, “she was promptly removed from the company [due to her nasty, entitled disposition].” In 2008, our fictional “she-E-O”
" The article meticulously walks readers through employees’ complaints that the company, led by CEO Audrey Gelman, hired a Liberian-American who uses the pronoun"they" only for the optics, that staffers hired to man the front desk found themselves washing dishes and scrubbing toilets, and that the $16.50-an-hour starting salary was not, in fact, livable.
I see why the women’s actions seem egregious when you consider that they billed their company culture as fun and inclusive and forward-thinking without the strict parameters of traditional corporate America. With the Wing and Thinx, there’s the additional irony of feminism and female support being baked into the companies’ branding.