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LadyEllen -> RE: How many women have ever felt discreminated against at work? (3/6/2008 2:39:28 AM)
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Illustrative story, from the annals of transition
Prior to transition I was general manager of the company I worked for; hiring/firing, supervising and managing the place to healthy growth for three years. This success was hardly surprising, since I had all the qualifications, foreign languages and experience required.
After I started transition, the company brought in three guys to do my job - their thinking was that we were at the stage now (thanks to my efforts) where expansion was needed. Meanwhile I took a job in marketing, no longer customer/supplier facing whilst I transitioned. Apart from this move, the only thing that was agreed was that from now on they would treat me like any of the other women in the office.
And they did.
Now, I want everyone to concentrate hard, and try to think just who it might have been who was then taken to be the personal secretary of these three new guys and the CEO? Any ideas?
Next, try to guess who it might have been, in management meetings with four guys in the room and me as supposed marketing manager, that was told to take the minutes and make the coffees? Anyone getting the drift?
Oh yes, they treated me like a woman alright. Except their ideas of what a woman is and is for were firmly stuck in about 1982. I kicked up such a stink they eventually "encouraged" me to leave, especially for the terrible sin of me telling them they were doing it all exactly wrong; three of them couldnt do the job I had combined for three years - but then their only qualification was their gender.
Never mind. They were doing it all so exactly wrong they went bust within 18 months, and I started my own company competing with them, and we're still here.
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