Yes, don't trust me....

[Mnemjian]

This sexist b******t must happen in every line of work. Especially towards younger-looking girls, because they couldn't possibly know as much as the big strong men! :P

At my store I get this a lot too. Usually it's elderly gentlemen, but it could be anybody. In the past I've been working with my male coworker, and he'll be busy ringing somebody up or be otherwise engaged. I'm not busy, so I ask if they need help. It's happened where I am ignored by the customer or just kind of given a funny look, and they will actually wait until he is available to ask him a question which I could have easily answered. Oh, well....

This reminds me of a tech support call I got once. A man with a really heavy Texan drawl (apologies to any Texans in the viewing audience!) specifically asked me to put a man on the phone. My brain-to-mouth filter failed and I responded:

"I will as soon as you do, sir."

It shut him up, we worked through his issue, and he thanked me and apologized for being an ass at the start of the call.

Bwahahahaha!! Good one! It's nice that he apologized, too.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Happens to me all the time, and I'm male, so it's not the customer being sexist, just an idiot.

"Excuse me, do you carry [totally random product that my store doesn't sell]?"
"No we do not, sorry. You may want to try looking at [store that has a prayer of carrying the product]."

2 minutes later, over the walkies...

"Can anyone tell me if we carry [random product]?"
"No we do not, I just told that same guy that 2 minutes ago."

Ugghhh, I hate Hate HATE this.

I know exactly what we do and do not carry in this store. I'm a stockboy. I look at all the shit every time we get a truck. So when I tell you we don't have the item you asked me for, take my word for it and don't go looking for a second opinion, kthnxbai.

[Try to Fly]

Ugh. This is the reason why I want to quit my job. See, it isn't the customers that are sexist, it is mangement.
They make girls on register, boys on floor period! It sucks. The boys get paid a LOT better, but they refuse to move girls.
I was just told that I will be the first girl in the history of the store to be moved to electronics....the store has been in business for over 30 years....

[Leopardmadcat]

I loved the call center group I last worked with, great people! Lady behind me got the inevitable sexist shithead who of course could not believe the lady tech's pronouncement of a dead motherboard... (nevermind that at the time that series of comp had a literal epidemic of dying boards...)

So he demanded to speak to a MALE tech who would of course know his business and automagicaly fix his system. So he gets transfered to the only other tech on at that dreadfull hour... ME!

I listen to his whining about bad video and lockups and spontaneous reboots and how it has to be the hard drive I was struggling to keep a professional voice of concern and wonder at this machines horrible symptoms... all the while using hand signals to 'talk' to my coworker who was signaling her 'agitation' with this creep.

Anyhow after he finishes talking I hum and haw and finally pronounce "Wow, that sounds serious! I've never seen a computer with all those symptoms... Let me get our department head senior tech and see what can be done." I put him on hold for a few minutes, then pass my headset over to her!

I think he finally got the hint...

[smileyeagle1021]

Ugh. This is the reason why I want to quit my job. See, it isn't the customers that are sexist, it is mangement.
They make girls on register, boys on floor period! It sucks. The boys get paid a LOT better, but they refuse to move girls.
I was just told that I will be the first girl in the history of the store to be moved to electronics....the store has been in business for over 30 years....

oh I got that when I worked for the movie theatre... women worked box office, men worked door (the person who checked tickets and cleaned between sets) and both could work in concessions.
... oh yeah, and if ever heavy lifting needed to be done they would always ask the guys to do it (granted that really was legit... I don't mean to sound sexist because I know there are a lot of women who could bench a lot more than me... because the girls who worked at the theatre were kinda wimpy).

[Buglady]

I used to get that a lot at the thrift store I volunteered at one semester. People buying furniture would ask, "Isn't there a boy that could get this for us?"

Me: "Nope!" *cheerfullypicks up armchair by herself* "Where are you parked?"

Pet food store here, 30-50 lb bags of dog food... the guys are often a bit surprised when I pick up the bags, but usually recover quickly enough. There was one woman who really, REALLY wanted a Man to carry her bag of food out for her.

She bought an 8 lb bag...

[silverskys]

Im just over 5 feet tall and Im curvey in the distracting way. Up until three days ago I had bleach blond hair. I work in the paint, pluming and electrical department, when the manager isent there or my senior co worker out of the rest of us I am the one who been there longer. People come to me ask for a guy I point them to the T-man, who at most times come back to me. Their faces the expression when they caome back to me and I give them the look (you know the cross between told you so and whos the dumbshit now?).

The best is when a woman wants something, I go help, I help abit it takes me a moment or two to give you an answer cause I READ THE PACKAGE, before answering you. In that time you stop the housewares (male) co-worker (he tell her that I would get the anser for me) and any male customer that happens to wander by. In the end I give her the info she was looing for and she tells me "you should really have a male here with you, he would know so much more."
my responce, "I do have a male working with me and hes a dumbass, thank you for supporting your own gender in the work place mam. your darling husban must love you, please leave before you insult me even more." I turn and low and behold my manager and my dumass coworker are standing not 10 feet from me. T-man is smiling all ready and my manager is shaking so hard from laughter. My responce "Your not a dumbass, I just wanted to prove her wrong."

SO for a moment I thought i was going to get fired but my manager though I was beyond funny so I shared so of my latenight coffee serving at Tim's storys. He shared some with the other managers later that day.

[Misanthropical]

The first call center I worked in, I would have men insist on speaking with another man, since I wouldn't know what I was talking about.

I would transfer them to Joe who would listen to the question and tell them he didn't know, but he would ask the person who would know. He would then yell out my name and ask me, without putting the guys on hold or covering the headset, so the guys would hear him ask me.

In my call center now, I had a woman who told me I had no idea what I was talking about and to put a supervisor on the phone. I put BossMan on the phone and he told her the exact same thing I just did and she couldn't stop praising him. I was a bit on that, since it was the same thing I told her.