Yet more grumpiness

[Nessa]

In Salt Lake City (near the mouth of Parley's Canyon, near where I-80 and I-215 meet).

I am totally not kidding. Come take it away before I can't resist it and it makes me fat.

[MsFish]

I do love my current job considerably more than my last job.  I am grumpy because that last job (tech support) meant 90% of my coworkers were male, and now over 90% of my coworkers are female.  Which means a fabulously high-school level of backstabbing, cattiness, and pack mentality.

I hate women so much some times.

I'm feeling your pain, sistah.  These are the perils of working at a fabric store.  The cattiness is amazing to me, sometimes.

[The Lost One]

Posted by: MsFish Posted on: Mar 29th, 2006, 3:49pm
on Mar 28th, 2006, 8:58pm, fuzzyoctopus wrote:I do love my current job considerably more than my last job.  I am grumpy because that last job (tech support) meant 90% of my coworkers were male, and now over 90% of my coworkers are female.  Which means a fabulously high-school level of backstabbing, cattiness, and pack mentality.

I hate women so much some times.  




I'm feeling your pain, sistah.  These are the perils of working at a fabric store.  The cattiness is amazing to me, sometimes.  

I understand what you are saying. When I worked as law clerk, I was the only male law clerk and I notice the "cattiness" and "pack mentality" among my fellow law clerks. I liked the job and I'm not saying that working with those women was bad, but if the cattiness, backstabbing, and pack mentality was removed then I think the work environment would have been better.

My question is, how do you get women to overcome cattiness, backstabbing and pack mentality once it has been established in a work environment?

[stacer]

You know, I work in a women-dominated business, and I've never had a work environment that was like that.

Wait. No. I did have that in my job in Chicago--at a male-dominated trade magazine--because the only other girl my age at the company was like that. Once she left, the office again became blissfully catfight-free, though I still continued to have to deal with a male coworker who looked at porn on the computers that were used by everyone in the computer room. Yeah. I don't know which was worse.

But at Houghton and here at Wizards, nothing of the kind. Very congenial, friendly, good coworkers. Our conversations usually consisted of talking about someone's cat or our religious beliefs or the latest on someone's relationships, which was more reportage than drama. They were/are good friends.

[fuzzyoctopus]

I'm grumpy because something I ate this morning, is having a disagreement with my stomach and making my whole digestive system very grumpy.

My question is, how do you get women to overcome cattiness, backstabbing and pack mentality once it has been established in a work environment?

Pretty much the only thing to do is find out who the main drama whore is, and fire her.  The women who really aggravate these problems cannot be reformed.

[MsFish]

Pretty much the only thing to do is find out who the main drama whore is, and fire her.  The women who really aggravate these problems cannot be reformed.

Or them, as the case may be.  We've got two of 'em, and they feed off each other.

[Shrain]

Well, this is more like a heartbreaking disappointment, but I'm kinda grumpy about this too. I didn't get this Bookbuilders of Boston scholarship I applied for at Emerson. Man, I know it was competitive, but I had such a good feeling about it. Sure could've used the money--a lot. Now I'm just sad.

[Shrain]

The "TV" button on my universal remote totally died on me last night for good. *sigh*

Right now, I have a headache and a four hour class tonight. Blah.

[stacer]

Just woke up from a really, really scary dream. I've never been trying to outwit Nazis in my dreams before. I'm not very good at it. And our headquarters had glass doors on every side. Not hard to break into us, nope. We'd just been found out when I woke up.

It was actually a very cool dream, except for the horror I felt as I was dream-experiencing it. Whoa. Yeah. So I'm not quite ready to go back to sleep.

[Spriggan]

Well at least I didn't randomly appear in this dream like I useally do (got to hate nightmares).

And with that we're at 30 pages folks, time to start a new thread.