What is Sexy?

What is sexy indeed? Many women clients would say our CEO pictured above (with what some might consider a porn industry mustache) but, according to our sales guy David, NOT our e-learning materials. He kept asking us to make things look sexier and sound sexier during out strategy meeting yesterday. I get the idea that sexy is important to him, and not just on the e-learning front. And, hey, that's ok - as they say... sex(y) sells. And that's his job. Selling, not sex.

When he kept pushing for sexy, Ed, our Director of Operations for e-learning (who tends to lean more towards, let's say, substance) seemed a bit flustered by all the requests for sexy language in our materials. He finally, in consternation burst out with, "I don't know what an example of sexy language is." I think most in the room felt this was probably an understatement, and much laughter was enjoyed. With Ed, not at him. When I told our CEO, Jim, about Ed's outburst later, and while looking at Ed he said, "Take a look at him, that's for sure." (In case Ed's wife is reading this blog, please understand that I am not mean as you previously thought, I am just reporting the unbiased facts. If anyone is mean, it's Jim, and you should definitely talk to him.)

Another theme of the meeting, which Jim was kindly pointing out above, was Ed's dress code. He leans towards what David calls, "condiment colored sweatshirts" - mustard yellow, relish green, etc.. Ed is also featured in a previous blog about gout - which subject Jim raises in the video below. I personally find Jim's jokes about Ed shocking, and only chronicle it here in the hopes that Jim will see how NOT fun it is to enjoy yourself at someone else's expense.

****VIDEO COMING HERE SOON****

And Ed, since you said I never say anything nice about you in the blog, I think you have really nice, new sneakers.

One more thing. This whole subject reminds me of the Christmas gift that Tricia gave to Gary Magenta (our VP of Sales and Marketing) this year. A hardbound book with 68 pages dedicated to all the things Gary had said or done over the last couple of years that if reported to HR, should have gotten him fired.

I say, what a great company that doesn't let silly things like sexual harassment and political correctness stand in the way of a good time...and a leadership position. I've found my home.

***Jim: Remember that I really, really like both you AND my job. And if you try to bring me down, I've got a copy of Tricia's book and I'm bringing your VP down with me.