Self-deprecation theater

[chite]

Today in Self deprecation theater, I present:

Comments

[cyano]

I think the "Best in Show" ribbons make the look.

[vvalkyri]

seconded. Especially on both shoulders. and the tiara.

[chite]

Of all the things in this picture, the one thing I really did love was the tiara. I worked so hard that year, and I was the #1 person in my unit, which got me the tiara, and I think #9 in sales in my national area, which got me one of the arm ribbons. Of course, "sales" equates to "purchases" but that year I actually did sell like gangbusters. This was the summer before I became a director, and I had quit my job and was committed to making MK work. OY.

[ocnn]

So on top of everything else, Mary Kay hazes its sales force, too? :-)

[chite]

Mary Kay actually frowns on this practice and suggests that in Real Life you wear just one pin on your jacket. Seminar was another story and a lot of people do this stupidity, only a lot of them do it because they want to. I was not happy to do it, but my director really Really REALLY wanted me to, and I didn't want to have the fight.

[melstra]

Poor thing. I understand everything about this picture except one thing: why isn't the blazer pink? ;-)

[chite]

Heh. Well yes. That's the infamous Red Jacket. I think that the story goes that at one point Mary Kay had a bunch of her top consultants at a Cardinals game, and they all wore red jackets, and they liked the look so they incorporated it into the MK uniform. I'm not sure if it was the Cardinals but I know it was not a texas team, which would have made sense.

Anyway, the Red Jacket has aspirational appeal, all part of the cultish "move up the career path and get to wear special clothes and look like all of your friends." In my time in MK the jacket underwent I believe 4 changes. So although you earn it once (and pay your $65 when you are "on target" and get back $50 when you earn it so it only costs you $15), if you want to upgrade, it'll cost you the full $65. The newer version is much more chic than this ugly thing that looked good on nobody.

[vvalkyri]

When I came to that meeting I remember liking some suit someone was wearing until I saw that other people were wearing the same suit, and that's when I started thinking of The Handmaid's Tale, and shortly thereafter there were the, well, creed repetitions, and the awards, and the clapping, and that's when I started thinking "cult."

[corporatebabe]

Oh, wow. Painful. Your expression is worth MORE than a million words!!!!!

I'm glad you're out!

[aryel_moffet]

Not General...show horse..:)