The Chairman lets slip an extremely un-PC approach to avoiding gender discrimination lawsuits
"Do you reckon those six ladies suing Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein for a billion-plus dollars for alleged sex discrimination are having a laugh?" asked the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment group SmallBluePlanet as we met for a few pints of Views Herein Expressed No Reflection at The Cowardly Hack. "I thought we agreed gender discrimination is off limits as a topic for discussion in case I get into trouble - although thank you for at least using the word ‘alleged'," I replied. "Still, since you ask the question, in my experience, laughter is very much the last thing anyone...
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