Before I rant I want to plug my amigo Matt's new non-profit: Free Kick!
It is a really cool idea for soccer lovers all around the world. Take a minute to check it out.
Now on to something I noticed and pondered today while I was at work.
It is really funny to me how some of the women I work with are constantly speed-walking through the hallways to each other's offices. I have always enjoyed working with women in an office-type situation. Women are very hard workers. One thing I have noticed after working in predominantly women employed businesses, however, is the intensity at which many women work.
I notice that I feel like many of the women I have worked with force themselves to prove their metal constantly. Maybe its because I'm a guy and they want me to feel like they are just as good or better at what they do then I am, (and boy are they!) but either way the women I have worked with tend to become speedy stress-balls. Always jetting from place to place on a serious mission from God even if its to ask to go out to lunch.
Often, the women I have worked with create chaos in order to maintain their environment of stress because perhaps they work best in a stressful environment. I assume the male counterpart would be fear. A unbalanced male manager would ensure that his subordinates are afraid to loose their job, while an unbalanced female manager would create chaos to the point that an employee would forfeit their job. I don't know. All I know is that after a while I have learned to sift through what is important to stress about, and what to completely blow off.
The man's secret to cohabitation: pick your battles.
Obviously this is just based on my own experience, and says nothing about how I feel about having woman superiors... Yet I find it so interesting that I have had very few male managers and co-workers in my life.
In other news, I am now a proud owner of a 2002 Honda Civic. It is an awesome grandma car with a luxurious champagne paint-job. A commuters dream. Even though I only drive 20mi. to work it still makes life more interesting. Now I can visit my friends who live farther then 10mi away without wondering if I will make it home.
And here is a more meaningful and artistic picture.
