You cannot help me because you're a woman!

[ThePhoneGoddess]

God, how annoying is that?

I used to take my car to a garage in Santa Fe that was run by a woman. She had a big ad in the yellow pages with her pic that said 'Woman owned and operated'. And yet people still were dicks to her.

One time I was in the lobby behind this guy who was upset over something, and he asked for the manager. She came out and asked what she could do for him and he sneered at her and said "YOU"RE the manager?!"

She said "yes, I am the manager."

He goes "Don't lie to me. Your husband runs this shop. I wanna speak to him now!"

She pulled out the phone book and shoved the ad in front of his face. "What does that say?" He just looked at it incredulously, and she then told him to get the hell out of her shop and never come back, and he slunk away.

Everyone was laughing at him.

[LifeCarnie]

I get this all the time, 2 out of 3 of my jobs are mainly things that guys do so there are alot of people that think because I am a girl I don't know anything or that I can't handle myself.

This happens at all levels of service. A former manager of mine, who also happens to be one of the best bosses I've had, was subjected to the same kind of discrimination from one of our customers.

The customer wound up talking to her boss and making himself look like a total ass in the process.

[Talon]

Well at least the moron had enough good grace to look embarrassed. An apology would have been even better, but we can't expect miracles right?

[Neo_Classic]

I get that at Home Depot. I went from cashier to Hardware and it was impossible to get some guys to take me seriously. I stopped caring after a while. I get this as a manger too. Oh noes! She can't possibly be a manager.

[pacman]

Exactly. I've just started to practice taekwon-do (ITF version), I've self compiled kernels to Linuxes I've been using for approx 7 years now, I've been in touch with computers since I was 10 so I think I know my way around them too. It's soooooooo annoying when there comes some POS claiming I can't do my job. Even if I prove I can handle computer software and hardware.

[princess4life]

I get this all the time, 2 out of 3 of my jobs are mainly things that guys do so there are alot of people that think because I am a girl I don't know anything or that I can't handle myself.

I have worked in/ with computers for years so when people call with technical questions I can answer just as well as any guy. And then with my security position I have been training on martial arts for 18 years and I am training to be a cop so contrary to some people's belief when they see little me I can handle myself as well.

[pacman]

Hi. I just recently got a customer come in and when I asked if I can help him, he said no.

Here the conversation we got in:

Me:
SC: Old man (doesn't confide in women knowing about computers)

Me: Hi, how can I help you?
SC: You can't.
Me: Please let me hear the problem you're having in case I could after all help you.
SC: No, you can't. You don't know about computers.
Me: Please tell me, I'm sure I can help.
SC: You know about setting passwords to the computer?
Me: Where in the computer do you want to have a password? (meaning, email, computer login, internet account user/pass)
SC: Yes. I told you you can't help me, I'll be waiting for the guy there.
Me:

He waited for the guy (let's call him K here) and K needed to ask ME about the password he was about to set up in the SC's computer. The customer looked a bit embarrassed...