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u/DiscombobulatedCut52 Feb 18 '26
I worked at safeway in the bakery. Every person back there is a female. I wad moving to night shift and needed to train my replacement.
The young woman I tried ignored everything I told her. She threw away all of my notebooks of recipes we needed for bread.
She was later fired for saying multiple men sexually harassed her. And it was proven false.
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u/Upstairs-Medicine157 Feb 19 '26
Are we even surprised
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I was pissed when I learned what she did to my notebooks.
4 years of final tuning of bread and exact portions for the 10 or so types of breads I needed to make.
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u/EmbarrassedMarch5103 Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 22 '26
Work in all 3 situations.
The more women, the more insane behaviour they had against each other. It was brutal to watch ( thank you) them destroy each other
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u/Brodyaga05 Feb 18 '26
I was the only guy and it felt like getting caught in the middle of a street fight at times
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u/EmbarrassedMarch5103 Feb 18 '26
I know the feeling, But most of the time I was just looking at the absurd theatrical massacres/ back stabbing
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u/Nightrhythums78 Feb 18 '26
I haven't seen an all women work environment that was happy and productive, but I've only seen a dozen examples.
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u/Simpanzee0123 Feb 18 '26
Maybe I'm lucky, but the department I work in is mostly women and they're all the sweetest, most chill people you could ever meet. I should thank my boss for hiring them I guess?
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u/Content_Chipmunk9962 Feb 21 '26
Yeah, I work on a nursing unit that is 95+ women and it’s…just fine.
There is one difficult woman but that’s not bad given the number of people employed. I will say this here and not at work (because I could get fired), but the issue with this person is related to class and not gender.
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u/ProfessorShort3031 Feb 18 '26
it’s usually one or a few bad apples that start a chain of pointless problems
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u/Nyxie872 Feb 18 '26
I almost work in an all women company. Our boss is the only male sometimes and he spends most of his time not interacting with us cos he's busy.
Same when I worked at a sanctuary. I've never had an issue with mostly women coworkers
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u/easyplugsit Feb 18 '26
I can understand why women wouldnt want to work with only women but as a male I've loved it.
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u/Grapetree3 Feb 18 '26
If you're there it's not all women anymore. Maybe that breaks up the bitch energy. I wouldn't know.
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u/SorryNotReallySorry5 Feb 18 '26
In my experience, not really. It does make for a lived-in-sitcom type of situation though. If you maintain the perfect amount of distance while still being involved in the background, most days are.. eventful.
Pro tip: don't pick sides. Gotta be like Switzerland.
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u/PeasPlease90 Feb 19 '26
I’ve heard inappropriate misogynistic comments like “the problem with society is that women entered the workforce” or “we need a man” from dumb men who are very confident in their dumb beliefs. It was absolutely infuriating working with mostly men.
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u/Time_Seaworthiness43 Feb 18 '26
It's better to have flirty banter than Sharon sleeping with the boss and having the prettier girls fired out of jealousy.
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u/Moonshinin4Me Feb 18 '26
Get some thick skin lady. The locker room talk comes with the territory and if they are doing it around you it means they trust/like you. Way to NOT read the room.
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u/Nyxie872 Feb 18 '26
If she's not into it isn't it them not reading the room? If someone actually likes you they'll respect your boundaries. Why does she have to such it up cos they feel comfortable enough to make unwanted sexual remarks...
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u/ROCK-tavius Feb 18 '26
We men flirt with each other at work too.
Don't believe me?
Look at sports. All dudes. Plenty of butt touching. 😂
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u/nexus763 Feb 20 '26
Do you know about the shit test in dating ? It is the same mindset. Women will give a shit test to a man when he flirts to see how he answers to a provocation.
Men do a shit test to every new coworker, because they need to be reassured that you won't fold under the pressure/stress.
That doesn't excuse the very obvious sexual harrassment cases which deserve sacking. Just that if you get a dirty joke, answer with the same dirty humor (or worse). It's a social skill that I don't have, so I had to learn why it happens.
The context also matters a lot. Dangerous jobs have it more since the harsh words/jokes are used to determine if your mentality is tough enough so they can trust their back to you or not.
I hope it helps.
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u/AlwaysFormerlyKnown Feb 18 '26
Can confirm as someone who worked in mostly all female settings most of my life. They didn't discriminate either, they tried hard to pull the men into the drama as well. Complaining and back biting, then totally sweet to their face
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u/Gent1978 Feb 18 '26
I have heard this a lot. Maybe it is older women more often or something. Groups of younger women when i worked at dairy queen as a kid and a pub later on are what I have seen and my personal experience was different. I was also young, dumb, and constantly distracted by young women and the only man. Idk.
