Attractiveness in the Workplace

[Kalika]

Hi everyone,

 

I have a question for you all.. Have you ever seen instances of favoritism towards attractive employees? Or have you ever noticed attractive employees being treated better?

 

I was just wondering because I have seen this many times in my office. I notice that attractive people get away with murder in my office compared to the less attractive folks like myself.

 

I'm sure this rule applies to society and life in general, but I was wondering if anyone had any specific instances or examples they could think of.

 

Thanks!

[xXPusHedAsiDeXx]

I've noticed that when a really attractive woman in my office, particularly who sits next to me is late, she get's away with being 10 minutes late all the time. However, anyone else more or less "get's it in the ear" from a manager if they are 2 minutes late.

 

Unbelievable.

[WindowTo]

Definitely.

[grymoire]

Attractive people are blessed in love, work, and life in general. That's just how things are.

[alatas]

Hell yes.

 

I'm a med student, and on the whole they're a very attractive lot (I'm kinda an exception to the rule - I'd say I look average lol). And the more attractive a med student is, the more attention they get from teachers.

 

There are even stories about one Attending who will only have very good-looking female trainees...dunno how he squares that with the med school but it seemingly works somehow: I've seen them and whoa Nelly! Those girls get more teaching than med students attached to other docs.

[midnightrambler]

all the time

[sweetooth]

On average, they also get paid more.

[Mavh25]

Agreed, but our boss was a big sweaty letch

[Iceman26]

Yep.

 

I worked for one company where the owner was cheating on his wife with a 20 year old female employee.

 

She was able to fire anyone at will and made over $60,000 a year. Thank god I don't work there anymore.

[Mavh25]

Yeah, the boss in my old work tried it on with most girls there, everyone refused, but when this 1 particular girl did he sacked her the next day. He was pretty disgusting.

[Iceman26]

Yeah, the boss in my old work tried it on with most girls there, everyone refused, but when this 1 particular girl did he sacked her the next day. He was pretty disgusting.

 

I can't stand bosses that sleep with their employees. It is the ultimate abuse of power and authority. It makes me see red.

[Kinetics]

My old workplace was hiring in one of their departments, granted the position was sort of, kinda PR position, but the blatant, "So is this guy (candidate) cute?" kinda sounded so shallow.

 

Eh...looks can count in PR, but surely, brains should also be counted? They did end up hiring some good looking guy but he lacked some skills...but looks sure did count in that case.

[CaptainPlanet]

Looks are extremely important.

[mgirl]

I've noticed that the better they dress, the better they are treated in the workplace. Silly, but that's the way it is.

 

Where i work, you really need to wear black once in a while to be accepted.

[lost1607307474]

Definitely. And I think it sucks. I've worked in various different workplaces and different environment and there is no doubt that I've seen better looking employees getting treated much better. My previous boss always used to hire the more attractive interviewee when he was at a loss of who to chose. It makes me sick - people should be judged on their ability and efficiency, not looks.