Duggy747 wrote: » I work on my own. But to help equality I wear a skirt and heels under the counter.
Shryke wrote: » ANOTHER girls vs boys thread? What the actual fcuk. Piss off, please.
Eve_Dublin wrote: » Seriously..are we all feckin' under the age of 10 here or what?? Every bleedin' day! Boys V Girls. Jesus Christ. I don't think I thought like that since senior infants throwing worms at boys I fancied.....
Novella wrote: » On the shift I work, I am the only girl. I am treated so well. If I say I'm going to get coffee and ask does anybody else want one or anything from the kitchen, one of the guys will offer to do it. If I ask would anybody mind if I closed a window, someone will get up and close it. I think I work with some really nice guys! On the whole within the company, we're treated equally as far as I can tell.
Brutal Deluxe wrote: » When I did work there was a very distinct girls club. Certain supervisors were complete and utter ***** towards the guys. There were a few women that treated everyone equally. Oddly, the male supervisors were actually quite nice to both guys and girls. There was a kinda lads thing but that was mostly because some of use just got along easily and if the girls fit in they'd join the convo. But no, apart from the practially sexist three females, no, no problems that I can recal.
Wanderer2010 wrote: » I know....very generalised question but what I mean is, do you see evidence of an old "boys club" where you work and do you see men getting perks that women dont get? For example, where I work, men are higher paid, get all the technical jobs (even the men with poor technical skills), their opinions are generally given more clout in meetings plus outbursts of anger are rarely met with discipline. Indeed, the men can be very lazy, manipulative and poor performers but it would take a LOT to get them a verbal warning or even a speaking to. Women are often the butt of jokes and not trusted as much. On the other hand, they take more sick pay and can twist a lot of people around their finger if they have the right personality. What about your workplace, are men treated better, equal or maybe worse than women?
saiint wrote: » same experience where i worked was doing christmas work in smyths toystore 1 manager ( girl ) 2 assistant managers ( 2 girls ) 5 supervisors ( 5 girls ) 14 floor staff ( 10 boys 4 girls ) needless to say the managers gave all the boys a hard time where as the girls got treated like queens, they make mistakes we get the blame they get smoke breaks every 5 minutes they get a longer lunch break so i snapped and told the manager to f*ck off and walked out but the floor staff girls where really nice though
M_Bovary wrote: » I think the number of women who are mistreated at work probably dwarfs the male figure. Chauvinistic attitudes and a male dominated establishment still holds women back despite increasing evidence that female workers often outperform their male counterparts. Pay is still not equal between genders and that is just a symptom of the inherent gender biases which are just as prevalent now as they were years ago.
RHarrow wrote: » I work in a company where the men do the skilled work and the women do the customer service/data entry/dealing with phone calls. Not divided due to their gender, the women simply have no skills that extend beyond the above while the men are educated and basically run the company. The women in the company absolutely have it easier. They turn up late every single day. They take the complete píss out of the allocated break times and they honestly get sweet fúck all done when they're there. Nothing is said to them though because, to be brutal, nobody really cares and just not dealing with them is easier than addressing the issue. It's a small-medium enterprise but the segregation between the skilled and unskilled labour, which also happens to be a gender division, is unparalleled. They get the easy life because they're not taken seriously, because they've consistently shown themselves to not take themselves seriously. The men in the company literally do everything involved in keeping it running and keeping business coming in the door and thus end up being the big earners there.
dark crystal wrote: » Where do you work? The 1960's?