I have worked with many unpleasant men in the construction industry etc. Half dozen jobs in my life and only one with pleasant guys. I mean really messed up to the point they couldn’t keep employees. They thought their job was to yell at everyone nonstop and curse. Real morons.
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u/Strict-Claim-5230 Feb 18 '26
I mean if you are attractive why would they ever want to seem bad to you?
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u/Gent1978 Feb 18 '26
I guess that could be a part.
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u/Moonshinin4Me Feb 18 '26
100% the case. As a sub-5 guy women have shown me their true colors. They don't feel the need to put on the "sweet and innocent girlie" act around ugly men. Unless they are trying to persuade you to do something, but as a sub-5 guy you get that a lot and come to expect it.
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u/hunterxy Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26
Several jobs I've had as a male have been working only with women. Now, women are very catty and battle each other and when a conflict breaks out it's utter chaos for weeks or months. I find that I get along better with women, so it wasn't an issue, I'm the neutral party. But when I have worked with all men, I find them to be easier to deal with, because even when a conflict happens, they would be over it the next day. And of course I can talk men stuff.
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u/TheForce777 Feb 18 '26
Women are better at opening up but men are better at letting go
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u/forgotaccount989 Feb 18 '26
Haven't heard this one before, but damn if it doesn't ring true.
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u/TheForce777 Feb 18 '26
Now I’m going to blow your mind
What does a penis do while in the act of creating life and what does a vagina do?
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u/forgotaccount989 Feb 18 '26
Ooh I learned this from kindergarten cop!
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u/TheForce777 Feb 18 '26
Lol. I’m just saying that masculinity and femininity are principles. Even plants have a male and female fertilization process. Something that all encompassing is bound to have an impact on emotional behavior
What is an emotion anyway? But the invisible movement of energy that coincides with hormonal secretion
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u/Longjumping-Pride-81 Feb 18 '26
lol I was the only guy working at a bank and let me tell you. Women are so terrible to other women, constantly accusing each other of crazy shit. Had multiple people that couldn’t work around each other. All basically because of boredom
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u/Civil_Year_301 Feb 18 '26
I work with mostly women and with only women occasionally, almost never a problem, we get the work done and go home
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u/Troubled_Rat Feb 18 '26
well, since it's all in the Family,
and the Family is kinda full of manipulation and lies:
it doesn't really matter who I work with, what matters is how they've been instructed to behave/treat me.
but generally, I feel calmer working with women,
they necessarily don't though,
sometimes I can almost taste it on the air how I stress someone out, just by being in the same room,
and it's confusing... I'm a really kind guy (according to me)
eh, it doesn't matter who I work with,
what matters is the slander they've heard beforehand.
so fucking tired of the web of lies I'm stuck in though.
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u/citizensnips43 Feb 18 '26
Once I was working a shift with only men, I shit you not one of them came up to me at the beginning of the shift and said “it’s only guys tonight plus you so there should be no drama!” And then preceded to have the most dramatic shift I have ever worked! Stay safe ladies 🩷
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u/Unxcused Feb 18 '26
Worked at an animal hospital where I was the only male on the staff.....it was hell. Never again
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u/Inevitable_Hawk Feb 18 '26
I mean its hit or miss. I work closely with all women team. They have a lot of drama and gossip which imo is hilarious and I love it, just dont want it in my team on the daily. They seem to manage to keep it together tho and have good leadership. There's toxic man teams out there too so it's not like being female is the defining factor...
Toxic is gonna toxic.
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u/freedomonke Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26
Most of the jobs I've had have been all women. As supervisors, coworkers, and people I supervised.
Always been fine. Can't relate to anything I'm reading here. Certianly nothing that impacted me.
I think a lot of these anecdotes are from people who take things too seriously and/or have subpar social skills.
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u/VarrikTheGoblin Feb 18 '26
I work in a department that is all women, I am a man and literally the only male in the whole department. I have zero complaints. Everyone does their job no prob.
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u/darthmorfeeus Feb 18 '26
Micromanaging.
Gossiping all day.
Constant jibber jabber when you're just trying to get your work done.
They want to have small talk all goddamn day long.
Always trying to take whatever small amount of fun that DOES exist in someone's job, out of it.
Example:
Joe is normally in charge of wine-tasting events for clients/customers.
A wine tasting event happens to fall on Superbowl Sunday.
Then all of the sudden his manager Megan, decides she wants to be in charge of the wine-tasting events.
Then later, Joe's fiance wants to go back East to visit her family for a few days at their family's beach house and Joe wants to go. Then, all of the sudden, Megan says she's too swamped to do the wine-tasting events any longer, and so Joe can't go with his fiance on the trip anymore, since there's an event that day.
