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I’ve said this so many times. Being a woman in a male dominated field is exhausting.
Yep or worse outright dangerous
Being a younger person (hell, I’m 42 and consider myself young in comparison) in a white old male dominated field is also exhausting. I stopped counting the times I warned my superiors of things that would happen if they don’t do X, and then they happened because why take a younger person seriously?
yeah whatever but i think actually the problem is that a male dominated field can be difficult for women to work in.
Is that not what I said?
it was a joke about women’s ideas getting dismissed and then repeated by men
Oh wow, maybe they shouldn’t have let us learn to read.
God I feel this.
People in public doing “business on their phone” are the worst.
I mean at an airport it is kind of warranted though. The only other options are to leave and go home and miss the flight (If you’re even near your home at that point), miss the call and put your job on the line, or go to the bathroom I guess but this is still public.
At least they aren’t doing it on the plane.
Or, you could just chill and not be available. You’re traveling. If you start doing business at an airport, it’s because you want to be known as the super busy person that does business between Security check-in and boarding. I’ll just listen to some music and chill while waiting to board the plane, thank you very much.
There’s a ton of situations where that’s not realistic. If you travel a lot for your job, not doing work when you have downtime like a layover isn’t feasible. Timezones are also a factor, and that may be the only time where all parties could be available. Or they just want to get the work done in the time before their flight so they don’t have to when they get back.
Some people who face reasonable trade-offs in doing so have a choice. Others who face unreasonable trade-offs have less of a choice. It’s usually quite difficult to tell when it’s a stranger you’re overhearing without making assumptions.
For those that are Formula 1 fans, this reeks of “Toto, it’s called a motor race, OK? We went car racing.”
If I was trying to gather US trade secrets, I’d have a few spies on payroll just hanging around airport bars listening in on phone calls.
A few years ago I was sitting across from a guy at an airport and he was loudly buying skis for his son. Not only did I clearly hear the whole story of how his son just made the ski team and needed skis ASAP, I also heard his full credit card information.
The best half of a business conversation i ever heard was “look, the bottom line is this: give her £100,000 a year, give her a Porsche, give her her own office, give her a secretary, and she’ll bring in more than a million in profit every year.”
that’s crazy money in the uk and kinda middle class in the us. wild how similar and different the countries are
This was 10+ years ago now, too, so more then
Later, in a group meeting, the man on the end of the phone announced her plan as though it was his own without acknowledging her at all.
