More Junk in the Trunk

Posted by Keith Hahn, Aug 03, 2007, 3:11pm

JennyMcCarthy4(Weeks).jpg Yahoo Personal Finance's "Brazen Careerist" Penelope Trunk has more advice in her "New Girls' Guide to Workplace Suckcess." Penelope's five steps to success for girls (I am not making any of these up):

1. Date coworkers
At least for a couple hours at a time. Waving goodbye to self-respect by climbing the corporate ladder the old fashioned way is the new feminist empowerment.

2. Show some flesh - but just enough
Penelope's suggested work attire is pictured. Have medium length hair, a little bit of makeup, and find that happy medium between dressing like a dude and a prostitute (or as Penelope puts it, "a man and a harlot").

3. Expect harassment, and stay cool
Since you're already dressing like a hooker and soliciting co-workers, odds are you're going to get harassed.

4. If you have to go to business school, go early
That is, if your business school has a morning and afternoon session, like your kindergarten.

5. Tone down your work ethic
Since girls are smarter than boys, it's best to give yourself a bit of a handicap. "So stop being the overachiever who does each assignment perfectly. Instead, start focusing on the stuff that really matters at work," like dating and in-office burlesque.

The New Girls' Guide to Workplace Success [Yahoo Personal Finance]
Yahoo! Finance Expert Penelope Trunk's Advice Riles Some Readers [Associated Content]

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Posted by Anon, Aug 03, 2007 3:35PM

What's the problem? Sounds like perfectly sensible advice to me. The angry Career Bitches (with barren wombs and no husband) may not like it though. But seriously, who gives a shit what they think?

Posted by Anthony, Aug 03, 2007 3:36PM

Penelope mentions showing skin if you want the boys to notice......duh. I didnt know. Business school....be friendly,,,etc...Sounds like a paper by Maria Bartiromo, who is incidently in Wash. D. C. today for Closing bell.....wonder if a guy named Todd will be there later for a closing of the pants? As I read somewhen "ya gotta love the gal"......All the crap she has gotten away with including under her husband's nose....and she still looks like the little nice girl next door......and IS STILL WORKING.

Posted by M. Noer, Aug 03, 2007 3:37PM

I like it. Go for it!

Posted by , Aug 03, 2007 3:37PM

i love jenny mcarthy as much as the next guy keith, but i though we had all agreed to stop posting pictures that could get your readers fired or at least severly reprimanded, without at least hiding it inside the main article with a NSFW warning

Posted by anon, Aug 03, 2007 3:47PM

Yes stop trying to get us fired. 99.99% of your traffic is during business hours. And a good number of your readers are employed professionals. Granted, none of us should be visiting this website during work in the first place. BUT here we are. The least you can do is tone down the erotic graphics and lemonade ads.

Posted by jt, Aug 03, 2007 3:50PM

especially the mikes hard ads. Screw cpm and clickthrough metrics and sh!t, is there any better feedback than readers telling you directly that your advertisers product -and worse- ads suck big floppy donkey d!ck?

Posted by a donkey with a big floppy d!ck, Aug 03, 2007 3:54PM

and, yet, you still read the site and comment, without fail, at least 4 times per post, jt. guess the mikes ads haven't been THAT much of a deterrent, buddy.

Posted by , Aug 03, 2007 4:00PM

They think/know we won't stop reading no matter how much we detest the ads. Just because that blondie with the h00h00s is the new screen shot on my phone, don't think i cant get that same service from any number of dedicated porn sites, DB!

But really, it would be a nice courtesy if you would not go out of your way to make it more difficult for us to read you. And really, have you gotten ANY clickthrough on the lemonade ads except for by accident like i just did?

Posted by Ep wannabe, Aug 03, 2007 4:03PM

anon 3:47 do you work at a church?

You need to start your own fund......porn all day, everyday.

Posted by shout out to the dumb fucks, Aug 03, 2007 4:04PM

dealbreaker doesn't get revenue from clickthroughs, niche blogs sell ads based on number of users.

Posted by , Aug 03, 2007 4:12PM

Well that should make it easier to come up with some better ads then. Come on!

says the guy in the $7,500 suit

Posted by , Aug 03, 2007 4:13PM

and yo i dont mint if the chick's hot rack is inside the main article. but seriously, the thumbnail, tone it down and give us a NSFW label

because it would be a shame if we had to miss out on the full picture if not entirely necessary

Posted by larry flynt, Aug 03, 2007 4:27PM

KH that's fuckin censorship. put her tits back up there.

Posted by jt, Aug 03, 2007 4:30PM

making this post just to let big floppy p#ssy lips at 3:54 that he/she should learn how to count, I think I hit maybe 3 posts today today, including this one jackass.

Hows that state school education treatin ya buddy?

oh yea, and jenny mcarthy, droool

Posted by pollyana, Aug 03, 2007 4:32PM

yeah, after a week like this it would be nice at least to leave the office with a woody

Posted by anon, Aug 03, 2007 4:32PM

Ok now I'm regretting having said anything. I miss that rack. I should have downloaded the pic first.

Posted by , Aug 03, 2007 4:57PM

What im getting here is DB does not have the technology to post one pic on the main page but a different one in the body of the article after the jump

Posted by chris, Aug 03, 2007 5:10PM

jt - you seem a little defensive.

Posted by up for debate, Aug 03, 2007 5:43PM

so what is worse: being bored/whatever and posting multiple times a day, noticing and posting just because you want to give someone sh!t for posting multiple times/day?

Also interesting facts to consider, how many comment multiple times a day without taking credit annoners.

and wow its sad its come to this ha, where is the weekeneeeendddd

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