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    So out in Germany I was a Sup for a bunch of contractors, all nice guys that really did their jobs. We worked 12 hour shifts as Tier one support monkeys for about (redacted) amount of users in (redacted) amount of countries. (Don’t ask) lol So on slow nights we would pull up the drone feeds and just watch well, whatever was being watched. (This ties in later)
    So the Contractors on my shift were Big D, Joker V, Mikee, and Priss. Now Big D was a BIG guy he weighed in at 400 pounds and had a heart condition. When he walked to the shop from the parking lot (20 yards) he was so winded he would have to take 20 min to cool / calm down.
    Joker V: was and I quote “Always will to take it too far”
    Mikee: belonged on a hippy farm with Cheech and Chong lol.
    Priss: thankful did not last long.

    One night mid spring Big D comes wheezing into the shop and goes to sit down. He doesn’t like the chair so he goes over to another desk and starts to wheel over its chair to sit in. At this point Joker V says “Big D you are not allowed to use any other chair except the one at your desk” Big D demands to know why so Joker V asked him why he is changing chairs and Big D says well the arms are broken. Joker V asks Big D how the arms got broken and starts to point at the 4 other chairs in the office with broken arms. Big D says well I don’t know. Joker then points out that Big D had broken them all trying to stand up at the end of his shifts and that the head contractor wasn’t going to pay for any more chairs so they had been informed he was No longer allowed to use any chair except the one currently at his desk.
    Later that same night Big D is complaining he just can’t lose any weight no matter how much he diets. He is saying this while eating his standard lunch…. Two cheese burgers with bacon and a whole plate of French fries (about 3 large McDonalds fries worth) We all just stared at him for about 3 min then Mikee says “Well have you thought about I don’t know maybe actually going on a real diet?”

    When Priss started working with us it went downhill fast. After her first night in the shop she filed a formal complaint that all the males in the shop were rude, cussed, and were all around well male’s lol. We were all called in early the next day and told we needed to be more sophisticated…. I just shook my head I knew what was coming.

    For the next week Joker V showed up in a top hat and tails and feigned a British accent. Mikee sported the most outlandish bow tie and talked like Dastardly Whiplash, Big D sulked in his broken chair and I just sent a ton of Tickets to Priss to keep her too busy to have time for complaints.

    One very slow night the Ticket que was all caught up so we decided to see what was on the Drone feed out of (sand in your crotch location) So we are flipping through the feeds the first 2 were on the ground one doing maintenance the other was on a runway, the third was in the air but not looking at anything, the Fourth though was a gold mine of entertainment.

    So The Fourth one is using thermal imagery to watch some (people) in (sand in your crotch location) they have a little camp fire going as its cold at night in the desert. There was about 5 of them all sitting around. As you watch them you have to wonder if they know they are being watched. They wave their arms as they tell their stories, you see them mime shooting, hands go up in the air and wave around people curl up into balls, slap knees and you can almost hear the joke and laughter they are having. Then one guy gets up and walks off in to the dark… except it’s not dark for you, you can see their thermal image like its day time. So we watch as this man walks off about 20 yards we are all wondering what he is doing.. The people controlling the drone on the other side of the world have now focused on him. Is he looking for weapons he left out there earlier? Is he setting a bomb for a convoy later? What is he doing? He squats down and is messing with the ground for about 2 min. What can he be doing, we all speculate… Then he stands and walks back to the group. The thermal camera zooms in on where he was but only for a moment as we all collective Drone operator, desk support monkeys even Priss seemed to figure it out at the same moment… he had just took a dump…. AND at that very moment Big D let a big loud fart go…..

    The next day Priss complained to the higher ups again and they cut her lose. Seems they felt if she couldn’t get along with people on the easiest shift and within her first 2 weeks was talking about suing over bs they didn’t want her.

  • #2
    Jeez, I've worked in shops after women like Priss left and the poor guys were always so scared that I'd be like the overly sensitive woman that just left. Until I'd get pissed off at something and let out a long string of swear words that could have made a trucker blush. After that I was usually treated like just another one of the guys. Mind you, I've been known to be a walking HR issue at times anyways.

    At one shop the previous woman had come back after being on worker's comp for a while and she couldn't figure out why the guys all got along with me but avoided her. I'd get invited to the Friday afternoon beer and bitch sessions while she was always left out. It was actually funny to be sitting in the back of the shop with the guys, beers in hand, as she frowned as she walked past us and out of the building. She did ask me once why she never got invited, and I said something along the lines of "Fuck, I don't know. Maybe because you're a bitch who needs to get laid or something?" By this point she'd already gotten on my bad side so my brain to mouth filter was long since broken.

    I probably would have gotten along great with your crew, Crai!

