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Welcome to the "What the heck am I reading?" Club, LOL. I'm not too happy with my current reading either.

That's not a good sign at all. :(

So My Lady Notorious needs to stay on my shelf for another year?

Danielle wrote: "That's not a good sign at all. :("

Maybe if this was a smaller agency. But this is the Department of Defense. I cannot believe this author would have the cojones to write this.

Holly wrote: "So My Lady Notorious needs to stay on my shelf for another year?"

I'm only halfway through it and I'm not enjoying it. But most readers say that the story picks up in the 2nd half, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Oh never mind, I was going to add this to my TBR some time ago but read some reviews and dropped it like a hot potato:)

I'm only a little bit into it, Adrienne but so far the set up is only making me mad. Maybe if this book was set in the eighties I might buy it but right now all it's doing is striking a chord of disgust.

I can only go by the blurb, but I think she's pretty foolish to jeopardize her professional reputation to get laid. If she's going to handle her business, she should be smart and not 'crap where she eats.' This is one thing that the romance novelists seem to get wrong every time. Women in these male-dominated professions would really have some issues if they were sexing it up with co-workers as often as they make it seem. I think On The Edge was pretty realistic showing how Terri's involvement with that superior officer really hurt her career. I know it's fiction, but these kind of stories annoy me because it's very unrealistic and makes some of these heroines look like idiots. Sorry about the soapbox.

That's exactly why I'm starting to get disgusted. These people are all idiots.

What is going on is that the heroine works for the Department of Defense working on the design of jets. My uncle actually does the same thing, but at Lockheed. And I know one of his coworkers was a woman, and one of his best friends. So I know men and women can work together in a cohesive environnment.

If you want to be promoted in the heroine's department, then the men in this exclusive little boy's club photograph themselves having sex with a stranger. The heroine overhears one of their conversations and is outraged. She confronts this group trying to taperecord their meeting and instead forgets to turn the damn thing on.

Now she's turned from a straitlaced businesswoman and is now acting like a woman with ants in her pants and cant kick off her panties fast enough.

I can sleep so much better imaginging these type of losers working for our national security.

Holly: LOL! Okay it's all coming back to me . . . the set-up at work with her bozo male co-workers! Ya, this one was a little over the top for me. The author does a good job making the hero sound really hot though . . . :\
K.

Danielle: I totally agree and have never even begun to entertain the idea of striking up any kind of relationship (casual or otherwise) with someone I worked with in my regular career. However, I do have to say that I worked at a law firm when I was in my 20s that two of the partners (no less) (male and female), both married (not to each other) flat out were "walked in on" by another co-worker as they were going at it hot and heavy on the desk!! Classic - HA! Not to mention about 9 monhts later female partner produces a "mini-me" of male partner. Still married to their respective spouses. Real life . . . stranger than fiction!
K.

You're right, K. It does happen. I've seen this stuff happen in the veterinary field. I know the two vets who co-owned the practice I interned at had a hot and heavy affair although they were both married. I felt bad for their spouses who didn't know. But I think the romance novels make it seem so blase'.
I know from experience that the government has some really strict rules about that sort of thing, and if you value your career, you would not be hooking up with a co-worker that casually unless it was true love or something.

Holly wrote: "That's exactly why I'm starting to get disgusted. These people are all idiots.

What is going on is that the heroine works for the Department of Defense working on the design of jets. My uncle a..."

--I think I'd be too hot at the stupidity of this scenario to enjoy the book. I can suspend my disbelief, but not over this type scenario.

Where I work most of the workforce are married to/having a fling with a co-worker its kind of a standing joke. Some of the staff have even married and divorced co-workers not once but two or three times and not to the same person......not me! kept my relationships totally outside of work.

I'm very weird about people knowing my business at work. I'm always waiting for that knife in my back. I've been in a work environment a couple of times where I had coworkers who did try to sabotage others (I was the target a couple of times). An affair gone wrong is a nightmare for a work environment, IMHO.

Exactly, me like wise, stay enigmatic that's my moto! but from the amount of husband and wife promotions it's obvious, plus I work for a really realy large organization so people melt into the background so to speak

I like melting in the background. It's safer. :)

I would never touch a guy I worked with even if I wasn't married. I don't see the men that way at all. I work in a very male dominated profession so I am already fighting for credibility, why would anyone want to chance screwing up your work life? Plus I don't see any of the guys in anything other than a business mode, there is no temptation whatsoever.

There aren't really affairs going on in my workplace that I know about but I work with a bunch of engineers who are usually quiet, religious or married.

Now my husband works at a lawfirm - there's all kinds of stuff going on there. Je knows of two partners who are hooking up and some women who sleep with their bosses to get ahead.

I am also reading a books that deals with the sleeping with a co-worker by a woman in a technical male-dominated career - I don't like that aspect at all because I don't want to read about a woman in a similar field who does stupid crap that I would never do. Plus I don't like when my Romance hits to close to home since I read for an escape.

I feel you, Melissa. It makes me uncomfortable to read those kinds of stories. I work with about 70 guys where I am now. I'm the only woman working out there most of the time, and I have a position of authority and technically I am an outsider. That would destroy my reputation like nobody's business and I'd get fired if I decided to 'do' one of the guys I worked with. It's so not worth it for me.

Danielle wrote: "I feel you, Melissa. It makes me uncomfortable to read those kinds of stories. I work with about 70 guys where I am now. I'm the only woman working out there most of the time, and I have a positi..."

I understand Danielle. It's hard enough to work in the environment. Plus you would definitely be looked at a certain way if you "hooked up" with one of the guys, especially if it didn't work out.

My main problems aren't from co-workers in my company but from men from other companies at professional meetings outside the office. It takes a lot to get to me or offend me but some men have managed to do it.

I am sorry you are in that situation. My section of the company has 2 women compared to about 40 men, so you have it even worse than I do.

It was really weird at first. Some of the guys are a bit flirty, but they are respectful. I am really careful about keeping as much distance as I can and not giving anyone the wrong impression.

That sucks that some of the guys you worked with have said things to offend you. I have dealt with some chauvinists and I just keep my cool.