Do you know any professional types who behave like Palin?

[Indenturedebtor]

Aside from salespeople of course. When I was selling cars I would try to mimic the level of seriousness of my customers. But in general I have never seen a carpenter, plumber, doctor, lawyer, hygienist, barber, whatever speak so casually during a professional interaction. Sure people will chat you up, but in general no one wants to seem like a moron who can't handle the English language properly. Folks may speak like that at home or around the beer cooler, but work is work.

Just wondering if you folks have had the same experience.

[billymike]

1. folks who work for tips n/t

[Waya]

2. I would say.......

...Dubya...but can't really call him a professional....

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. None. No one. Zip. She is a walking sexual innuendo.

I don't think guys realize it because they get caught up in it, but women notice it because they don't. She's constantly trying to get sexual. I think it's the only way she's gotten through life. It brings to mind something I read about women who were molested when young doing that.

[Indenturedebtor]

9. No I think that plenty of guys do see it. There are those guys that think that's how a woman

should behave and to them it's acceptable. Fortunately they are in the minority as the polls would seem to indicate.

[ColbertWatcher]

17. She was trying to be sexual? Since when has drooling idiocy ever been considered sexual?

Seriously.

Okay, maybe I should say, "Besides cheesy porn, since when has drooling idiocy ever been considered sexual?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

19. That's the reason she's always winking, flirting, blowing kisses,

touching herself, etc. If she had smarts, she wouldn't be engaging in any of that.

[ColbertWatcher]

20. LOL! Oh man, that's what all that was!

I'm so totally disgusted by that woman, I didn't read it that way!

LOL!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

21. LOL! Watch Tina Fey. That makes it easier to understand :) nt

[mitchum]

28. That may also be why she seems to favor rapists...

"It brings to mind something I read about women who were molested when young doing that"

Blood being thicker than water and all that

[youthere]

4. I don't even know any salespeople that behave like her...

honestly, she was like a caricature.

[annabanana]

5. If my DENTIST presented like that, I would find a new dentist. . . .n/t

[flowomo]

6. politicians ARE sales people....

so you exempted the one category that fits. Beyond that, yes, I've worked for people just like that -- high energy, cheerleading types, and no, they weren't all especially articulate or logical when they gave their spiels.

[Indenturedebtor]

8. Ok they are salespeople, but more like Account Manager level

And acc mgrs can't behave like retail salespeople...

[katty]

7. no, not at all -palin: an example of arrested development

in her own mind she is still 18 and it shows, badly.

[RaleighNCDUer]

15. Makes you kind of wonder if there's a

"Governors Gone Wild" tape out there somewhere.

[yellerpup]

24. Even 18 is too old for 'cute'. Cute really stops when awareness of sexuality

begins. She's disgusting.

[Toucano]

10. Maybe a Sunday School teacher

Or someone accustomed to spending too much time with children.

Other than that, no. Totally and completely, no.

[Rob H.]

11. I work with one

She's tries to be one of those cutesy types because she's constantly trying to pawn her work off on everyone else. It doesn't work on me because I can't stand her. She's lazy and incompetent, and no amount of flirting/sucking up can hide it.

[Not Me]

12. Good question...and if I were interviewing someone like that

for a management position, I would dismiss the interview.

Her demeanor reminds me of why I don't go to places like Outback Steak House anymore...the wait staff is trained to be so cutesy and patronizing.

[kestrel91316]

13. That has been my impression of her all along: COMPLETELY UNPROFESSIONAL.

There is of necessity a certain dignity that is (or should be) attached to high political office. If you don't conduct yourself with dignity, you cause people to lose respect for the office. Bush has done this for nearly 8 years. Even Clinton did it to an extent with the Monica debacle.

Palin acts like a high school girl running for student body president.

[Hardrada]

14. Yes, a librarian (of all things) in a town near us who charmed her

way along to get various jobs and finally that one which she has expanded into something bigger (of course). Also she is on her second marriage which got her into a higher socioeconomic status. In her younger years she was well known for this behavior. I can think of one or two others who were half-heartedly like this. Once they got their goals achieved they vanished from our sight. This type seems to be unusual in our neck of the woods. Also the more frank sexual atmosphere of these days has dealt a blow to coquetry.

[sinkingfeeling]

16. Insurance agent that I absolutely detest.

[Bake]

18. A lawyer or two.

Nobody takes them seriously.

Bake

[ColbertWatcher]

22. I don't think it's a matter of professionalism.

She doesn't act her age; she's behaving like a child.

Her behavior is not age appropriate.

[Progressive_In_NC]

23. Three women at my consulting firm who are on the FAST track

to partner level.

Drop dead hot and in the senior partners laps as much as possible. Will blow off everybody else at work for any planned event but will postpone dinner with their families (two are newly married, one is engaged) to go to drinks with the senior partners.

I've just made partner and am now in a position to help them out so recently, they started flirting with me a bit too. My wife thinks its abhorrent and I do too. The majority owner calls his PM hiring practices "office beautification".

In the south, the top can still be reached that way I guess. I expect all three to pass me at some point on their way up the ladder.

[mitchum]

25. Only if they work the pole

[mak3cats]

26. Yeah, Minnie Pearl (n/t)

[MadinMo]

27. Can you imagine how the Repubs would have screamed if

Hillary had tried to pull even a fraction of that smarmy disingenuous stuff? GAH!