"I am never going to hire another woman because they just get pregnant and leave."

[donsu]

http://www.correntewire.com/bush_domestic_policy_czar_i_am_never_going_to_hire_another_woman_because_they_just_get_pregnant_and_leave


Bush domestic policy czar: "I am never going to hire another woman because they just get pregnant and leave."


Via TNR today (login required): When Bush chief domestic policy advisor Karl Zinsmeister was editing The American Enterprise, an AEI house organ, here’s what he had to say to business manager, Garth Cadiz:

“ I am never going to hire another woman because they just get pregnant and leave.”

-snip-

NOTE Here’s the full quote:

But the biggest grievance harbored by the magazine’s staff concerned Zinsmeister himself. “He went to his son’s basketball game, and then he would give Jo a hard time about a doctor’s appointment,” Rollins says. “That happened all the time. If one of these things just happened every now and then you’d write it off. … But there were so many of these things and so often.” Roback-Pal, who was originally hired to work four days a week, says Zinsmeister demanded that she start working five days—with a small increase in pay—or accept a salary cut to stay at four. She threatened AEI with a lawsuit but eventually settled for a severance package. While Zinsmeister frequently complained about Roback-Pal to other staffers at the magazine—telling Cadiz that she was “useless” and “never there”—her former colleagues say that she never missed a deadline and that he was “abusive” toward her. When she angered him by taking a four-month maternity leave, Zinsmeister told Cadiz, “I am never going to hire another woman because they just get pregnant and leave.” For her part, Rollins says that her relationship with Zinsmeister—which she described as “fantastic” during her first two years at the magazine, starting in 2001—eventually soured so badly that he stopped speaking to her for the two months prior to her departure. Another former editor said that “people in the office tried to avoid talking to him.” Magazine employees began referring to their think tank with the inverse of its acronym—IEA: the Institute of Evil Administrators—and calling Zinsmeister “Captain Queeg” behind his back.

I’ve no sympathy for the staffers. You work for an authoritarian movement, you get Captain Queeg as a boss. Sorry.
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Domestic Policy = keep the women down and at home

[aquart]

1. Notice he isn't thinking of hiring women over 40 or 50.

Only the cute young ones who are so inconsiderate as to prefer other men.

[Annces]

2. They just don't want people to have a life period - men included

Men can't take time off either I would assume.

[Johonny]

5. yeah

They want production slaves period.

[Warpy]

3. I'll never hire another man. They just show up half drunk

or hung over and pick fights.

Stupid ass. As suggested above, hiring workers of both sexes in their 40s, 50s and even 60s would eliminate his problems.

Oh, I forgot. You can't feel like a super stud if you're not "over" a bunch of sweet young things.

[mike_c]

4. I was thinking the same thing about marriage....

:rofl:

[Straight Shooter]

6. Major case of womb envy going on, there. n/t

[Wwagsthedog]

7. Hire Nuns. nt

[China_cat]

8. Sounds like the guy who said

that the only reason women go to work at all is so they can get medical benefits then get pregnant and leave their employer to foot the bill...quitting after delivery, of course.

[tanyev]

9. Is he married? Do they have children? Did his wife work while she was pregnant?

Inquiring minds want to know.