Uggh!!!!!!

  • dan-larson
    Cedar, Min-E-So-Ta
    Posts: 1482
    October 17, 2006 at 3:38 pm #1251826

    OK, need to vent. I work at a large law firm located in Downtown Minneapolis with lots of women. Day in and day out is the same thing over and over again. Backstabbing, bickering, cat fights, and bad attitudes. I am pretty sure that every one of them once a week tells me how overworked and underappreciated they are. I have worked some hard jobs before (warehouse, semi loading, factory) and I honestly believe that not one of them knows what real work is. I want to just tell them to stuff it, but then I will be banned to leper island. When I was working as a stock broker we had an almost entirely male office, never had this kind of stuff going on. So, if this is applicable to you, how in the world do you deal with it?

    pantherpop
    Kalispell, MT
    Posts: 264
    October 17, 2006 at 3:45 pm #489648

    Get on IDA and vent
    Goood luck.

    jon_jordan
    St. Paul, Mn
    Posts: 10908
    October 17, 2006 at 3:47 pm #489652

    Quote:

    So, if this is applicable to you, how in the world do you deal with it?

    Drink Beer.

    -J.

    timmy
    Posts: 1960
    October 17, 2006 at 3:50 pm #489653

    I supervise a crew of the cackling beasts. It helped me to put a picture of my wife and son on my desk. I just look at that and am reminded why I put up with the bickering. Then when I get home, I like Jon Jordan said.

    Tim

    jhalfen
    Posts: 4179
    October 17, 2006 at 3:52 pm #489655

    Close door. Surf IDA. Welcome to the club!

    blue-fleck
    Dresbach, MN
    Posts: 7872
    October 17, 2006 at 3:52 pm #489656

    Sprinkle some midol throughout the office. Your problems should end a couple hours later….

    Steve Root
    South St. Paul, MN
    Posts: 5649
    October 17, 2006 at 3:56 pm #489659

    There’s a door between my warehouse and the front office where the women work. I stay in my warehouse and hide

    Rootski

    matt_grow
    Albertville MN
    Posts: 2019
    October 17, 2006 at 4:05 pm #489665

    Quote:

    I supervise a crew of the cackling beasts.

    Still laughing Oh good stuff, good stuff

    mallard_militia
    Fulton County, Illinois
    Posts: 1108
    October 17, 2006 at 4:07 pm #489666

    Start picking your nose and scratching yourself. Works pretty well around my house.

    Bob Bowman
    MN
    Posts: 3548
    October 17, 2006 at 4:12 pm #489668

    Buy them food, that will end it. If their mouths are full, then your ears will be at rest. See…I know this will work, I have seen some of those gals you call co-workers

    brandy
    Minneapolis, MN
    Posts: 95
    October 17, 2006 at 4:22 pm #489672

    Quote:

    Sprinkle some midol throughout the office. Your problems should end a couple hours later….

    Wow!! That’s harsh!! If you really wanna tick a woman off, say something like that!
    You know guys… there are some of us on this site!!

    drakesdemise
    Residing in St. Paul, MN doing weekly travel throughout the five state Upper Midwest
    Posts: 976
    October 17, 2006 at 4:30 pm #489678

    Hey Whiskers,
    In my book, that automatically excludes you from the group refered to as the “cackling beasts”
    cheers

    blue-fleck
    Dresbach, MN
    Posts: 7872
    October 17, 2006 at 4:37 pm #489680

    Quote:

    Quote:

    Sprinkle some midol throughout the office. Your problems should end a couple hours later….

    Wow!! That’s harsh!! If you really wanna tick a woman off, say something like that!
    You know guys… there are some of us on this site!!

    It was in jest. Especially after I made a remark like that at home and took a good smack in the back of the head.

    koldfront kraig
    Coon Rapids mn
    Posts: 1818
    October 17, 2006 at 4:44 pm #489682

    Quote:

    Buy them food, that will end it. If their mouths are full, then your ears will be at rest. See…I know this will work, I have seen some of those gals you call co-workers

    Brilliant…simply brilliant.

    A guy could go broke doing that but it would be worth the piece of mind.

    brandy
    Minneapolis, MN
    Posts: 95
    October 17, 2006 at 4:51 pm #489685

    Blue Fleck-I know it was in jest. As hard as it is for me to admit, it was actually pretty funny!

    Drakesdemise- Thanks!!

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    October 17, 2006 at 5:02 pm #489697

    Whisker? Aren’t you cooking dinner for the old man?

