Today, I was conducting a meeting regarding safety concerns on my field site. While I made a comment, a client rep yelled out that women don't know construction, and that I should be acting like a proper secretary and should get my boss. I'm the Construction Manager. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my boss threw me out of her office during a conference call for daring to correct her. The client fired the company because she subsequently got all the information on the call wrong, and plainly had no idea what was going on. From all the screaming, this is now all my fault. FML
Today, my foreman complained that I was slowing down productivity and costing the company money, all because I was wearing a harness to protect me from falling over the edge of a three story building. FML
Today, my boss sent me to a meeting with a client I've never met to do some damage control and renegotiate his contract. For two hours, he alternated between threatening to sue us, and making vulgar comments about raping me in his office. FML
Today, we can finally order badly needed safety gear for my crew. My boss flipped his shit, demanding that I "stop bringing it up, it's annoying" for doing my damndest to keep up with industry standards. I was brought to tears for literally doing my job, with no "peers" to back me, since I'm an HR department of one. FML
Today, at work, I took a call from an angry customer. After listening to his problem and fully explaining how we could fix it, he called me a stupid girl and said I need more training as I obviously know nothing about my job. I'm the company training coordinator. FML
Today, I brought my daughter to work with me. When we walked in, a client was blowing up at my boss, all because as my boss was walking past his storage unit, he glanced in and was about to compliment how neat it was. After my boss left, I had to deal with the aftermath, which left my daughter terrified of this man. FML
Today, I had to call a coworker to the office via the store intercom. The damn thing didn't turn off properly and everyone heard me say, "I hate that asshole. Just be where your dumb ass should be." I realized my mistake a few seconds before my manager stormed in and threatened to fire me. FML
Today, I was fixing something for a guy at a steel manufacturing company. His employees told me that their boss can't hear properly, so I'd have to be loud when talking to him. When I'd finished, he asked me if I normally talked like that, or if there was something wrong with me. FML
Today, I was at a big meeting at work. The CEO was reaming the hell out of us for our recent poor profits, when I accidentally let rip a vile fart. I was then subjected to a 10 minute tirade of abuse for "trying to be a funny man", and told that whatever small chance I had for a promotion is now gone. FML
Today, despite warning my boss that it’s dangerous and stupid, he still insisted I get on with putting up a 4-storey tall scaffolding in high winds, and when it blew over, he blamed me for not putting it together correctly. FML
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Top comments
HeyArnold91 8
It always seems that women will be forever defending themselves in male dominated industries
MURIKKA 11
Whenever I read an FML that includes this degree of stupidity and ignorance, I always think, "Please don't be in the US! Please don't be in the US,! Please don't be in th- **** it's in the US"
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Comments (149)
perdix 31
Making comments can be a perilous endeavor. Trust me, I know. Earlier today, someone said my joke was bad and I should feel bad. Now, I'm afraid to go out of the house.
Welshite 40
That's okay though. You got a groveler as well, so just send him to do all your errands for you while you sit back and relax at home.
RedPillSucks 33
What? Did you wear a dunce cap to a KKK rally, or did you wear a KKK hood to a rap concert?
yousuck44 11
This made me laugh my ass off. I like your commenting style :)
FuzzyJack 15
I hope you told him that you're the constuction manager. That would shut him up. And if he's still complaining, send him away. Never worry about idiots like him.
angel55033 12
I took electrical construction I'm now 25 a woman but never stuck with being an electrician other opportunities emerged but being a female in a male dominated field you should be used to that behavior by now especially being the manager. If ya can't take a joke or handle some ignorant persons remarks about being in that line of work and show them what you've got to make them feel you know your stuff then maybe you do need a career change.
Rosicles 8
Woah. I couldn't even read all of that. Poor brain is sore now..
ebull30 3
Seriously!!! The first time you heard that stereo types exist wasn't today was it??? If you are going to take a job in a field dominated by the opposite sex grow some thicker skin. And male dominated fields shouldn't exist holy lord the PC patrol is going a little over board here. Do we think that moving companies, mining, and other extremely manual labor jobs should hire 50 percent women now too???? How many of you ladies can carry a sleeper sofa or a piano up a flight of stairs the walk it 100 yards with just one other employee? I full heatedly agree with equal pay for equal jobs but to try to say that certain fields shouldn't be dominated by one sex is just dumb.
angel55033 12
Simple minded go figure. You should write an FML about it.
apocalyptica_fml 9
I want to be a carpenter. I'm a female. I'm very good at building things and structures, or so I've been told. It's things like this that hold me back. I get stupid remarks like this all the time. I feel for you OP. FYL.
FuzzyJack 15
Don't worry about it. Just do what you want and if somebody thinks you're not fit for the job, prove them wrong and leave them embarrased. It could even be an extra motivation for you, to make sure you're doing a good job because of the "stereotyping"(I hope that's the correct word for it). You shouldn't let others hold you back for their idiocy. :)
RedPillSucks 33
Barriers are not easy to break. You've just got to push through if its something you really want to do. Sometimes you've got to suffer some fools to get to where you need to go, but the best way to deal with it is to do your job well. Sometimes, you have to do more than just your job well. Unfortunately, that's the way of the world.
BobbieH 19
Construction is still one of those fields that tolerates jack asses that think women should be out of the field, getting coffee and taking notation. I work on a lot of construction sites and have the pleasure of working with several very competent women. Don't let this idiot get you down! Your work will speak for you!
agentz90 4
I never did understand why some men are like that, especially in this day and age. The world has changed in case people don't know.
RedPillSucks 33
It takes more than a couple of generations to change attitudes. Especially when there's so much media telling us how to think/act. Girls should play this way, Boys should play that way..., blah, blah, blah.
johnny_derp 3
one word: insecurity.
olgakl 8
OP I'm so with you on this one! I'm sick of people loosing their words when I tell them I'm a civil engineer, and then they usually ask me why I have picked this manly field:/
TheKirs10 10
**** him! I'm sure you're awesome at your job!! Keep it up and maybe one day people like him will realize that a persons gender does not dictate the ability to do a job, male dominated or not.
alan831 9
That's more of a **** his life, you get the chance to rub in his face that you're the boss and he can go **** himself.
doodoo10 10
please tell me you retorted by letting him know that....