Having a hard time managing workers? Blame the patriarchy

by W.F. Price on February 15, 2013

An FBI agent assigned to the Seattle field office in 2005 has sued the agency because she was “not respected as a leader by her subordinates.” The agent in question has a history of making complaints:

In a lawsuit that partially cleared a key hurdle Thursday, Special Agent-in-Charge Laura M. Laughlin, 55, complained that she has been denied at least 10 promotions since she took over the FBI’s Seattle field office in early 2005. She also asserts that she has been pressured since 2007 to retire from the high-profile position and has been denied requests for more staff.

“As a combined effect of all these matters, she is not respected as a leader by her subordinates and management chain in the way that (special agents-in-charge) normally are,” attorneys David Wachtel and Eliza Dermody wrote in a legal brief.

Laughlin first complained of FBI behavior in 1997, when she filed an internal discrimination complaint against a supervisor. That complaint was subsequently settled.

Not only were her subordinates male, but white, too:

Shortly after arriving in Seattle, Laughlin said in a legal filing, she found “multiple instances of race and sex discrimination and insubordination directed at a supervisory-special agent in her division by two white, male special agents.” Laughlin further claimed the two white agents “had the support of a close associate” of FBI Director Robert Mueller.

Laughlin says she reassigned the two white agents. Shortly thereafter, in June 2006, she says the FBI “severely damaged” her reputation when it took the “unprecedented step” of transferring a major homicide investigation to another field office. The investigation in question was into the 2001 killing of federal prosecutor Thomas Wales in his Seattle home. The case remains unsolved.

Traditionally, those in positions of authority and power would know better than to blame their troubles on underlings, but in this upside-down world even the President can be called a victim of “discrimination.”

I wonder whether it will get to the point where companies owned by women will be allowed to sue male workers for discrimination if they do not perform well. Obviously, female leadership is unimpeachable, so it must be the fault of saboteurs and wreckers…

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Stokes Poggees February 15, 2013 at 14:18

The singular feature uniting these equal opportunity monkeys and misfits is their masturbatory love of government contracts, governmental redistribution, government jobs, government employment and a governmental authority which they wield unaccountably.

I have never ever seen nor heard of a woman creating jobs, employment or wealth for other women, let alone other men. Yet if these inept-equalists were advised to remain kitchen bound, barefoot and pregnant, they’d take serious exception to such an insult, now wouldn’t they ?

In the following story, another equal opportunity embezzler of public funds claims to have been bullied and threatened during an interview covering the criminal frauds she committed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17161210
Emma Harrison quits as chairman of A4e welfare-to-work firm
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Emma Harrison has stepped down as chairman of her welfare-to-work firm A4e, she has said in a statement.

It comes a day after she quit her role as the government’s “family champion” amid a police probe into irregularities at the Slough-based company.

As part of its work, A4e handles millions of pounds worth of government contracts for welfare-to-work schemes.

Meanwhile A4e announced an independent audit of its procedures in a bid to reduce “speculation and uncertainty”.

http://watchinga4e.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/she-was-bullied-and-figures-are-wrong.html

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greyghost February 15, 2013 at 14:27

This is pure madness here. Now change it up and make the underlings children of a single mom, play that one out.

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epoche February 15, 2013 at 14:29

The United States of Disparate Impact

I tried to pay my employees in gold but that was prohibited.

I wanted to get a loan but the government said they didnt have any money because they had already given out too many bad loans to historically disadvantaged groups.

I made more than the median income but I was not able to keep all that much because I live in the same house with the woman I sleep with and live as a family with our children together.

I was going to help a woman and train her at my business because I thought she needed help but the AAUW said I have to pay her equal pay for equal work. I knew she wouldnt be able to pay her what the AAUW thought was equal right away at least until she was proficient but the AAUW and I couldnt agree on the definition of equal work so I didnt hire her.

I was too costly to give my employees health insurance because of government mandates so I didnt do it.

I ended up losing my business to my competitors because the government bailed them out and not me.
My wife left me and I lost my life savings paying child support despite the fact that she cheated on me. I had to move back in with my parents.

