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Gender discrimination

posted January 17, 2007 - 3:37pm
Gender discrimination

Gender discrimination. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism ...The open mind
I hear about this all the time. Most of the time I hear the stories from women who are discriminated against in the work place because they're women. I never thought anything about until I experienced this myself. I never thought it would happen to me because I'm a male and I just never thought that it would happen. Unfortunately, I work for a female boss who I thought was one of the coolest people I've ever worked for. Unfortunately I've come to notice that she is one of the most sexist people I've ever met. I've noticed that women get away with the utmost deliberate actions of taking advantage of rules, while us men are constantly hounded on for the smallest things.
For instance, there is a particular woman here who where's nothing close to the work attire specified in the company policies. No one says a single word. I walk in every day in Business attire. Dress shirt, slacks, dress shoes, dry cleaned and pressed. If I unbutton my top button and stretch out my tie, I'm brought into the office. Sad.
I've watched several women walk away from their desks and converse with the receptionist for literally 2 hours about things that are NOT work related. This happens DIRECTLY outside the bosses office and no one says a word. I get back from an hour lunch at an hour and five minutes and I'm having a sit down in the oval office. I can't believe I've fallin into this and I'm not sure how to deal with it. We don't have an HR department here... it's in Washington. So any suggestions would be nice.
-Chief-

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Are You Sure You Want to do That?!!

Ms Mad Hatter - Wed, 2007-17-1 9:34 pm
If she is so emotional, then she won’t have the balls to stamp out injustice when necessary. So it needs to be a manly woman or womanly man. 8-P My suggestion would be to imitate the women, just for a short while, and see if anyone says anything to you. Of course, it makes a big difference if they don’t hold the same position as you, you know, have the same tasks. If their job is more laid back, then it’s hard to compare. Obviously you won’t really have much room for the clothing issue, but at least you can challenge the superiors about why you are held to a different standard with respect to work ethic. This is if you’re in the ‘position’ to show your defiance (meaning they aren’t in the position to lose you right now) and if it bothers you enough to actually take action. Sometimes it’s also okay to not force the issue, if you were willing to not lower yourself to the level of these particular lazy women. That is, unless you unintentionally get too caught up with maybe being distracted from working, by something like… Xomba? The tie is designed to cut off your circulation for some devious reason!

I Can Tell You What NOT to Do

MythMan - Wed, 2007-17-1 8:55 pm
Don't write an angry letter. (BELIEVE ME, LADIES: THIS IS UGLY-UGLY MAN TALK ... YOU DON'T NEED TO READ ANYTHING BELOW THIS.) I was a 'low-level' at Harkins Bricktown 16 (a 'Team Member'). Due to my injury, I could only do one of the 3 or 4 possible tasks we would be assigned to every shift. (That should've been a 'red flag' for me right there; but the job paid okay, with room for promotions, so I thought I was 'taking it in stride.') The one thing I could do there, 'ticket-taker,' also involved making sure that people took in "no outside drinks except water." I understood that; most of the theater-workers' money comes from concessions. (That's why they charge so much for stuff that costs nearly nothing!) I was to stop EVERYONE (including managers and co-workers) from doing that. Further, I'd be given a 'severe talking-to for letting drinks through. So--when one of the new managers frequently brought drinks through, telling me, "J, shut up!" when I asked him to stop--I got angry enough to ... WRITE A LETTER! (Looking back, I know that either a] I shouldn't have used my 'Deputy Droopy'-voice when telling the manager to 'leave the outer-Harkinds merchenddize behoind,' or b] I should've marched right to the exec. manager--handbook in hand--and pointed out [not in the 'Deputy Droopy'-voice] how that jr. manager was 'direhctlee ind biolationd uhbb mberchandizze protocolls.' Heck, for all I know, I could've gotten him fired and taken over his job; but C`est la vie ...) I think a letter to your manager's boss is still the best way to go; just don't include all the threats of vengence I would be sure to put in ... have a woman look over it. That 'more flies with honey'-saying may not make sense in business; but women don't operate the same way businessmen do ... they decide based on 'how they feel'; oh, it's probably a very-'reasoned-out' feeling, but things they feel good about (I should know, I'm usually one of them) turn out to be bad-bad decisions. Write with Love ... That's me

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