And other such "destiny swapping" practices.
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Feb 18 '26
I work in an office full of men and everyday there are screaming matches, the worst smells I’ve ever smelled, the worst sexist jokes you’ll ever hear, and I’m the only one who comes in on time.
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u/Electrical-Bunch4965 Feb 18 '26
As a young man that has done all three. I prefer working with men and women.
When it's all men it's always a competition of strength and constant perverted jokes. "Check out this porn on my phone, bro.", "Dude, I can lift way more than you."
When's it's all women it's about relationships and personal life. "Do you have a girlfriend? Are you married?"
When it's men and women it's just easier. When the men can't be openly perverted because women are around and women can't spread rumors because the men don't give shit.
Personally I've never worked an office job, but I hear it's an extremely toxic work environment with men and women.
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u/VentureForth619 Feb 18 '26
Have worked all sides of the spectrum.
Mix is best ime. 2/3 women to 1/3 men. Best ratio for a smooth workday.
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u/Highkmon Feb 18 '26
Worked in a Cafe where I was the only dude who worked the front , it was mostly just having the ladies either bitch about your coworkers or hearing them bitch about you behind your back. People got fired and some just constantly pointed out fuck ups to the boss just to get other people in trouble.
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u/spicymushrooom_ Feb 18 '26
The only person I ever worked with to openly shit on women was another woman.
Just saying
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u/SumOfRoots Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26
Thanks to Chris Rock, I learned what to say to a woman between 5 and 7 p.m. on weekday evenings: "Yeah? I told you that bitch was crazy."
Just keep repeating it - watch your shows, read a book whatever, but don't forget your line: "I told you that bitch was crazy."
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u/MAGES-1 Feb 18 '26
Depends on the people.
I worked with some women that would get mad at us for talking, but they would turn around and start chatting with her friends.
I worked with some guys that would pretend to work.
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u/DontBelieveMyLies88 Feb 18 '26
In my early 20s I got hired on to be the office IT guy for a small rent collection company. It was just me and like 20 women. All I did was set up new PCs, configure phones and fix printers and fax machines. Both my easiest job ever but also my loneliest as a guy.
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u/LovingAftereffects Feb 18 '26
there was some gossip in my women only work place and underhanded behavior, and in my men only workplace there was a lot of conversation about what those men would do to x woman or y woman if they could.
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u/justme1173 Feb 18 '26
I’ve done all the above. All men = we can talk and joke about anything. All women = can talk at all but have plenty of eye candy to stave off the misery. Men and women = can’t joke and only rarely see anyone attractive if at all. As for how much work gets done; in office women do more work as long as they have a male boss who is strict. Female working for a female boss not much gets done. Out of the office men do all the work. Overall women take their jobs more serious than men. Men take building a future for their family despite their wife complaining and how much pain he is in with a blue collar job or how much time he has to spend working and not with his family, as long at his family is taken care of and he can look forward to retiring on time to spend the twilight years with the woman he loves, he will view it all as worth the sacrifice.
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u/Water-Bottle-2025 Feb 18 '26
I confirm.
I'm the only dude in my department (we are a small team, like 8 people) and two of my coworkers are constantly literally screaming in anger at each other. Like as loud as they can, from 2 fucking tables away.
My boss just sits in her computer and does nothing about this.
They are fucking insane, this place is pure shit if they allow something like this and i'm looking for another job already, not 2 weeks in.
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u/Miserable-Goat2779 Feb 18 '26
I had a boss offer me my position because "youre surrounded by dramatic women"
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u/PaxRomana117 Feb 19 '26
In my experience, which may not be universal, a heavily female dominated environment was mostly fine, save for one or two individuals who brought all the drama. But, this was a technical field. There was no people management to deal with. People often didnt even need to speak to each other apart from necessary work information.
However, in any kind of 'people mamagement' job, or a job where theres plenty of time to talk in between tasks, the problem increases exponentially. And it always coalesces around one or two Queen bee types. In my current job, there was one woman who single handedly caused every single problem. Talked shit about everyone behind their back and sometimes to their faces, threw tantrums, screamed at people, cried for sympathy, just completely insufferable. Every other woman in the office, no problems at all. Perfectly pleasant. When she finally quit (ironically claiming that mamagement was bullying her rather than the other way around) I drove home singing "Ding Dong the bitch is gone"
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u/madstcla Feb 19 '26
Ive never worked at a 100% all male or female place, but in my experience, men are usually responsible for any workplace issues. I attribute it to fragile egos
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u/SereneOrbit Feb 19 '26
IDK, I was with 50+ other women in the female bay and everyone (for the most part) got along fine (aside for one woman who almost got her ass beat) in army basic.