I met a young women on public transportation. I like dating her despite the fact that she had 3 kids by 3 different men before the age of 21. I think I am going to stay with her until she gets her 9k earned income credit check in February. I dont know if our relationship will last much longer than that, but her mom might be able to get me a job in the Obama Administration investigating companies that use IQ tests improperly. If they are caught they are subject to fines that go towards subsidizing bad loans for historically disadvantaged groups.

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justeunperdant February 15, 2013 at 14:39

There were reasons why women were oppressed in the past. There are reasons why women in the middle are oppressed.

This collapse will go so fast and will be really hard and brutal. Stay around and watch.

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keyster February 15, 2013 at 15:21

Every HR professional is aware of the risk of “Strident FemiNazi Litigators”. They make provisions for it and monitor the work force closely to mitigate damages. Encorpera considers it a “cost of doing business”. There is not a single Fortune 500 company that has not had to contend with a woman suing over discrimination, sexual harassment or creating a hostile work environment…which is like saying a guy pinching your ass is “sexual assault”, ie – almost anything you want a hostile work environment or sexual assault to be, it can be.

Management is obsessed with keeping women happy because the last thing they need is negative PR about being a “sexist workplace”. Government is particularily sensitive to bad PR, because the media laps up government scandal and intrigue. Corporations pay to advertise through the media, so they’re given a pass.

The work place is a woman’s world now. You have to accept it as such or you don’t work. It’s like going to work with a dead weight tied around your neck. You can still be effective, but it’s that much harder. The weight keeps your head held low and makes it harder to speak, which is how they prefer men to behave. If you shine just a little bit too much, you’re affecting the Ladies self-esteem and that’s misogynistic. Dumb down to their level and you will be in harmony with the corporate culture.

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geographybeefinalisthimself February 15, 2013 at 15:39

“Traditionally, those in positions of authority and power would know better than to blame their troubles on underlings, but in this upside-down world even the President can be called a victim of ‘discrimination.’”

Tragically, the President has already claimed to be a victim of discrimination ever since 01/20/2009 (and probably as a U. S. senator from Illinois, a state legislator from that state, and probably even as a hustler, I mean, community organizer).

Since 2011 he has blamed his underlings in the Republican-controlled House for “discrimination” by not rolling over and playing dead.

He probably calls himself a victim of “discrimination” because a majority/plurality of voters in twenty-two states (and two of Nebraska’s three congressional districts) in 2008 voted for McCain and a majority/plurality of voters in twenty-four states (and all three of Nebraska’s congressional districts) in 2012 voted for Romney.

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Zorro February 15, 2013 at 15:43

“I wonder whether it will get to the point where companies owned by women will be allowed to sue male workers for discrimination if they do not perform well. Obviously, female leadership is unimpeachable, so it must be the fault of saboteurs and wreckers…

We are so fucked.

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Uncle Elmer February 15, 2013 at 15:50

A corollary to “A Man Wants a Wife, Not a Co-Worker” is : “I Got a Wife at Home, I Don’t Need One on the Job.”

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Thos. February 15, 2013 at 15:53

This is why I work exclusively for start ups.They’re all technology driven with no useless clock-watchers holding vision statement meetings.

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Brian February 15, 2013 at 15:56

It’s so embarrassing to know that even the FBI is defenseless against feminazis. Her own personnel absolutely hate her and operations have deteriorated to the point where the FBI higher-ups have deliberately transferred a case in her jurisdiction to an entirely different field office. Just how ludicrous are the laws that she could she hope to win a case against the government? I bet she’s already entitled to a lifetime pension far greater than any 5-star general ever had and she’s just doing this to see how far her entitlement can take her.

Our nation’s greatest enemies are domestic, not foreign.

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Jean Valjean February 15, 2013 at 16:57

I think this is very good news. Let her sue. The FBI will think all the harder before it promotes the next woman and perhaps the FBI will figure out that it’s not the white male employees but the woman and why.

Males for a hierarchy started at age 18 months. Women are not part of that hierarchy and eschew that hierarchy all their lives.

