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Originally Posted by Clarkey
My company has some amazing female managers but the vast majority are horrible. They hold personal grudges, act like tyrants, try to throw their weight around when it's not necessary, brown nose and are 10x more political than most of the male managers. With that said, many of the most reliable, hard working, organized and intelligent colleague's of mine are women. I think the khunty tyrant women get promoted into to management as they are seen by the higher ups to be 'go-getters' that can 'make the tough decisions'.
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I have a lot of respect for my manager, who is also a female. She works hard, is nice, and I would even go as far as to say she is a friend. I do feel that she underestimates me and males in general though. She is very quick to dismiss or tune out males during a group discussion when there are men and women involved, and I don't think for a second it is on purpose or part of a feminist agenda. One on one though, I think everything is fine. I certainly don't want to give anyone the impression that I work for a tyrant.
I do try to look at it from her point of view though. She has made it very far in a male dominated industry (she is technically the VP of the company now and the leader/founder of the Ontario division), and she did this all while raising a family and before the age of 40.
Anyway, I do appreciate the input from everyone and the chance to vent. In the big picture, it's not like I invented the wheel and lost credit for it. I am sure some of the people reading this have had worse situations.