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Zander Porbanda 2 years ago

Fixed this comment: "Bathrooms are disgusting! If it’s not her job, she shouldn’t be cleaning anyone’s toilets!"

0points

Fat Harry 2 years ago

Women's are worse. Ask any janitor.

0points

Christina Green 2 years ago

I had a job as a cleaner when I was a teenager. The ladies toilets hand soap and towels were never used as much as the men’s. But the men’s toilets were dirty. One man used to actually s**t on the lid of the loo. Why?

0points

Lu 2 years ago

I’m going to assume that was not her job in any shape or form, in which case that’s just crazy.

34points

Sekrets 2 years ago

For anybody who has not been in a public male restroom. There's a 99% chance there's pee all over the floor by the urinal. I've often pondered if we males have some terrible aimers or just giggle to themselves knowing everybody has to stand in their pee to do their business.

12points

Poeha 2 years ago

I guess the 2nd. My boys love to p**s on and over the toilet. Can you aim better??? I sat in it!! They think that's hilarious.

3points

Deborah B 2 years ago

If I were not the cleaner/janitor, I would be LIVID to be asked to clean the loos. (Unless all staff did it in rotation, of course)

10points

Jennifer Lee 2 years ago

I would never accept being asked to clean a toilet as part of a rotation with other employees. That's what a cleaning service is for.

2points

Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago

One of the places I worked at had one of those absolutely disgusting "Waterless Urinals" in the employee bathroom. When the discussion of cleaning it came up, I was adamant that none of the female employees should EVER have to deal with it. And I meant it.

6points

Erik Ivan 2 years ago

Every man should be forced to work as a cleaner for a while as an young adult, cleaning public bathrooms. It suddenly becomes clear why standing up instead of sitting down is a bad while doing a leak idea.

5points

DKS 001 2 years ago

we should charge men $8 for everything men refuse to do because it's "women's work". You know, like Twitter ... but $8 a pop

5points

XenoMurph 2 years ago

I think you just invented employment. But with gendered roles.

3points

Not Bored 2 years ago

Truth be told. It wasn't her job. And I've always heard Woman's washrooms are nasty

5points

Kezz 2 years ago

As a cleaner who cleans a couple of hundred toilets a week I can say both male and female loose are equally disgusting 🤢

32points

Kitty Purry 2 years ago

🤣🤣🤣

3points

idrow1 2 years ago

I would have been furious.

2points

Kelly F 2 years ago

While working nights I had to do security checks including the bathrooms. The womens bathrooms were always filthier than the mens.

2points

Robert T 2 years ago

Reminds me a of sign in the toilets of an office in Demark placed there by the cleaners. "Your mother doesn't work here. Please use the brush provided to remove traces" in English and Danish. I'm not sure which is more embarassing, that the cleaners left the note, or that the cleaners can write in English better than I can! Though they mistranslated traces - in Danish it was literally tyre-tracks - in English we would say skidmarks. BTW I was not the one leaving skidmarks!

2points

Alexia 2 years ago

Hahahaaaa, I spilled coffee on my screen. I have to remember this line for future use :)))

2points

Jennifer Lee 2 years ago

I worked at a small company (9 people total) that had four women and five men share a SINGLE toilet in a small bathroom in the workshop. The first time I used the bathroom, I saw a puddle of urine in front of the toilet. I went to my boss and told her. She seemed baffled that I was complaining to her. I went out into the shop and yelled to the guys to clean up their p**s. They insisted they didn't do it. One of the men pulled me aside and said it was the male owner of the company who did this every day, because he was too fat to see where he was peeing. My boss was his wife. I went back into the office and told her I needed to use the bathroom, so she needed to get her husband to clean up his pee. They were both mortified, but he did clean it up, and he cleaned up after himself from then on. I have to wonder how many years the people at that company just ignored the puddle or cleaned it up themselves. WTF.

1point

simply.Taz 2 years ago

What was her position? But, NO, to cleaning the men's toilets!!

1point

Dip thong 2 years ago (edited)

Hell to the no

1point

Joi Cain 2 years ago

They didn't stare at her in disbelief they stared at her in realization. Their whole lives flashed before them. Their workplace sexism had come to an end on that day. She's a legend.

1point

JL 2 years ago

Did he hire a cleaner for just the men's toilets?

1point

kaycee14 2 years ago

I'm filing "there's nothing about that job that requires a vagina" away for future use. Perfect response, and will make the sexist a$$hole feel totally awkward.

1point

Clint 2 years ago

As a man, I think it’s disgusting that this would come out of your boss’ mouth. I would have pulled my job description and asked him to locate that area of the JD for me, and when he inevitably refused, I would hire an attorney for work related discrimination.

1point

Say What 2 years ago

The audacity!

1point

TJ 1 year ago

Was it a female cleaner?

0points

Jaybird3939 2 years ago

One of the few times I'd say "That's not in my job description."

0points

Socks 2 years ago

More than a few times I've thought about printing a sign that asks fellow men: "how about NOT PI55ING on the seat!" "You've had at least a couple of decades to learn about lifting the seat and to aim correctly." "No one wants to wipe your p155 before they use the facilities." Disgusting, and disrespectful to everyone who has to enter this shared area. And don't start me on the 5h17. 😤

0points

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them For potluck team lunch women were expected to cook something and get and men were excused to simply buy drinks, deserts etc. I said no f*****g way I am cooking for other men when they are excused. And I said this loudly infront of whole team when all of us were discussing. Immediately men in the team volunteered, simple easy salads, getting some snacks etc. Why was this not a norm before I joined team, no idea. But manager took notice of this and started getting other men to involve in arrangements and clean up etc. Work was not left for all women.

Fast forward I have my own company now. And still I have to fight off misogyny so many times. The suppliers, distributors, all talk to my husband as he is the man and many times dont even look at me when I am in same meeting. I dont react really. I let meeting happen and after an hour I simply get up and say thanks for coming but we wont be going ahead working with you. They look at my husband and he just shrugs and say well she is the boss. The look on their face is worth wasting an hour. And if they try to arm wrestle me then they get an earful of how awful they were at the meeting.

strong-4 , Andrea Piacquadio Report

Final score:

332points

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Nat Rich 2 years ago

Good on ya. Ha

70points

u/newmama1991 said that the idea for the post came when they noticed someone clean out the fridge at their job and wondered if she was asked to do so. "She wasn't," they told Bored Panda.

