Are you a female working for a female?

[Jodi1980]

Would you rather be working for a male?

 

[tiggerlover]

I worked for a female for three years until I moved to Italy. In my opinion, it was far better than working for a man. She was more understanding and compasionate than any man I have ever worked for.

 

[Aprille]

I am a female working for a female (who is 12 years younger than me) and love it! I just started this job Dec 4 but my new boss is someone I've known for over a decade and have worked with before at other jobs but she's never been my boss until now. I was unemployed by choice for nearly 3 years. I can tell you that if any of my male ex-bosses had called and tried to lure me back to work the answer would have been a big, fat NO!

 

[helenabear]

My boss is a female as well and I have both for upper managment. I love my supervisor a lot and wouldn't want to get a new one at all! I've had both and I have found that sex doesn't determine which I like at all as I've had great bosses that were male and some terrible females (and vice versa).

 

[FOJMO]

EVER work for a female again!

After 32 years in the work force, I have worked for several women and found them to be petty, jealous, calculating, and all around not nice!

Once I worked for a female who told me that I couldn't go on my honeymoon unless I had my filing cleaned up!!!

I LOVE working for males. They appreciate you so much more and treat me very fairly.

I always said that being an executive secretary is like being a wife and mother -- only you don't have the "fringe benefits". You do much of the same type of thing as you do for your husband and children. Organize, remember things, arrange calendar, remind, make travel arrangements, follow up, mail, phones, etc. etc.

 

[Miss Jasmine]

I don't think the gender matters, it's the person inside that counts. I have worked for a great female boss, a lousy male boss and a wonderful male boss. I don't think it's fair to lump one gender all together.

It's no wonder women still have problems in the work place when they are so ready to stab each other in the back instead of supporting each other. I work at a place where the women are all out for each other, I refuse to participate. Now I believe that my co-workers would all be the same if they were men, they are just nasty people.

 

[snoopy]

Ditto Miss Jasmine.

I think it depends more on the person than the gender. I'm currently working for a wonderful male manager, but I've had good female bosses as well.

Come to think of it, I have always had good managers. I've either been really lucky, or I have the ability to get along with just about everyone. Or probably a combination of both.

 

[JohnTBap]

My principal is female and was VERY understanding when I needed extra time off when Mr Baby was born prematurely. She's the only reason I don't work at a school closer to home.

 

[mickeyfan1]

Right now, my direct supervisor is a female, and she is on the top ten of idiot bosses. She has no people skills. I am the office manager and administrative support for 60 + people in AZ and 30+ people in NJ, she thinks I am her personal gofer. THere is NO ONE on our office that likes her, she is condesending toward everyone, she has no idea of how to do the work she is responsible for, she is great at spinning her way out of the messes she makes. But I look at it this way, I only have to report to her for now. In my company, things change a lot, and in a few days we are going into a new directors organization, our work responsibilitites will change greatly, so I doubt that I will report to her much longer.

I have had bad male bosses and good, and bad female bosses and good. It is the person that matters, not the gender. Although I have found that if the person is a parent, they generally make a better boss than a never married or married with no kids.

 

[Snow White]

I have a female supervisor, and she is pretty worthless, but that is mainly because she never shows up to work!! She drops by occasionally and makes sure everyone sees her then she has some major errand to run and may not show up again all day!! I think female bosses are good tho, because they can tend to be easier to talk to, but the male bosses I've had have been far more professional. It all depends on the individual though, I don't think there is any way to determine which is better to work for, because there are some real duds in each group, as well as some super people in each group.

 

[Robinrs]

I am a sensitive woman working for sensitive women. If I was working for a "rhymes with witch", my answer would probably be no.

The caring and sensitivity I receive from my female bosses stems from the fact that they ARE female. I am a single mother and the child of an elderly parent and so are they. If she were not, she would never empathize with the predicaments I go through.

Would I work for a sensitive female again? YES. Would I work for an insensitive female or MALE again.. NO.

 

[preshi]

I am so glad I am working for a woman.... she understands more when I have something I need to take care of or have a personal problem I need to attend to.

 

[Gail T AGAIN]

I'm working for females but what makes it better is that when I am there working I am the only one there other then the customers, I don't like having a boss breath down my neck whether male or female.

 

[Keli]

Overall I tend to like to work with males rather than females but as for bosses, I've had good and bad bosses of both genders. It's been my experience that when a bunch of women work together there is a lot of back stabbing and stuff going on and I just hate those kinds of things. I'm like -- you do the best job you can, I'll do the best job I can and let everyone earn their own credit, don't try to take credit that really belongs to someone else.

 

[mrsapalm]

I'm in a unique work situation -- our "team" consists of 7 people, six females and 1 might-as-well-be-female. My boss (part of the team) is 4 years older than me - and only two women out of the group are even in their 40s, the rest are in their 20s. We are the top money-making team in the entire company, we are also the most productive, we all get along really well, and spend time outside of work together as friends. We are actually kind of a scary group - we all eat together, are all on the same "schedule" (women will get that), and have a lot in common (considering different backgrounds). I love my boss - she is very understanding and one of the most professional women I've met in a long time. And she understands the value of a good "thank you" and praise, and works with us if one of us has made some sort of mistake. I'm earning absolutely diddly compared to DH, but I wouldn't want to work anywhere else because of how happy I am at my job!
-MrsAPalm

 

[Kermit]

I've worked for women who were great bosses, but I also had one female boss who was less than spectacular. I think her problem was more of a personality issue than her gender, though. She was young, and she was a former teacher. She wanted to control us the way she would control students in the classroom. Some people were okay with it, but I had a tendancy to fight back, so we never really got along. She actually got mad when I had my miscarriage because I didn't call her and ask if I could take some time off. (I didn't call anyone at all. I just had DH call in for me, and since she wasn't there that day, he told someone else I wouldn't be in until I felt well enough.) I had a hard time respecting her after that.

 

[aprincessmom]

I've had both and I have found that sex doesn't determine which I like at all as I've had great bosses that were male and some terrible females (and vice versa).

That's been my experience as well. It's not a gender issue, it's a personality and competency issue.