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In reply to the discussion: Who remembers life for women before RBG? [View all]RazzleCat
(732 posts)Quick background, worked as a project manager for a construction company. I had my site, my boss had his site, well we took on another job, so he told me as my job was almost finished I should take over his site. So we chat and he says I should go do a walk thru and see how things are progressing. So I grab the foreman from the site (who was in the office at that moment) to assist me in the inspection and off we go. We walk we the entire site, all stories, inside and out, what do I see and hear, a couple of things, comments about me (as in my body), whistles, even some WTF stares, plus some rude hip gestures. I ask a couple of questions, get condescending replies, or why you want to know hon? I complete my inspection, don't say a word. Now it's almost end of the day so the crews are moving to their trucks, packing up and getting ready to leave, one asks the foreman hey Joe how come you get the escort the "honey" round the site, many other add in some asides. I just look at them stone faced, then over at Joe, he got the biggest shit eating grin on his face and answered, Just showing the new boss and project manager around. So many deer in the headlight looks, it was priceless.
Going to toss in another incident same place, told you had a boss, well one morning I show up and there is a honest to god mountain of paperwork on my desk, paperwork I recognized as it had been on the floor next to bosses desk the night before. So I look at him and ask him why his crap is on my desk. He replied that one of my jobs was to assist him and heneeded assistance filling all theses specs, bids and proposals. I sat down and got angry, then I stood up, picked up of big pile of them and dropped them on the floor, looked over at him, and said I filed them, just like you. Give him credit, he laughed and said he deserved it, he also said it was wrong to assume I was a file clerk.