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I'll translate this thread from the OP's mind to the offering table:
I will imply that a female breakdown happens semi-regularly at work as to set the bait. I will add in irrelevant asides as to not make it painfully obvious that this is a troll. The net result of this not-so-subtle misogyny is interaction with others, and perhaps a deeper understanding of my failures with women at-large. If I'm really lucky, maybe I'll feel better about myself after denigrating with generalizations-if only I can get a few chicks to take the bait.
Please ladies, take the bait. I'm very lonely here.
Women are just emotional beasts. If something is going on, they are just more likely to cry. I used to work security, and I saw some women just sitting at their desks just balling for some small reason, but it was late so they we just tired and extra emotional. To deal with stress, men get violent, women cry. That is how things just go.
I'll translate this thread from the OP's mind to the offering table:
I will imply that a female breakdown happens semi-regularly at work as to set the bait. I will add in irrelevant asides as to not make it painfully obvious that this is a troll. The net result of this not-so-subtle misogyny is interaction with others, and perhaps a deeper understanding of my failures with women at-large. If I'm really lucky, maybe I'll feel better about myself after denigrating with generalizations-if only I can get a few chicks to take the bait.
Please ladies, take the bait. I'm very lonely here.
In love and pain,
TVandSportsguy
I'm here all day, folks.
Wow, I see that in your very short time here you have figured things out quite nicely.
Okay, I'll bite. You think it's just women? A few weeks ago, a male co-worker went into a complete tizzy over a scarf. A f***ing SCARF. He thought someone stole it and he flipped out on the entire crew, all flustered and shaking-"Who stole it? I know it was one of you! Oh my God, I cannot work under these conditions! I'm going to quit RIGHT NOW." Then he called two of the other employees who had already left and asked them if they took it, then called one of our bosses and said we were all thieves.
I told him to calm down and that it was probably in his car. When he went out there, he called us from his phone, all sheepish, saying "Yeah, it's in here". No apologies for accusing us of taking his ratty POS.
So yes, men can be total drama queens as well.
P.S.-Not all women are emotional, either. Some (like myself) can be "stoic, reserved, aloof, distant, unemotional, cold"...words normally used to describe men. And I've seen men cry.
My boss used to slam doors and throw things. Seriously. He had temper tantrums like a little baby. He'd pitch fits, flinging folders around his office because he couldn't find a file, only to have me quietly place it on his desk. (They'd usually be where he left them - in another room). One day, just because there were "too many" appointments scheduled, he threw a heavy picture frame across his office, shattering the glass and putting a hole in his door. I went in and pointed out that if he had problems with "overscheduling" he should let me know, and I'd rearrange it, but I did not appreciate people throwing things. I reminded him that if I'd been entering his office at the wrong moment, the hole would have been in MY head, not the door.
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My boss used to slam doors and throw things. Seriously. He had temper tantrums like a little baby. He'd pitch fits, flinging folders around his office because he couldn't find a file, only to have me quietly place it on his desk. (They'd usually be where he left them - in another room). One day, just because there were "too many" appointments scheduled, he threw a heavy picture frame across his office, shattering the glass and putting a hole in his door. I went in and pointed out that if he had problems with "overscheduling" he should let me know, and I'd rearrange it, but I did not appreciate people throwing things. I reminded him that if I'd been entering his office at the wrong moment, the hole would have been in MY head, not the door.
Reminds me of my first boss out of college. Why are men prone to temper tantrums and other childish displays in the workplace?
Reminds me of my first boss out of college. Why are men prone to temper tantrums and other childish displays in the workplace?
My own kids were grown, and I was handed another "baby" to raise! It reminds me of a "Cathy" strip I saw years ago. The frazzled secretary, confronted by bosses who both demanded something done NOW NOW NOW, said something like, "working for two forty-year-olds is worse than forty two-year-olds". A mother's work is never done!!!
I worked with a few women that cried at work. The thing is they were the hardest workers in the place. They were there early everyday and put in more hours then everyone else. I'd probably cry too. The sad thing is they probably still had to go home and do "womens work". I actually met the husband of one of them and the ******* told me to stop saying "please" at the dinner table. I've never had someone tell me to stop being polite.
The one guy in the office that looked down on all the women was a basket case. He was single, miserable and nobody really liked him. Is that you TV? Are you that guy? I'm thinking you are.
I miss that guy though. My office roommate was asked by his boss to go on a field trip and he went insane. He slammed the door and went off on me, "he thinks he can go on field trips whenever he wants well he's got another thing coming. Lets go on field trips whenever we want. Where did he go? Who gave him permission?" He had no authority over us so that's why it was so funny. Another time he went off on me because he almost got laid off and thought I had something to do with it. Yeah dude, I'm at the bottom of the totem pole but make all the hiring and firing decisions. "I see you there looking at me thinking you think you can do what I do. You know what though? I have talent, something you'll never have". I loved it when he went off his rocker because I had stories to tell later at the bar.
My boss used to slam doors and throw things. Seriously. He had temper tantrums like a little baby. He'd pitch fits, flinging folders around his office because he couldn't find a file, only to have me quietly place it on his desk. (They'd usually be where he left them - in another room). One day, just because there were "too many" appointments scheduled, he threw a heavy picture frame across his office, shattering the glass and putting a hole in his door. I went in and pointed out that if he had problems with "overscheduling" he should let me know, and I'd rearrange it, but I did not appreciate people throwing things. I reminded him that if I'd been entering his office at the wrong moment, the hole would have been in MY head, not the door.
When I was in high school, I worked at a pizza place where the boss would go into rages-he'd punch holes in the wall, kick the garbage can and go in the back and SCREAM at employees. I'd take a crying woman any day over that.
per OP
tears are very useful. not something you wana get rid off.
sex works well too.
as to some of the OP responses, misandry and misogyny abound in CDF.
a separate issue.
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Why are men prone to temper tantrums and other childish displays in the workplace? 
