In The Workplace As some of you may know I was in the Forces, I joined when I was 17 and it was my first job. It was of course a mainly male environment, I enjoyed my job and completed over 12 years before leaving. I had decided that it wasn't the family environment for myeslf, Mrs luv and mini luv. And so at first I set up a business that didn't work out and then I went through a few jobs before settling in my current role. Since leaving the forces I have struggled to adapt to women in the workplace, this is a general thing as many of my female colleagues have been very nice, professional and great at their jobs but this doesn't take from the fact that my experience is that they are bitchy, jealous, aggresive, unprofessional and a bunch of complete nut jobs and this group far outweighs the former. Mrs luv who is part of the nice professional bunch has also noticed this and agrees to a point, she has had to deal with complete idiot women in every job she has done. I don't think it's a struggle for equality as I'm simply not seeing that, many of the high up people in my various jobs have been women. Do you agree, disagree? Has anyone noticed this trait? This may come across as completely sexist, I don't really care as it's not and if any women who may read this thread think I am being a sexist pig then pop off and have a cup of tea, watch Loose Women and come back once you've calmed down a bit.
Nope it's a fair comment expressed by many women themselves. On one side my best bosses have been women..They deal with the entire job better, less posturing etc. The worst experience I have had is when the office has been all or predominantly women..it's a bitchy, almost playground environment. As a manager I spent more time dealing with staff relationship issues etc. It was unpleasant to work in and a few times I had to ban any social talk in office until they learned to act professionally. It wasn't even the youngest staff that were worst it was the 40+ staff. Tbf The least productive office I have worked in was all male..I spent most of my time making sure work was actually done. Best combo has been 50/50.
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I dunno. I think theres a certain dynamic involved when women compete as they don't compete in the same sort of ways men do. I must say my best boss was a woman and my worst boss was a woman. I think it really just depends o nthe personality. In general i also think it depends on the profession. in my line of work there are not so many women as of today or in the past so they mor eor less conform to the male line to fit in. I IMAGINE if you guys work in an office be it solicitors, accountants, call centres or whatever where is more 50/50 that the women have to dress for success and thats where the bitch element comes in. honest to god take out the women dressing for women stuff and i find it all calms down quite a lot.
The best boss I ever had was a woman. Superb. She was followed by the worst boss I, you or anyone in the history of the universe could ever have had. I could write a book, but three years of citalopram and a chronic drink problem ensued, so I've no wish to go back there, but I will leave you with one snipet of her leadership skills: during an appraisal she noted that I had "An unprofessional face". She was incredulous when my union demanded that this comment was expunged from my record. My big bugbear with women in the workplace is the fact that most HR departments seem 90% staffed with women (not always their fault, to be fair - there's a cultural bias that often unconsciously bars them from marketing and operations/production in older industries), but they have, in the words of one of our most recent female HR directors, a need to prove "HR is not pink and fluffy". Thus they adopt every current fad of "Values and behaviours" and PC turdfests in a manner of ducking-stool "You're either with us or against us" Nazism that they could never use to actually get rid of you if it was based on your work performance and record. All that said, I'm not sure that this is a result of their gender or society's shoe-horning of them into pre-set roles. I have four sisters, five nieces and a daughter. I love them all, but they're all very different except in one respect - they ALL think it's their mission in life to change every man in their life in some respect, whether it's needed or not, and if they fail in this task it's your fault. In fact, that is the key to all women, if I can generalise at all,: success= their success, failure=your failure. I'm in my 50's and single. We're all happier that way.
you are right that HR does seem to be one female dominated department. Accounts payable too... for some reason women are like rabid dogs with demanding money. anyone with a company should take advantage of this. I think we seek to understand but actually we'd like the office frank described of (not all men) none of this dress of success, can tell a joke or have a chat and get on with what you want to do and not get rode sideways at every opportunity but ambitious muppets out to do you down or worse use your work to advance themselves
I've never had a problem with women in the workplace. Best bosses have been women and most enjoyable co-workers have been too.
Period leave would solve every issue mentioned above http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-35700213
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