At my place of employment I deal with many men. It is a male dominated work place. I do not mind, I love my job I am Human Resource Manager. I grew up in a family where we did not discuss our feelings and I tend to not be an overly emotional person, like we can be accused of being. I am not very emotional any way, just as a person.

I am working on getting our water lines fixed and today a fellow came out who was to give me an idea on how much it will cost to fix it. He did no such thing, claimed he fixed it, told me nothing about it and wanted to charge the company $175 for doing nothing I asked for. I was angered and told him I was not paying it. He left to talk to his manager, the tech came back in and while he was on speaker the manager of the tech worked for said "I don't want to talk to some damn receptionist! Give me a manager, I do not want to talk to some woman who does not know what she is talking about." I stood there listening to this...Now there is nothing wrong with being a receptionist, in fact many women do the job then end up in higher places of employment within their company. I however am not a receptionist, I am a woman. I was offended that this was the case. The manager called and I voiced my opinion. I am fiesty and can get fired up. I stated how the tech did not speak to me, did not give me a walk through, did not do anything he was to do then said he fixed it but then stated it was not actually fixed. I was angered. When I stated my position as Human Resource Manager and head of the office. The Manager's tone changed. He backed tracked.

So my comment

I AM WOMAN...I am a receptionist?


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