Comments on: How to be a tall person at work

By: reza

reza — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:29:34 +0000

im 16 and im 175cm tall can i be 185 cm tall?

By: Can’t live with… « Should Know Better By Now

Can’t live with… « Should Know Better By Now — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:23:03 +0000

[...] beautiful people are better at whatever it is they're doing. We also think tall people are better at whatever it is they're doing. It's not that they are. Our perception is our own [...]

By: Identifying Positions of Privelege « FeelingElephants’s Weblog

Identifying Positions of Privelege « FeelingElephants’s Weblog — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:53:12 +0000

[...] This is not an uncommon privilege, and it is one with measurable benefits: Tall people make $789 more per inch per year, and are 90% more likely to ascend to the CEO chairs of Fortune 500 Companies, according to Arianne Cohen, author of The Tall Book." says blogger and entrepreneur Penelope Trunk. [...]

By: Pax North

Pax North — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:31:04 +0000

Wasn't Yoda like, 3 foot two ?

By: William Mitchell, CPRW

William Mitchell, CPRW — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:44:02 +0000

I believe it is more about the confidence that good looking people have because of their looks, than it is about the looks themselves. Since high school is a developmental time and all about the outer shell, it stands to reason that the good looking folks spring with more vigor and receptiveness into college and early adulthood due to their positive experiences at the high school level.

Be it plain looking, short, dumpy, etc., work on the supreme confidence and the doors will open. now, I am not referring to the shallow, phony cockiness that some try to exude that one can see through with a pair of Walgreens reading glasses. I am talking true belief that will withstand scruitiny, insult, misfortune and time.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:34:21 +0000

Interesting. I am 5'11 and I tower over my Indian and Chinese colleagues. I have the natural advantage in the workplace of being white and educated in North America. Do these studies control for that, or do they simply reflect the fact that there is still bias against hiring and promoting Asian minorities?

By: Irina I

Irina I — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:24:35 +0000

That you are taller than the average woman. And the height of an average man?

By: Thoughts on being a “Tall” « I Pay Rapt Attention

Thoughts on being a “Tall” « I Pay Rapt Attention — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:50:54 +0000

[...] Trunk recently wrote about "How to Be a Tall Person at Work" which, to be completely honest, I had some trouble taking seriously (yes, because I'm [...]

By: Jo

Jo — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:33:58 +0000

This reminds me of the 30 rock episode where Tina Fey is dating the extremely handsome doctor who he is given a pass for incompetence with everything he does because people want to be near his pretty face/body. But in reality he is a total idiot. He never had to develop his skills at anything because all of the doors were opened for him the second he smiled.

I know so many women who are like this. They have unusually large boobs, a pretty face, or a great butt or all of the above and they just glide through life with people throwing their coats down for them. But they never really develop any real skills at anything besides the fluffy stuff (makeup/shopping). And this is what this post reminds me of.

Yeah tall or unusually good looking people are the first out of the gate but once you get into the nitty gritty of things its the average to ugly people who really get things done because they have developed the caluses in life that are needed to deal with the pain of accomplishment.

So tall goodlooking people just stick to being drug reps. Marry doctors and get out of the way for us average height average looking people because we have a world to run.

By: Diane

Diane — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:48:39 +0000

I thought I was the only person who had ever heard that comment! I was told by someone that I sounded taller on the phone, and I thought it was kind of weird. I'm 5' 3" and cannot wear high heels, on the orders of my orthopedic surgeon. But an "up" hairstyle, if it's one that suits a person and doesn't look bizarre, can create the impression of more height.