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[–]jet199 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (11 children)

Not where I work. The women are usually smarter and work harder. This isn't the 1950s, woman have to work to survive and usually make up 50% of the workforce, more in some areas of my industry.

The trouble is they can be right arseholes (hashtag notallwomen) because they want to make friends at work so when there's a fall out over work stuff it then is taken as a personal slight. My sister actually got banned from one studios films not because she did anything wrong but because the woman running it wanted to mother all her team and my sister (an ex banker) couldn't work that way and told her. Simply telling her was enough to bring on a whole "you'll never work again in this town" style tantrum.

[–]RatherSmallPotato 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (10 children)

Working harder and being smarter are opposites lol

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

Depends if you want to make money and have options or not. You can coast along your whole life in an easy job and someone else's spareroom if you like but that life is not for everyone.

[–]RatherSmallPotato 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (8 children)

I disagree. The higher up you are the less you do. Your responsibilities change and you become responsible for the performance of others. If you play them right they are ones who work hard, you can go for a swim just before lunch. If you play them extra well, you can pick a fall guy to take the blame instead of you, and anything good that happens is because of you. Never be the bearer of bad news.

Source: HS dropout that managed engineers and used to go swimming right before lunch.

I quit because they wouldn't change my title to C-level, which it effectively was, so fuck them.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

This only works in the corporate world, again not everyone's choice. If you want to run your own business, thereby have control over your own destiny, the more work you put in the more results you see.

[–]RatherSmallPotato 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Depending on who you sell to. If you're B2B, you might be selling to a corporation that won't bother paying because they know you can't afford to take them to court. Add these up to the other 3 customers you have that only pay after 60 days and you're bankrupt after doing work and before starting to get any revenue whatsoever.

[–]whistlepig 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Thats why you get deposits or don't let them get too far in front of their payments.. at any rate, I don't see how any of that has anything to with whether a person is female or male. That is a common issue that all businesses deal with.

[–]RatherSmallPotato 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The conversation evolved past the title. And yeah, you do that and they simply don't choose you as a vendor.

[–]whistlepig 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If they don't pay you then you don't want them to have you as a vendor.

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

Well duh. You usually find this out AFTERWARDS.

[–]ReeferMadness 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I quit because they wouldn't change my title to C-level

Sound like they realized you were a terrible manager and were pushing you out. Maybe you aren't as clever as you think.

[–]RatherSmallPotato 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Long story, but you're wrong. Were I cleverer, I wouldn't have started.