Posted on 04/10/2005 6:15:01 PM PDT by CHARLITE
I have supervised many teams of people. Men really do play "team" better than women. When put together, as a group, women are vicious backstabbers.
When in a review session, women will inevitably bring up the salaries of their coworkers, and often degrade their coworkers in order to make themselves look better. Men tend to defend their productivity.
Both traits are useful to a good manager, and I realize I am generalizing, but there is a definate, definable difference between the sexes in the work force.
Only milquetoast men, cyborg! A strong man puts a strong woman to work, marries her, and has eight children, who eventually grow-up, and kick their parents out (in an enormous monetary retirement)!
The kids run it - the parents buy a large sailboat, and enjoy the fruits of their labours and loins!
At least, that's what I hoped would happen. Reality was a bit different..............FRegards
An annoying chick from the first (I think) season of The Apprentice.
You believe whatever you want to as well.
Sure they can, just not as effectively.
Therein lies the difference: the American will pick himself up, dust himself off, learn from the mistakes, take whatever wins he did have and run with those. I'm betting nearly every "loser" on The Apprentice has landed a very lucrative position.
Offing the almost-but-not-quite-best is not condusive to "survival of the fittest".
Just about every American reality show has its roots in british or european television. Survivor, big brother, millionaire, weakest link, american idol, all have british versions that were on air long before ours.
I am impressed at his control in his last few episodes. Every thing trump says he doesnt like he has attempted to change. Hate the fact that he's lost six times in a row. He did blow a gasket, sort of, in the first episode, when they renovated the hotel in Jersey.
Omarosa was TOO strong. She became overbearing, unbending, and her teammates refused to work with her.
Tana is the best of the show this year. She has kept her people on task at all times and has kept the team together. She has done an excellent job. I think it will come down to her and Bryn, the southern lawyer guy, who has won a couple times on his own but has also been an excellent team player.
Okay, here is what I believe. It is based on working with, being supervised by, and supervising a variety of people of both sexes.
If you are having trouble in the business place because the people you work with consider you a flaming Hillary on wheels, while you chalk it up to resentment or "fear" of your "strength", it's time to check your assumptions.
Maybe you are right, and your workplace compatriots are jealous juveniles who lack your competence and can't see past your gender. Maybe, OTOH, they have you pegged.
Sure, there are a few wild boars of the chauvinist variety in the corporate forests, but they are outnumbered by the vicious she-wolves by quite a few. and "fear of my feminine strength" has become code for "why can't these worthless cro-magnons acknowledge my clear superiority?" When strengths are used to help the team, benefit the company, and fill the needs of the position, they are rarely resented. But when they are used to self-promote, back-stab and achieve personal goals at the expense of coworkers and subordinates, they are rightly feared. The sex of the jerk has nothing to do with it.
A woman doesn't have to be a 'Hillary' type in order to have some men feel threatened by a woman who knows what she's doing. You seem want to believe that it's all a woman's fault first and anytime a woman points out sexism in the workplace, they're somehow on the level of civil rights activists. I never spoke about myself but I've heard professional career woman say this and they're not bitches either. I'll say that women are their own worst enemy. It's bad enough there are men who are sexist and don't want to work with women, but women are usually worse and especially conservative women I find who are so quick to point out how politically incorrect they are, like to trash other women so they don't look like feminazis.
agreed
Not this Texan.
That's why you're one of my favorites :-)
I agree with your assessment. But we can't forget that it was Bryn who came up with that HORRIBLE idea for the soap commercial!!!! She's gonna win.
that'll be why he loses. Trump will bring that up, he'll be at a loss for an excuse, and Tana will win.
I have long since concluded that some women cannot abide the existence of strong men.
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