Successful multi-hyphenate, super well connected personally and professionally with a reputation for being kind and compassionate and evolved.
Wrong.
Maybe for the media and maybe her fashionable celebrity friends, maybe for investors, maybe for executives, but some of her employees would vehemently disagree.
Turns out she’s a little bit of a Miranda Priestly when she comes in to the office. Starts snapping her fingers right away, never remembers anyone’s name, everyone is treated like a personal assistant, dispatched to do her bidding instead of actually getting down to work, recently held up a creative meeting because she wanted whole milk and not cream with her coffen, then 20 minutes into the meeting, she held it up again when her cell phone rang, proceeded to keep everyone waiting another 15 minutes while she discussed measurements on a dress she was having made, did not apologise when she clicked off the line, and instead embarrassed a staffer who returned to the room after having excused himself to take an urgent phone call when she was taking hers.
But all that is rather pedestrian. There are no shortage of bitches in Hollywood. In the grand scheme of things, all that is pretty harmless.
Until you get into job security.
A pregnant member of her staff was scheduled to give birth around crunch time. Her boss’s convenient remedy for the situation was to not hire her back when everyone else returned to work. At the very least she was honest. She told her straight up – your due date doesn’t work for me. I don’t think you’ll be able to contribute in the same way you did before.
So the employee hired a lawyer, a lawsuit loomed, and the boss bitch had to backpedal to the tune of a handsome pay-off (confidential, of course) and several seminars on employee rights although it apparently hasn’t helped.
She’s still super stingy, to the point where she complains about the quality of craft services (it’s too good) and even supplies, haggles over offering vacation pay, and will not foot the bill for staff celebrations and events, even though she regularly hosts lavish affairs at her own mansion for those privileged enough to be invited.
Crazier still, she seems to be clueless when it comes to tact. The other day she said to one of her producers – if you need something to do this weekend, my assistant could use some help planning our reception. You could stay for dinner if you want.
When he declined, she looked at him like he was closing the door to the opportunity of a lifetime.
Before you ask, it’s not the Mighty Opes.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 7:30 AM
Update (10/15/08):
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denial 1: Oprah
denial 2: Tyra Banks, Martha Stewart, Vera Wang & Sarah Jessica Parker
denial 3: Victoria Beckham, Kimora Lee Simmons, Rachel Ray & Courteney Cox
denial 4: Catherine Zeta-Jones & Beyonce
denial 5: Kelly Ripa & Victoria Beckham
denial 6: Heidi Klum & Gwen Stefani
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