mrdespues said:

Ain't THAT the truth! The benifits are excellent tho...

Have I ever been treated unfairly at work?

Hmm, let me see...

BlackBuddy said:

i hope it's just a phase that you're going through. stay mindful of your work, don't waste your time worrying about them too much. And if you don't like the job and feel like you're volunteering for no reason then be strong because there's nothing you can do about them. there's so much more to gain when we can share. nothing comes too easy.

mrdespues said:

everything is under much tighter control in australia. doctors are oblidged to give patient's stats to some other goverment department. if a patient see's a doctor they sure their stats are being recorded and sent off.

my posts are missing from the thread ???

Just remember SHIT ROLLS DOWN HILL Luckily I'm near the top of the hill

I think everyone deals with a certain degree of bull crap at work. But often times I feel people overreact and don't understand how to take constructive criticism, people get all uptight and defensive, they have a complex that makes them feel like it is impossible for them to ever make mistakes at work. Reality check people, if you are human, you screw up from time to time at work. If you can take the criticism with a grain of salt, apply what is being directed at you when it is in fact true, and ignore the other crap that you know is 100% false you will be okay at work. As for the victim mentality, get over yourself already, if you hate your job so much, find one your passionate for. I love what I do, there are parts that suck about my job, but hell it only makes up 10% of my job (as a teacher I.E.P's, parent conferences, and as a coach "why isn't my kid playing") but the other 90% kicks ass. Get paid to do what you love and you'd probably bitch a lot less about being treated unfairly.
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BlackBuddy said:

absolutely understand what that's all about. the female gender is oppressed all over this planet. i speak out about this issue and participate in women's movements to work for change but alas, the world prefers women as the underdogs
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XxAxX said:

Anyone with a pair of tits where I work have it easier

GaryTheNoTrashCougar said:

bullshit. i'm talking about a planetwide system of oppression.

XxAxX said:

It's a shame it will never change.

I work with 80 % women at my job, they have good ideas and can contribute mightily, but male teachers do things from a totally different perspective, and the female colleagues of mine will usually be receptive to things I say, just as long as I am receptive to certain ideals of theirs and just as long as I visit that gossip, clique bound hell hole that is the teachers lounge once or twice a week.

GaryTheNoTrashCougar said:

let's have a great big round of applause for Mr. I'm a Part of the Problem

XxAxX said:

I think you misunderstood me. I would want it to change, but I'm just saying that I doubt it will change. Life's not fair we all know that.

GaryTheNoTrashCougar said:

no misunderstanding i'm saying as long as people accept the so-called status quo things will forever remain as they are. it's just like racism. we have to work to effect change

XxAxX said:

The problem here is we have extremists on both sides of the coin, that need to seek a middle ground of compromise. Can't we all just get along? (or at least find some common ground?)

karmatornado said:

sure. the day women get paid the same wage as men for the same work and the day we can live our lives without fear of becoming that grisly statistic of one in four of us being the victim of physical, domestic abuise.

that'll be the day, hey?

XxAxX said:

But then who would raise the children?

GaryTheNoTrashCougar said:

first we'll genitally mutilate you, then we'll slap a burhka on you and you're it, nanny of the month sound good? it's reality for thousands of women, every day

XxAxX said:

Would you say that's a product of religion? Or would it have happened anyway?

btw, would you make similar jokes/comments if we were talking about racism instead of about egnder inequality?

what impulse goads you to resist every point i've made?
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XxAxX said:

Doesn't this part of the discussion belong in the politics and religion forum. I'm all for the woman here them roar stuff, but only in its proper place.

"hear", karma. "hear" them roar

XxAxX said:

and this is why I teach special ed

XxAxX said:

Yes, start a thread about it

karmatornado said:

why is ed so special?

GaryTheNoTrashCougar said:

nah. i'm done drinking my coffee. you're out of interesting things to say.


ta!

The closest i ever got to being treated unfairly was at this TM job I had. Me and this other girl, my age at the time, like 20, got promoted to "outbounds". Which was like a big deal for both of us, cuz we were pretty much in charge of a whole room of telemarketers, and it was like "a real job" to US at the time. And we both really took it seriously.

Well we used to have to go to these meeting once a month for all the other OutB's from the other offices. Well, our boss (a 30 something married pervert) told us that we had to wear a skirt to the meeting, cuz thats what everyone wears. So we go in our lil skirts and dontcha know it, no one else had skirts on. So that was fine.

But then this other time, for our Christmas party, all the offices have it at this hotel. Theres like outta staters and stuff. So our boss was like. Daniela and Tonya, the rule is that your not allowed to bring boyfriends as your guest. Everyone else can, but the rule for OutB's is NO BOYFRIENDS. Then our female manager was like. Yeah dress hot, so U's look better than the OutB's from other offices. SO we do, and we go solo.....

Here the A**Holes sat us with 2 pervs from outta state and totally was like handing us over to them on a platter!!!!!

Ummmmm, then theres massage clients, but yeah. yanno.

XxAxX said:

I was patronizing