The Redditor is from the Netherlands, and they think that "we are really fortunate because women's rights are strongly secured in our laws and values. Despite that, there is still a considerable wage gap. Also, the gap between the rich and poor is increasing rapidly due to the housing and energy crisis here. Equal access to opportunities (in work or otherwise) is nowhere near what we strive for."

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them Once in a male dominated office environment, I was asked by an older senior level manager to send a fax. I was in a higher level position myself, but I said “sure” and did it for him. The next time I needed a fax sent, I went over to him and asked if he would send it for me. He eyed me, then got up and sent it. We were great pals after that!

JayceeSR , Vlada Karpovich Report

Final score:

291points

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Jennifer Critchley 2 years ago

I love that they became great pals afterwards! Sometimes people aren't aware of the mistakes they make!

133points

I own a business and have two male employees and three female employees. I found out that one of the male employees was leaving his dishes in the sink, and the three female employees were doing them when they did their own. All of them are very young. I flat out told the girls to stop doing the dishes for anyone but themselves and during a staff meeting reminder everyone to wash and dry their own dishes and put them away. The next week my guy leaves dishes in the sink. He’s about to clock out, and I pull him aside and ask if those dishes in the sink are his. He says they are. I look him dead in the eye and ask who he expects is going to wash them if he clocks out and leaves them. He stared at me in silence for a full minute before the realization hits him that he doesn’t actually know. He went and did his dishes and I haven’t had a problem with it since.

But damn.

muppetmaniac Report

Final score:

279points

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Na Schi 2 years ago

This! Those type of people simply assume that things get done magically or by little gnoms nobody's ever seen. There are also some (mostly) males on our floor who leave their dishes simply uncleaned in the sink (not even to bother to put them into the dishwasher!) and then there are a few women who complain every time when seeing this... to start then to put the dishes in the dishwasher or clean them otherwise (just as the good housewives/caregivers they've been taught to be /s). It's sad... really. I for myself, leave those dishes were they are and I wouldn't bother if they start to rot or we're running out of dishes (got my personal ones in a cupboard anyway). The only thing that grind my gears if those women try to animate other women (mind you never men) to help to clean after others and have the audacity to look annoyed and disappointed if I simply refuse.

72points

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them unload the dishwasher. the company owner told me to, specifically cause i'm a woman.

a guy coworker was with me and instantly started doing it. i love him.

wastingATP , Nathan Dumlao Report

Final score:

218points

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Da Dragon Queen 2 years ago

What a nice guy (the one who helped)

86points

And u/newmama1991 has a point. While individual characteristics such as education, working time, occupational segregation, skills, or experience explain part of the gender pay gap, the International Labour Organization (ILO) says that a large part is due to discrimination based on one's gender or sex.

On average, women globally are paid about 20 percent less than men, and they have been among the worst affected by the pandemic, including in terms of income security, representation in sectors hardest hit, and gendered division of family responsibilities. This has negatively impacted their employment and threatened to reverse decades of progress made toward gender equality.

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them Oh god. I used to work in out of home care; basically caring for kids who had been removed from their families.

One day a 15 year old asked the other (male) person on shift to bake him a frozen pizza. Now this kid was detoxing and easily heightened, so we were supposed to be doing everything possible to keep him calm.

My co-worker asks me to cook the pizza. I tell him the instructions are on the box. Dude keeps looking at the pizza, looking at me… I get up and leave the room.

A while later he calls me in to ask me whether the pizza’s done. I tell him to check. He says he doesn’t know whether it’s ready. I ask him why I would have any more of an idea and he says “because you’re a woman”.

I tell him in no uncertain terms “I am not your wife. It is not my job to tell you whether a pizza is ready. Figure it out yourself. It’s part if your job.” and go off to write a report to his manager.

SnailCrossing , Ketut Subiyanto Report

Final score:

207points

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FakeOptimist 2 years ago

Totally agree he should be written up. You are preparing kids to live in the 21st century. Apart from that : anyone should know how to prepare frozen pizza, basic self-care.

103points

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them I was asked at an all-men workplace if I could possibly take some time off during my lunch break to clean the kitchen, because "we really don't know how to do it well". I remember I was so shocked I only responded with a gaping mouth and a "...no??", but I have a feeling I radiated rage because they just gave me a timid nod, left and did not ever ask again.

ssssejin , Liliana Drew Report

Final score:

198points

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Anonymous 2 years ago (edited)

They know how to eat but don't know how to clean the kitchen. Are the co-workers 3 yr olds?

99points

goodlordineedacoffee , Ivan Samkov Report

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them I used to have a male boss who in meetings would always look at me and say, “you’re taking notes right?” I wasn’t in an admin role and he also never said the same to my male coworkers. I would then stop bringing any pens or paper with me other than meeting materials so I could say “no, but maybe [Joe] can”, and watch him wrestle with that for a minute in awkward silence.

Final score:

191points

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Helena 2 years ago

Has happened to me at numerous meetings. First time, I literally just drew a bird. When they asked me to read it back, I'm like 'it's a bird'. Made myself chuckle, boss didn't know what to say. I was 20 something. worth it.

123points

Recent research suggests that, depending on how they are put into place, pay transparency measures can effectively identify compensation differences and reduce broader gender inequalities in the labor market.

"These are still early days for pay transparency," Manuela Tomei, Director of the ILO Conditions of Work and Equality Department, said, noting that countries are pursuing different approaches to advance it.

She highlighted that "there is no 'one-size fits all' solution.'"

"While more time is needed to assess the effectiveness of the different measures and practices, it is encouraging that governments, workers' and employers' organizations seek to devise innovative solutions, such as pay transparency, to tackle a stubborn problem."

I started a new job, desk job in an otherwise all male office, and the boss had the audacity to imply that I'm welcome to use the inhouse kitchen to make food for the staff, and how nice it is to have a woman on the team. I walked out.

schwarzmalerin Report

Final score:

188points

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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 2 years ago

Good for you!

