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Old 10-17-2012, 02:41 PM   #33
Ashartus
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Originally Posted by polak View Post
I got moved recently so I'm surrounded by exclusively older women. Individually, none of them are bad but being a 23 year old guy surrounded by women of whom the youngest is in her early 40's and most are in their 50's, is a nightmare.

Especially when your last jobs were all dominated by dudes and/or young people, where swearing, joking around and otherwise inappropriate behaviour was the norm.
I was in that situation in my first job. Lots of listening to the joys of giving birth and raising kids, just what an 18 year-old guy wants to listen to. Also lots of being told they hoped their daughters would bring home someone like me - but those daughters were all too young (and what girl brings home a guy their mom would like anyway?).

I haven't had too many annoying coworkers recently - mostly people who talk too loud on the phone or use a speaker phone with the volume cranked up. The only other annoyance is when the junior employees don't do their work as well as I'd like and I have to fix everything, but that's happening less and less too.
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