This Twitter Thread Is All About Casual Sexism At Work, And 30 Women Join In Sharing Their Infuriating Examples

Good for you.

And I would have said "Thank you! I did do a good job, didn't I"

I would have loved to watch the reaction!

Ones like this need followups ... the reactions and fallout. We need to know!

And you just lost my business/vote/support/FUNDING of your agenda, a*****e.

Experienced this in a college classroom of a very misogynistic professor. I would make a very valid point or observation, and he would give me the deer in the headlights look. A minute later, one of the idiot guys would repeat the exact same thing I just said—-VER👏 BA👏 TIM👏!!!—-and the prof would applaud HIM as a f*****g genius! If someone else, even another guy, pointed out that I had just said that and been ignored, the prof would give them the same deer in the headlights look I got. A*****e. Even his colleagues in the department agreed he was long overdue for being put out to pasture, and we’re actively trying by severely reducing his class load. Problem was that he had tenure and was impossible to boot out. Sad state of affairs for the students, especially the female students, who had to endure his class.

Hope the client was charged double.

refreshingly nice to hear someone speak up, say they made a mistake and have now learnt from it. bravo.

And get your f*****g hand off my leg, NOW, or I will be mailing it back to you. Pervert.

To be fair, if I got an email signed Kerri I would ask too unless they was an email signature "Dr Kerri Baker". How it's the recipient meant to know whether the writer is the doctor or a personal assistant?

Reminds me of this puzzle: A boy cuts his hand; he needs stitches so his dad takes him to the hospital. The doctor gets to work, sows up the hand and scolds the boy for being so careless; and scolds the dad, too. So, after they leave the nurse says to the doctor: "Nice kid. And good looking, too." "Of course he's good looking," says the doctor, "He is my son." - How can that be? Duh, the doctor is his mother.

I’m a certified non-attorney mediator, with a Masters Degree in Conflict Resolution. My husband has told me, time and time again, that some of the situations I’ve handled (for confidentiality reasons, I could not go into any detail with him, but if you say you’re mediating something like a divorce or child custody, it is implied that sometimes clients’ tempers can flare and they can get rather nasty) would make him fly over the table and beat the ever loving s**t out of some a*****e for being abusive. Basically, I am the one with the intellect, temperament, ability, education, and training to do a very difficult and delicate job that my husband (not a mediator, no college degree) would never be able to, yet there are people who would look past me as just “the wife” (if they even saw me at all), and look to HIM to help them with interpersonal problems.

I would love to know how you pronounce this. Gaelic I assume?

This is actually illegal in my country.

Regardless, never ask someone you don't know for coffee unless they offer to get it for you. ITS BASIC MANNERS

yes! we need way more men like her partner!!

Heaven forbid the guys get upset. And they say women are emotional and sensitive, with a straight face at that.

Oh, I've seen this happen. My vet was once called "little lady" by one of the older clients who was adamant on waiting for the male vet. Said "male vet" was actually a year 2 student intern... She's a saint for putting up with this c**p.

This!! I (female) was once responsible for a project that culminated in a final meeting to brief out the results to 35 (male) managers. The MD (male) let everyone settle in then took my notes off me, said “I can take it from here” and asked me to go get coffee and bacon butties for everyone from the canteen.

That’s insubordination, so I hope you fired his a*s, and explained, in detail, exactly why.

just say "the person at the door" why are people sometimes refering to women as girls? why? just why...

Oh, yes. Not being subservient to a man is indeed aggressive. Why, his mother and sister would never act this way! /s

well Jo isn't a typical female name, but still, just to asume someone is/must be a man is just stupid. also do your f*cking homework and research who you're doing deals with... i hope she said "of course" only to come in the room a bit later to introduce herself to him "ah! XY nice to finally meet you after so many emails!"

And the client stood there, mouth agape, wondering how the world had changed with him left behind.

Hopefully you've moved on. If not, time to look!

i'm petty. i wouldn't have answered and when he asked me later why i would have said "you told me to not say anything" but that would probably cost us the client...

This happened when I was in the UK: all titles defaulted to me as "Mrs." Despite my username here, which is part of the joke of it, I hate "Mrs." So all of a sudden I'm being sent cards to "Mrs. George Glass," and nope. In the 2010s, this was still the assumption, and note: the men did not have automatic titles, so the cards would look like: "GEORGE GLASS [new line] MRS. JAN GLASS". So that's f****d. I do take great joy in correcting "Actually, it's doctor."

“Of course…” *connects them to the back of the queue”

SHould have brought the coat on stage and given it to him during the presentation

It’s like back in the day, when a highly trained professional woman would make the mistake of letting one of the guys find out she could type. Guess who would end up never getting to do the work she was educated and trained for, and be relegated to the position of secretary, while the guys got all the glory, promotions, and raises? Yeah, that’s how it used to be, girls. You really do NOT want to go back there, so you have to fight tooth and nail to keep what has already been achieved, and fight even harder to achieve more. You cannot rest on the laurels of those who came before you, because some a*****e is/group of assholes are out there ready to pull the rug out from under you the millisecond they can. They’ve already severely threatened Roe v Wade, so what more proof do you need?

God I hope you just looked at him and walked away…

"Yeah, but a woman said it, so we don't have to believe it!" said stupid men everywhere.

it's possible that women passengers are not enculturated into military status and hence do not know that four stripes outranks two, .... they might not even be aware that they need to look out for the stripes.

You both need T-shirts. Hers: BLACKSMITH. Yours: Not Me.

Ha! Make the accountant explain the financials of assembling a product without ever resolving the IT problem!

not funny at all, disgusting.

YES this! i worked in a hardware store aswell. the times a man would ask me something, just to go to a younger man afterwards to ask the same question only to have the younger man to come to me to ask me :D the young man was our apprentice LOL once a man completly lost his s**t because there were only women in the store (all very qualified) i just asked him to leave if he can't behave himself

Omg, that comment, condescending next level

It's a shock to the little man's system: a woman creeping up on his supremacy!

Both the candidate AND the male colleague who blanked me would find themselves on the unemployment line. That’s insubordination, plain and simple.

It's a weird question either way

Well, they can't hear when you're talking because they're looking at your boobs. /s

Document. Document. Document. Send those documents to both HR and your lawyer. Someone will get the message, even if they have to pay through the nose to do so.

WTF?!

I remember seasoned, old school male police officers who told me they much preferred to have specific female police officers back them up instead of the majority of their male colleagues. These old guys were immensely impressed by the ease and economy of effort it took for those much smaller women to rush in and immediately bring a frenzied (and possibly methed up) male perp to his knees by surgically whacking him hard with their batons on specific parts of his anatomy—-and come out without a scratch—-while the men were too busy wasting time and energy trying to look like tough guys, and getting their asses kicked and bruised and bloodied by trying to fight him with their fists.

"Wicked River Witch" want to know how a water treatment plant is operated.... funny ^^

No, always correct them. If they are client and have that attitude, you do NOT want them as client.

Would it be a joke if they allocated you inferior rooms because you were black rather than female?

Since the kind of competition isn't mentioned, I feel compelled to post this from OPs twitter: https://twitter.com/i/status/1559154530159394823

That's nice of you to be so understanding..

Speak up or you'll lose ground.

One should never beat oneself up for not having spoken up. If one is able to do it in the situation, by all means do it, but it's also understandable if you can't.

Supervisor: "...about scheduling and accounting. Want to talk about that?"

Document every detail of your work. The other male is about to take credit...

Thanks! I'm totally going to write "bland twaddle" on the next stupid survey!

Friends: "But but but...you're not a salesMAN!" You: "Nope, better than that."