Should we pay the First Lady?
January 21, 2009 By: almostgotit Category: UncategorizedOh my Lord, could I use a good support staff. Getting it for free would be a bonus, but I believe we abolished slavery in this country some time ago.
One of the more snotty things I’ve done in recent years is tell my administrator-husband that no, I would not be hosting his departmental affairs at my house as a matter of course, because I learned a very hard and demeaning lesson after stupidly doing that sort of thing at The Institution That Shall Not be Named.
Plus also, he is the one employed in that position. I have my own work to do.
So he now pays the occasional restaurant tab for his staff and faculty members, instead.
Laurie over at Punk Rock HR has an excellent post today on why Michelle Obama should be paid. Oh, yes she should be. Miss Manners’ views-to-the-contrary notwithstanding, the high-level job of “Job Wife” should not ever have to include duties of the sort that any other professional person, especially persons with penises, would get paid for.
January 21st, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Amen! I’m glad you put your foot down and said no. Your “free” employment as a job-wife keeps the economy in depression. Let’s pay for these wifely duties and stimulate our economy!