56points

#10

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them My boss started buying all sorts of kitchen tools (e.g., pots and pans, rice cooker, portable burner, etc.). I thought it was for the annual Christmas raffle he hosts for his employees.
Until one day at lunch, he turns to me and says, "once the burner arrives, be sure to make a list of groceries you will need to start making lunch for the office. I assume you know how to cook since you are a woman."
We work in a small office and I'm in HR...

Nonchalant_Storm , Keira Burton Report

Final score:

184points

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T C 2 years ago

Report that f**k to HR. Wait a sec...

140points

#11

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them Once I was eating sliced radishes at my desk. My male coworker saw that, said he loved radishes, and asked if I could get some for him and throw on some salt. When I suggested he slice his own, he literally said it was too much work. Same coworker suggested to a room full of male students that I should provide them all with snacks. When I laughed thinking it was a joke, he looked at me dead serious and told me it was MY JOB because I’m a woman and then accused me of wanting them to go hungry. F that noise.

Ww_Leslie_Knope_do , Toa Heftiba Report

Final score:

183points

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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 2 years ago

Unless I'm your mother or wife, I'm not feeding you

69points

iforgotmypassword126 , Old Photo Profile Report

All in all, u/newmama1991 is optimistic about the future, both locally and abroad. "Recently there has been a revival of the Me Too movement [here] due to a scandal on the TV show The Voice of Holland and women have been given a renewed platform to speak up against abuse of power and sexual misconduct. Women are taking a stand!"

#12

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them A man in my office asked me to print and bind a document for him. I said I didn’t know how, he said it’s easy and he can talk me through it, and I said well then it sounds like you don’t need me, does it.

I was 24 at the time I’d never even seen a document binder before then, let alone used one. I didn’t work for him and it wasn’t part of my role. He had a meeting and he wanted binded copies for his team and made a beeline for the only vagina in the office.

Final score:

180points

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FakeOptimist 2 years ago

Yuck.

46points

#13

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them I wasn't exactly asked but someone mentioned that "we could have some coffee" and stared at me (like an unspoken request) and I stared right back

Ann3Nym , Milada Vigerova Report

Final score:

170points

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Lululoohoo 2 years ago

I would have stared back and said "yea totally. I could use some too. You mind grabbing it?"

113points

#14

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them I was hired as an office manager at a small firm. They placed me in the front while they "cleaned my office out" that was being used as storage. I kept pressing to try and do office management tasks, payroll, AR/AP, office organization, etc.
I have a business degree with a lot of certifications.
After a few months (I was young), I asked about the tasks I should be doing and my office. I was told that I was to be a receptionist because they "needed a pretty face to greet clients." Then they hired a person who was quite possibly the dumbest person I've ever met, cleaned out the storage office for him, and gave him the job I was hired for.
I quit.

can_i_go_home_yet , True Agency Report

Final score:

160points

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Jennifer Critchley 2 years ago

That is so shady!! Good on the OP for quitting. I'm sorry she had to waste her time there!!

58points

Comprehensive_Pace Report

#15

Not a female duty but I was specifically excluded from a sports event that was fully catered and paid for by a client because we did a great job on their account. It was my account and I did the entire job but all the men got the reward for it.

Final score:

152points

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Nat Rich 2 years ago

Excluded? Wtaf?!

73points

#16

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them One of the managers (not MY manager) passed 3-4 men to interrupt my work and try to hand me some cash to go get a card for someone's upcoming event party. I frowned like he was a particularly dim bulb and told him to go talk to the GUY who was organizing that party since he knew what was actually going on. Not-my-manager scuttled away.

greygoyle , Vitaly Tarano Report

Final score:

139points

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jjdubs W 2 years ago

Oh good grief

18points

melissamarieeee , Kampus Production Report

#17

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them I do the accounting & payroll and they asked me to take over the task of cleaning of the offices; vacuuming, bathrooms, and trash cans.. I did agree to it for an extra $500 a month lmao and honestly it takes like 30-45 min a week to do and the bathrooms are much less scary than they used to be so its a win-win for me

Final score:

138points

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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 2 years ago

Paying you is fine if you want to do it.

114points

#18

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them Ex-military. I had a supervisor that I’m pretty sure hated women. He stopped one of the guys (same rank as me) from cleaning the office and told him he wanted me to do it. He would bring me a notepad and tell me to “jot down his thoughts throughout the day.” He would offer to write packages for any of the guys in the office, but never me (even though I was one of the highest performers.) If I disagreed with anything, I was told by him to just do it because he ranked higher. If any men disagreed, he would hear them out. I hated that guy and his stupid pube face of a beard

Buttercup0803 , AV RAW Report

Final score:

137points

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Vinita Talaulikar 2 years ago

Born as a rude IDIOT...

43points

#19

I’ve been asked at multiple jobs to “decorate the office” because I’m “probably good at that kind of thing.” The first few I declined, but then I got wise and said I’d do it for a budget plus designer pay. Last two times it worked and I made a pretty good chunk of change making the office not look like something straight out of Dilbert.

waterthottle Report

Final score:

136points

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T C 2 years ago

Speaking of Dilbert, Scott Adams is probably the guy in every one of these anecdotes.

70points

#20

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them I was a teamlead and one of my laywer-teammembers asked a woman if she was the make up lady on picture day. This woman was the CTO of the company (1000+ employees)

newmama1991 , Andrea Piacquadio Report

Final score:

132points

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T C 2 years ago

I would love to walk up to a male CEO and ask if he's the trash guy.

76points

#21

To come in on Fridays to the office and give it a “good ol’ fashion sweep and mop, since I’m probably used to doing that at home” I politely declined then the supervisor says, “but your used to cleaning up after men aren’t you?” I looked at him directly shook my head and said no.

Bbygurl15 Report

Final score:

131points

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Kawazoe 2 years ago

Real men don't need anyone to clean up after them

114points

#22

Not the workplace but my sporting club. I was sixteen and our netball team (all girls) was asked to make casseroles for an event on the weekend. I asked what the football team (all boys) was doing the answer was nothing. I refused and everyone said I was being ridiculous.

littlecrez Report

Final score:

126points

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Bron 2 years ago

Nope, not being ridiculous at all.

