[Nonpareil]

(02-15-2013 01:35 AM)guerrilla Wrote:  

(02-14-2013 11:53 PM)Nonpareil Wrote:  

If I ran a company and a high-responsibility, high-workload position opened up, I'm choosing the man for it 99 times out of 100, because I know I'm getting more value for my money. I want someone who will put in the hours rain or shine, in sickness and health, not someone who takes a week off because her boyfriend broke up with her, needs to work from home today because one of the kids is sick or can't come in because she's 'not feeling well' (hungover...and yes, I have seen all of these things more than once).

I manage a number of employees under me, and you're grossly overestimating what "a man is." Men come in to work rain or shine?! Ha!! Men come into work sick?!! Ha Ha!!!

A man breaks up with his LTR and you think you're gonna get good work outta him for the next week?!!! Hell no, you're better off giving him time off cause he'll talk about it to all the other employees while being nonproductive himself.

It's not that different from school...did you ever stay home from school/high school/college class because you were sick when all you had was a little sniffle? Did you decide not to drive to class because it was snowing when you knew you could make it just fine but didn't want to. School, work, they're all the same. One's duty is one's duty.

All these qualities you list are the "ideal" and in my experience, there are only a few men and a few women who match most of these ideals as employees. And ironically, it's about the same proportion for both genders. Some people are good people, but a lot aren't. When you find the good ones you keep em.

Every job I've worked at that had men and women in a shared setting, the women were far more likely to take days off, far more likely to leave early/arrive late and 100% more likely to get pregnant. Also, you have to work to make the office more 'female friendly' with policies and bullshit, they can't lift anything that weighs more than 20 lbs. and they sic HR on guys just because they find them 'creepy' for making innocuous conversation. I've had the HR chat before, why? Because on the elevator on the way in some chick was 'uncomfortable' when I asked her how long her and her boyfriend had been together. Do I need to even mention that she was bitching about him and I asked merely out of curiosity (since she was ugly and I wouldn't fuck her anyways)?

In terms of something like work ethic, you can't compare what someone did as a kid to what they'll do as an adult, people grow, people change. I used to fake sick all the time to get out of high school (and later when I turned 18 and had a car, I'd just sign myself out); one job I had in an office I took just one day off in five months, while the person who had the same job as me (a girl), took nine. Unless I'm dying, I'm working (but at the same time, if I had a company I'd try to give people days off as soon as they got sick; no need to spread that shit). I'd say 'maybe that's just me', but I know it isn't.

I've never once seen a guy take time off because he broke up with a girlfriend, divorce, different story but understandably so. Meanwhile, I've seen girls take days off because some guy dumped them or cheated on them at least five times.

I agree in general though; there are plenty of men who are fuckups and who milk the system too, but I can't agree with you that it's the same percentage.

(02-15-2013 03:00 AM)NFallin Wrote:  

*sidenote...dion phaneuf is a piece of shit. I was partying at a bar in calgary taking pictures with some friends when he stole the camera from us when he was banging elisha cuthbert and they screamed at us for "taking pictures of them and not treating them like human beings" when we didn't realize they were even there. Elisha was actually quite short. I would bang.

I've seen him in Toronto a couple of times, and he's toned it down (he's the captain, he has to represent). I wouldn't use 'piece of shit' to describe him, no, I'd call him a bro/douchebag hybrid.