The SINGLE WORST BOSS of my ENTIRE CAREER died of pancreatic cancer on November 8, 2011.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

27. No, please let me clarify...

...what I meant was "it all rests with us" to walk in with our qualifications and apply for positions we believe we are qualified to fill, and if we get fair treatment, we might get the job...but if we don't, we have to decide if we're going to walk away and seek greener pastures where we might get treatment that IS fair.

Walking away from a situation that isn;t right for us ALWAYS rests with us.

In the company Rhoda and I worked for, it was 100% "good old boys network." There was NO WAY UNDER THE SUN that a woman was going to be promoted to VP. Her replacement, who was hired on as a VP, was a man.

None of this is "fair." It wasn't my intention to present it as "fair."

The main point, I'd say, was that this company was not going to give her what she wanted. She could have walked away and chased her dream elsewhere. She did, actually. Maybe she didn;t have to go as far as Sinapore to get a VP title, but that's what she decided to do. Unfortunately, from the time she thought she had the promotion in the bag till the time she headed to Singapore, that was about a year of just fucking over every subordinate she could. The overwhelming majority of men and women who would have been rooting for her...who WERE wooting for her in the beginning stages...got to the point where they just wanted her to get on the plane and GO AWAY.

So she did.

Then she came back.

Now she's gone.

A sad end to a sad life. I don;t think she ever really got what she wanted at all. It wasn't the VP title, it was the qualities she assigned to having the title. She got the title, but I don't think she ever got the fulfillement she was convinced would come with it.