That doesn’t mean they don’t want to inject themselves into the hierarchy, but rather, once there they do not want to be subject to the rules and pitfalls of that hierarchy.

Women feel “entitled” to lead.

Men “earn” it.

Women want to command others. But men inspire others to follow.

Until women enter the hierarchy and are subject to its rules they will always have trouble with authority–wielding it and obeying it.

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shiva1008 February 15, 2013 at 17:06

She sounds like a trouble maker. Everyone knows you can’t be a trouble maker and get promoted. I don’t see why that should be any different for her than for me.

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survivorman February 15, 2013 at 18:02

Lemme guess – the woman in question is also a lesbian?

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El Bastardo February 15, 2013 at 18:45

I wonder whether it will get to the point where companies owned by women will be allowed to sue male workers for discrimination if they do not perform well. -WP

They already do it in marriage; why not in governemnt guaranteed loans of the businesses they own being granted an “evidence free zone” when they need to file their taxes.

They could hire any white male they want the first fo the year, and file any number of false charges on him when they are either not making profits; or hiding assets.

When white men get the hint, and stop applying for jobs, they can either petition government to kill us out right, or allow them to file suit against us again because of “wanton employee discrimination” against their business.

In other words, when they can’t get a fall guy to apply for poverty and prison in his future with their company; they can just pick a white guy off the street as we will all be homeless. Since they won’t be making money on their own, their stock holders surely cannot blame their fellow females for not producing any product?!

Can they?

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orecret February 15, 2013 at 19:22

“Women want to command others. But men inspire others to follow. ”

The misunderstanding that women have of true power will never cease to amaze me.

The same is true of “r.e.s.p.e.c.t.”… They [the wimminz] think that they can simply demand it [respect] and it will be granted. It never occurs to the bovine that true respect needs to be earned.

So many false premises abound amongst the modern female intellect: like the idea that the differences between the sexes is merely “socially determined”… Has none of these cows ever opened up a logic book nor a biology book… or ever tried to breed two rabbits of the same sex together???

Simply astounding. And I thought Orwell’s book to be overly fantastic upon first reading.

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Lyn87 February 15, 2013 at 19:52

Anything that harms the FBI is a net positive. I hope she gets their entire budget. As despicable as she surely is, she’ll do less damage with the money than they will.

When your enemies are fighting each other… let them.

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GT66 February 15, 2013 at 21:55

This is like when Hillary Clinton cries whenever she gets asked a tough Clinton. And these are women that people hold up as being supremely qualified females leaders. It would be laughable if it weren’t so sad.

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Norm February 15, 2013 at 22:20

This is what happens when you hire to please liberals and not the best person for the job. People who say you should buy into pet food companies are not lying.

http://www.nist.gov/baldrige/award_recipients/purina_profile.cfm

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JFinn February 16, 2013 at 00:52

She reminds me of women.

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greyghost February 16, 2013 at 03:46

Lyn87
You probably know or at least have a feeling like a huge number of people the next government action is going to be against the american people. I read a few yahoo news stories on that LAPD cop Dohner and the commits to those articles were like nothing I have ever seen. More people are afraid of the government now than ever.
Gays and women in the military and combat arms sure fine with me. I’d even say the numbers should match the general population. 51% female would be nice. female sueing the FBI,CIA,BATF,DHLS sure you go girl the patriarchy must be stopped woman have been oppressed long enough.

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Mickey T February 16, 2013 at 05:07

Even if a woman knew what her job was, she wouldn’t or couldn’t do it with the minimum of standards.

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Maaldweb February 16, 2013 at 05:20

the sooner the US army, the FBI and the police are full of ethnic minorities, women, transexuals, paraplegics and other affirmative action employees the sooner you will get your country back. If you understand what I mean…

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Anonymous February 16, 2013 at 07:56

“Special Agent-in-Charge Laura M. Laughlin, 55, complained that she has been denied at least 10 promotions since she took over the FBI’s Seattle field office”
Google tells me there are only 8 levels above special agent-in-charge. So 10 promotions would put her one level above the president, I guess. What would that be? An office manager at Gold in Sacks (aka Goldman Sachs)?

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