Experienced In What

What is the criteria to work in this office?
The prim interviewer began rattling off statistics 
About education, degrees, experience.
I looked around at the staff I could see.
Everyone I saw was female, blonde, twenty-two, and 36, 24, 36.
They dressed in short skirts, wore high heels and their nails were points.
Not a few of them. 
All of them.
Experienced in what? I wondered.
Knowing I would not make the cut.
Of course as you may have guessed, I didn’t.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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Bauer Avatar
September 20, 2020 at 12:05 PM
ha! i'm sure, even in these supposedly liberated times, that this kind of thing still goes on. infuriating! you've described this so well, with your usual dash of humor...
Krutsinger Avatar
September 20, 2020 at 3:05 PM
It is so irritating but it is all over.
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