“Office’s Stairs Are See-Thru”: 29 Things That Make Offices Uncomfortable For Women

Unless the men also have to wear them.

Dress codes should not be in place at all.

Sexism at any level is unaceptable!

Um. .. Dude. Grow up. Do they also deny that women poop?

I used to give it right back. You can verbally emasculate a man as a llast resort

In America, we have laws to protect us from that, and from retaliation if we complain.

I wish, just for a couple of months, men leaked blood (sometimes chunky blood) from their d*cks, starting in the middle of an important management meeting. Then had absolutely crippling cramps, migraines and sudden acne breakouts. Bet it would shut them the f*ck up.

What am I missing here? Why would this make someone uncomfortable as title suggest? Is it because unisex bathrooms? Or is this just misplaced post for this collection?

Most office places with more than a few people wouldn't do this, as people just take it. During covid, the work place supplied wipes, sanitiser and masks. They literally walked out of the place by the box. They had to lock the stationery/supplies cupboard. Same with Coffee, sugar and tea. It was ridiculous.

Exactly. If a man has to deal with endometriosis or complex endometrial hyperplasia….then I will put a warm blankie on them, make a cup of tea and offer some Tylenol. Until then, be patient With us. Not to be gross but when a woman goes thru partial menopause for 18 months, then after a biopsy it starts up again. You can NOT leave your house. You need to be five feet from a restroom every hour all day long for at least a week. The body is shedding 18 months worth of very thick liver sized pieces of tissue all in the span of a week. It’s painful, gross and we don’t want to go thru it. And there are SO MANY other complex problems with our reproductive system that can and usually does go wrong. Many of us deal with this agony for years and sometimes our own husbands can’t quite grasp how frustratingly painful it can be. Let alone HR or our boss.

My ex boss tried to assign me the task of cold calling people and going door to door to drum up business because they thought they'd respond well to a young woman (not a task in the scope of what I was hired to do). I'm the very last person you want talking to people and I firmly don't believe in soliciting. I think it's rude and disrespectful of people's places of business and their time. I did not go door to door or cold call and I ended up quitting shortly after.

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In civilised countries if you're sick you're sick, and not expected to come into work anyway. I'm guessing the OP is from the US.

Right? Having a uterus does not make me a human calendar.

Why are women being assigned social tasks at all? Me and my female coworkers are never trying to invite each other to baby showers or bridal showers. Our relationship is work, strictly work. We wouldn't have met otherwise and certainly are friends now. But not those kind of friends.

Wait, there are workplaces without an actual sanitary bin?!

There are workplaces that lock the toilets?

......no trashcans in a bathroom? What kind of ghetto places where people have been working where there's no trashcan (man or woman's)? What workplace doesn't provide paper towels to dry your hands? You expected to bring your own towels from home to dry your hands?

Had our IT department do it more than once. I was a new hire, but knew quite a bit about computers. We needed a tech to come out and repair a computer. The guy on the phone had the manager in tears. I took over the phone call and told him what was done and what we needed (I kind of went off on him) and he said they would send a tech. I slammed the phone in his ear without even saying goodbye... another time a different person with the same IT department asked MY BOSS if there was a male manager available. I told her she needed to report it. She was a very intimidating manager, but she refused to do it. I wish she had, those a******s deserved to be fired.

Why TF do customers act like they are your masters and you are their slaves just because you work in customer service? That term should be eliminated as it just creates pompous entitlement! Should rename it "customer management" because many times you have to manage AHs.

This should be illegal!

Bad idea? Yes. Illegal? No. There are tons of options that won't have you flashing your coworkers: trousers, underwear that's almost like bike shorts (a godsend in summer, let me tell you!), cullottes, skirts knee length or longer, pencil skirts, skorts. Don't start yelling at me about "It's my right...." There are a plethora of choices out there - some will be more comfortable than others. You get to choose. I just think those stairs are stupid as hell because any leather soled shoe can slip on that surface....

They did not think that through..no pun intended.

Designers and architects who don't wear skirts don't think of these problems when building things like this. This is why diversity of input is important for all projects.

This is terrifying. My acrophobia is having hissy fits at the picture alone. No way I'd climb those stairs. I'd be stuck like a cat in a tree. Elevator, where's the elevator?

Wearing heels could possibly even have a negative effect on their work!

If I have to wear heels or makeup, so does everyone else. Everyone.

Heels pantyhose and bras are the bane of my existence

But if we don't look pretty, how can we possibly be good at our jobs? /s

Depends on the workplace. If you are in the front of the office, PR, and see clients, etc they should dress up more than the schlumps in the back. They represent the company. I've never seen anyone told to wear makeup. As long as they are clean and don't smell bad.

Sadly, I truly believe this is less about pride and more that they had to be that way to get to that space, and it's hard to unlearn. Our office is women-owned so thankfully we don't have that, but we work with a lot of offices where it took years for the women we worked with to treat us as human, and almost always it was because the woman was in a male-dominant field. As we got to know them, you wouldn't believe some of the things they had been through. Now when a woman looks down on me It's so much easier to not take it personally. Doesn't make it ok, just makes it easier to look past.