Posted on 10/15/2015 4:36:10 PM PDT by sparklite2
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Woman in a Meeting: “I have to say — I’m sorry — I have to say this. I don’t think we should be as scared of non-fear things as maybe we are? If that makes sense? Sorry, I feel like I’m rambling.”
“Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”
Woman in a Meeting: “I’m not an expert, Dave, but I feel like maybe you could accomplish more by maybe shifting your focus from asking things from the government and instead looking at things that we can all do ourselves? Just a thought. Just a thought. Take it for what it’s worth.”
“Let my people go.”
Woman in a Meeting: “Pharaoh, listen, I totally hear where you’re coming from on this. I totally do. And I don’t want to butt in if you’ve come to a decision here, but, just, I have to say, would you consider that an argument for maybe releasing these people could conceivably have merit? Or is that already off the table?”
“I came. I saw. I conquered.”
Woman in a Meeting: “I don’t want to toot my own horn here at all but I definitely have been to those places and was just honored to be a part of it as our team did such a wonderful job of conquering them.”
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Bull.
This is more like something millennials would say.
Yeah, it does resonate with the culture of “reach out to” and “share with you.” The war on masculinity is mostly over. Masculinity lost.
"What would you like in your coffe?
My only regret is that those 12 seconds are forever gone.
What utter crap.
And this is from the bastion of Liberalism - The Washington Post.
Just a tad condescending...
No, it’s true. Women are often very apologetic for their ideas and their statements. It’s because otherwise, they’re referred to as “b*tchy,” while with a man, it would simply be considered strong and direct.
Sucks for us millennial women who like actual men.
ROTFLMFAO!!!
This was DEAD ON!!!
Women in business are typically a failure and never direct, always wordy and apologetic, and rarely provide any level of commitment.
Other person: “Yeah, I know we didn’t deliver last week, but we have other commitments.”
Woman: “Gosh, OK, well, let’s see...um....maybe we can work on the impediments to your success to deliver for us in this department. Maybe we can revisit your workload and realign your strategic goals to ours and see if that helps. Anyone have any suggestions for this? I mean, we need to get this accomplished soon and I don’t think we can suffer any setbacks. Let’s see about maybe more resources for this project. How about we run this up the flagpole and see what falls out? (Women LOVE to mix metaphors!) I am sorry if this sounds harsh but I am disappointed that delivery wasn’t made...oh...not disappointed in you, just that I needed this done already. I hope you feel encouraged to try to get this done for us. We don’t need any words of discouragement. So let’s all work together and strategize for our team. We’re all one big team and we need to work together, OK? OK, everybody, good meeting!”
Work either never gets done or is half-assed completed, if ever.
Man: “Just why the hell not?? We gave you plenty of time for this! I’ll escalate this right after this meeting. This work will get done. I’ll find someone who can do this since you haven’t yet and I don’t have a commitment to a delivery date!”
Work gets done immediately or new workers are engage and the old workers go work for the woman.
I don’t buy this argument, that women in the workplace are unfairly accused of being “bossy” or aggressive.
From what I’ve seen, a great many of them, especially the ones yearning to “climb the ladder” ARE overly bossy and aggressive! I think they believe they need to “act like men” in order to be respected in the business world, and so they adopt this caricature of how they think a man would behave, focusing only on being more aggressive and not all the other qualities of men.
Now, the smarter ladies can be as feminine as they want (feminine, not skanky!), and they’ll still get respect because they get the job done. That is really the secret to earning men’s respect in the workplace, not being loud, or assertive, or “not taking crap”. Just do the job as good as the next guy (or better), don’t cause drama while you’re doing it, and you’ll get respect.
Sounds more lime how academe would have us all state these quotes without white privalege. Sounds like Obama circa college days.
There is some truth to this. Men and women do communicate differently; Marines even more so.
I ask my girlfriend when she will be home and she will give me her itinerary. Ask me and I give you a time.
It could also be famous quotes the way a Canadian might say them.
Today I was talking to an employee who was scared that he would be attacked because a project was late. Pam wanted the work done ASAP and he hadn't started it. I asked him: "Has Pam actually given you the assignment yet?"
He went on and on and on and made excuse after excuse. He stuttering. He's stammering. It was maddening.
When he finally stopped, I said: "It was a simple question, and I knew the answer -- The answer was simply "No". She hasn't given you the assignment. So you are not late. Put on your big boy pants and don't be afraid of people who haven't even asked you to do anything. Pam is not your boss. I am. Don't be afraid of Pam. And you don't have to be afraid of me either -- but if I ask you a Yes or No question, please give me a Yes or No response. I don't have a lot of time."
I couldn't say that to a woman, though. She'd call me a sexist because it would make her cry.
The author of that writes for a blog called the ComPost blog. I kid you not.
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