So....why are so many people difficult to work with?

<p>At one job I had I was complaining to one of my few female coworkers that the office seemed a bit like an old boy’s club. “You have no idea”, she replied. Apparently when she had arrived, it had been common for the men to have girlie calendars in their cubicles for all to see. She complained about it to a few of them, with no resolution. So, she brought in her own beefcake calendar. Only it wasn’t anything relatively tame from Cosmo or Playgirl, or the FDNY, but was from a gay magazine and, let’s just say it was “in your face”. The men removed their calendars the next day! (and so did she…) </p>

<p>At another job, I worked with all men and except for one of them, they were great and we all got along well. One guy was a little skeevy though. On my last night (it was a summer job) he insisted on talking to me alone to say good-bye. The whole time, he was looking at porn! I stood there, and the other guys were across the room looking uncomfortable and annoyed, but none of us said anything. Sigh… we should all say something in cases like this… In any case, he goes to kiss me good-bye, and I offer my cheek, and he swoops in to try to get my lips at the last second, but I knew he was skeevy and my reflexes were good so I whipped my head around and he kissed my hair instead. Idiot perv!</p>

<p>Oh, that reminds me of one of my 1st bosses. He LAUGHED when I complained to him that he had me take my 5 & 6 year olds to the Skyslide on a summer field trip. There were about 30+ kiddos and only me and one or two other chaperones. You had to be 6 or older to ride down and then had to walk back up to ride down again on a carpet. A few of the 6 year olds were OK with going down the slide with their 5 year old peers (not sure why that was OK). Fortunately, no one was hurt, but it struck me as pretty poor planning.</p>

<p>That same guy thought it was funny to pull the bikini bottom off one of the female JR Leaders in a swimming pool. He should have had to face criminal charges. I didn’t know enough to do anything, but loathe him.</p>