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Originally posted by Zippy View PostMy experience suggests about 50% of managers are rubbish. Haven't noticed a significant difference between males and females.
70%
And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Glad you took that in the spirit it was intended. Was momentarily worried.Originally posted by Pogle View PostFine sweetie

Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.Comment
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I've only ever worked under one female project manager and she was the best of all, also a contractor, and commanded tremendous respect. In fact, most managers that I have worked under I have had tremendous respect for.
Perhaps I have been lucky !!
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When they are good, they are very very goodOriginally posted by Cyberman View PostI've only ever worked under one female project manager and she was the best of all, also a contractor, and commanded tremendous respect. In fact, most managers that I have worked under I have had tremendous respect for.
Perhaps I have been lucky !!
But when they are bad they are horrid!Just call me Matron - Too many handbagsComment
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Like my kids!Originally posted by zara_backdog View PostWhen they are good, they are very very good
But when they are bad they are horrid!
most of the decent managers i've worked with of either sex have always been contractors. Permie managers tend to be smug as well as arrogant, wheresas the contract management "go that extra mile" (sorry for the permie speak)Who has time? Who has time? But then if we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?Comment
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My girly (the senior police officer type) has just been promoted and I agree with the first part, that when they are good they are very very good, but disagree with the second part, because when she's really bad: she's better...Originally posted by zara_backdog View PostWhen they are good, they are very very good
But when they are bad they are horrid!Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
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I know a chap who dated one of the few women to have reached the board of a blue chip corporation. Apparently she was a fiery dictator on the workfloor and a bit of a ‘sub’ in the bedroom, if you catch my drift.Originally posted by threaded View PostMy girly (the senior police officer type) has just been promoted and I agree with the first part, that when they are good they are very very good, but disagree with the second part, because when she's really bad: she's better...
Obviously, I shan't name him or her; wouldn't be fair (privacy and all that), but is there a causal link? Are many of those bitchy female managers complete sexslaves at home?And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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reminds me of a hopeless PM I had once, who happened to be a woman.
Totally useless at the job so she was, and she was a contractor too.
but the oddest part about her was she had all the mannerisms of a 14 year old. huffy, made faces when things weren't going her way, stood with her mobile phone checking in the way kids do, phone in hand, staring at it intently.
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