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Imadethisupwithnoforethought's avatar

I just took an extended contract and find myself the only man in an office of 50 women. Was this a good or a bad decision on my part?

Asked by Imadethisupwithnoforethought (14682points) January 3rd, 2014

Some men work at this company, but they are all in IT on the next floor up. There is one other guy on my floor apparently, but I have been told he always works from home.

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johnpowell's avatar

Do you have a problem being around woman? Look at the eyes bro.

Katniss's avatar

It will probably be ok for you because you’re a guy. I hate working with women because they’re bitches. lol

johnpowell's avatar

Oh god. That might be the first time I laughed when someone added a lol to their own response.

ragingloli's avatar

Well, enjoy your Harem.

Seek's avatar

Oh, I would rather be boiled in oil.

LuckyGuy's avatar

A friendly word of advice – Always leave the seat down and wipe the sink counter when you’re done.

josie's avatar

I have never been in that spot. But I suspect it will change you. Not for the better.

johnpowell's avatar

Josie.. This is why your team loses elections that aren’t gerrymandered.

josie's avatar

Who is my team. Other than you are not on it, I am not sure what you mean.

johnpowell's avatar

Entertain me.

johnpowell's avatar

Don’t play stupid. We all know that you vote straight ticket.

If you deny I will call you a embarrassed Republican. Your choice.

Jonesn4burgers's avatar

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Enjoy the experience, from a female Navy vet. :D

SQUEEKY2's avatar

OMG , Am I ever glad I aint you, don’t get me wrong I love women but hate working with them, had a female dispatcher once never wanted to run over someone so bad,
as another said it will change you and I fear not for the better.

Kardamom's avatar

I wouldn’t think it would be much different than working with any group of people. Some you’ll like, some you won’t like. Some will be professional, some will be foolish.

Just go about your business in a polite, friendly professional manner and it should be fine.

nikipedia's avatar

Wow, what is with all the fucking misogyny? What if @Imadethisupwithnoforethought posted that he was going to be the only white person on the floor? How is this fucking shit still acceptable?

Seek's avatar

Well, mine is based on ten years of working in offices with snide, bitchy, gossiping, intolerable women. And I have said, since leaving my last job, that I would rather be boiled in oil than sit in a cubicle for another second of my life.

nikipedia's avatar

Yes, @Seek_Kolinahr, I’m sure it was the fact that they were women that makes them intolerable. In fact, I’ve never met an intolerable man in my life!

Seek's avatar

No, it’s the fact that they were the type of women who are comfortable in office jobs.

The kind of women who like to chit-chat about kittens and what’s in the latest Avon catalogue, and post little printed passive-aggressive notes with too many clip-art images, complaining about the smell of popcorn in the microwave. They were the type of women who found seven-hundred excuses to spend the office petty cash on cheap grocery store cakes, then made a big show of only taking “just a sliver”, and still felt they had to point out the calorie content of your lunch.

I’ve never met a man working in an office job who was more concerned with that kind of ridiculous behaviour than they were with, say, actually working. Now, I haven’t met every man in an office, so somewhere they may be a man in an ugly sweater griping about how Jennifer gets a cup of coffee every morning but who has ever seen her put a dollar in the kitty? but again, I’ve never met him.

Jonesn4burgers's avatar

Haw hawwww! @Seek_Kolinahr , I want to live on your block. I have NEVER worked (lived) in a cubicle. You just brought vivid images to mind of Dolly Parton and 9 to 5. Tell me, did you ever hook the boss up to a garage door opener?

LuckyGuy's avatar

Keep your shirt collar buttoned up so you flash only a hint of chest hair.
Make it clear you don’t want to be treated like a piece of meat. They must respect you in the morning. :-)

bea2345's avatar

I knew a woman who was the only female in a Ministry of Works depot. She said afterwards that the men were very polite to her and showed her much kindness. But it was lonely, she said. She had the office, with its staffroom, etc. entirely to herself as the sole clerk typist on the compound. All the men were engineers, technicians and worked in the field.

chyna's avatar

@Seek_Kolinahr I had no idea you used to work with me! But seriously, working in a cubical environment is exactly as Seek says and worse.

Paradox25's avatar

I’d have to say it was a good decision. I had a similar experience. but I was the only maintenance guy in a small greeting card plant full of women workers. It didn’t pay great but I always had phone numbers.

LuckyGuy's avatar

Someone has to play Santa at the office Christmas party.

Kardamom's avatar

^^ Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!

LuckyGuy's avatar

^^ I like how the women line up and squirm. Hilarious.

Kardamom's avatar

@LuckyGuy What happened to those commercials? I used to see them all the time and now I never do. Do you think the censors thought they were a bit too racy?

chyna's avatar

@Kardamom I had heard the company was sued for deceptive practices, one of which was that once you bought the product on your credit card, they kept automatic billing the customer even when they would try to stop it. And of course the product didn’t work.

Kardamom's avatar

@chyna Wow! I did not know that. I just figured some parents would have been outraged at having to explain to their kids why Bob needed the product and what it did lol.

Imadethisupwithnoforethought's avatar

@chyna Did you hear this, or did you force an ex-boyfriend to order some? You seem pissed it didn’t work.

chyna's avatar

I saw it on Dateline or one of those type of shows. None of my ex boyfriends needed any type of enhancement.

LuckyGuy's avatar

Thanks to a lesson from wildpotato I now know why Bob always had that expression on his face. A side effect of Ezyte is uncontrollable flehmening .

Imadethisupwithnoforethought's avatar

Quick update: There was a half hour discussion about that time everybody in the office fell into “synch” for 3 months in a cube near mine today. I put in headphones.

GloPro's avatar

Update, please!

Imadethisupwithnoforethought's avatar

They are all super nice to me and compliment me daily on how I take charge of things. Then they complain to me how their husbands never do what they are told.

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