Interesting theory. I've had two female bosses in my life (heavily male industries). One, was a Leer who was promoted. She was a nice person who stayed being a nice person. Then, one day, a switch flipped and she went from vested team leader to horrible manager. She even had one guy arrested for DUI when he wasn't even working. But she heard about it and called the police.
Another, more recently, became very disgruntled and created a hostile work environment when I started receiving all the praise for how well the department was being run. As her immediate supervisor told me, "This whole dept. would have fallen apart if not for you." Apparently they were fully aware of strengths and weaknesses. She tried to get me I to trouble and HR sided with me. At that point she said my very presence in the office threatened her.
Her last gambit was, "the guy is scary." With no proof, evidence or witnesses that I'd been anything less than professional with her. But, once she was "scared" HR had no choice.
I've had good and bad bosses who were men, too. More bad than good.
So, I asked Andrew Tamm, who filled my Stream with a hundred (sarcasm there) animated gifs and cat pictures to remove me from whatever Circle he has me in where he posts the animated gifs and cat pictures. It was either that or unfollow him and I didn't see any reason to unfollow him. Me asking https://plus.google.com/112885755521259735422/posts/78dwnvvgh4p <==edited to add the correct link Then he plusses me onto Public posts of animated cat gifs : https://plus.google.com/u/0/112885755521259735422/posts/EuuR1tnU3vJ https://plus.google.com/u/0/112885755521259735422/posts/8r6Grcm2Jpj https://plus.google.com/u/0/112885755521259735422/posts/74PgSu6iL2s Then one of his friends (or Circlers) starts plussing me into posts of animated cat gifs : https://plus.google.com/u/0/107120198886093172821/posts/gRW9JhWLs5T Don't get me wrong, I'm all about sarcasm and messing with people, but this seems sort of childish to me. Am I the only one who thinks so? So far I have only blocked
I'm shutting down Google+ for the night and quite possibly for the weekend. Why? This stupid #gifwars thing people are so proud of. This Adam Black guy said he doesn't like gifs and now everyone is mass trolling him. Having been mass trolled like this I can relate to him easily enough. Have an opinion and the collective might of Google+'s lower class denizens jump on a bandwagon. I just saw a post where someone wanted to jump on board and had to get clarification she was tagging the proper Adam Black. She wasn't even connected to him ! Nor was she a part of the original discussion. She just wanted to follow the herd. When I called her out of it she claimed, "one gif doesn't make a troll." Perhaps not, but she's contributing to a larger troll effort. One straw doesn't break the camel's back, but thousands will. So, tonight, Google+ disgusts me. It probably will tomorrow as well. And possibly Sunday. I gave up Google+ for two months this spring
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Another, more recently, became very disgruntled and created a hostile work environment when I started receiving all the praise for how well the department was being run. As her immediate supervisor told me, "This whole dept. would have fallen apart if not for you." Apparently they were fully aware of strengths and weaknesses. She tried to get me I to trouble and HR sided with me. At that point she said my very presence in the office threatened her.
Her last gambit was, "the guy is scary." With no proof, evidence or witnesses that I'd been anything less than professional with her. But, once she was "scared" HR had no choice.
I've had good and bad bosses who were men, too. More bad than good.