Posted on 09/02/2022 11:43:45 PM PDT by Angelino97
When the Wing first opened its doors in Flatiron in 2016 as a pioneering, women-only coworking space, it became a phenomenon. Founders Audrey Gelman and Lauren Kassan raised more than $100 million from investors like WeWork and Airbnb. At its peak, it had 11 locations...
But things took a sudden turn the following year. In June 2020, Gelman stepped down after employees protested her leadership and alleged mistreatment of black and brown staffers. It was the beginning of the end.
Earlier this week, Wing members received an email announcing that the club’s six remaining locations would be closing due to “increasing global economic challenges” and “the backdrop of the Covid pandemic.” For many former members, the news came as no surprise — with some feeling it was even good riddance.
“It was a gossipy very toxic environment for my team,” Kanessa Tixe, a Wing member in 2018 and the founder of marketing and PR entertainment company TS Collective, told The Post. “It was all a PR machine. You can hire all the black, and Spanish and white women you want, but if you’re not setting up a culture appropriately, it is going to crumble. I think it became too much of a hype of female empowerment.”
The strict rules at the club, which cost members $185 to $200 per month, didn’t always foster #GirlBoss success, especially for those using it as a coworking space daily. ...
Tixe said she felt tension from employees who frequently told her to lower her voice while on calls and in meetings in her office space. She was eventually asked to surrender her membership after a staffer said she offended one of the employees for using the term “home girl” in a light-hearted and friendly context.
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Never heard of it
“I was ASTOUNDED at the number of kidz wearing masks, inside AND OUTSIDE”
Not just up north. Colleges all around are actually requiring students to wear masks on campus. Some of them even demanding jabs. It is pure insanity. That, or the continued indoctrination of the next generation of voters.
Sounds like Kamala’s office.
At the same time, there were LOTS of unmasked kidz stumbling down the streets who were clearly inebriated, licking doorknobs, etc.
Just like the good old days. There is some hope for humanity.
I wonder if Lia Thomas would have used this service if it needed temporary office space.
I owned a clinic with one other male veterinarian and twelve female employees. There was always drama, turmoil, and backstabbing. I am glad I am retired and far away from that headache. Early in my career we had one female receptionist and all other employees were male and we had few problems. Once the female numbers increased so did the problems.
$100 million was lost on this totally stupid idea ...
I definitely agree with the isolation. People are social animals, and we’re not meant to be surrounded by fear.
Stuck in your house watching the news 24/7 is a terrible idea...
“… who eagerly shelled out nearly $3,000 in initiation fees to join the Wing in 2018.”
“ Founders Audrey Gelman and Lauren Kassan raised more than $100 million from investors like WeWork and Airbnb. At its peak, it had 11 locations across New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Chicago, a 9,000 person waitlist…”
I’m sure they’re crying as they drink their pina coladas on some private beach in the Caribbean.
I’m fourth of five. I’m not a people person……
I hope the blimp in blue is not meant as an advertisement for their services…
My wife works at a nursing home with mostly other woman. They've finally got a group that gets along fairly well but for years she would come home and rant for a half hour about all the drama and fighting amongst the cliques.
I have worked in an all male environment (shipboard, US Navy) and in a largely all female environment (Hospital) and have found advantages and disadvantages to both.
These observations are not focused on competency or getting the job done as in the entirety of a job from point A to point B where you might say “I took a boat from Point A to Point B”.
It is more about the nature of the journey from Point A to Point B. In both cases you get from Point A to Point B, but the way you get there might be quite different.
Being a guy in a nearly all female environment is interesting and fun if the women are interesting and fun, and since I like the female sex, I generally enjoyed it. But I found that when things get tough or unpleasant, women are less likely in my opinion to just put their head down and work. They tend to be more vocal and interactive with others.
When I was in the Navy, when things got tough or unpleasant, there was plenty of bitching and moaning, but a far higher preponderance of both men simply ignoring it and putting their heads down and working while grunting “uh huh” or saying “Jesus Christ, will you shut up? I’m tired of hearing you bitch. You signed up for this.”
There seemed a higher percentage of men who simply hunkered down and worked harder, and possibly, a higher percentage of men who tried to skate or loaf. (I wonder if this is somehow related to the IQ distribution of men, where there are a higher proportion of men at the extremely high end of the IQ range than women, but at the same time, proportionally higher numbers of men in the low IQ range as well. Women tend to not show that in their sexually based IQ distribution)
In a mostly female environment, things were more verbal and interactive, and the volume would often rise to where my male ears would simply wish for people to pipe down and get back to work.
This isn’t universal, by the way. Both men and women could be professional and unprofessional in these settings, but I found men to be more inclined to just zip it and put their head into their work as a way of dealing with an unpleasant work environment. I prefer this, unsurprisingly, because I am an average guy.
Just my own observations.
“...because I am an average guy.”
No, you are not. You are above average.
Just my own observations.
I would agree with your analysis.
When I was in the USAF, there was one female in our SCIF, and she was an officer, so no fraternizing.
I also worked at an upscale fitness center, where I was the only guy. I did the heavier/dirty work, but they were nice and super hot, so I didn’t mind.
I spent the vast majority of my career as an IT Network Engineer, deploying and supporting networks all across the USA for various major companies, during that time I estimate the good vs bad managers I’ve had was 50% or higher were poor to terrible managers, I suffered from a fatal flaw, I would speak my mind even if it was to my detriment.
The last job I had, a new female manager took over and in our first team meeting she introduced herself and said without anyone asking, “I’m a High Achiever”, I knew instantly she was trouble, when thens went bad, she was quick to throw engineers under the bus, she also was not an engineer but just a project manager.
Another Female manager I had oversaw about 20-25 engineers and came from a HR background with not Engineering experience at all, she would hold mandatory team meetings where the topic would be the company profits and stock price, which didn’t affect the team at all, she eventually got rid of me because after a series of screw ups on her part I had enough and told her she was not qualified to manage engineers and should go back to HR where she came from, needless to say my days were numbered.
My first manager out of college was a male, who did have engineering experience but was totally insecure and was an ass kisser, I had been out of town for a few days on assignment and something went wrong in the office and when I returned he started dressing me down in front of the entire team, I snapped, put my index finger in his chest pushing him back and yelling back at him, hoping he would take a swing at me so I could deck the SOB, he tried to get rid of me but failed when everyone in the office spoke up in support.
Bottom line, they’re no hard and fast rules when it comes to terrible managers, male and female are both capable of being terrible.
In the ICU or CCU there ain’t time for verbal
Well that’s their problem right there she has the black finger of fail.
Just don’t ‘pull a toobin’
Tape over the camera, audio only.
:)
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