67points

#23

When I was 23 and working as a TA at a private school, the annual silent auction included a “free night of babysitting” with MY name on it. I wasn’t asked beforehand. I was still new and unfortunately too scared to say no, so instead I added fine print to the deal….a strict mileage radius, time frame, and specific dates that worked for me. No one wanted it. :)

cirq_de_so_lame Report

Final score:

123points

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PleasantCrocodile 2 years ago

That is beyond messed up. OP should have called them out on that. Completely unacceptable and unprofessional.

64points

#24

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them I had a manager who couldn’t adhere to a deadline to save his life. He said that it was my job to remind him of his deadlines (because I’m female and therefore naturally organised), and would actually try to penalise me in my performance review for any deadlines he missed.

emojicatcher997 , Lukas Report

Final score:

115points

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Vinita Talaulikar 2 years ago

Grow up guys... start taking responsibilities...

80points

WhatsWrongWMeself , August de Richelieu Report

#25

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them In IT for a number of years. My male boss asked me to check in with him in his office every morning, but didn’t ask my male co-workers to check in.
He also didn’t have a problem when a co-worker asked me out, and I declined with “sorry, I have a serious boyfriend.” That guy started being really rude/nasty to me. When I complained to my boss, he said “can you blame him?”
In a meeting with all male coworkers, one guy handed me papers in a meeting and asked me to deliver them to someone else in the building. I refused, and said he could deliver them himself. My boss said I was extremely rude. The worst, one other woman joined the team, and at our staff meeting, which was right after lunch, the guys would talk about the “restaurant” they had lunch at, where the waitresses were topless. It was disgusting to hear them talk. So disrespectful. It was the worst experience in my entire career. I sucked it up for two years so it would look good on my resume. After I got my next job, I stopped putting that work experience on my resume.

Final score:

115points

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Carol Blyth 2 years ago

I worked on an IT project where a male police officer bragged how he was looking forward to being assigned to 'schoolies' week AGAIN as he could always find underage girls there.....we reported him to the Police Commissioner.....

98points

FuzzyBlanketThrow , Los Muertos Crew Report

#26

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them I work in an office off of a warehouse. All the warehouse workers are guys. They have their own break room and they let a coffee maker go to s**t because they never cleaned it.

Recently one guy ask me to make him a cup of coffee. He was a new guy so the coffee maker issue wasn’t his fault. He was also sick. And asked very nicely. And his mom and my mom also happen to be very good friends. So I decided to be nice and make him a cup.

For the following week EVERY GUY in the warehouse asked me to make them coffee every morning.

Give an inch, they take a mile.

Final score:

112points

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Vinita Talaulikar 2 years ago

How some guys are Untrainable material? Simple things at home too... some just won't move their a*s...

33points

#27

I've never been directly asked about female duties however, being a young female working in various admin roles I frequently noticed that much older men in higher roles try to treat you like their PA. Even when they aren't your boss or have any leadership over you. Ignoring them is pretty fun though, I love watching them get frustrated because I had the audacity to not complete a task that has nothing to do with my role or had gone through my manager lol

xGeekyBunnyx Report

Final score:

111points

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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 2 years ago

I've flat out told male managers that I don't work for them and/or something isn't in my job description.

45points

#28

A male manager once told me to clean the men's room in our store. I told him he has arms, legs and knows where the cleaning stuff is. Have fun ✌️

Jaxxieliz Report

Final score:

110points

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Michael Largey 2 years ago

Any properly managed store would have its own cleaning staff already.

29points

CryptographerPure388 Report

#29

I was still expected to make coffee and order breakfast for all public hearings at my job (I’m in municipal planning & zoning). This is after 6 years and getting my Masters (which none of the men in my workplace have). Not that I’m above doing these things because of my education & experience but I am above doing it EVERY single time. I stopped doing it about 3 months ago, I verbally told everyone the day before the meeting. Of course no one stepped up that first time and when they bitched about no coffee and food I said “not my problem “ 🤷🏼‍♀️ The responsibility has been shared ever since 👍🏻

Final score:

108points

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Amused panda 2 years ago

Well done for stopping, but why did it take 6 years?

31points

#30

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them Cleaning, taking notes, putting together potlucks/events, taking over for the receptionist when they're at lunch

ETA: I pulled the helpless incompetence when people tell me to make coffee. I don't drink coffee and make it as sludgy as I possibly can. They never ask again.

CatrionaShadowleaf , Dane Deaner Report

Final score:

105points

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T C 2 years ago

Turn that weaponized incompetence against them.

63points

#31

I'm a female with 20 years in the IT industry too. Not been too bad. Only thing I've been expected to do is answer the phone. I refused point blank until eventually someone offered me a pound to do it, so I did.
On my industrial placement from uni, I was asked to make tea. I refused point blank and was never asked again. We had a male receptionist at the time, who made the teas thereafter.
I give as good as I get - you have to in an industry that is still predominantly men.

Persia102 Report

Final score:

98points

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T C 2 years ago

If only saying "no" worked every time with men, the world would be such a better place.

84points

#32

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them multiple times coworkers had to bring their children into work for different reasons and multiple times they assumed it was ok to leave them in my care while they went to meetings. never once was i asked.

Taren612 , Karolina Grabowska Report

Final score:

96points

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Anonymous 2 years ago

Teach the kids swear words. That will teach those co-workers.

82points

#33

My boss asked me to clean/organise the stockroom because it needed a "womens touch" I work in IT. To be honest if he had just asked me to clean and organise it I would have just done it as we were a 3 person team and it wasn't outside of my responsibility. However, the comment about a women's touch means it was a mess until I left and probably still is. He never asked again. 🙃

mangofishsays Report

Final score:

90points

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Say What 2 years ago

Keep it messy and simply add throw pillows and a spritz of perfume

56points

throwawaythethird_33 , AllaSerebrina Report

#34

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them I would have meetings with all male coworkers and clients. I was neither the most junior nor the newest hire. I was consistently asked to prepare the meeting room with snacks and coffee, never anyone else, including other male interns.

Final score:

81points

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Phobrek Taz 2 years ago

Add laxatives to coffee. Give them all a great bonding experience in the restroom.

26points

#35

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them I am ALWAYS asked to send the meeting recap email. As if I were a part of the meeting to simply take notes like a secretary.

