Last Kiss by John Lustig for February 10, 2025

She’s good

Mansplaining and gaslighting are to be fought whenever encountered.

She reminds me of Gale Storm in the old sitcom “My Little Margie”.

Just guessing but I’ll bet very few parents in Australia name their daughter “Shiela”.

It’s similar to the ‘five-second rule for food dropped to the floor’. Good ideas dropped in a meeting belong to anyone who picks them up on them after 15 minutes of being unacknowledged. Especially if that anyone is a company Executive.

i’ve been in meetings like this…

This has a double hook: male/female idea; boss/employee idea. Neither one is acceptable.

During an outage caused by a hurricane my neighbor and his brother were trying to figure out how to remove a branch that was lying across the power and phone lines to their house, The SIL was telling them to grab one low hanging end and pull it back under the wires and the whole branch would be levered off but they weren’t listening. I put on my hardhat (I worked at the powerplant) and just walked over and did exactly what she was saying and it worked. The guys were all for high-fiving me and the gals were spitting nails. When I told the guys whose idea it was I thought she was going to kiss me. Never did, unfortunately.

If his hair was orange this could be the White House.

I had a boss who was famous for turning our “bad ideas” into his “great ideas”. At least he was an equal opportunity thief.

Later, Gladys quit, started her own company, acquired “idea man’s” company in a hostile takeover, and promptly fired him and his two butt-kissin’ lackeys, leaving them penniless.

That’s why I work for myself but, still, my boss always steals my ideas.

1958, huh? Sadly, you could have used art from any time from then until….now.

Sometimes the only way to get your idea accepted is to convince them it was THEIR idea.

(I am convinced of this.)