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In reply to the discussion: 67 year old woman here..long and varied work history...Most of my female bosses were horrid. [View all]lunatica
(53,410 posts)So they all treated me well. In the first couple of years I had a woman boss who was terrible. She was lazy, demanding and loaded me down with work. Once she told me that she was giving me more work because she could. I got a job in another department. Working in a University I got part time work in two departments which gave me full time work. I had one man boss and one woman boss and they were both wonderful. I loved both both my jobs. Good bosses make all the difference in your life and your health.
Then the university moved all the employees who did the same types of work out of the departments and into a cubicle farm far away from the university and ruined everything for everyone. The boss was a woman and my supervisor was a woman. The boss was hell in high heels and mistreated the supervisors forcing them to treat us badly. In my case that didnt last long. I went directly to the boss and questioned her tactics. By this time I was in my 60s, I knew my job and had no fear when it came to confronting authority about the treatment of the employees. I was fortunate to have a union (Teamsters) and a university that made it extremely hard to fire employees. It would take years to fire people! Plus the Faculty I worked with loved me because I knew my job and was reliable. Faculty have a lot of power in universities. I was lucky because I had enough power to push back.