I’m most of these men’s boss.

kec232 , JESHOOTS.COM Report

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urszulat 2 years ago

If you're the boss then just say No. If they ask again say it more emphatically.

61points

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#36

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them On my second week on a new job my boss asked me to prep his food for the Christmas potluck. When I gave him a questioning look he added, because women are just so much better at that stuff.

Final score:

80points

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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 2 years ago

"You might want to rethink that. I'm a terrible cook!"

37points

#37

I was chosen to cut up fruit for a platter for an all day conference for management, who were all men.

Apparently I looked like a girl who knew how to cut fruit.
I was also told that only 'I could make it look pretty', with a condescending pat on the back.

I was young, and I wasn't comfortable saying no, but at the time I was like f**k this. They were just too cheap to pay for already cut up fruit.

I was referred to as the 'assistant', when in fact my title was an Administration Officer.

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73points

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Biliegh they/them 2 years ago

Cut into phallic shape

33points

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#38

Watching my boss’s f*****g kid because HE brought him to the office. He is like 9 years old, old enough to sit in a chair and read a f*****g book, but all of a sudden I’m a babysitter.

You could at least pay me my nanny rate, it’s more than I make at this shithole.

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71points

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FakeOptimist 2 years ago

Don't do your regular job while you are babysitting.

31points

#39

A male coworker once asked me to change the little garbages in the womens restroom stalls because they have tampons in them. Which made him uncomfortable. Idk why me being a woman would make me want to possibly touch other peoples bodily fluids.

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71points

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Carol Blyth 2 years ago

That's why you hire a professional cleaner...not use staff......

42points

dinnerwithchopsticks , George Dolgikh Report

#40

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them I used to work in team with only males and I was the only one ever in charge of my colleagues birthdays (ordering a cake, inviting everyone to the cafeteria, etc.).

For one of my birthdays I heard my ex-boss had to ask a "favor" from a female from ANOTHER department (at least he remembered, I guess)

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Mona Stevenson 2 years ago (edited)

If all colleagues were introverts, there would be no office birthdays, weddings, baby showers etc. and that would be fine with me …

27points

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#41

Worked as a developer and the owner of the software company said they wanted to do a "Friday morning breakfast", which I was excited about because I thought it'd be catering but nope, they got a waffle maker and expected me to make waffles for the whole office. There were 5 women and 35 men so the ratio was a bit... off. Should've seen the red flag.

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64points

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Cold Contagious 2 years ago

Aw hêll no!

16points

#42

Cleaning up after male associate Supervisor's, despite the fact I worked in payroll.
I processed the payroll for 100 warehouse associates. My boss, told me part of my duties, would be "cleaning up after the Supervisor's eat lunch at their desk" .
Mind you, these men ate taco bell, McDonald's, etc., everyday. Leaving behind scraps of lettuce, cheese, whatever. And when I objected to the obvious miscalculation of my job description, my boss stated, "because your the women of the office". GO F**K YOURSELF

Proviacs Report

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63points

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Bron 2 years ago

Yeah, I’d be leaving the mess

23points

#43

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them So. Much. Schedule. Managing. Only for male attorneys on, below, or over my seniority level. No other female attorney has asked me any one of the following questions more than once, while every male attorney I've worked with asks me on the regular: When are we supposed to be in this hearing? Do we have hearing scheduled for [insert client] today? When was the last time we saw client? When is that expert report due? Do have a meeting with the expert? When is that? What are we talking about? Did we get that report in on time? Did we file that motion? Bro, this is all documented in our case management system and WE did not do S**T, I did.

I am the lead attorney on three other cases that are as serious or more serious than this case and manage to be where I need to be when I need to be there AND direct my second or third chairs where they need to be. WTF?!

I may or may not have all the rage about this right now for really specific reasons that I'm not elaborating on because it's really specific to my area of practice and the way it's practiced in my jurisdiction.

Also, cleaning out the fridge. Never has a man done it in the history of my office. I have helped out of solidarity to other female attorneys in my office who are more senior than me and watched one throw up in a trash can last week cleaning. Managed to not follow suit only because I didn't eat breakfast/no trash can available/sheer force of will.

vizslalvr , AllaSerebrina Report

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61points

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Cavern Gill-Vernon 2 years ago

There are 4 of us where I work. 2 men (I'm one of them) and 2 women. I'm the only full time worker. Even the boss is part time. I use the toilet probably the least. But, it's a sh!t hole (needs totally gutting) But I clean it. I clean the bathrooms at home (married with 2 daughters) It's NOT a woman's job. My boss seems to p**s everywhere BUT the loo. It's not fair on the girls to have to do it

43points

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#44

The manager who hired me for the blue vest mafia put me in back room stock. So that means I should have been stocking shelves and making sure stuff was pulled forward. This position requires a fair bit of heavy lifting. When I showed up for my first shift my department manager put me in the clothing section just refolding the clothes people were constantly messing up. My shift lead found me on my second day and she informed me that he did that to all the woman who apply to his department. I did not stay there long

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59points

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TheQueenZ 2 years ago

Seriously. Can't down vote because the OP isn't a jerk. But I cathardically need a push button for no, it would come in, handy. "Dad gives up?" "Kid is crazy cause he has some male DNA. Push the button. Everyone stays away from the crazy.

6points

#45

I was in a negotiation with all men. One man from the other side asked me to get coffee for everyone because he thought I was the personal assistant

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59points

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jjdubs W 2 years ago

Yup

7points

#46

I’m a cleaner so I already have to deal with some s**t most days,,but the amount of men that will ask me do something they think is gonna take 5 minutes when I’m reality it’s a half hour job that they want me to do within my normal hours on top of everything else I have to do regardless,,is genuinely unbelievable, and if I do do that that extra task they then complain that something else hasn’t been done simply not understanding that something has to give somewhere, to me it just screams ‘I don’t know how to clean because I’ve always had someone to do it for me’ and it just makes me cringe especially when they try to tell me that it won’t actually take that long,,,like they’ve ever spend a day commercial cleaning

Jaybird_117 Report

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56points

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Sonja 2 years ago

If someone says something will bot take that long just say: thank you for volunteering! I couldn't do it in that timeframe. Then turn around and ignore the request

26points

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#47

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them I was asked to organize a bunch of baby showers for people. I don't have any kids. I don't think I'm particularly good at putting together events like that. I was the only girl under the manager that asked me to until about a year ago. I've moved from that team since, and the new girl gets asked to do them now.

schaisso , Nathan Dumlao Report

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55points

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Bron 2 years ago

I hate upvoting these cos it feels like I’m agreeing with the. Definitely am not!

