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4. Can Donny really do this? Don't the heads of the department have a say on whom they hire?

Reply to geek tragedy (Original post)

Sat Feb 11, 2017, 03:10 PM

Feb 2017

Reminds me of the old days in the office, before Anita Hill, when a departmental V.P. determined who should be the next secretary, not his, because she was "cute."

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