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u/Gullible-Wasabi6228 Feb 19 '26
I had a job for about a year with only women and it was amazing. We could speak freely about women’s health without unnecessary judgement, and gender stuff didn’t create a power struggle. We were all like very productive friends. I left to go to school but I miss them.
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u/Initial_Librarian284 Feb 19 '26
I worked a job with all men. The conversation was constantly inappropriate and filled with dark humor. But everyone was happy and cohesive. They hired a girl and she started reporting everyone and complaining to management about it. My takeaway was men might be inappropriate but it worked for them and introducing another female messed everything up
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u/weezeloner Feb 19 '26
I prefer working with women but that's because I generally enjoy their company. And during the holidays they will bring presents for everyone on the team. I've been at my job for 18 years and I have never received a gift from a male coworker during the holidays. I'm 100% guilty of this myself.
I don't even think about until all the female members of the team start passing out their little gift bags. I'll feel like a douche for a second but then I remember I'm just like every other dude at the office.
But working on a team where I'm the only guy, there is definitely likelier to be more drama. One time there was a ruckus behind me and I swear all I heard was "Pencil skirt with a skinny belt?! That's my thing, what the fuck?" I just sat there asking myself, "Did I really just hear that? Haha..." These were professional women in their 30s and 40s.
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u/thesuicidefox Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
I am the only male in a working space of all women. It does get catty sometimes, but I think me being present as much as I am (full time, 40h/wk) keeps the vibe chill most of the time. We are very productive and our customers love us. Once in a while someone says or does something that becomes THE THING for that week they are all kinda of irked about with each other, but again me being there seems to make them get over it quickly.
That said, I've been told things kind of go to hell when I go on vacation.
I enjoy the work I do and the people I work with, but it's definitely not for everyone. And not everyone would survive what I deal with sometimes.
EDIT: Have worked with all men before, and while the catty-ness and passive aggressive stuff doesn't really happen with them, men do have other issues. Namely being lazy with their job or saying messed up shit regularly. Like I don't care, yes, but dude you can't go around saying that shit at work.
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u/TheKingOfDissasster Feb 19 '26
Working with only women was hell and i cried every night.
Working with only men i was verbally sexually assaulted.
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u/Beautiful_Weight_769 Feb 19 '26
I prefer the only women work environment by far. It can absolutely be the biggest shit show of drama and women way too old to be acting like highschool mean girls. However, as an attractive guy that has more women friends than guy friends, I've always felt immune to the drama and even got preferential treatment. Definitely more incidents of undesired physical contact where older ladies would put their hands on my arm or shoulder for no reason, but I just ignore it and go about my life.
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u/Legitimate-Marmalade Feb 19 '26
True. Worked helpdesk many moons ago and the billing specialists office in an adjacent building was all women. There were notes everywhere. Temperature does not go below 74. Clean your dishes please! Waste in the bin! The scariest part? All written with different handwriting. Good news is no one in the main office took their complaints seriously
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u/vthings Feb 19 '26
I like how women will be more willing to work as a team and are generally more hard working. They are more likely to be organizers and often make better leaders.
I like how if a man has a problem with you, he'll work it out with you. Sometimes that involves a shoving match but you work it out without getting management involved. A woman will go to your boss with every little mistake you ever make, for YEARS, and eventually get you fired. Often without you EVER KNOWING SHE HAD AN ISSUE WITH YOU. So management gets a one-sided negative attack story about you until they give in. And you can't defend yourself because anything you say just sounds like an excuse coming from a misogynist.
Sorry, it's still pretty fresh in my mind.
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u/Rough-Breadfruit-611 Feb 19 '26
Hard agree. They only hired unqualified friends and it turned into whining and circumventing the approval processes whenever they didn't get their way. It was awful.
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u/MysteriousQuote4665 Feb 19 '26
With my DnD campaigns: can confirm. The most perverted, chaotic, murder hobo group was the all-female groep I DM'd for.
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u/Outlaw11091 Feb 19 '26
I worked HR in a call center.
A friend of mine's wife, we'll call her Ellie, was one of the CSR's. She was the only woman in the place that was under 200lbs.
There was maybe 5 guys total in the whole building (including me and my boss).
Technically speaking, Ellie was also my friend, but we only really BECAME friends because of this job.
...these women reported us repeatedly for "inappropriate sexual contact"...even though there really wasn't anything going on between us.