36points

#48

This one is less of a rant because it was other women that realized why it was a problem, but decorate our side of the office for the holidays. I was one of a few women - and the most senior at the time - on a mostly male team. During the holidays, teams decorated their own space with decorations provided by the company.

I came into work one morning and the decorations were on my desk. I set them on the empty desk next to me and left it. The HR team (all women) walked through later, realized what they'd done, and profusely apologized.

BohoPhoenix Report

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52points

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Timmy Pillinger 2 years ago

Don't think the men in my workplace would want to miss out

7points

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#49

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them Was asked to attend job interviews with my boss, to not speak, sit and do nothing for the sole purpose of looking pretty and lure newcomers.

C0deEve , Magnet.me Report

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50points

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Jen Hart 2 years ago

Keeping my buzz cut and coke-bottle glasses 🤓

32points

#50

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them They always look at me to cut up and serve the birthday cakes. Makes my blood boil.

fullOfhumanBeans , DRAKE NICOLLS Report

Final score:

45points

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Sonja 2 years ago

Just mash it. Totally f**k it up. They'll never ask again

27points

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#51

Cleaning up the break room (wiping stuff down, cleaning out the fridge, doing the dishes...😤) My boss said to me "You should do it since it's a woman thing, you'd do it better and I'm not being sexist". I work with mostly men.

Final score:

27points

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Dobbys Boggart 2 years ago

That's the very definition of sexist!

17points

#52

I was my boss's unpaid therapist and that guy would give Colin Robinson a run for his money

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25points

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DuchessDegu 2 years ago

There's not enough money in the world to compensate for this!

5points

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#53

Sweep up the mens cigarette butts outside in the parking lot and dispose of them. I don’t even smoke.

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24points

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Carol Blyth 2 years ago

Pour them all over the smokers' desks and chairs...they might get the hint...

11points

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#54

1 time at the ad agency I was working for the oldest colleague said ‘can you take the coffee cups with you’ after a meeting. 1. I’m a graphic designer, not the cleaning lady. 2. What the actual f. I took 2 cups and left the rest on the the table. He took nothing with him.

But he was also the guy who said ‘oh are you eating that?’ When I was eating a piece of cake because someone brought it in for their birthday. Extremely old fashioned and sexist.

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24points

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#55

I and the other woman in my old team were asked to cook breakfast for the team with the ingredients the boss bought

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23points

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FakeOptimist 2 years ago

If he bought the ingredients he knows how to cook it.

19points

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#56

At any employee event, women leaders were always asked to help serve food. In meetings, always asked to take notes.

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23points

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TheQueenZ 2 years ago (edited)

This is outrageous! In meetings and employee EVENTS??? Hire a caterer. Man. Women do not exist to pop out babies and clean .Nothifn else. You can afford their ads, perfect. Then you can still pay your caterer, and still have plenty of money.

3points

#57

I was asked to clean out the fridge... and organize the shared kitchen space 🙄 I work with mostly males

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22points

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#58

"To flirt some with the costumers because they will buy more."

No, I'm serious, sadly.

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FakeOptimist 2 years ago

Reminds me of my sister : when she was a waitress she and her colleages were told to take off engagement/wedding rings...

12points

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#59

50 Examples Of Men Lacking Basic Life Skills And Expecting Their Female Coworkers To Cover For Them Friend of mine is automatically assigned to drinks maker when they have meetings, she's head of marketing...

Final score:

21points

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just me 2 years ago

When I first read this I thought of my dad making drinks when people come over, because he makes good drinks. Taken that way, this isn't enough to assume it's sexist. Maybe it's the word 'drinks?' If it had talked about 'get the coffee' or 'make the tea' I think it would hit my brain differently.

1point

#60

Being the mommy/therapist of every male co -worker my age when it comes to their relationship issues.

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19points

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Michael Sanders 2 years ago

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#61

Notes and organizing things is forever put on me.
Also anything else no one else wants to deal with- or knows how to.

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18points

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Bron 2 years ago (edited)

Of course they know how to. Hopefully you say no.

5points

#62

We've had a couple of male coworkers that will tend to leave dishes in the sink for us girls to wash them.

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17points

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Sally Close 2 years ago

I was a police officer several years ago and any officer (male or female - but mostly male) who left their crockery in the sink for someone else to wash got it thrown in the bin!!! Many cups and plates chucked out!!!

9points

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#63

Basically like others said, being asked to do what they consider "women's work"

Fortunately it's only a handful that think they can offload such tasks on me.

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17points

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#64

I was a senior analyst in IT and was asked to make coffee, make catering arrangements, set up reservations. Never by IT, always by other departments.

I told them I don't drink coffee and just sat there. I did the rest though.

Final score:

17points

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Amused panda 2 years ago

Why? Unless you don't have other work to do and are twiddling your thumbs, talk to your manager about non-ICT related requests being made and ask where/who you should direct them to in future.

4points

#65

My coworker cleans the office on the weekends, and when she can’t, always asks me and never the male colleagues. Disappointing.

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#66

I was asked to make coffee. I just gave him a blank stare. Unbelievable.

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Kayla Black 2 years ago

I only ever offer customers or visitors (outside higher ups coming in for meetings) coffee. If you work for the company I work for you can make your own fkn coffee. Once the man who started the company and who's name is on my shirt asked me to make him a coffee before a meeting. I was flabbergasted. Thankfully my department manager (male) stepped forward, offered to do it himself as he was about to make one for himself anyway (he wasn't) and after the meeting apologized to me for the big boss having asked me in the first place. That was nice

3points

#67

Organize the holiday parties

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#68

My male coworkers expected me to make the coffee in the break room because women were better at things like that. They also left their coffee mugs in the sink for me to wash.

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Carol Blyth 2 years ago

Throw the mugs in the bin instead of washing them....they may take the hint then....

