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People do not understand what being in a top field is like

posted 8 years ago by ri0tgrrl71-1
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I understand most people are Average Joes and will be sympathetic to Andy, but Miranda did nothing wrong. She wasn't a horrible b*tch boss, she was exactly as she should be as an executive in a top performing field. I've been in a few and that's how it is, everyone is high strung, things happen quickly. The tiniest things matter. When you are in an elite group you are competing against other elite groups, you are all excellent, so the ONLY thing that will make you stand out is the minutia. It's nerve-racking it gets crazy, but it's necessary and when it works it's very satisfying. All the people in it are the same personality type or it wouldn't work. It's a bunch of overachievers doing what they do best. Andy had no business being there, that's the fantasy part. Cinderella story frumpy bookish girl succeeds at high fashion with a make over. It works because Andy supposedly excelled in her field at school and so she IS of that type, she just had to learn the fashion part. I guarantee if she gotten a job as a journalist in an elite company she would have experienced the same thing and since she was a high performer she would have adapted like she did to Runway. It's different to work for an elite company rather than say a local rural newspaper. I would dare the later would be a lot more laid-back and relaxed.

[–] sakura_droplet 8 years ago

but Miranda did nothing wrong.

Demanding Andy get her a flight back to New York during a storm in which flights had been cancelled at all available airports, and then reprimanding her for it, despite the situation being entirely out of Andy's control?

Just a Jeannie in a bottle...

[–] flowerchild-15037 8 years ago

I don't think Miranda was only upset about that. I think she was upset about other things as well. Like the whole belt situation. Miranda knew she didn't care about the job at that point. So every other thing ticked her off.

[–] flowerchild-15037 8 years ago

Miranda was my favorite character in the whole movie, tbh. I thought Andy was extremely unlikeable.

[–] fortifarse 8 years ago

I dislike Andy more every time I watch this movie! She's just so stupid the entire time!

[–] bluekat0 8 years ago

Human decency should not be limited to " rural newspapers ". That is what's wrong with this world and that was what is wrong with Miranda/ the " Industry ".
That being said, Miranda was fantastic at her job.
Also , I can't help it, I love this silly movie.

[–] LovesConfusingJoy 8 years ago

You sound like a snot

[–] LeopardSpot1954 8 years ago

I agree. It was an otherwise fair point, but it could've probably been made in a way that wasn't condescending. Guess us plebes don't know anything, lol.

[–] JBob32 8 years ago

I have a feeling a lot of these posts are IMDB employees putting up a controversial point so people will start talking on the boards. I notice that they rarely come back to respond. The username might be another tipoff.

[–] dumakaa 8 years ago

That's not possible since they're getting rid of the boards in about a week or so.

"Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha (chaching) Whoops!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XphDXWPBQqE

[–] CromeRose 8 years ago

Your post is utter nonsense. No one, no matter what their job or in which industry they work or how important and indispensable to the world they think their industry is - no one has the right to behave like an a$$hole to other people. Miranda was a snot, and you are too, judging by your comments. One can be successful and at the top of one's game in any business and still be a decent human being.

As for Miranda - do you think she was being reasonable about Andie getting her a flight out of Miami with a hurricane blowing? She was being an idiot. And what about "I want my steak here in fifteen minutes" and then when Andie's putting the steak meal on her desk Miranda says "What's that? I don't want that. I'm having lunch with so and so." Is Miranda mentally unstable? It certainly seems so from that.

[–] femmemuscle (110) 6 years ago

It's not only in the fashion industry it's with any high powered executive, or administrator. I thought it was bad in the medical field with Physicians, Surgeons, and administrators, until i met my (now) husband.

He worked in Silicon Valley. The higher execs in Silicon Valley back in Steve Job's hey day, as well as today, make Miranda look like Mary Poppins. As for the medical field, what went on in the surgery wards, looked more like 50 shades of Gray, than a bunch of people who are supposed to be professionals.

Physicians/Surgeons were the most abusive. Throwing surgical equipment, openly making racial slurs/opinions of different cultures, mocking patients once they were under anesthesia, Leering at patients anatomy and making sexual comments once they were uncovered. Many of us that were female staff had to intervene to stop it. (I know i did quite a few times) While many of the nurses stood by and said nothing. Heck, some of them (nurses) would even make crude comments about a female patient if she was jealous enough.

And yes, many physicians would treat their underlings, just as bad as Miranda if not worse, and this was totally accepted. No one, would EVER want to report a physician for misconduct. But they wouldn't think twice if a janitor, nurse, tech, or otherwise did far less of a crime.

And what's worse? When the verbal, and sometimes physical abuse was going on? NO ONE would intervene, or stop the madness. I never saw Miranda get "physical" in that movie with her subordinates.

Where as in the real world, people who are at Miranda's power have been:

Physically

Sexually

Verbally

Emotionally

Abusive every chance they get - and in many cases - they get away with it.

The top execs who make Forbes magazine make it look as if they are really nice people? But you can't be "nice" to make to their level. And IF they are nice? They usually have subordinates that are just as abusive, if not worse to do their dirty work.