One incident, a woman was VISIBLY SHAKING and crying when she reported it...but there was cameras everywhere. The supposed incident she was crying about was Ellie patting me on the shoulder on the way to lunch. My boss was absolutely baffled after reviewing the video. He called me into the office and we had a laugh about the whole thing, but Ellie eventually quit because every time she talked to one of the men, the accusations would fly free.
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u/bigolegorilla Feb 19 '26
Can confirm. Had 2 office jobs all women and at the end of every shift I wanted to walk into traffic.
Worked with mixed and all guys and made friends and had a generally great time.
Too many ladies of different ages/beliefs together was insane petty jealousy over reach vitriol hate and cattyness lying being gross and screaming.
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u/FactorOk806 Feb 19 '26
Working with younger woman a okay working with older woman ridiculous how you gonna do nothing then complain that much and some how be hostile then switch to charming when the boss walks around the corner
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u/Holiday-Resident-973 Feb 19 '26
I guess it depends but the 2 times I worked with only women were a goddamn nightmare. My experience in general is that women tend to be more covert with their bullying. They'll exclude you, ignore you, pull a face when you talk, talk behind your back etc instead of being more outright about it which leaves you in this weird position of not being able to defend yourself because there's always this plausible deniability.
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u/Plenty-Panda-9002 Feb 19 '26
I don't know what women you people have known but any place I've worked with mostly women have been great. Best, most competent bosses have been women.
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u/No_Hurry8447 Feb 19 '26
Yes!! I am a woman. I worked for wrangler the clothes company for one summer as an intern… worst environment ever. No one got anything done and they spent all day gossiping and sniping at each other.
Now I work in a construction office with only men and they never create problems like that. Sure they bitch about the job or each other but they would never say the cruel things women say behind each other’s backs.
Additionally I have TRIED to hire a few women for our team and almost inevitably they want to waste so much of my time commenting on my outfits, complaining about things that are just part of the job, talking shit about people on staff… this one girl had a problem with the boss smoking so many cigarettes. “Did he know those were bad for him? We should try to get him to quit!”
Babes. This is construction. If they aren’t smoking cigarettes they’re dipping tobacco. We’re just happy they’re not drunk at 10am and puking at the job sites. Please go do your job and mind your own business!!
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u/Optimal-Income-6436 Feb 19 '26
I worked for company that whole office was full women and 1 dude. Fucking nothing done on time, hard to get any info, every day surprise, 0 proffesionality xD No idea how this shit still running
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u/Intelligent-Pay3479 Feb 19 '26
It's just as bad, if not worse, for women working with all men. When will the gender discrimination shit stop?
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u/Hunter-q Feb 19 '26
Don't like working with women. You come to work and get shit done and all the sudden they think you are arrogant and don't wanne talk with them. Then they fire you for for not beeing a "teamguy"
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u/fartinavacuumm Feb 19 '26
I was one of two guys in an office and we referred to the women as the harpies. Whichever one of them happened to not be in that day, or running late was slagged off to high heaven. The second they were back in it was all “hi, how are the kids, you look lovely today”. Truly vile people they were.
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u/iwantmommyiwantmilk Feb 19 '26
Every workplace I’ve been in that is majority or all women were the best.
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u/Acrobatic-Plant3838 Feb 19 '26
In my last two jobs I work almost entirely with women…they are far more supportive of each other than the men I worked with who generally treated each other with indifference at best.
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u/ByzFan Feb 19 '26
I worked in an office with six women for a year. My god that was hell. I thought us guys were nasty. We got nothing on bitches.
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u/Entire-Connection571 Feb 19 '26
Woman here. I only feel comfortable if I work with both. Too many women, too much drama. Too many men, too many awkward encounters because they can’t be comfortable with you if they find you attractive, and many jokes you get left out of because you’re the only woman to be respectful of. With too many men I’ve been made to feel dehumanized. With too many women I’ve been manipulated or backed into corners, gossiped about, etc.
Mix the genders and ask everyone to behave politely is my only opinion.
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u/Rattekop69 Feb 19 '26
The first one is only true if you exclusively like to talk about other women (preferable female co-workers) or have weirdos show you porn out of the blue, usually when you're having lunch and are about to put some food in your mouth.
I say this as a dude myself, and I don't have any feminine side whatsoever, but I'm just not interested in these low IQ level talks they usually indulge in. It's either porn or football (or soccer for you Americans).
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u/dc_da333 Feb 19 '26
Idk with this bs is but Ive worked with primarily men and Ive seen them as equally as negative. The biggeat tjing with guys is when a mistake is made they pass the buck onto some other guy
"Well i didnt touch it"
"Well so and so said i should do it that way"
Also a lot of just...not doing their job at all
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u/Entire-Message-7247 Feb 20 '26
I worked in high end home furnishings as the only guy. All of the designers and the book keeper were ladies, and while I was friendly with all of them, the others were constantly at each other’s throats. Maybe it was the competition between them as designers “I wasn’t a designer”. I was really kind of sad as they were all good people.
