How to avoid working relationship stalemate.

[darmstadt]

Where I'm currently working I share an office with a woman as I have to support her and she's great. The techies upstairs have 2 women sysprogs who are good and their manager is a woman and the senior manager is a woman. I have worked with women in techie and management areas before and the worst tend to be British and the best German and Americans, strange that...

[socialworker]

You have provided a good illustration of the the three levels of the Company Hierarchy.

The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”

If you're faced with a dysfunctional organization, i.e. any organization, you have two choices. You can either become a dysfunctional person and fit in, or you can become a true freelancer and forget about the internal politics of each of your many clients.

I read the link and it's brilliant. I now know I am an over performing loser. It's strangely comforting.

[fraymond]

Interesting comments to read... I think in my case, it was less to do with female and more to do with 25 yo PM just out of grad business school with no real experience being micromanaged to deliver by an american department "manager" from an accountancy background. That sets up a pretty powerful dynamic much the same as the army I imagine.