Blonde Ambition by Annette Sharp

Author:Annette Sharp
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780522870923
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
Published: 2016-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

How long is too long for someone to subject themselves to what can only be described as torture? Hell, a week is too long! But day in and day out I would march myself into 52 Queen St Beaconsfield knowing that at some point during the day, I would be brought to the brink of tears, the edge of insanity, or to a point where punching a wall seemed like a good idea. You might have called me a ‘Slave to Fashion’, others (like my mother) would call me a ‘Masochist’.

The day after, another woman claiming to be yet another former employee of Roxy’s threw petrol on the fire in a new email supporting Miss Karma’s allegations. Entitled ‘Enough Is Enough Roxy’, the second email, just a few paragraphs shorter than the first at 800 words, continued in a similar vein. ‘I am here to back up everything that was said by Ms Karma,’ it began. It listed a raft of new allegations. These included claims Roxy only hired women under twenty-five, paid ‘peanuts’ and fired staff at the drop of a hat. ‘Parents—DO NOT let your daughters work for her,’ the author signed off.

Miss Karma predicted Roxy would sue and ‘cry defamation’—which Roxy promptly did the next day when reporters attempted to publish the toxic email.

Another former staffer corroborated the emails saying that when Roxy turned on staff she turned suddenly and absolutely. She would strip her account managers of their clients in a way that distressed the young staff, and she thought nothing of sacking staff on the spot if she believed they had somehow been disloyal. ‘People in there were like battered wives. Years later we still call ourselves the battered wives club,’ a departed Betty would say.

Weeks after the damaging emails were circulated, Roxy would tell Jane Cadzow at Fairfax Media she was a ‘… very, very, very obsessive’ person—‘very’. She would contradict the damning emails and insist she was a kind boss.

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