Working in an all-female environment has, quite possibly, been the most harrowing experience of my life (irony heavy here, okay). Don't get me wrong (don't you HATE it when people say that? it's like, I'm not getting you "wrong," buddy, whatever I'm thinking is the obvious implication of what you're saying). Anyway, I'm just saying that generally I love me the ladies. I really do. I love my friends, and my mom, and random ladies on the street, and bartendresses, and...blah blah, ad nauseum. I also love the ladies I work with, on an individual basis.
Here is what I do not love. I do not love meetings to divvy up tasks for office clean-up day. I do not love the forming of "decorating" committees. I do not love being assigned to bring in cupcakes -- for any occasion. I do not love bulletin boards. I especially do not love bulletin boards on which someone has posted an article titled, "Exercising Sense in the Shoe Department," where said article advises against wearing stilettos and wedges, and recommends instead that one wear one-inch heels or the "fashionable" Crocs that are the subject of a Bree Williams harangue below. (Also, just a postscript: I do not love even the insinuation that we take our fashion cues from The Washington Post. Come on.)
And if said bulletin board also has a "Water Watch," which you will be pleased to know is a chart wherein we track, via hash marks, whether we drink enough water daily for optimum health? Well, you KNOW I don't love that.
And I realize that I sound vaguely mysogynistic, and that these things aren't necessarily unique to women, or women-only work environments. Of course it's possible for men to congregrate around a bulletin board and kvetsch about their aching feet. Which is why I'm just asking for a little more testosterone. Just a little.
Oh who am I kidding. I'm a hater.
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This is why, in relation to office demographics, I am straight up bros before hos.
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