and can even remotely do the job at hand, it's a great hire.
In our industry, the client selects firms for work based on the teams they are proposing to put on the project and this kind of thing MAKES A DIFFERENCE, like it or not. Particularly in trying times like this, even the tiniest little bit can swing the meter in your direction. Selfishly, I have to work with this person for the next two years so I might as well do what I can to make the situation as comfortable as possible, right?
God bless America...
Earlier this week, me and the boss are out at a local casino for Monday Night Football and we end up "recruiting" one of the cocktail staff to work for us as a Document Control/Admin Asst, whatever you want to call it. Haven't seen the resume yet but our potential new hire happens to be an extremely attractive young lady by the name of Charity (true story) with wonderfully augmented hardware.
Are there more qualified candidates out there running around unemployed right now? I'm sure of it. Matter of fact, there are a few internal employees that could use work right now that have been suggested to us but none have the assets that Charity brings to the table either.
Some may call that chauvinistic, some may call that just not right or not "PC" but let's face the facts, sex sells, particularly in an industry dominated by men folk (construction). If Charity helps us land a $2M contract or even a $200K contract and can even remotely do the job at hand, it's a great hire.
In our industry, the client selects firms for work based on the teams they are proposing to put on the project and this kind of thing MAKES A DIFFERENCE, like it or not. Particularly in trying times like this, even the tiniest little bit can swing the meter in your direction. Selfishly, I have to work with this person for the next two years so I might as well do what I can to make the situation as comfortable as possible, right?
God bless America...