Thanks for the friendly heads up.

Not 30 years ago but 40. The thirty years was how long it took me to get from drudge to leadership. Really it as a spectrum with some leadership tasking after a decade.

Yes, I could not help but notice that things have changed in the last half century. I admit that I might not understand how sexist is the publishing industry. 15 years ago my leadership was full of women including my direct chain of command with the company CEO being a woman, the division President being a woman and my site VP being a woman.

I should not have said “lean-in” as it carries meaning that I did not intend. I should have said something like leverage that attention for a positive outcome.

I think the strategies that worked for me still work today. They are fundamental. Do your job well, establish a reputation, shop that reputation for better work, learn and do, be willing to move/relocate, accept challenges. Rinse and repeat. I relocated 4 times in the first 20 years of my career.

I got laid-off 10 years ago when the Shuttle Program ended. I knew it was coming and was not looking for a job, I was going to/did retire. It lasted a year or so. I go a call from an associate asking if I would come work for him on his new start-up aerospace company.

I might be a little blinded but I don’t think it is blind privilege as much as it is I am blind to how disabling is discrimination. I guess I should have assumed that sexism was playing a big role in her situation.

She crossed a line, one that is at least clear in my business. You do not post criticisms of your company on social media. I don’t use my employer’s names in my social media posts not even the one I don’t work for anymore.

She needed to pull that Tweet but she should have leveraged the attention she got to some benefit because what is done is done and make the best of it and the Tweet was awesome. The fact that it stung is probably why the push back.

Actually the fact that the Tweet lives is documentation that she thinks going rogue is ok. Not many employers are looking for writers who will go on social media and criticize the employer’s other workers.

It seems she is not alone. I have read about Amazon and Google employees public protests against there employers policies. They got their way but they had strength in numbers.

If I am still missing the point don’t give up on me. I am all ears.

TEK