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Breaking Gender Cliques at Work?
An anonymous reader asks: "No-one likes finding themselves being the 'odd one out' of a clique, and gender barriers make them harder to break. The question is simple: what can a girl in IT do when she finds herself on the outside of those cliques of boy coworkers? Or inversely, what should groups of boys at work be doing to be more welcoming for that lone girl in the IT office?"
...nothing breaks down barriers like hearing someone from the opposite gender breaking wind.
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Get the guys castrated so they don't wet themselves and yell "OMG B00bIES!"
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I'd suggest throwing out random Monty Python quotes. The best one for this would be walking up to the guys and saying, "Nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean, know what I mean, say no more..."
This guy's the limit!
The question is simple: what can a girl in IT do when she finds herself on the outside of those cliques of boy coworkers?
Your male coworkers know that "shag the boss" (double points if she's a woman too), or "occasionally go topless" would actually be good tips, but their value is probably lost in the blazing glare of stereotype-validation. (shrug)
-Styopa
Cut off your hair and tape down your boobs. For supplemental camoflage, try quoting the simpsons, family guy, and various slashdot cliches.
They'll mistake you for one of their own and no longer be incapable of making eye contact or simple conversation with you.
I suggest breaking the ice with a good joke, like:
Q.) What's the definition of a macho man?
A.) Someone who shaves his balls with a weed wacker
or for the opposite gender:
Q.) What's the definition of a macho woman?
A1.) She suck-starts her Harley.
A2.) She kick-starts her vibrator.
A3.) She rolls her own tampons.
or my personal favorite, always a hit with a ladies:
Q.) How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A.) (preferably delivered interupting the other party) That's not funny!
These jokes are gauranteed to make an impression on the opposite sex.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
and boys should bathe once a week, even if they don't need it, to welcome the IT chick.
I had woman co-worker who insisted everyone goes out to lunch and sit together at the same time. That was cool. After she left for a job closer to home, everyone went back to their old ways.
Who hasn't sat through sexual harrassment training
I haven't. But I'm getting better with practise.
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Ok, I understand that Golf isn't exactly, say, marathon running. But you get more exercise COOKING? What do you, cook on a treadmill? Buy 50-lb bags of sugar and flour and lift them repeatedly? Chase after the pigs and cows you're going to eat personally?
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This reminded me of a comment when I first started working where I work ow. I would almost always do lunch with the same woman (let's call her Anne). Finally, a co-worker worked up the nerve in the elevator and said "People are starting to talk about you and Anne. You guys are always doing lunch out of the building together." Without missing a beat I said "And I already have a key to her place!" Thier jaw dropped but after the awkward pause I said "She is my sister-in-law." We just happened to work on the same floor of the same building.
"If you are on fire you can just stop, drop, and roll. If you fall into Lava you are just dead." - my 5yr old daughter
Personally, I'm still working on getting my social skills *up to* that level.
oh, man! you mean there are levels?
what was the part about boobs, again, though?
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Then what in the ring-tailed rambling fuck are you doing here on Slashdot? If it doesn't run Linux, go "beep", "bang", or "vroom", we're not interested in it.
> Additional information: I'm male, software engineer.
Every engineer should have a wife and a mistress. He can tell his wife he's spending the night with his mistress, and tell his mistress he's spending the night with his wife, and finally have enough peace and quiet to get back into the lab and get some fracking work done!
What if you're all going out to have group sex?
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
and take off your shirt.
"As Batman said, find some common interests with your coworkers"
Um what movie was that in?
Batman in a batman original: 'BATMAN: The behind a desk years'
Watch in horor as he battles the deadly stacks of TPS reports..
Marvel at his ingenuity as he uses smoke bombs to evade customer inquries!
Feel his pain at having to refill the water cooler... again...
Comming soon! from the makers of 'BATMAN: Batman builds a deck' and 'BATMAN: Journey to the bottom of a case of beer'
I'll just use my special getting high powers one more time...
According to Ms Magazine, nothing breaks the ice for a woman at work like wearing a halter top, an ass tat, and short-shorts.
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Then you're far too mature for Slashdot.
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Sensitivity training = being paid to do nothing. You don't need to force someone to do that.
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I've beaten off clueless geeks once or twice before, and I haven't found a good way to do it. Plenty of lube and a solid pair of safety glasses might be a good start.* *You asked for it, and damn am I glad we don't work together. That would surely have gotten me reprimanded.
Self-referential sigs are rarely entertaining.
>I've beaten off clueless geeks once or twice before, and I haven't found a good way to do it.
Slowly, with baby oil.
BWAHAHAHAHhahahahaha couldn't resist.
OJ Simpson was investigated, tried, and ultimately acquitted of being a murderer. Yet how many people still think he did it?
Isn't that different?
I mean... he did do it...
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I say Bullshit. You don't want to be accused of sexual harrasment? More like you're afraid of the embarassment of being rejected. Grow a fucking pair. Everybody's telling you don't do this, don't do that. And you obey. You listen. Is it making you happy?
I say fuck that. I say I do whatever I feel like, whenever I feel like it, all the time. You gonna get fired if you hit on some hot blonde? They gonna ostracize you? You gonna be disappeared? Instead of you being afraid of everyone, they should be afraid of you.
As for you lone IT girl.
Are you hot? Didn't think so. You're of no use to me or anyone else. "Please help me everyone! I don't know how to make friends." You're pathetic. If you did a little exercise, and dyed your hair blonde maybe people would notice you. But you can't. That's why you are who you are. But hey, these people that you want to be friends with, they're probably assholes anyway. Don't sweat it.
Or really just Drinking. Simple.
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