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Before a Labour Court, a dismissed female employee is suing for either restoration of her job or compensation. Her former boss, a male department manager, is there to represent the defending firm. JustifYing the dismissa� he explains inter alia: 'She didn 't want to be treated like an employee, but like a lady. In private life, the department manager is six years younger than the employee. II One evening an elegant gentleman, doubtless a person of some standing in the clothes trade, enters the lobby of a big-city night club in the company of his girlfriend. It is obvious at first glance that the girlfriend 's side-line is to stand behind a counter fur eight hours. The cloakroom lady addresses the girlfriend: 'Pl'Thaps Madam would like to leave her coat ?'
Unknown territory 'But you can already find all that in novels', one private employee replied, when I asked her to tell me something about her life in the office. I got to know her one Sunday on the train journey to a Berlin suburb. She was returning from a wedding banquet that had lasted the whole day and, as she herself admitted, she was a bit tipsy. Without prompting she divulged her boss, who was a soap manufacturer; she had already been working for three years as his private secretary. He was a bachelor and admired her lovely dark eyes. 'Your eyes really are very lovely', I said. 'We go out every evening. Sometimes he takes me to the cafe with him in the afternoon too, and then we don't go back again. Do you see my shoes? I wear my shoes out every few months, dancing. What's your interest in the office anyway? I really don't talk to the office staff - those girls are green with envy.' 'Will you be marrying your boss one day? ' 'Whatever gave you that idea? Wealth doesn't attract me. I'm sticking to my fiance.' 'Does your fiance know 'I'm not such a fool. What I've got going with my boss is no one else's business. It turned out that her fiance was currently managing the Seville branch of a lingerie firm. I advised her to visit him. There's the world exhibition on now in Barcelona 'You can't just walk across the sea', she retorted. Despite my earnest assurances, she would not believe that Spain could be reached overland. Later on she means to run a little inn with her intended, somewhere not far from Berlin. They will have a garden and in summer people will come from far and wide You cannot, as the secretary thinks, find it all in novels. On the contrary, information about her and her kind is hard to obtain.
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SEEN FROM ABOVE 97 According to the
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SEEN FROM ABOVE 99 claimed on the b
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DEAR COLLEAGUES, LADIES AND GENTLEM
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120 APPENDICES Hitler. Ein Beitrag
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122 TRANSLATOR ' S NOTE Allgemeine
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