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What type of team do you work in? I am the only male in a predominantly female team, and to be honest I am finding it extremely hard day to day. I'm not saying that all women at work are like this, it's just my personal experience where I am working just now.
Several points to make about an all female team -
1. I'll start with what these women do - they're extremely catty. Oh they love a good snipe at each other (and presumably me when I'm not around), and the sad thing is your drawn into the cattinesss - sucked into it like a black hole of death. You can't get away from it. You'll be sitting there with a cup of tea, typing an email and then someone leaves their desk. Almost immediately, hell breaks out and there's one catty remark after another. Then the person who left comes back and everyone is all nice and loving, not an issue in the world. How can they stand to be so two faced?
2. Sickness - Before I used to work with mostly guys who used to take the odd day off sick with Man-flu. There's a new industrial disease though and it's called "Woman-Flu". Basically when they have a cold they take a week off, when challenged about this they fall apart and cry their eyes out telling you on how they were on their death bed - except Saturday night when they somehow managed to muster the energy to go out clubbing.
3. Lateness - 9am start in our office is just a suggestion to some of these ladies, what it really means is you can start any time you want and still finish on time!
4. Targets - Again these are just suggestions and not something you actually have to achieve, because the company didn't really hire them to make money for the company. No they hired them to do all of the above and and spend every other moment on Facebook.
5. Pregnant - This never bothered me till recently. Maternity leave is how long, about 9 months normally depending on the type of person you are? My wife was off for 12 months and then back to work. We have three pregnant girls at work and their maternity leave is on average about 6 months away. However, you would have thought it started when they found out they where pregnant. Switched off is a phrase that springs to mind, no hang on, they've completely powered down and are unresponsive. As for the number of sick days they are now taking...
This is just a very small amount what goes on in our office, there's no team work, everybody is worried about what everyone else is doing. Paranoid and reactive instead of pro-active. The list goes on and on and on! Come on ladies, you have worked hard to gain respect with us guys in the work place. Why do this to yourself?
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Perhaps the glass ceiling is a myth and theres a reason why only some women reach the top of the corporate ladder.....
No man I know - and I play rugby and train with over 30 men each week, plays a gameboy, and I don't actually know of anyone that isn't pre 16 that owns a hand held computer. If anything most men that play games are playing Playstation and spend their time at home, and won't be out creating the latest Jackson Pollock on the pavement outside "Jason Donner-van".
The men you speak of that are out getting drunk every week are probably young and do not last long in most jobs - it takes a few years of realisation they can't do that they cant do that all the time. Also to note, that the bigger drinking issue in the UK is women, more women have a drinking problem and officially more women smoke than men.
Working in a profession where a suit and tie is a everyday thing, I have not once met a scruffy male - infact dress codes within the work place seems to be broken by women, wearing what ever they want.
And with sickness - at least they are coming to work, thus showing the level of commitment.
Lastly Being pregnant is not an illness.
1) the endless conversations about how drunk they got the night before, how much they managed to vomit on the pavement, how many imaginary dragons they managed to kill on gameboy or whatever, how many disgusting combinations of food they managed to eat while out '' on the lash'' oh and the disgusting language and the constant need to ''out man'' each other in these areas.
2) the total inability to dress themselves. Daily I see guys come in the office with dirty shirts, wrinkled jackets, unpolished shoes, missing ties and faces they havent bothered to shave. I may spend time doing my makeup but at least I can get dressed without mummy to help me.
3) lateness- usually on a monday or thursday and usually after spending at least one evening getting drunk.
4) sickness, they come into the office, in an EVIL mood,whinge all day about how sick they are and then refuse any kind of cold medication. and while they are proving how hard they are by coming in every day- every one else gets their germs since using a tissue doesnt seem to be something men can do.
5) maternity- when you have had a human growing inside you for 9 months, sending your body and your hormones to hell - please whinge about it - until then please be quiet and try to show some respect for what women go through during this time.
Unfortunately, some of the worst bosses have been men but mostly women. The listen to their b*tchy friends, make poor judgement based on emotional feelings rather than common sense.
Their cattiness and clique groups and unkindness directed at other women who are 'less than perfect or below them'.
I have to say, that my favourite bosses have been men. It seems, that they do not take this so literally and do not spend time being so strung up and nasty.
This should have been nipped in the bud ages ago - good management should have sorted it out.
A weak manager is inviting staff to take the ****
boblet