Each time she spoke to the new client he replied to her boss, another man. Even when she asked him a direct question, he answered the boss instead of her. “It was as if I’d vanished,” she said, “even though I was the only reason they were there”. Bad mannersI still hear far more stories of manswering men than women, but a better name for the practice is simply this: bad manners. “When did you first meet him?” I asked another woman who had been there, who he seemed to know very well.

Source: The Irish Times May 14, 2018 04:52 UTC