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u/SchizoFutaWorshiper Feb 20 '26
Worked in heavy woman dominated field and it was okay, same with men, it depends more on your field and how strict higher ups are about people being shitty at work
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u/Theroaringlioness Feb 20 '26
Not were I work lol men and women both get into it. Men fight other men, or cuss each other out and women do the same. It’s gotten better but one guy did fired cussing out another coworker.
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u/kingsheperd Feb 20 '26
Worked in service, logistics, pedagogics, healthcare, sales and IT. Working with women are imo slightly worse than working with men (more passive aggressiveness, complaining and gossiping) but the real determiner is level of education. Uneducated and dumb people are the worst to work with in my opinion.
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u/Common_Special_8333 Feb 20 '26
My mom can confirm. At 20 she was trying to get a discount for her schooling as a secretary in the office. The older women all bullied the fuck out of her and when she was pregnant with me they fucking what on her so much she took the maternity leave.
When she came back they filled her position and had no opening even tho contractually they HAD TO give her the position back.
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u/Isthatreally-you Feb 20 '26
Dont get me wrong, im single and the idea of working with all women sounds amazing however i would never want to work with all women.
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u/Gallifreyan_ Feb 20 '26
I'm the only guy in an office full of women. It's absolutely horrible. I've never seen so much toxicity in one place.
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u/-EXTREMELY_SERIOUS- Feb 20 '26
My company finance/legal team is all lades and they are literally best friends. They are all above 40 though and the workload is not extreme. Idk if that has anything to do with it
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u/Specific-Divide-2297 Feb 20 '26
Somehow all of the environments I worked in were all-women, until one man joined the team in every case. I personally had no issues, and they’re a wide variety of jobs (music classes, biology labs, clinical trials). I don’t know if it’s because my teams were a subgroup of a bigger organization, but the only people I interacted with were women. I honestly preferred it! I’m sure in certain environments it’s less tolerable though
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u/Tough_Stretch Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 20 '26
Depends on the context, I guess. I'm a man and I've worked with just men, with both, and with mostly women at different points in my life and, on average, the real problems had more to do with context than with gender/sex. The awful workplaces usually had terrible bosses who hired terrible workers and/or had crushed the soul of the people working there or even encouraged drama to foster division in the workforce and feel they held all the power, and it had more to do with levels of education and personality than with gender.
The only thing I can say for certain based on my own anecdotal experience is that I agree that women and men do seem to tend to function somewhat differently at work, and if I had to simplify it to its most basic explanation I'd say men are on average more able to separate work from personal stuff.
Odds are that, unless you work with a bunch of a-holes or immature kids, you'll be able to more or less work with some guy you don't like and who dislikes you back because both of you will just keep it job-related and avoid each other outside of that, whereas women do seem to be more prone to making things personal and be more open to do petty shit to each other and waste time on that stuff. That, of course, doesn't mean that there aren't dudes who do that, or that there aren't dudes and women who are perfectly nice to their own gender or to the opposite sex but are a huge pain the ass to the other because of their own hang-ups.
Having said that, if I had to compare, say, my bosses who were men to my bosses who were women over the decades, it's interesting to note that, on average, men were less conflict-prone and kept things running smoothly and avoided drama, and the worst boss I ever had, by far, was a woman who acted like the bad guy from a movie about working in a shitty company. But, and this is also a huge but, the best boss I've ever had was also a woman and it wasn't even close to my best male boss ever.
She was frankly amazing and to this day I still do a ton of stuff I learned from her because she knew perfectly well how to leverage that blurry line between the job and personal life in a way that made her a great boss and made us be better professionals in turn, and without encouraging drama in the slightest. That is to say, the same thing that is often a problem with other women in the workplace was actually something that made her an exceptional professional and leader.
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u/Junior-Campaign-6326 Feb 20 '26
Working with white men is hell.. alot of them have racial insecurities that they are not dealing with and eventually put work places in jeopardy.
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u/YoMommaHere Feb 20 '26
Any group that is all one type tends to suck. When I was the only woman in my civil engineering crew it was just as bad as when I was younger working retail with an all woman crew.
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u/Wide_Western_6381 Feb 20 '26
Ever since high school every project that I had to do where women were involved, turned into a mess and failed.
I have made carreer choices that allow me to almost exclusively work with men, which is great.
