I could not disagree with this more! I have worn many hats in corporate enviroments and have had both male and female partners and managers and I've managed both men and women and have never experienced what you are talking about in your post. In order to get respect you have to give respect. Period. There is nothing more to it. Its not about gender and I find this comment beyond degrading. JMO AND my personal experience!

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Well went to work today with a tooth hurting sweet attitude (had to keep from puking my guts up all day) was just perky perky perky anyone ever seen Adams Family 2 where Wednesday first smiles one of the girls i went to lunch with said it was just like that scene everyone was kinda like this is weird then the jokes started oh angie must have gotten lucky last night blah blah blah to which my response was hmm i am the only one in the department that hasnt been divorced atleast once am still married here is a hint ladies i GET LUCKY EVERY NIGHT..shut them right up hmm and i wonder why people think i have a bad attitude oh yeah cause you push my buttons i push back

I can relate to this. Not all women, but most women. I work in an office with 12 women. I had the hardest time in my first year there because I did my work and didn't mingle much. I had never dealt with such back stabbing-eat-their-own-young witches before. I prefer to work with men. I get along with them a lot better and feel more comfortable joking around with them. At my current job, I had went off on 2 women within 1 day of each other because I had found out that they were talking trash about me and they didn't even know me because I didn't talk much! :mad:

My last job, I worked at a chemical plant and loved every aspect of it except the 3 women that I worked with at different time intervals. They were rude, catty and psycho! I even had one woman steal my work which was locked in a desk and she was the only other person that had a key. A week later, the work showed back up in the exact same spot where I had left it. Pissed me off because I had already retyped everything.

I have work in a hair salon, too. The women there were horrendous. This is why I don't have very many female friends. Aquaintaces, sure, but not friends. I don't trust them as far as I can throw them. My best friend also deals with this where she works (hospital). I've just never worked with a bunch of women and with the being women civilized.

I did find I love working with men. My last job I was admin to a Production Engineering group. ALL MEN (50 of them)! They were great, they appreciated everything I did, I really had my own job, helped out the GM and the VP, showed the guys how to operate the copy machine, phones, computers, how to sort excel - all of this was 'just a favor' to them. It was not my job, but I loved to help them out. I could do my job with my eyes closed.

Before that I managed a Nurse Staffing Service. All women. I was so burned out by the time I quit (without having a job), after 7 years. I loved my nurses, but the office people drove me absolutely batty! Nothing made anybody happy.

Give me the guys - anytime.

Oh, and one of my guys was told he was too happy. I told him it was ok. then one day, he told me the VP was unfriendly. I reminded him - everyone is different, he is just busy and not a talker. Say Hi!, he will say Hi. They were both great guys.