I generally hate to work with women in leadership...and I am a woman who has a lot of leadership roles. I would much rather have a man be my supervisor. Of course, there are exceptions!
Some certainly are “affected”
My canned (male) response: “I really don’t know her that well. I’m sorry about the situation. Look, I’ve got a telecon in a few minutes. I’ll talk to you later.”
I was one of those verbally mean nasty girls in my youth, much to my shame. But I'll tell you, when I see it now in grown up women it is UGLY and I avoid those types.
Anyone who’s taught in elementary school can tell you that the more vicious and hateful behavior is dished out by little girls, rather than little boys. They are also much sneakier and better at deception. If there is good character training, they can be made more civil, however, many adult women were never made to face the consequences of their hateful conduct and carry it throughout their lives leaving wrecked relationships along the way.
[In fact, women bully other women 2.5 times more frequently than they target men]
I’m not at all surprised at this and agree with your comments.
I only worked a few years but would prefer a man as my ‘boss’. Women can be envious of those who are smarter, prettier and better off, but they will often pick on just the opposite in a very mean way. I’ve never understood it.
I totally believe this. In my last job, my female supervisor was a nightmare. She didn’t even try to hide her hatred and contempt for certain employees (me included) - but we never knew why she had these feelings. She would literally make up things to try and get us in trouble and pass them along to our general manager. Thankfully I was able to calmly and clearly prove to the GM that the supervisor was in the wrong, but it took up a lot of time and energy to do so. And only made the supervisor angrier.
She should have been fired numerous times but because of certain quotas to be filled at this contract, she probably could have walked in with a butcher knife and nothing would have happened.
Because they're catty, vindictive harpies?
I TOTALLY believe this, and I am a woman. At my last job, the office was run by two women (one of whom would remind you uncannily of a Nazi prison matron), and the place was a dysfunctional hellhole. My current office is run by two men, and we’re all like peas and carrots (to quote the sagacious Forrest Gump).