Inadvertently Insulting
Today our CEO declared it “girl’s day” before handing out free samples of skin care product to all of us out in the open area. We accepted each gift with a meager thanks, as these charitable gifts come occasionally and randomly. I thought nothing of it, having tried the product before, unable to notice a difference in skin quality. However, one of my coworkers lamented “I like how he gave me the age-defying one” which made me laugh until I looked down at mine: firming.
“Hey, which one did you get?” I called out.
“Rejuvenating. What the hell is that supposed to mean?”
“I got age-defying too.”
We ran over to another desk to find our absent coworker had received “clarifying.”
It was one of those moments where we of course doubted ourselves and wondered if the hand outs had not been so random, if we had individually been targeted for our skin flaws.
Of course we squawked like a bunch of hens with image issues, knowing in some way or another we were given products with pretty names but in reality we were pinned as dry, loose, wrinkled, and oily.
The only consolation was that the product wasn’t douche. Or vagina cream.
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Inadvertently insulting? Although mostly it just sounds really, really, really cheap.