    …ok, next time you see me you can step on my toe.

    farmboy1
    Mantorville, MN
    Posts: 3668
    October 17, 2006 at 5:25 pm #489705

    Leper Island doesn’t seem half bad compared to listening to those women

    Remember, the people doing the majority of the talking are doing the minority of the work. Man or Woman. Let it blow out your ear.

    Ohh yeah, and have a

    dan-larson
    Cedar, Min-E-So-Ta
    Posts: 1482
    October 17, 2006 at 5:54 pm #489712

    All your advice seems very sound, I guess I will just stay the course and maintain my liquid therapy regiment after working hours. By the way Bobby, Amber is having pizza for lunch again today… She is about 3/4 of the way through a large Davanni’s as I write this…. I can hear the seams on her pants start to creak and whine, and can feel the floor trusses bow from the pressure!!!!

    Bob Bowman
    MN
    Posts: 3548
    October 17, 2006 at 5:57 pm #489717

    MMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    Thses gals need lovin too!!!!!

    beave
    MPLS
    Posts: 163
    October 17, 2006 at 6:03 pm #489720

    Send them out “Cattin” with FisherDave. I will give them something to talk about that you might actually enjoy.

    Besox
    Posts: 590
    October 17, 2006 at 6:21 pm #489727

    I feel your pain. I must admit I deal with the same stuff in my office and it is good to know I am not alone with my pain. They only thing that keeps me here is the fear of something worse down the road! Try a few different things to build some space between yourself and the moody mob. Start some bad rumors about your past, page yourself once a day, bring one of those fart machines in and let it rip at just the right time. Use you imagination, youo might come up with something. Good luck!

    walleye_wisdom
    Big Sky Country Helena, MT (Adel, IA home)
    Posts: 1160
    October 17, 2006 at 6:28 pm #489730

    Live trap a raccoon or squirrel, let it go in the office, give the hens something to really cackle about.

    brandy
    Minneapolis, MN
    Posts: 95
    October 17, 2006 at 6:31 pm #489734

    Quote:

    Whisker? Aren’t you cooking dinner for the old man?

    …ok, next time you see me you can step on my toe.

    BrianK-Actually I just cooked dinner for him last night! Oh, and don’t worry I won’t step on your toe! Although, maybe it will make you forget about the pain in your back from reeling in your monster!

    farmboy1
    Mantorville, MN
    Posts: 3668
    October 17, 2006 at 6:38 pm #489740

    Quote:

    MMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    Thses gals need lovin too!!!!!

    Marry a “big” girl, and you will never be hungry, and you will never be cold

    Bob Bowman
    MN
    Posts: 3548
    October 17, 2006 at 6:51 pm #489752

    Dan, your a ladies man, just make them all HAPPY! You had a baseball team started a few months back, just add some new players to the team

    fish_any_time
    Champlin, MN
    Posts: 2097
    October 17, 2006 at 7:03 pm #489762

    Too funny……What is better is that my wife (a.k.a.. The Better Half) works at a law firm downtown and comes home with these amusing stories. It’s just like high school all over again. Fortunately she is in the middle ground between the 2 cliques.

    Dave G
    Rochester, MN
    Posts: 631
    October 17, 2006 at 7:04 pm #489763

    I can remember two women on my team many years ago. The “major catastrophes” they came to me about were the most trivial things I have every heard …she talked on the phone too long… she didn’t do this right…..she didn’t follow the rules…etc.

    I could have cared less about their bickering and they expected me to get in the middle and solve their petty problems. So I can relate to what you are saying — I just attentively listened to their problems and smiled while thinking of fishing.

    On the other hand, most of the women I had on my teams were very professional and a joy to work with. But I will never forget those two.

    2Fishy4U
    Posts: 973
    October 17, 2006 at 7:28 pm #489774

    Retired now, but for almost 20 years I was in charge of a US Treasury Department in Milwaukee that focused heavily on hiring women and minorities. There were a few ladies that stuck the knife through my back and had no problems with being dishonest.

    However, on balance most did a super job. I suspect the problem is your/their boss. I had the authority to hire or deny so it is not the women causing the problem, but whomever hired them.

    trz
    Posts: 32
    October 17, 2006 at 8:09 pm #489802

    I can see most guys read this post and say…I am not going to touch that with a 10 foot pole…I am glad some of you guys did. Made me laugh today for sure!!!

    -Tamara

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