Friday, November 16, 2007

The Female

Each office must have one.

A lady from New Zealand (although any other part of the global landscape will do) who has the most annoying accent ever and also that...mmm...smarmy attitude.

She works right opposite me and always asks me to do some work for her. If I have 'capacity'. I hate that word 'capacity'.

x, are you busy? Do you have capacity (to do some work which really I should be doing, but which you can do, thereby affording me the opportunity of booking yet more flights abroad and ordering anything and everything off eBay?) Thanks!

And then, when the work is done I always get a promise of lunch, which never happens.

I don't know what it is, but professional females that I've come across seem to have a real manipulative and patronising streak.

With men it always seems to be far more straight forward. They tell you what they want you to do without sounding as though they are belittling you and will keep most of their promises. Surely that's professionalism at its best?

And the aforementioned lady is also a complete eyelash flutterer. Flirting with anything that moves. I suppose she thinks that'll make men putty in her hands.

And then there's the partner who treats secretaries like they're the scum of the earth. And why? because she's a partner.

Yes, she may have had to fight a thousand men to get where she is, but now that she's there, you might expect that she thinks back to time when she first started out as a secretary.

I do have a great admiration for women who have balls of steels and great guts and determination; I just find it difficult to understand why so many female high fliers only feel a true sense of worth if they can make other men feel inferior.

P.s. On the subject of high flying women - Am very pleased to see Katie Hopkins back on the TV. Although sadness that my current work regime means I haven't yet had the opportunity to watch any of her jungle adventures.

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