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    • #3
      The Wife use to work in an automotive shop as a "paper pusher". The staff consisted of the shop manager and six mechanics. She was the only woman. This was out in the boonies of NJ. I don't remember if it was during the job interview or when she first showed up, she caught site of a few "magazines" that were left laying around. Those quickly disappeared. The mechanics where always polite to her, and always quite when she was around.

      After a week or so, she walked in one morning. The guys were in the break room having a cuppa and laughing at what sounded like a dirty joke. When they saw her, they all went quite and kinda pale. She just smiled, paused, then said "How's it hanging guys?" Everyone got along great after that.
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      • #4
        I don't swear, especially at work, and I guess I find fart jokes stupid. But I don't complain, as long as nobody is deliberately trying to make me uncomfortable I just shrug it off. It's a funny stereotype, that women don't swear. I've worked in places with almost exclusively women, and almost exclusively men. The men tried to be professional (tried, and I appreciated it) but the women I've worked with were very foul mouthed. There is a difference between freaking out over every little thing, and just wanting to eat lunch without hearing sex stories. Or giving birth stories. Seriously, ladies, I share the same gender, but that doesn't mean I want to hear this crap. So yeah, at least the guys tried, the girls just share everything.
        Replace anger management with stupidity management.

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        • #5
          For Big D it wasn't a "fart joke" He just was a gassy guy. Most times he was polite about it and left the room just that time at that most perfect moment he let one slip.

          My Understanding from the Higher ups was Priss didn't like the night shift to begin with. She was trying to demand days but the day crew was full and all had seniority. Her complaints were the Males cussed to much, They talked about drinking too much, They commented on women too much, they spoke .mil too much, Big D smelled (short of the gas he wasn't that bad) They didn't dress in suits and ties (They were desk monkeys no need) then there was the, they should all be clean shaved, no pony tails (Mikee) and they should let her have the choice desk even though she was the nugget.

          All around one of those people that just did not want to get along and expected everyone to bend over backwards for them.

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          • #6
            Quoth Crai View Post
            For Big D it wasn't a "fart joke" He just was a gassy guy.
            Ah, I figured it was on purpose. But I guess what I'm saying is that although I'm not "one of the guys," I can still get along with them without complaining, or tattling. To be honest, I'm not super girlie, either. People keep describing me as calm, whatever that means.
            Replace anger management with stupidity management.

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            • #7
              Quoth KuariKaydrith View Post
              At one shop the previous woman had come back after being on worker's comp for a while and she couldn't figure out why the guys all got along with me but avoided her.
              Sucker bet says she thought you were sleeping with them.
              Happiness is the exercise of vital powers along lines of excellence in a life affording you scope.

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              • #8
                Geeze, I would fit in just fine. When I got back into playing EVE Online after the hiatus [ok, after working with my therapist to get over the death of one of my besties who played EO] there were some new guys in corp including the20 year old ADHD brother of the corp head. First hour or so the guys tried their best to gross me out on teamspeak ... a mix of sex, gross out jokes and assorted whatnot including language.

                TMI in white letters So Cobra and I started discussing how my past 3 or 4 years had gone, complete with detailed information on my sex life, medical procedures and new BDSM toys I spotted for my pet complete with descriptions, sound effects and foul language as appropriate [or not]... until all the guys other than cobra and his brother skorpion gradually dropped out of the conversation. Hard to gross out a guy who had worked in an animal breeding farm breeding pigs, and hard to gross out a female who bleeds every month, takes care of small kids and animals and has a seriously foul mouth if she doesn't watch out
                EVE Online: 99% of the time you sit around waiting for something to happen, but that 1% of action is what hooks people like crack, you don't get interviewed by the BBC for a WoW raid.

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                • #9
                  Iv eaten a Popsicle meat Loaf MRE .... You cant gross me out anymore lol. It just isnt possible with that and the stuff I have seen while in .mil land.

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                  • #10
                    For the last five or six years I worked at Random Craft Store I worked on the truck crew and typically would be in the store at some hellish hour. The start time varied on the day, what the SM wanted us to do, if we had a truck that day, or still had stuff from the truck to do. Our typical start times usually was between 2-5 am and we'd often end anywhere between 9-11 am.

                    I should point out that even when I first started working on the truck crew there were, at most, three guys working on said crew at any given time and it consisted of mostly us women. By the time I actually left Random Craft Store the truck crew had about eight people on it and only one of them was male. Most of the guys that worked on the truck crew with us didn't last very long and the ones that did had already been working with us for a few years by then.

                    The complaint I heard the most from the guys was that they didn't believe that us little ladies could do the job properly, some quickly learned that we could kick their asses and still smile pretty. Those that learned that just because we were women didn't mean we couldn't do our job, lasted at least a few months before deciding that they didn't want to be up before the cows came home anymore and found something better.

                    Those that didn't lasted, at most, a week before leaving.
                    Eh, one day I'll have something useful here. Until then, have a cookie or two.

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