15points

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Mad Dragon 2 years ago

My boss bought a bunch of plants for the office and told me it was my responsibility to keep them alive, because I am a woman and I should know how to tend plants. It has been seven years and I randomly tell him that they need bigger pots, more potting soil, fertilizer, and special lighting. I don’t actually know what I am doing, but the plants are thriving and he does whatever I tell him to do. It’s kind of fun.

27points

simply.Taz 2 years ago

Good for you!! Lol

3points

Dip thong 2 years ago

Lol, lol, lol.....

3points

Poeha 2 years ago

We had a huge plant at the office and ppl were hired to water them. We were all lazy and if we had tea or coffee and some cold stuff left in a cup, we threw it in the plant. He started to blossom. Those plants never got flowers, but this one did. So funny. He just needed some tea and coffee.

2points

Erik Ivan 2 years ago

So I live in Sweden. At almost every workplace I have been on, there have been a list with rotation where EVERYONE take turn to make the coffee (and making sure there are some cookies). Then EVERYONE is expected to put their mug into the dishwasher, and the person making the coffee that week empties the machine when it's done.

20points

Duh 2 years ago

(I like your parenthetical cookies!)

4points

Arizona Cowboy 2 years ago

As an independent man since I was in my teens I cannot stress how embarrassed I'd be by even asking someone to do basic things - let alone assume it was a woman's job ... Ladies, please raise your kids to be independent functioning human beings. Both sexes. Let them learn personal responsibility, how to fail gracefully and respect.

19points

Julie Daly 2 years ago

LADIES please .... How About addressing parents, and stop blaming women. Also society, monkey see, monkey do. Boy watch MEN.

9points

Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago

I don’t think you could have said it any better, Arizona Cowboy. I do also think that fathers and mothers need to raise their children to be independent and respectful. They also need to teach them that basic skills like cooking a simple meal or putting air in car tires.

9points

Christina Green 2 years ago

My husband said pretty much the same thing. He feels embarrassed that he may be cast under the Sam umbrella as men who are so backward thinking. All we can do is raise our sons to be like you both .

5points

Cat Palmer 2 years ago

As a young person in my second ever job a senior manager (who was a well known bully) ordered me to find and book a restaurant for his wedding anniversary. When I politely told him that wasn't my job (I did IT support) he made a formal complaint that I had sworn and thrown something at him when he asked a work-related question. He then generously volunteered to investigate the complaint HE MADE - I told him I would be bringing a rep from the staff union to any meetings and the whole thing was quietly dropped.

9points

Natalie Kudryashova 2 years ago

Well this was infuriating to read

9points

simply.Taz 2 years ago

Why? I don't understand.

-1point

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urszulat 2 years ago

This is a really dispiriting thread. More women must start saying No - or, at the very least, politely declining.

9points

Bron 2 years ago

And men need to stop asking or expecting women to do things the don’t even consider asking men to do

13points

Jane Doe 2 years ago

I was asked to start vacuuming the floors and clean the kitchen (hired to be the service manager of an agricultural equipment workshop) I said no problem if i could see the monthly cleaning roster to ensure the parts manager and sales manager would be sharing the chores. They hired a cleaner

7points

Scarlett 2 years ago

I got told at my very first job to make a cake for some event thing. I was the only girl working there. I was 16 and too scared to say no, so I just made a cake the way I thought one should be made and brought it in. It was flat, bland, and dry as a bone. They never asked me again.

6points

Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago

There’s a huge IT and communications company where I currently work. The male coders are treated like literal gods and have catered meals and fun days and are paid much more than female counterparts. Female project managers are treated like literal cattle that have to cater to every single whim of the mostly male coding team from organizing their days to being personal secretaries-don’t forget that these women are also managing huge multimillion accounts. If something goes wrong with a project, the female project managers are always the first to be blamed for being lazy, incompetent, or not working hard enough. It’s always “what can the female project managers” do to help our little group of male coder gods to feel better.

5points

Florence O'Grady 2 years ago

Please find yourself a better company to work for. May God bless you in finding the right place for you, with the best benefits.

0points

pelemele 2 years ago (edited)

A while ago I was watching a women's track and field event on television. I no longer remember the name of the discipline but it consists of running over a certain distance by chaining acrobatic jumps to the end. At the end of their passage, the athlete and the trainer wait on a sofa for the judges' scores. Whatever their nationality, it was striking that whenever the coach was a man, he sat in the middle, taking up all the space, whereas when the coach was a woman, she sat on the side, leaving the middle place to the athlete.... Incredible...

5points

Anne Reid 2 years ago

We had a surprise visit from some higher ups & my immediate supervisor asked me (the only female in the office) to put on some coffee. Cue the big bosses freaking out…until I explained that we voted on it. I happen to make great coffee, so I got picked. The fellas would take turns bringing me a breakfast sandwich in return. Took a while to convince them that it was all fine.

4points

Florence O'Grady 2 years ago

Free food in exchange for making coffee that the company pays for. Win for the coffee maker and win for the helpless men.

1point

Penny Fan 2 years ago

The women in my organisation basically run the place. We keep everything moving, we're constantly firefighting but it's all behind the scenes. The "boys" get to go on corporate jollies to congratulate them on thd work we do... my boss is OK and acknowledges he couldn't do his job without me but higher up? Forget it. We're "just admins". And don't get me started on the pay...

4points

Octavia Hansen 2 years ago

Being an advertising artist, everyone in the company thought my WORK was just playtime -- always asking for custom cards, posters, drawings. I told them to file a work order and I bill at $120/hr. NEVER heard anymore about it. (Sometimes I would ask if they would do 2 - 4 hours of bookkeeping or accounting in exchange but never had any takers.)

4points

Lululoohoo 2 years ago

I need to know where these Neanderthals caves are because I work in an office that's male dominated but our dayporter (cleaner) is a male, our office manager is a male, etc. this is crazy to read

4points

Linda Lee 2 years ago

The thing is, when a woman says no, the man gets hurt/angry and takes it out on the woman. Women can say No, but it can also cost us our job or worse.

3points

Key Lime 2 years ago

Weaponized Incompetence.

