From Karen Szymczyk
In reply to Bob Sacher’s letter regarding management consultants and the
saying “Treat ’em mean to keep ’em keen”
(28 July, p 73)—as far as I’m
concerned—the saying has much more practical beginnings.
My girlfriends and I often used the maxim as the number one strategy for
keeping the more fickle sex in line, and that was from the early 1990s. Come to
think of it, I suppose it could be seen as a “management” strategy at that.
Doncaster, Victoria
