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Girl Quits On Dry Erase Board a Hoax

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-this-job-and-shove-it dept.

suraj.sun writes "It's the same old story: young woman quits, uses dry erase board and series of pictures to let entire office know the boss is a sexist pig, exposes his love of playing FarmVille during work hours." Story seem too good to be true? It probably is, at least according to writer Peter Kafka. Even so, Jay Leno and Good Morning America have already reached out to "Jenny."

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  1. Old, and fake by Gruturo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nice, story published hours after it was revealed to be a hoax / stunt: http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/11/elyse-porterfield/

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    1. Re:Old, and fake by Slippery+Pete · · Score: 4, Informative

      You are correct:

      http://thechive.com/2010/08/11/a-word-from-jenny-16-photos/

    2. Re:Old, and fake by gandhi_2 · · Score: 2, Informative

      Well, the part about her being a hot piece of ass are true.

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    3. Re:Old, and fake by Dexter+Herbivore · · Score: 2, Informative

      This got modded informative???? ARE YOU BLIND, PEOPLE!

    4. Re:Old, and fake by fishbowl · · Score: 2, Informative

      I think his point is rather that in some places, being "merely attractive" or "merely talented" aren't enough to ensure career prospects. It's not about obsession with superlatives, but more of a signal-to-noise problem.

      In Sweden you don't stand out for being six feet tall and blonde. In Russia, your 1700 chess rating means you sometimes win casual games.

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  2. Fake by Swanktastic · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is known to be fake.

  3. Re:Time to head to home depot... by beelsebob · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just for future reference for you – the difference between permanent marker and dry wipe pen is that the dry wipe pens have a solvent in them to disolve the previous "ink". You can easily clean off permanent marker simply by drawing over it with dry wipe pen and immediately rubbing it out.

  4. /., you're trying too hard by dsoltesz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dear /.,

    Please stop trying to be Digg/Reddit. It's really quite embarrassing. You post these stories way past their expiration date and provide no meaningful content to contribute enlightenment or lolz. We've already seen the story. We've already read the comments. Don't fall into the trap of pandering mainstream drivel to drive traffic. If my grandma knows about it, it doesn't belong on /. Even in "Idle" your readers expect more.

    Lovingly yours,
    #563978

  5. Re:HOPA != HPOA by xSander · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you had followed the story in the dryboard pictures, the misspelling was intentional.