A study concluding that women who are mentored by men tend to be more successful had to be retracted because you can't say that!

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[–]jet199 8 insightful - 6 fun8 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 6 fun -  (6 children)

This certainly fits with my experience.

All the male bosses I've had through I was an underachieving genius while other women easily see through my shit.

[–]hennaojichan 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

It fits mine too. Ask any group of say college women if they would prefer a male or female boss and you will probably get around 90% answering "male." Don't ask me why but jet's answer sounds about right.

[–]jet199 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

I think when you compare young women to young men in general competence there's always a clear winner. We wash for a start. Male bosses see that because they've been that smelly, obsessive geek themselves, female bosses have enough distance that they think they can mother it out of the guys but that's actually the worst approach. When older men deal with younger men it's tough love all the way.

[–]Akali 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

In which kind of wasteland do you live in where young men who work don't wash nor groom themselves? Clearly we don't live in the same planet because on my planet, young men are highly professional and they groom themselves and they often wear more appropriate clothing then young girl simply because men follow a more strick clothing code than women do. Do you live on mars or something?

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

Ooh, touchy. Struck a nerve there.

Funny how men love laughing about broad stereotypes until the laugh's on them.

The whole reason men wear a stricter dress code at work is because their bosses don't trust them to be able to dress themselves without a guide book. My friend is high up in IBM but when he got poached to there in his early twenties the dress code was wear whatever you like but no trainers so he used to go in on his pajamas and smart leather shoes.

[–]slushpilot 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

IBM ... pajamas and smart leather shoes

Classic hacker move. Don't think he wasn't smart enough to know what he was doing!

Dress code is also to level the playing field and focus on the job. People want to be noticed at work, so some reasonable limits are understandable of course.

[–]C3P0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We all know that geek who always stands too close and whose breath smells like zebra excrement.