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AlunD
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Thanks to you all for your support. Its very much appreciated.
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm
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Location: IoW
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Only just spotted this - I hope things turn out for the better, Alun!
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AlunD
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Location: Wiltshire
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steve74
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 12:43 pm
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Location: Manchester
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Hmm, so just returned from a nice long weekend away to a text from the boss "Just a heads up, the email appears to have been down for the weekend"
WTF does he expect me to do at 9pm on a bank holiday Monday? Tomorrow morning's going to be an interesting time. Thanks for ruining my night's sleep! Fingers crossed it's just maintenance, though no one's informed us of any.
I've not responded to his text, which will probably put him in a bad mood to start the day off. Hey ho, roll on Tuesday.
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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm
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Location: Scotland
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female managers.... why...  _________________
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timark_uk
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Location: Belfast
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm
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Location: Bramsche
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I got a text 2 weeks after it was sent, but that was my fault for having turned the phone off on holiday, according to my boss - only I had been calling into to his assistant on an almost daily basis and dealing with emails using the same phone...
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pcernie
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Sound? I'd hardly be wanting that from my computer...
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oceanicitl
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:04 am
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Location: London
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And this is a perfect demonstration of sexism _________________Still the official cheeky one 
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am
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Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Or would the perfect demonstration be me saying I've not had a female manager in sixteen years of work? The oil industry is very male dominated. 10% females, max.
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pcernie
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IME female bosses are a nightmare, generally. It's not even a chip on the shoulder, it's just downright nastiness if you're unlucky enough to have one. I'm talking about them hating EVERYONE.
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oceanicitl
Official forum cat lady
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Location: London
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We have loads of female bosses here. A lot of the top people are women. Go us! And male bosses aren't a nightmare? Whatever _________________Still the official cheeky one
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davrosG5
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:37 am
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Location: Peebo
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Whether or not you consider your boss decent seems to be very much the luck of the draw IME regardless of their internal plumbing.
My current and previous bosses are both men and have generally been fine, the two before that were woman and were also fine. There have been people I've been devoutly glad I've never had to work for but I can't really say their gender has been the driving issue - it's mainly because they were sociopathic slave driving d!cks to the people who worked for them.
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pcernie
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I never said male bosses couldn't be a nightmare, I've had that too, but the female bosses have deliberately ripped teams and even entire departments apart out of nothing but spite. That's another level. A cnut's a cnut, but IME the worst have been female by far. Edit - as above post! _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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jonlumb
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:44 pm
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Location: Exeter
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TBH the entire discussion is somewhat meaningless; we're all drawing conclusions from a statistically insignificant sample size. You'd need to have a sample size in the thousands to start to draw any meaningful conclusions.
As the saying goes, the plural of anecdote is not data!
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