Me and Brianna told ourselves we wouldn’t blog about work because right now it pays the bills. But one thing that we noticed a while back was the benefits of working with men; and the shortcomings of working with too many women. Let’s look at a few illustrations…
First off, I work in a small office environment. We have 5 employees-4 men and 1 woman. The oldest one of us is the manager of the workplace, in his mid-50s. The rest of us are a bit younger (well, not the maintenance guy), but this isn’t the point. The point is is that there is four times as many XY-chromosomes in our workplace than XX-chromosomes. This is important for a number of reasons discussed below.
Brianna works in a larger office, somewhere around 20 people who work for different departments. Sounds pretty usual, except for the fact that there is about one guy that works with her and the rest are women. This has led to some serious differences between our workplaces:
Patrick’s Workplace: We don’t give a fuck how you feel. Just do your job. All of our jobs are easy as shit. We don’t need any emotional bullshit on top of our easy-as-shit jobs. This isn’t fucking brain surgery-if someone’s pissed off, they’re not going to die. They’ll go take a dump and eventually feel better.
Brianna’s Workplace: We don’t care how good you are at your job, as long as you’re happy. What, you can’t remember how to advise your students? That’s okay, even though it’s in your job description, we’ll find someone (Brianna) to do your job for you. Just don’t get upset, that will make us all sad.
Here are some examples of how our work lives differ:
Patrick’s Workplace: “Hey, do y’all wanna go grab a beer after work?”
Everyone else: “Sure. Damn this job is boring. I need a fucking beer to unwind.”
Brianna’s Workplace: Brianna-”Hey, y’all wanna grab a beer after work?”
Everyone else: “Oh no, we can’t drink because everyone will think we’re loose and easy sluts who do nothing but drink. We repress our desires because we love Jesus. What would He do, ya know?”
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Patrick’s Workplace: “Hey, we need have a meeting to talk about some shit that we’re going to have to do to appease the assholes in Raleigh. Let’s meet tomorrow morning, get this shit over with, and grab a drink after work. How’s that sound?”
Brianna’s Workplace: “Hi everyone. Someone at work got their feelings hurt yesterday because they weren’t doing what they’re paid to do and Brianna told them that Corky from ‘Life Goes On’ could do their job. So we’re going to have a ‘campfire’ chat tomorrow to talk about how we can not hurt one another’s feelings, okay? I want y’all to bring your happy faces.”
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Patrick’s Workplace: “Hey boss, take a look at this shit on peopleofwalmart.com and thereifixedit.com. That’s some funny shit!”
Boss: “Muahhahahhahaha!!!! That’s some funny shit. I’m going to show this to all my buddies when I get home. Nah, fuck it, I’ll do it right now!”
Brianna’s Workplace: Brianna: “Hey bosslady, I found this funny website you should take a look at!”
Boss: Oh no, I can’t look at that. I’m too busy doing important stuff to get my job done today.
Facebook.com Status update, 2:00p.m. Brianna’s Boss : “I’ve just been shown some funny crap by a co-worker. It’s hilarious!” Uh-oh, I need to go, can’t have anyone see that I’ve looked at this website during work. Shit, too late!
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These are some of the examples of the benefits of working with men. Despite their relative unattractiveness (at least to me), there are some good points about working with mostly men.
