Miscellany
So, yesterday was a real backstabby fiesta at work. Everyone survived, but I am so tired of the never-ending catfights between 95% of the female employees at the company. Seriously, I think I'm the only female (yeah, I am one) on speaking terms with every single one of the other "girls," or at least speaking terms that are purely business and not passive-aggressive "frenemy" BS and worse. Instead, I get to be the conduit for a lot of the interpersonal crap because of my position, yay.
I swear, sometimes I wish I could gender-change at will so I could be a guy on the job and then switch back when I get home. I guess that would make wearing my street clothes on casual Fridays a pain, though. ;P
I was at a labor conference this spring and one participant asked me to define what I thought was the biggest challenge to women in the labor market. I said "other women." I was perfectly serious. Guys form cliques and backstab, sure. But not all of the time! At least not that I've seen.
Oh, and the people who think that the world would be a peaceful place if women ran it are smoking some seriously bad stuff.
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I think my biggest source of cognitive dissonance at work, other than corporate garbage, is the fact that I have to forge deep relationships with people I flat-out don't trust, all the while pretending straight-faced that I do trust them. While keeping in mind that these people are the most likely ones to stab me in the back when they find it convenient.
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My buddy "Ginevra" read me the corporate policy on blogging and micro-blogging today. My main concern was "OK, can I get fired for writing prOn calling someone a knob goblin on a gaming forum, on my own time and my own computer, using my own internet connection? No? OK." The rest of it was just insane.
I swear, sometimes I wish I could gender-change at will so I could be a guy on the job and then switch back when I get home. I guess that would make wearing my street clothes on casual Fridays a pain, though. ;P
I was at a labor conference this spring and one participant asked me to define what I thought was the biggest challenge to women in the labor market. I said "other women." I was perfectly serious. Guys form cliques and backstab, sure. But not all of the time! At least not that I've seen.
Oh, and the people who think that the world would be a peaceful place if women ran it are smoking some seriously bad stuff.
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I think my biggest source of cognitive dissonance at work, other than corporate garbage, is the fact that I have to forge deep relationships with people I flat-out don't trust, all the while pretending straight-faced that I do trust them. While keeping in mind that these people are the most likely ones to stab me in the back when they find it convenient.
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My buddy "Ginevra" read me the corporate policy on blogging and micro-blogging today. My main concern was "OK, can I get fired for writing prOn calling someone a knob goblin on a gaming forum, on my own time and my own computer, using my own internet connection? No? OK." The rest of it was just insane.