Reply #74: and you are mine!!! [View All]

[FormerOstrich]

I was all about climbing that corporate ladder for a very long time. It wasn't really a glass ceiling.....I am not sure how to explain. I am sure you know what I mean.

This post made a flood of memories surface. When I started, I was an Accounting major, Industrial Technology minor at SMSU. I worked days and went to school nights. The accounting classes usually had a couple of other females, but my Industrial Tech classes never did. I was virtually the only female there. At the same time I launched my programming career. Women were few and far between.

For years you were expected just to roll with it. It was a struggle to get your superiors to make eye contact. Hello up here... I totaled my car and collapsed a lung. The boys comments included that they hoped they has saved the seeds to those watermelons...you learned to fend it off and be one of the boys. When the boss sends you flowers and "secret admirer" cards you explained that perhaps it wasn't appropriate...very nicely...hey up here....

Improved..well I like to think so but I think more it's just disguised. Then something like these re-enforces it. I often wondered exactly how much the men in the room gave a shit about my presentation when I knew they were surfing porn sites not 5 minutes before. But it's not fair, I can wear men's clothing without negative stigma.

It may have taken me over twenty years but I finally got it. I abandoned the corporate ladder and try to survive under the radar.

Yes, we need to stick together. Something we are not very good at because we have been conditioned otherwise. Forget that...I mean it. Men aren't going to look out for us, only we can look out for us.

You need my help I'm there for you and I'm not just saying it. PM me and we'll swap war stories and strategize on getting some men elected!