♥rollar coaster week (Saturday, September 12, 2009 / 12:37 am)
So much so that I mentioned in my earlier post that my working environment is office-politics free and I love it, I have been quite upset for the past few days becoz of a couple of things.
It's hard to get along with people of your different gender. They think differently and so do I. Men are indeed from Mars and Women are indeed from Venus. Men like to talk big, but eventually, the women are the ones who actually did the work. Men like to classify things that they dun really feel like doing as 'These are the things meant for women to do and not men!'
Men have their own way of interaction within one another (usually using inusinating speaking style, jokes, teasing etc). It's realli tough to gauge wad is exactly their boundary or acceptance level. You dunno when they will deem ur joke as intrusive or insulting. Because, men tend to behave in a less mature way than women, being the only woman in the ratio 1:7, I find myself stooping to act in a childish way so that I will be accepted in group. It's hard to manage this kind of interaction. Or the harder I try, the more it fails. It's realli strange. Men can attack women verbally and claim that it is a joke. If the woman gets angry, they will say she is oversensitive or not sporting enough but when woman says slightly sarcastic remarks to the man or emulating the way men communicate, the men more or less will turn nasty and angry. E-G-O? I dunno...
For the past 2-3 days, I have been slogging because there are many stuff that were labelled as 'Not meant for men to do'. Even my supervisor thinks so. I was really pissed off on Wed and I fully understand the meaning of 求人不如求己. I realli dun get it when jobs cannot be evenly distributed among 3 people in a team but rather lump it all to one. I dun understand the inflexibility abt the whole job. I dunno if I'm sorry that I made the situation tense on last Wed and Fri because I was being truthful.
I dun wan to strain the r/s because there are few mths more to go and I really hope things can work out soon and I dun get into deep shit.
So much that I am always considerably tactful, I think I need more of this skill to last me all to the end.
Or maybe, I try just draw a thick line between friends and colleagues...
