Did they also tell you to smile more tho

when i was teaching someone once told me i was a glorified babysitter.

I posted a longer thing in a different thread, but I strongly suspect that they got wonky results here because the “threat” of having a woman in power is gone. Since they simply re-staged the Presidential debates, the people watching know that neither of these people is going to be President. If they took the same…

Right. I mean, obviously it’s ok to like the candidate? But vote for her?? Hell no.

Ditto. Except the wage difference for me means I’m making less than the morons below me. Because I’m just a young* lady.

One of the (many, many) things that drove me out of my last job was my general manager’s constant insistence that I and the other female department manager “be nice” and “focus on the good”. I was hired to whip my department into shape and make serious changes; I can’t do that by being “nice”. I was managing a guy…

“You just don’t understand how you come across! You just aren’t likeable! Try smiling more! Maybe you could go to lunch with some of your coworkers! Loosen up a bit!”

Here’s the essential problem as I see it: all men 40-45 and over, and God knows there are a lot of them, remember a time when it was totally acceptable to be grabby, misoginistic and staunchly anti-feminist. Lots of these men (not all) grew up absorbing these ideas, even if they weren’t necessarily amenable to them.

Right. I love how they do a completely unscientific study and Tom is here to say, “See? It wasn’t sexism.”

Are you my fiance that comments here without me knowing? She just unloaded to me about this last night (for the 6th, or maybe 20th time). It makes me so goddamn mad because she works so hard, pulls other’s dead weight, and still gets shit on. She was actually thinking about inviting her boss to our wedding since she’s…

I had a similar experience. In a previous job, I was covering my own job, my boss’ job (since he was a complete tool) and one of my coordinator’s jobs which took forever to refill. I was constantly stressed out doing three jobs and perpetually in a bad mood, but I got stuff done. And my staff really liked me alot (I…

Any kind of disability definitely makes it harder. Honestly, though, likability is the kind of subjective bullshit used to measure this kind of thing.

Oh TOTALLY. I just quit my job cuz they expected me to do all the emotional work, never get angry, and were planning to call me in to shame me for violating this apparently set-in-stone rule. meanwhile I work harder than just about anyone else, and all the other women either tuned out emotionally or just played the…

Yep, it’s gaslighting, telling women that their experiences don’t really exist.

My very first year at my current job, I was repeatedly told by my lead that I was doing well, maintaining the course, doing as expected, involved in a lot of things, and so on. Given this feedback, I fully expected to get some sort of reward at the end of the year.

We’re work twins.

This is fantastic. Rich gets all the cookies today. None for anyone else.
 

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This post gets a stamp of approval from me, an apparently humorless feminist who was pissed at this morning’s posts.