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I started a job working with mentally challenged adults I have been in this field for many years I love the clients and I like working with there parents. But the work environment is awful I try but I am a male and it is mostly women in the office. What can I do to make this better
It's normal... but being in an all one-or-the-other gender workplace is less important than well.. the individuals. If they're all great people, awesome! If they're toxic... that's going to infect every other part of your job.
I'm in the same boat. Love (mostly) my job. My boss and the absolute shite way she manages the building, on the other hand, is making me look for new work.
I'm actually the opposite in my current job. Love most of the people I work with, all great people... hate the work, it's boring as hell and I hope to not be doing it for very long.
Anywhere working with a majority of women is not going to be a satisfying work environment. Women simply do not put the same effort into work as the average man does. They create drama, gossip incessantly, act immature, behave in vindictive ways, the list goes on and on. Essentially everything that goes against what one would consider being productive.
Your absolutely right. But women can do social oriented work that would drive men crazy, like waitressing, flight attendant, nursing, preschool teacher, or baking cookies for happy grandchildren. So, women's main value to society is to get this shit out of the way so men can build, and manufacture a better world, with weapons to maintain the balance of power.
Dude. Thank you for telling it the way it is.
Been there, done it, worn the t-shirt. In my last workplace we were mostly women with a few men amd I felt sorry for my male colleagues being left out of all the important stuff and never getting the promotions or plum projects they wanted cos these went to the boss' 'friends'. The boss didn't even realise she was doing it, it was just that he people she was inclined to turn to to do this project or that with her were naturally... the people she most wanted to foster her relationship with. The politics had been in bad shape before I even started working there, but I found that in its current state, the 'currency' of those politics was the closeness of your relationship with the boss and with the colleagues in her close circle who would stand against anyone who stood against her (and would probably stand against her and leave her without defence, if she dared stand against them!!). The most important communications - the stuff that kept you 'in the running' for opportunities and oiled the wheels of your relationship with such-and-such so you had any hope of her approaching you to participate in her latest project - happened not in the official meetings, but in the lunchroom in between conversations about baking cakes and potty training infants, the sorts of lunches that the men wouldn't think of going to. Also, the unspoken hierarchy of the boss' 'inner friendship circle' never included the men - and only people in that circle would share the gossip (and thus develop their friendship with he boss well enough to be chosen for important responsibilities). It's not like that everywhere of course... but you be the judge of whether it's like that where you work. As I see it, it's tough for a man in a female-dominated workpace as it's tough for a woman in a male-dominated workplace... but in different ways.
Been there, done it, worn the t-shirt. In my last workplace we were mostly women with a few men amd I felt sorry for my male colleagues being left out of all the important stuff and never getting the promotions or plum projects they wanted cos these went to the boss' 'friends'. The boss didn't even realise she was doing it, it was just that he people she was inclined to turn to to do this project or that with her were naturally... the people she most wanted to foster her relationship with. The politics had been in bad shape before I even started working there, but I found that in its current state, the 'currency' of those politics was the closeness of your relationship with the boss and with the colleagues in her close circle who would stand against anyone who stood against her (and would probably stand against her and leave her without defence, if she dared stand against them!!). The most important communications - the stuff that kept you 'in the running' for opportunities and oiled the wheels of your relationship with such-and-such so you had any hope of her approaching you to participate in her latest project - happened not in the official meetings, but in the lunchroom in between conversations about baking cakes and potty training infants, the sorts of lunches that the men wouldn't think of going to. Also, the unspoken hierarchy of the boss' 'inner friendship circle' never included the men - and only people in that circle would share the gossip (and thus develop their friendship with he boss well enough to be chosen for important responsibilities). It's not like that everywhere of course... but you be the judge of whether it's like that where you work. As I see it, it's tough for a man in a female-dominated workpace as it's tough for a woman in a male-dominated workplace... but in different ways.
Maybe bring in a box of donuts on occasion? However, I think that shade_ilmaendu hit the nail on the head.