{"id":1207,"date":"2010-01-18T23:45:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T03:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2010-01-26T15:32:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T19:32:52","slug":"boss%e2%80%99s-wife-visits-wearing-tacky-indecent-outfits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/boss%e2%80%99s-wife-visits-wearing-tacky-indecent-outfits\/","title":{"rendered":"Boss\u2019s wife visits wearing tacky, indecent outfits!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dilemma<\/h3>\n

Dear Office-Politics,<\/p>\n

My husband works in the oil and gas industry and mentioned one day that his boss\u2019s wife showed up to the office in top form, wearing an indecent outfit. Since then, this mid-40 housewife is known to visit every day in tacky outfits and spending several hours around the office. It has left a bad taste in many of the other housewives and concerned employees against this inappropriate behavior, but no one knows how to approach the situation. Should anything be said to the boss?<\/p>\n

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Simmering Spouse<\/p>\n

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\n\"timothyDear Spouse, The short answer\u2026. \u201cum\u2026 yes.\u201d The long answer of things you may not want to hear…<\/a>
\nFirst, your letter is indicative of a larger problem in organizations; namely, this letter wasn\u2019t written by one of the employees or by the boss; it was written by a spouse of an employee. In many organizations, we run the risk of \u201cplaying telephone\u201d so the actual situation may be vastly different from what Ted\u2019s wife told her hairdresser, who then relayed to her stepson\u2019s girlfriend\u2019s substitute part-time dog-walker. This is not to say you are not genuinely concerned, but you have to ask yourself (and the \u201cother housewives\u201d) if this is really your battle to fight… Read full reply<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dilemma<\/h3>\n

Dear Office-Politics,<\/p>\n

My husband works in the oil and gas industry and mentioned one day that his boss\u2019s wife showed up to the office in top form, wearing an indecent outfit. Since then, this mid-40 housewife is known to visit every day in tacky outfits and spending several hours around the office. It has left a bad taste in many of the other housewives and concerned employees against this inappropriate behavior, but no one knows how to approach the situation. Should anything be said to the boss?<\/p>\n

Regards,<\/p>\n

Simmering Spouse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[548,352,547,439,224],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jealousy-envy-and-lust","category-office-politics","tag-boss-wife","tag-dear-office-politics","tag-indecent-outfit","tag-the-office-politics-game","tag-timothy-johnson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}