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Do you find it's challenging working in a female dominated workplace with a female boss? Especially as a dude?


I find female dominated workplaces with female bosses tend to have a lot of tension and it can feel like you're walking on eggshells alot. Anyone else feel this way?

Working for a female boss in a female dominated office as a male is especially tough. I find female bosses tend to micromanage which makes you feel useless and not respected. Also, female bosses tend to feel the need to overcompensate for their gender, so they're especially hard on their male employees to prove that they're 'tough' like a man. It's kinda 'cute' in a way that they do this.

Male bosses were never like this to me. Male bosses tend to respect my space and leave me alone. They don't care about the little steps as long as the final result is good then it's cool between us. Female bosses tend to be more picky and care a lot about the little steps that male bosses tend to ignore.

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What female dominated workplaces?
Strip clubs?

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Dental offices for one....

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Hmm.. somehow I thought you were working in a post office.

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I'm a female assistant manager in female dominated business and I agree with you. The men at our place take some shit from higher up. The thing is though, even after reviewing faults and what they need to improve on they don't do anything about it. So they get told again and again which makes managers more and more agitated.

This is only my experience at my workplace, but it's a vicious circle.

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I don’t mind it at all

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The next time you stick your gum under the desk you are fired!

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Dude I gotta scrape that gum under the desks !

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That's right Mister, you'll scrape it all off or it's off to the frozen Schenectady office for you!!

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I don’t know what that word you made up is

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Get the hell out of my office and send Murtaugh and Riggs in!!

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You know our insurance won’t cover them ! They play by their own rules !

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One of them is on the edge and the other is getting too old for this shit
They should be perfect for this case

Grab me a can of Tab on your way out kid

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If you mess this case up I’ll bust your ass myself. I want this done by the book ! The mayor Is so far up my ass I’m his hand puppet

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To hell with the mayor, this time it's personal

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I feel like it’s always personal. Also you’ll be eating your badge for breakfast

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Let's wipe out the cartel with these Uzis and then dramatically toss our badges in the river together

Then we can join The Circus!
You can be the Bearded Lady and obviously I'll be the Strong Man

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I can’t do any of that. The lights went out and I’m on traffic duty

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You'll
be writing old ladies tickets until you retire after that last stunt you pulled!

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I wanna write old ladies tickets !

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My mom was NOT WEAVING!!
She just has slow reflexes

I will
see you in court

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If she didn’t mouth off like that I wouldn’t have thrown her car in the river

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She's one hell of a swimmer for a grandma....sleep with one eye open, she is doggy-paddling in your direction right now!

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She wasn’t in the car, I treated her to a nice seafood meal and she just complained about you

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She's allergic to shellfish!!!

Dear God, please tell me you got her the salmon!

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You’re lucky. I’m allergic too

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SO...WHEN ARE YOU TWO GONNA ADOPT A CHINESE BABY?...👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨🍼

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Me and his mom ?

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SHALL I EXPECT MY WEDDING INVITATION TO BE FROM MR AND MR YONKERS OR MR AND MR BUCKY?

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Like we’d invite you David swimmer

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SHOGUN WOULD🤬...HE KNOWS WHAT HE DID...I WILL NEVER WALK STRAIGHT...LEAST I SHOULD GET IS A WEDDING INVITE🤵🤵

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He shot you in the butt didn’t he

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I aimed for The left buttcheek
but my sight was off and I hit in the right buttcheek...that was fine by me!

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I told you to wear your contacts before you fire

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And I told you my monocle was all I needed and makes me look fancy when I shoot stuff so shut it!

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Ok monopoly guy. I’ll be the shoe

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If you called Thimble this would have wound up in a brawl !

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I don’t know how to sew and you know that

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And yet you knitted that lovely scarf for me last winter that kept me so cozy
You are a man of mystery Sir!

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I did . It had one arm and no neck hole, plus I soaked it in soup

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You went a bit heavy on the chicken noodlle and it's a tad smelly but boy 'Oh boy did it get me through the winter!

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🧐WEAR IT ON YOUR FACE NEXT TIME.

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I'll get you next time!!

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IM TELLING YOU BRO...THE SOONER YOU STOP TAKING CHECKS FROM YOUR MOM FOR BEING HER "SPECIAL LITTLE GUY" THE SOONER YOU CAN GAIN A LITTLE SELF RESPECT.

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😄

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It's a challenge to not dip my pen in the company ink.

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My female manager usually pisses me off most of the time, but I learn to take it because of how much worse it’d be if she were a man.

If I worked with a jackass male manager we’d probably end up in fisticuffs and I’d be arrested.

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@Jason46
have you dated anyone from your workplace before?

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For a year I worked in a female-heavy ad company. My boss, her boss, and her boss were all females. I had four women (and one guy) working under me. I honestly never noticed anything.

The one thing I can say is there was tons of drama that I never saw in another office. I had a fling with a woman while I was there (she was psycho) and another had an awkward crush on me (I wasn't interested and 15 years older than her). On one occasion a young woman took comments one of the guys said wrong and reported him to HR. I had to defend him because I was there when it happened and she was just being oversensitive. Three other people hooked up in an office of 40 (one of them was having an affair). Very soap opera.

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whatdidhesay? whatdidhesay?

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We were in a group chat and joking around. Her name was Naomi and made some innocuous sexual joke. The guy quipped she should know since her name backwards says "I moan."

That was it. She #@$@$ing flipped out.

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😂 classic!

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Interesting thread...

During college, I worked at the town mall in a women’s clothing store, but primarily in the back storeroom....I was basically there to do the ‘guy shyt’, you know, “fix this”, “clean this”, “move this”, “get on the ladder and do this”, etc...only me and another guy and we usually alternated shifts unless we had a big order to sort...the ladies were cool to us, but young, so probably not totally representative of some of the workplaces already mentioned in this thread....there was some drama (one instance involved so and so pressing up on another’s ex-guy), but what me and the other guy noticed was the ladies taking the gossip and shyt-talking among themselves too seriously...most guys usually let that shyt roll off and move on after a while...the mother hen/boss had to spend too much time and effort squashing that shyt...like I said, probably not a proper sample, the girls were young and somewhat immature, but it was interesting nonetheless....

Another thing I learned...size 0?....size 1?...what do those girls eat, air for breakfast, smoke a cig for dessert?....sheesh....

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