Binary wrote on Apr 30
th, 2016 at 2:03am:
Girls at my work are the first to get on their phones.
Maybe they should work instead.... just saying....
I used to work for the commonwealth public service... I once stumbled in early, since I was trying to work up 'flex time' to go to a university course, by working from 8 to 6.... to encounter the 'tea club' of all the girls who came in at 8 am every day religiously, and were thus considered 'reliable and stable' (whereas I, with flexible hours and creating entire systems and with an exceptional work performance, was considered 'questionable') - when they were sitting around and chatting and drinking tea.....
They were shocked and immediately felt under threat for being found out as 'tea drinkers' and not working.... one of them later complained that I had been nasty to her when I came in, when all I had done was say 'good morning'... and instead of the 'tea club' being cancelled and the girls made to do their work instead - I was drawn over the coals.... as their senior, I had the right, which I did not even remotely consider, of ordering them to get to work.... instead I only wanted to do my own work after saying 'good morning' - which translated to them as being caught out loafing, so they hit me first. Typical sheila's way of getting at an issue, I treat this with utter contempt as it deserves.
Crazy place, the public service.....