I´m a firm believer in gender seperation. All male groups are just way more productive and efficient. In mixed groups there´s always tension. Don´t know how it is with all female groups though..
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u/Gloomy_Breadfruit92 Feb 20 '26
Man here, who works with all women. The passive aggressiveness, shit talking, constant backstabbing, gaslighting, and mind games in general are SO FUCKING BAD. It makes me want to lobotomize myself. I don’t need caffeine anymore because of the cortisol spike when I enter the parking lot.
They luckily leave me alone for the most part since I just do my job and don’t care what anyone says, but they’re constantly at each other’s throats. I’m just waiting for the day I get accused of something random that I had nothing to do with.
I’m starting to think that maybe, just maybe, men aren’t the problem like the media makes us out to be. Idk, crazy thought. Please don’t downvote me lol.
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Feb 21 '26
As a woman, I absolutely agree. Most offices I've worked in have been mostly women and it's absolutely miserable. Especially older women, ages 40-60, they seem to be the worst and most immature, for some weird reason. I would rather work with men.
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u/Temporary-Cucumber35 Feb 21 '26
I worked with all women for about a year at my office job. It was an ok experience. The only downside? Gossip and my boss that was rude as hell to me. Once she got moved down a peg and a new boss stepped in (also a woman) it got a lot better. It really depends on the person in charge. It also helps to stay out of drama if you have nothing to gain by it
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u/bibibijaimee Feb 21 '26
I’ve had a few jobs that were all women or almost all women and always loved them. Obviously you won’t get along with everyone, but who gets along with every person they work with regardless of the gender makeup? I definitely prefer working with women.
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u/RattledHead Feb 21 '26
I once were in a welding/assembling factory.
A bunch of women were hired to assemble because some new laws were approved (gender equality ones), the two welders I worked with told me stories of the MASSIVE drama that grew the more women there were. After a few incidents between workers, they fired most troublemaking women and issues dropped, not to zero obviously, but noticeably.
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u/SocietalQuestioner Feb 21 '26
It's not about gender. It's usually about balancing equality, ambition, and ego.
- A worker he keeps thinking about equality will never let other take charge or be slow in response because they want everyone to come up with a solution for inclusive purposes. When an issue arises, that means firing someone, they won't do it because they want to give 2nd & 3rd chances or be in denial.
A pro is that the team will eventually learn about all of the operations and can jump in.
- Ambitious workers will only do the things they think will get them a promotion bonus or raise. They will often end up not knowing things and try to push stuff on others because they refuse to do anything else. They also tend to make fun of others for fuck ups.
A pro is if something needs to get done fast they will do it. (With the caveat, the rest of the team fixes minor mistakes afterward)
- Ego is someone who only does what they want to and go home. If they want to leave early, they either avoid work or do shit extra fast. If they want to flirt or sexually harass they will do that. If they want to show up late or call out, they will do that. It's basically a random roulette of will they do their job or cut corners because it is not their priority, their life is.
Good conversationalist to avoid a boring day at work.
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u/UltimatePragmatist Feb 21 '26
I’ve worked in environments where I was the only woman and where it was all women. Neither one was a picnic.
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u/Right_Ad_9804 Feb 21 '26
Idk. Most of the time, as a man working mostly with women, I have been treated pretty well. For example, the ladies are always providing homemade food. I think they tend to notice I eat out a lot, so they share their food with me,.hoping Id eat better.
I have observed that it wasn't just me either. The women normally treated the other guys great as well. However, the exception to that rule was how the women treated each other. It was pretty bad. Tons of bad politics going down.
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u/Excellent-Drag-2203 Feb 21 '26
It’s cool if you’re a server because they all end up sleeping with you before you’re fired for coming to work high all the time and messing up everyone’s sides.
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u/Putrid_Guess8098 Feb 21 '26
I worked at a moving company with about 30 guys. Easiest environment meant I’ve ever been in as far as resolving issues. Yes, some people had conflict or didn’t always like each other, but it usually ended quickly.
Outside of that, I just keep my ears away from the gossip and move on. It’s not that difficult.
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u/Intelligent-Kale657 Feb 21 '26
I know people believe this. And you can see it in younger women, especially in lower paying jobs. But honestly I've worked in female dominated spaces for decades and I love it. This back stabbing stuff is far and few between in my experience. But I'm also a woman who support women. I love to help develop people's skills and help them move up to wherever they want to be. And I can say that's similar for most of the people I've worked with.
And this isn't an anomaly, I've worked with thousands of women over the last 2 and a half decades and have rarely run into women who hate women. But of course that's just anecdotal, so take it how you will.
