
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, May 17, 1990                   TAG: 9005170629
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/1   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Medium

BOSSES - FROM GOOD, TO BAD TO UNBELIEVABLE

A Philadelphia businessman who asked his secretary to scout for good-looking women at a local pub and then call him on a beeper to tell him of his prospects is a dubious "winner" in a national bosses' contest.

The Philadelphia secretary who nominated her boss said she was asked "to go to a `beef & beer' to check out girls before he entered. "He told me to beep him if there was anyone good-looking in the bar so he wouldn't waste his time."

Other bad and "downright unbelievable" bosses named Wednesday included a New York supervisor who followed female employees to the restroom and stood outside to time them.

A boss at a brokerage firm in Cleveland was awarded a special "boss-felon" award for holding "forgery contests" among secretaries to see who could best forge clients' signatures on stocks and bonds. A boss in Gaylord, Minn., "won" for discriminating against pregnant women.

The contest, sponsored by a Cleveland support group for clerical workers called 9to5, National Association of Working Women, also honored "good" bosses.

Those included the president of a computer services firm in Birmingham, Ala., for progressive family leave policies; a department chairman at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., for advocating pay raises; and the chairman of Northwest Airlines for making company employees "feel like an asset to the airline."

Judges who reviewed hundreds of entries submitted by office workers nationwide included Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo.; Washington Post columnist Bob Levey; and Roberta McKay, who heads the Labor Department's women's bureau.

by CNB