I want a man

[Cookiesaur]

In the sultriest voice possible, you could have responded: "So do I."

Ahahaha.

We had the opposite problem in our bakery, which was predominantly female with the exception of one fellow who worked for us briefly one winter. He was told, point blank, by several customers that they would rather speak to one of us womenfolk, because they didn't believe a man knew anything about baking. Poor guy.

You handled that better than I would have.

[Ironclad Alibi]

The first thing out of his mouth is "I want a man."

In the sultriest voice possible, you could have responded: "So do I."

[jerkface11]

Good lord 2 hours? Our tech support has people answer the phone and take our info then they call us back if they're that busy.

[Akasa]

tropicsgoddess's thread about the Texan reminded me of this call.

This took place back in the mid 90's. In the entire call center there was only 2 women, including myself. Tech support was so male dominated that I had to be better than the guys to get ANY respect and got paid less.
The cue wait time was constantly at 2 hours. (They just would NOT hire enough people to cover the cue and bring the time down. That's a post in itself.)
I get this one middle eastern man who deems that I'm not good enough to talk to. The first thing out of his mouth is "I want a man." I try to work with him, try to get the basic information out of him, but no, I get nothing but "You're a woman, you can't know what you are doing. Give me a man." Yes he really had the nerve to say that. He decided to yell at me for trying to worm info out of him and *gasp* trying to fix his problem.
I mention that all other techs are busy on calls and I don't have the ability to transfer him so just let me try to help you. Repeat that I am a woman and can't possibly know what I am doing.
I'm pissed at this point. I'm better than 90% of the men on the floor and they know it, yet I'm not good enough cause I'm a woman and get yelled at for being a woman.
I drop him back in the cue. Statistics are on his side. Only 2 women are in the call center so he has a good chance of getting a man... in about 2 more hours. Since he wouldn't give me any information there's no proof he talked to anyone.
I swear if you have to hold for 2 hours for help, take what you get!