women at work

[XCashier]

It is not the gender of a person that makes them a good boss or a terrible one, it is their individual skill as a manager of people and their individual intelligence and charisma as a person.

This is true. I've had brilliant bosses, horrible bosses and everything in between in both genders.

I'm working in a place with about twenty other people, and all but one are women. I haven't noticed any drama, but that may be because the people in this town are generally pretty laid-back, or most of us in the store are over 40 (and even the younger ones are quite mature and sensible), or maybe because we've got a really good management team.

I have, however, worked at other places where there's been a lot of drama, office politics, backstabbing, passive aggressiveness, etc. I never saw the point of it, but that's just me.

[Arcade Man D]

Women will expect the other party to know what is wrong, so they won't come out and say what is bothering them. They will stew over minor "injustices" (or at least, I do). And they will hold a grudge FOREVER. They will rarely be the first to make amends, instead waiting for the other person to make the first move.

Men, on the other hand, tend to be more straightforward. If something is bothering them, they will go to the offending person and voice their grievances. Minor differences of opinion don't seem to bother them. And long-held grudges can be settled with a few words.

As much as generalizations are rarely true, this one is frequently true, at least in my experience. Every one of my male friends, if I angered them, or they angered me, it got brought up. However, if a female friend was angry with me, I'd ask them what was up, and they'd get angrier that I didn't already know. I think it goes down to the generalization about how the two sexes act as children.

"Boys will get angry with each other, have a tussle, then go down to the fishing hole together, joking the whole way. Girls will get angry with each other, and hold the grudge for years."

[Fashion Lad!]

The difference I've noticed between men and women in the work place is that women try not to hurt people's feelings by being upfront. Where as men just tend to be more blunt. But when the bluntness does come, women will (these are all just things I've noticed) tend to stay mad for a long period of time. Men will fight it out there. Then there are grudges and all that fun stuff.

I prefer to work with men, but I have enjoyed working with a lot of girls that are more laid back.

[guywithashovel]

For some reason, I almost always tend to find myself working in places where women are the majority. I worked for Wal-Mart for five years, and the majority of my co-workers there were women. Back then, roughly 72% of Wal-Mart's workforce was female. Talk about being outnumbered.

After that, I worked for a school as a tutor, and most of my co-workers were women, though I did ride to work with a male co-worker. After that, I worked for a camp, and once again, it was more females than males. However, the university housing association I worked at was a little more even.

Still yet, I earned a master's degree in library and information science, a field where women outnumber men. And now, I work at a technical college with significantly more female colleagues than male ones.

I don't do it on purpose, I swear!

Overall, I've never had a whole lot of trouble working with women. The worst any of my female co-workers have ever done to me over the years has been trying to include me in their female conversations. I've always been able to tough that out, though.

[crashhelmet]

Overall, I've never had a whole lot of trouble working with women. The worst any of my female co-workers have ever done to me over the years has been trying to include me in their female conversations. I've always been able to tough that out, though.

That's because you're a guy. You're not perceived as enough of a threat to the rest of them and their catty ways. If you haven't seen it yet, wait until they trust you enough to really include you in their conversations.

CH