I only cry when I get mad and then I get madder because I'm crying:')
Been in my current position for 14 years. I've cried at work twice.
Once when I was madder'n'dammit and, yes, I got angry at myself for doing it and that made it harder to turn off the tears.
Second time was when I received a phone call that, when evaluated, told me my stepdad had given up on life and would die soon. I went quietly outside and gazed at the mountains until I could control the waterworks. The guys who work for me would not have even known I was drizzling if one of them hadn't come out to ask me how to proceed on an issue.
I work for a retired Army artillery lieutenant colonel. He's a chauvanist pig from way back. Had a female working for me who didn't like my enforcing the company policy of no flex time. She went over my head to the him. He allowed her to take the time off. I called him and told him either he support me enforcing company policy or he needed to come over and run my lab. He meekly said he wouldn't do it again (LOL!).
The next time she asked for flex time, I told her no. She said that he'd told her she could. I immediately said, "Let's go talk to him" and marched her over to his office. She sat down in his office with me standing there and she started crying. He caved. I was astonished since I'd caught her in a flat-out lie that he also recognized.
I sent her back to the lab and just looked at him, standing there with my arms crossed. He looked down at his desk and fiddled with his pens and said that he didn't handle crying females well. I agreed with him. He promised that he wouldn't EVER allow her to walk on him again. I said, "I'm watching."
He didn't, but then, she moved on in a couple of months to another company. I understand that she's broken up two marriages up there so far. She is the kind who gives ALL women in the workplace a bad name. I've also heard that she still cries at the drop of a hat when confronted and gets her way.