Boys don’t cry.
Unless, of course, they’re Speaker of the House John Boehner and Jersey’s finest Ronnie Ortiz-Magro — then they cry at work.
On Thursday night’s “Jersey Shore,” Ronnie and Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola finally called it quits after a tumultuous romance punctuated by fits of rage ending in broken nails, blow-dryers and furniture.
While she was home crying on her mama’s sofa, Ronnie was crying everywhere else — including in the bathroom at work. Loud, uncontrollable sobs echoed through the back of the “Shore Store,” the place where the cast pushes tacky T-shirts and souvenirs in between boardwalk high jinks.
Meanwhile, down in D.C., Cry Baby Boehner never misses an opportunity to open the flood gates.
“60 Minutes” interview with Lesley Stahl? Yep. On Election Night? He cried then, too. Mid-speech on the House floor? Obviously.
“Everyone who knows me knows I get emotional about certain things,” he told Stahl.
Correction: He gets emotional about everything. But all those tears could come at a price.
“It’s distracting,” said Ann Marie Sabath, author of “One Minute Manners: Quick Answers to the Most Awkward Situations You’ll Ever Face at Work” and founder of At Ease Inc., a national business etiquette firm with an office in Boston.
“Whether you’re a man, woman or androgynous, emotion should be controlled at work,” she said. “You should control your emotions and not let them control you.”
Needless to say, here in the Hub we have real men. The kind who don’t sob on the job.
“I don’t cry at work,” U.S. Sen. John Kerry told the Herald. “Only during concession speeches.”
Newly minted Boston City Councilor Matt O’Malley said he’s never teared up at his desk and usually limits his emotional outbursts to funerals and the occasional wedding.
“I’ve certainly been in situations at work that were emotional, important decision and hearings and meetings and conversations,” he said. “There’s no crying in baseball or politics.”
Although he does admit there’s one thing that could turn him into the Beacon Hill Bawler.
“If we have one more snowstorm I may break the stream and break down,” he laughed. “So the box of tissues are on standby and will depend on what Harvey Leonard has to say this weekend.”