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maderrSo the boss was in tonight, and after lecturing everyone on this and that about the store, he wanders up to the front of the store to "check on things." So begins the mutual 'ego stroking' b/t the boss and two of his workers. He made a comment about how smoothly the store was running, and so began the strokefest. To hear them tell it everything female in the store is purely decorative. Nevermind that it took all three of them to do a job that I can do solo, or that while they were stroking Becca was running the store even though she wasn't the manager that night. Neither was I, but nevertheless I was still picking up his (C's, who was the manager tonight) slack.
I know I must sound like a man hater or something, but I'm not. But I get sick of doing all the work and doing it at least twice as well only to have the boss come in and promptly ignore all my efforts. Without the HM and the assistants that acutally work (all female) that store would have bombed a long time ago. But we're not part of the Penis Club, so clearly we don't count.
I know I must sound like a man hater or something, but I'm not. But I get sick of doing all the work and doing it at least twice as well only to have the boss come in and promptly ignore all my efforts. Without the HM and the assistants that acutally work (all female) that store would have bombed a long time ago. But we're not part of the Penis Club, so clearly we don't count.
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Date: 2004-03-20 10:11 pm (UTC)I'll kill them in effigy for you in this videogame.
I have not encountered this problem. But the majority of the places where I've worked where things have been run well, women were in charge to some degree. I once had a boss who was basically Christopher Walken from Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead. If you haven't seen that movie, I'll tell you that means the job was very bad. I especially liked the "you are worthless and easily replaced" motivational speeches.
Here's a story about the penis club.
Date: 2004-03-21 04:36 am (UTC)Men are incompetent: why do you think all the department secretaries are women? David told me one day that it was Secretary's Day, Mrs Mellen was out, and he needed a stapler. THEN GO INTO HER DESK AND FIND ONE!!! OR GO BUY ONE YOU'VE GOT ENOUGH MONEY!!! (That's what happens when you have three brothers--your mother is your keeper--and then you get divorced??? What do you do??? The man can't even operate a microwave so he doesn't OWN ONE.)Practically everyone in Dining Services is a woman. Everyone here in the faculty offices are women.
Mike and his sister Meghan. They are three years apart. Meghan is working at BU getting her MA in Communications. Mike is temping at an architectural firm. Meghan was all organized, worked hard. Mike--forget it. The two of them are equally intelligent (i.e. very bright), but because Mike has a penis, he can't sign on-line to talk to his best friend who is 3,000 miles away; he can't get to the post office; he just got a job (miracle of miracles); and he definitely can't use the phone and has no concept of time.
Then we have Angela and Derrick and the Penis Power Station she's got over there at Aris. If ever there was a pile of uselessness, it's Paul and Derrick. I mean seriously... at least Angela has instilled the fear of God(dess in Angela's case) into their weak little souls... I'd just arange for ties to be caught in the photocopier or the paper shredder. That seems to be a nice way to go in the office.
That is the end of my commentary on the Penis Club. Men are always compensating for the bigger part of their ego that's lost in their pants somewhere. Maybe they're just distracted by the worm between their legs? or perhaps they consider it a sword and therefore they have some kind of edge over the toaster oven we've got between our legs. But then, if you stick metal objects into toasters, you're going to get electrocuted, so therefore, no matter what you say or do, women are superior.
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Date: 2004-03-21 06:02 am (UTC)Guys can be really stupid. S'all I have to say.
Speaking of Stupid and the Pen15 club
Date: 2004-03-21 06:26 am (UTC)hmm.
Date: 2004-03-21 06:27 am (UTC)Bad representation, right? Well. what's worse is that we do everything that men do, except that we have more leeway with our PT scores. For that reason, a lot of the men believe that we shouldn't be there. Regardless of the fact that on the whole, females in the Corps get better grades than the men.
These are womanizing creeps, who see nothing wrong with picking up chicks in bars, but the second that a girl tries to do what they do, the girl is in the wrong. They respect their mother, they respect their girlfriends, but not us.
These are the exceptions of course, but they are really annoying exceptions. And you know how you deal with them? Either by ignoring the hell out of them, sarcasm, or letting a trusted buddy deal with them.
Your boss sounds like one of these guys. Don't sweat it. The world is full of assholes, and when you get into a career you want, it'll get better.
Why the hell do you think he's managing at LC? Because no one else would hire him, likely. Bosses in the RW know that women are important, and if they don't, they're going to get their asses kicked to prove it.
;)
Re: hmm.
Date: 2004-03-22 05:57 am (UTC)Sheesh, sounds like I don't have much room to bitch. Men always act like they're toughter, stronger, etc. so why do they bitch when they're held to those higher standards? Blah.
Oh, he doesn't manage the store though. By boss I mean the man that actually owns it - he was actually so good at what he did before that LC literally gave him a store to manage. Now he has like three here in NC.
Re: hmm.
Date: 2004-03-22 05:59 am (UTC)And what did he do before? Piss off his workers for a living?
Re: hmm.
Date: 2004-03-22 06:01 am (UTC)Nah - the sad part is that he really is cool guy, just not the greatest owner. Outside of the store he's awesome. He did a lot of work for corporate, in marketing, sales...something else. Also worked in some of the stores, the man knows his shit. He just is also something of the "women are lesser than men" school w/out quite realizing he is.
Re: hmm.
Date: 2004-03-22 06:08 am (UTC)Re: hmm.
Date: 2004-03-22 06:16 am (UTC)it confounds me.
Re: hmm.
Date: 2004-03-22 06:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-22 06:38 am (UTC)Fucking men.
Derrick is speaking to me again, though, so this meeting of the Penis Club must have concluded sometime over the weekend.
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Date: 2004-03-22 06:41 am (UTC)Funny how quickly one wisecrack becomes a permanent joke. Dratted Penis Club, we will humble them all.
I guess they got together and stroked one another 'egos' so now they feel masculine and in charge and the mean ol' girl's email can't hur them anymore. /bitchiness.
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Date: 2004-03-22 07:54 am (UTC)I think they just have a set time limit... like, okay, we will ignore the vagina for ___ hours for this offense, etc.
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Date: 2004-03-22 08:05 am (UTC)LMAO. "oral exam," god do I remember all those goofy injokes.
*dies laughing again* oh god, I could just see them having a little meeting in the bathroom, flipping open handbooks and bitching about some point of order...my imagination needs an off switch. "First order of businees, the matter of Angela Drake offending Derrick. The handbook recommends...."
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Date: 2004-03-22 09:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-22 09:03 am (UTC)I could so entirely see it written in all caps, too.
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Date: 2004-03-23 05:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-23 08:42 am (UTC)Dude, I don't hate men. Quite the opposite in fact. But every now and then you get damnably aggravating.
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Date: 2004-03-23 08:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-23 08:47 am (UTC)heh, I'm always gullible before coffee.
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Date: 2004-03-23 08:52 am (UTC)Of course sometimes they are said in ways to try to tell people things that they refuse to ackknowledge if you say it to their face. people who deny things in their heads...which is to say, 100% of the people the web..^_^
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Date: 2004-03-23 09:08 am (UTC)Well aren't you a crafy one.
You really don't like the internet do you?
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Date: 2004-03-23 10:28 am (UTC)The internet is ok, for porn and information.
It's all the people on the internet..like retail, you run into alot of people in a more compressed time and space, so the more people the more idiots.
I know that you know what I'm talking about.
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Date: 2004-03-23 10:34 am (UTC)I kinda sorta just might understand what you mean, yes.
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Date: 2004-03-23 10:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-23 10:43 am (UTC)Cool.
If you're ever in my neck of the woods, my treat.