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Mar 2, 2008

Workplace Dangers: The High-Strung Filly

Instructor, Caroline Bender As part of our occasional field guide to the wild creatures in your workplace, the Finishing School presents a general overview and wrangler's manual to The High-Strung Filly. General characteristics: sex: female. There are high-strung colts in the workplace, but they are rarely dangerous, until they become stallions. aged: any, but usually peaks between 25 and 40 breed: hotshot new manager, newly promoted middle manager, imported rock star, freshly-minted MBA, Boss's stable queen, etc. markings: edgy business couture, PDA, stack heels, smart-girl glasses, office-to-evening hair, expensive bag, couldn't-be-bothered...

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