3points

Jeweled Dragon 2 years ago

I work as a janitor at a popular grocery store in my town. I would often swing by all the departments and offer to take their trash for them. I would start getting calls on my work phone from those departments asking me to get their trash. This happened once while I was in a meeting with my manager and he told me that they were supposed to do that themselves :l

3points

Poeha 2 years ago

I never experienced this. No sexism at the office whatsoever. The only fun thing was, when a female collegue's boyfriend became our manager. He was used to having a secretary at his other job and he didn't get one here, so he said to us: put those papers on piles for me, will you. I didn't mind, but that guy I worked with (who is now a manager himself btw) was so offended. Hilarious. Who does he think I am? His secretary??

3points

Florence O'Grady 2 years ago

The next time a man asks you to make coffee, tell him that in The Holy Bible it shows that it is the man's job to make the coffee. If he doesn't believe you, show him the book that is titled HEBREWS.

1point

Parmeisan 2 years ago

This thread made me very appreciative of the various mostly-male teams I've been on. (Although in hindsight it's not impossible that I've just missed some less obvious social cues and just carried on doing my thing, haha).

1point

Samantha Cross 1 year ago

Urgh I use to work in a motorbike shop. I’ve grown up round motorbikes, raced them myself, worked for racing teams, had training by manufacturers for fitting helmets and a hell of a lot more experience. Still got men asking to speak to another man coz I won’t know anything as a woman🤦🏻‍♀️ Usually a colleague would step in to talk to the customer like they was getting a man to help then but my male colleague would come back to me to ask the questions loudly and act like they didn’t know anything. Was actually really funny 😂

0points

Claire Alexander 1 year ago

The owner of the company I worked at told me to flirt with haulage drivers to get them to apply. They also had me make coffee which was absolutely not a part of my job. There was only one person I never minded making it for because he just had black coffee with no cream or sugar, everyone else's I topped up with cold water so it would be lukewarm when they drank it. Nobody ever complained unfortunately. The worst was a woman they hired to be in payroll. She was incredible at math but because she spoke a language most of the other employees spoke they forced her into HR by claiming she would just be helping out translate every so often and gradually taking her other duties away. She left not long after. One of the managers palmed all his work off to his female assistant, then had an affair with her so they both palmed all the work off to everyone else. This kind of thing is way too rampant judging from comments!

0points

Scofield Leung 2 years ago

this post would have got really exciting if we change the genders to the exact opposites lmao

0points

LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago (edited)

I remember I actually once had the opposite problem. A department manager, a woman roughly my age, would have been better off in an office than a department store that sold home stuff. Anything that required something beyond a pen and paper she made the guys do and women basically were assigned meaningless organizing tasks. One day she pulled aside my male coworker for the day to do something requiring heavy lifting and ladder climbing. He was already doing a project I assigned him as I was his supervisor. When I asked her if he was necessary for this job, she responded with "if you have time, you can fold towels". I was waiting for head office to finish the screw up on the planograms they gave me so I could properly rearrange shelves. I grabbed the ladder and within 20 minutes a display of vacuum cleaners was gorgeous. She could have easily done this, I did it easily and my partner finished the job I needed him to do.

0points

LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago

She actually got in trouble months later for constantly passing off jobs to ithers. Department manager didn't mean you stood around watching, in fact by rule they were supposed to be doing the most.

0points

Susie Elle 2 years ago

I'm so glad I work at a place where when my boss (university professor)says he's getting coffee he always asks whether anyone would like coffee or tea as well.

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Mad Dragon 2 years ago

27points

simply.Taz 2 years ago

Good for you!! Lol

3points

Dip thong 2 years ago

Lol, lol, lol.....

3points

Poeha 2 years ago

2points

Erik Ivan 2 years ago

20points

Duh 2 years ago

(I like your parenthetical cookies!)

4points

Arizona Cowboy 2 years ago

19points

Julie Daly 2 years ago

LADIES please .... How About addressing parents, and stop blaming women. Also society, monkey see, monkey do. Boy watch MEN.

9points

Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago

9points

Christina Green 2 years ago

My husband said pretty much the same thing. He feels embarrassed that he may be cast under the Sam umbrella as men who are so backward thinking. All we can do is raise our sons to be like you both .

5points

Cat Palmer 2 years ago

9points

Natalie Kudryashova 2 years ago

Well this was infuriating to read

9points

simply.Taz 2 years ago

Why? I don't understand.

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Amanda Louise 2 years ago

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urszulat 2 years ago

This is a really dispiriting thread. More women must start saying No - or, at the very least, politely declining.

9points

Bron 2 years ago

And men need to stop asking or expecting women to do things the don’t even consider asking men to do

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Jane Doe 2 years ago

7points

Scarlett 2 years ago

6points

Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago

5points

Florence O'Grady 2 years ago

Please find yourself a better company to work for. May God bless you in finding the right place for you, with the best benefits.

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pelemele 2 years ago (edited)

5points

Anne Reid 2 years ago

4points

Florence O'Grady 2 years ago

Free food in exchange for making coffee that the company pays for. Win for the coffee maker and win for the helpless men.

1point

Penny Fan 2 years ago

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Octavia Hansen 2 years ago

4points

Lululoohoo 2 years ago

I need to know where these Neanderthals caves are because I work in an office that's male dominated but our dayporter (cleaner) is a male, our office manager is a male, etc. this is crazy to read

4points

Linda Lee 2 years ago

The thing is, when a woman says no, the man gets hurt/angry and takes it out on the woman. Women can say No, but it can also cost us our job or worse.

3points

Key Lime 2 years ago

Weaponized Incompetence.

3points

Jeweled Dragon 2 years ago

3points

Poeha 2 years ago

3points

Florence O'Grady 2 years ago

The next time a man asks you to make coffee, tell him that in The Holy Bible it shows that it is the man's job to make the coffee. If he doesn't believe you, show him the book that is titled HEBREWS.

1point

Parmeisan 2 years ago

1point

Samantha Cross 1 year ago

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Claire Alexander 1 year ago

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Scofield Leung 2 years ago

this post would have got really exciting if we change the genders to the exact opposites lmao

0points

LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago (edited)

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LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago

She actually got in trouble months later for constantly passing off jobs to ithers. Department manager didn't mean you stood around watching, in fact by rule they were supposed to be doing the most.

0points