Reply #33: This was the team I worked with and had a good rapport with

[Booberdawg]

and this did not go on with other women in the department. Like I said, these guys were gentlemen and we only horsed around in our own work area. By department I mean 50 people that covered different aspects of IT over a large area of one floor. It's not as if other women in other aspects of IT could even hear what was going on when we "played" or horsed around. We were in our own little programming niche.

As I said before I was surprised at the responses here and I seem to be in the minority. I really was not offended and none of these guys ever did or said anything to me that I felt was out of line or that condescended to me as a female in any way. It was all flirty type stuff, not derogatory or put down in nature. They were all married come to think of it.

We were close. We also discussed serious things. They came to me to brag about their new babies, stuff like that. I felt respected professionally as well. We were a team and worked well together. When there was work on the table or it was crunch time, we dug in our heels and busted our butts. They were like brothers to me.