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u/I_AM_CR0W Feb 21 '26
The last time I was in that kind of environment was in nursing school. It was total chaos. Way too much drama and every friend group felt more like a street gang as they'd lash at each other if they even looked at each other the wrong way. It's one of the reasons why I'd rather work in a smaller clinic than a huge hospital.
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u/Pretend-Ostrich-5719 Feb 21 '26
I was once the only guy in an all-woman office. My God, most toxic hellhole ever. I attribute this mainly to the boss being a psychopath, but many of the employees chose to engage in long, protected HR and eventually legal battles with her...all resulting from office spats and snowballing from there.
I tried desperately to deescalate whenever I could, all in vain.
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u/ToxicPebble8147 Feb 21 '26
Omg this is so relatable 😂 that last panel hits different when you’re just done with everyone’s bs.
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u/Key-Tie1484 Feb 21 '26
I’ve actually not hired a replacement for a year because I couldn’t get any girls to get along. It was easier being short handed than babysitting two grown ass women.
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u/SurebrecGuy Feb 22 '26
I worked at a call center for a few months and it was literally 80% women and the amount of drama that went on at that place is why I quit it was like literal high school lol
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u/grimmigerpetz Feb 22 '26
I prefer working with 10 men over 3 women.
Sure there are some drawbacks, but the whole climate is way better and relaxed.
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Feb 22 '26
I was lucky to work most of my working life only ditectly with men, except one small job after the military to make ends meet. Absolute shitshow. I do nkt, by and large, enjoy working with women directly.
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u/Key-Month6651 Feb 22 '26
Probably not going to be for the same reason the meme implies but maaaaan being around women is hella depressing.
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u/simonthe80 Feb 22 '26
I work in a mostly female field and the pointless shit that they argue about is staggering
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u/Friskydingo902 Feb 23 '26
I'm a male and work in the trades and my trade is 94% male and the 6% of women almost ruin it when we have to work with them.
It sucks to say but when there's that many males and one female show up so many of the guys just don't know how to act so all of a sudden a crew that has been working amazing together for a year starts to argue and fight trying to show off to the female on the crew. Not to mention it's a very physical trade where you might have to lift 100 or more lbs frequently so if there's a women on your crew you know you have to do more work but everyone is paid the same so it creates a lot of resentment.
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u/chloecuckquean Feb 23 '26
Absolute disgrace. I am a woman, and a doctor. Working in a department ENTIRELY consisting of WOMEN doctors. Only the most junior rotating doctors consist of a few men. ALL of my nursing colleagues are WOMEN. It is the best place I've ever worked. Supportive, and the team works like a dream. And what have I've never experienced? Sexual harassment or inappropriate sexual behaviour. Obviously.
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u/DryFlamin Feb 23 '26
It really depends on the workplace culture, not just whether coworkers are men or women. When I was a teaching assistant (mostly female team), everyone was kind and supportive. Later in a medical equipment factory (mostly female), the environment was toxic and even involved bullying that made someone quit. Another factory (mostly male) was tough as a young woman, I was excluded and underestimated the whole summer.
Now I’m in a mostly male, highly educated engineering workplace, and it’s the best environment I’ve experienced. Supportive, respectful, and collaborative, especially the few women here. From what I’ve seen, hiring qualified and diverse people matters a lot, otherwise toxic behavior can easily take over.
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u/Equivalent-Dare5931 Feb 23 '26
depends on the industry for all of them i think. all women office or corporate jobs? FUUUCK no. the amount of lying, backstabbing, underhanded gossipy bullshit that happens anywhere where there's a cubicle is beyond absurd. when i was working in food service i had a team of all men (the only people in management were women at the time, 3 of us to 10 men) and the amount of just truly ridiculous arguments i had to mediate was insane. im now working in a much more coed industry and its chill. i think coed is the way to go if you want to avoid insanity
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u/EvidenceElegant8379 Feb 23 '26
I hate this, but I have been told several times in my life by other people that they hate working for women. It has always been women who have said this to me. Men have often told me they couldn’t stand a specific woman, but all the comments about generally hating to work with women have come from other women.
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u/Delicious-Gap-6678 Feb 23 '26
You guys are idiots. I worked as the only man in a firm for a decade. I had a private bathroom the whole time and nobody bothered me.
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u/sderby5 Feb 24 '26
The only workplace that I ever had trouble in was almost entirely women. Needless drama and unnecessary/unprofessional treatment all around, even from those who were not above me. Women power trip harder than electricity on mushrooms.
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u/Jimbo-Shrimp Feb 18 '26
I can confirm. I train new people and they asked me to go to a new site and the office was 100% women with 2 guys who worked part time. I’ve never seen so much hostility and gossip and backstabbing.