Random Women Describe Subtly Annoying Things Their Male Coworkers Do To Them (15 items)

• (#4) When Men Assume A Female Is Their Underling

  From Redditor Unicorn_Swag:

  "I work in tech support and have been here long enough that I lead my team and train up all our new hires. People reach out to me from around the world to get my opinions on things in our environment and I'm respected by a lot of people.

  A guy (who I actually trained) referred to me as a secretary when he was asking me for help. He didn't get my help.
• (#3) When Men Label Women By Body Parts

  From Redditor adagirlshel:

  "I had a manager yell all the way across the shop, 'Hey you, with the vagina, well, I can't remember your name.' Classy."
• (#14) When Men Create A Boys' Club

  From Redditor ski_hye:

  "I work in a large IT office and while the day-to-day is fine, there have been some issues I dealt with. One was a male manger who always took the guys on the team out for drinks and played golf on the weekends, but wouldn't do anything with the rest of the team. I can't prove it or anything, but I feel like it hurt my career a bit as I was not given opportunities the guys got..."
• (#1) When Men Are Allowed To Scream, But Women Aren't Allowed To Cry

  From Redditor IfWishezWereFishez: 

  "When I worked at a broadcasting company, we had two engineers, a man and a woman. It was an extremely stressful job. They were constantly getting yelled at by the higher ups if a signal went out or whatever.

  When a stressful situation came up, the male engineer lashed out. He'd yell and kick things and throw things. Once, he threw a heavy office stapler and it narrowly missed hitting me in the head. He'd kick over trash cans, throw things on the ground, etc. This was just accepted as normal.

  The female engineer was very level-headed. One time, the higher ups were just being relentlessly awful to her, so she excused herself to the bathroom with tears in her eyes, where she clearly went to cry.

  For days, nearly everyone at the company was buzzing with gossip about her and how maybe she wasn't really up for the job, since she was clearly so 'emotional.' I was pretty shocked and kept bringing up the male engineer, but a lot of people were like, 'Oh, that's not being emotional though!' And I'd say, 'Anger is an emotion and he's like that nearly every day.' Then I'd get blank stares. It pissed me off soooo much."
• (#6) When Men Enforce A One-Sided Dress Code

  From Redditor bubbles0luv:

  "I was the first and only girl hire at a small start-up for a while and took a cue from my coworkers and generally wore jeans and a tee everyday, unless I had a client meeting or something like that. My bosses called me in at one point and said I needed to dress more "appropriately." I was the only one asked to do this."
• (#13) When Men Play Cubicle Psychologist

  From Redditor firefawkes23: 

  "My old functional manager and my project manager more often attempt to help me 'manage my feelings' than they do for men I work with. This means I'm not given feedback as often or as completely, and people 'check in' on how I'm feeling about different tasks more often. If I express frustration - or even just state that there are or were difficulties - they treat my emotions as the issue, rather than my actual issue.

  I know they're often trying to be helpful and considerate, but it means I have to police my demeanor pretty heavily to make sure I'm not conveying emotion so that we can focus on the task at hand. I do not want my emotions to be discussed or 'managed' by others, especially at work."

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