A Glimpse Into a World Without Men

Ah, to have an all-female workplace, full of sugar and spice and everything nice and absent #MeToo turpitude and transgressions. Are you in, ladies? Well, before signing on that dotted line, you may want to consider the experiences of the sugar-and-spice girls at Sweden’s new Gender Equality Authority.

Yes, that sounds like what’s birthed when Orwell’s 1984 meets The Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (Bill Maher’s most memorable movie), but it wasn’t mainly men being consumed in this bureaucracy. As Sweden’s FriaTider reports (auto-translated and corrected for grammar):

The New Gender Equality Authority has a leadership consisting of 100 percent women. Ten months after its inception, an internal report now reveals a work environment so bad that 70 percent of its employees are distressed enough to be at risk of ill health, reports Ekot.

The internal survey, Ekot also noted, shows in addition that a majority of the employees of the Gender Equality Authority suffer from sleep problems and “risk fatigue”.

Among other things, the women-dominated workplace is characterized by bullying and harassment, according to the survey.

Yeah, I could see saying a stupid thing like that. Half-paying attention, you hear "Time off" and spit out an automated response.

Doesn't excuse it, and thankfully I've not done it with anyone who works for me, but I could see how it would happen. (FWIW, thanks for the reminder for me to think before I open my mouth....)

Or, maybe he was just a bonehead. They come in all shapes and sizes.

To bring it back around to the thread... I've had all sorts of bosses, both bathrooms, gay and straight, all colors. Some were good, some were terrible, and most were unremarkable.

I did work peripherally with an all-female-and-gay-male department, for a short time. It was - to steal from a poster above - Hell's Waiting Room. My boss (a former Chippendale's dancer) couldn't work with them because the sexual harassment was so bad. He sent me in his place, nothing like crawling around on all fours underneath desks to fix the computers, while an entire department whistles and catcalls at the "show". Miserable bunch of ##@#@$@!!@s.

As soon as upper management found out about them - there was plenty of malfeasance other than sexual harassment - the entire lot of them were fired, from the head of the department right on down. Everyone got the axe. Which was fine by me. Good riddance.

Wow.

I’ve had my share too. At one company, my boss tried his best to fire me because I had a difference of opinion with one of his sales guys.

My review went from level 1 to level 5 (incompetent) in just six months). I refused in writing to accept the review. In six months, I was back up to level one and got a 15% raise.

Years later, I got hung up in a reorganization and given my walking papers and a really big go away check. I’m certain the reason I was chosen was because I sort of made a VP and a Director look like idiots. A very large customer had some product problems. My boss and his boss were convinced that it was a manufacturing defect and spent tons of money trying to prove it without even looking at the customers operation. I noticed something at the customers plant and called the manufacturer of the installation equipment who confirmed my belief.

The customer was using the installation equipment wrong and causing the problem.

Apparently as the company problem solver (part of my written job description) solving a major problem with a $17,000,000 a year customer at a net cost of $0.00 wasn’t what I was supposed to do.

I did put the story down on my resume which served to land me my current position.

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